As O'Brien passed the telescreen a thought seemed to strike him. He stopped, turned aside and pressed a switch on the wall. There was a sharp snap. The voice had stopped.
Julia uttered a tiny sound, a sort of squeak of surprise. Even in the midst of his panic, Winston was too much taken aback to be able to hold his tongue.
'You can turn it off!' he said.
'Yes,' said O'Brien, 'we can turn it off. We have that privilege.'
Exactly.
You expect me to believe the thing that provided some income disparity relief for a large percentage of remote workers (same pay, lower costs from relocating) is at fault for others not having jobs? I've worked (remotely) with young people. They seem eager and capable, far more so than most other age demographics.
This is just companies finding excuses, looking to claw back more control.
It sounds like you don't understand how the court system works. The SCOTUS only hears cases which are brought before it, and then selectively.
Which cases specifically do you feel indicate corruption on the part of the SCOTUS? There are definitely some dissenting decisions which don't adhere to the US constitution, and there is definitely a long running theme in the courts of activist judges re-interpreting well defined language, and perhaps (probably) even a couple judges who are compromised, but I'm not aware of any evidence of corruption.
Now, I'm not a designer or circuit board engineer, never had anything to do with Adafruit, never heard of flux-ai until a few seconds ago.
Gonna reblog this story in a bit on some social media sites.
Probably gonna include a link to The Way We Were song. To accompying the reading of the article.
Politicos+Corpo C-Suite hate 99% of humanity and want them replaced with automatons.
Remember, the point of the game is to be the last man sitting on a pile of 8 Billion+ skulls, finally secure in the knowledge that they have WON!
Waitnig for the AI suicide booths.
Didn't Bender get into an argument with the booth in S1Et?
"Yeah but the lower the headcount, the better my quarterly bonus!"
Every corpo upper-managment drone right now.
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
Forgot to add: you won't buy them but rent them, like a cable box.
Most non-computing folks will see them as Alexa-Plus systems that they don't have to worry about updates and other stupid computer geek chores.
Have you checked SC Top 500 lately?
They seem to be positioning these as ubiquious computing devices, i.e. the computing toaster Steve Jobs was questing after, starting way back in the late '70s and early '80s.
These will not be stand alone computing devices but likely tied to a network and corporate control systems.
That the corporation(s) and/or gov't will be monitoring everything done on the system goes without saying.
If anything these will probably be the death of personal computing.
They want to replace PCs with PCDs (Personal Computing Devices) that will have to be tied to the net (i.e. rented like a cable box) to work and monitors everything you do on them.
Oh yeah, they'll let you plot and goon on the boxes, just so they have dirt on you for control down the line.
I wonder how long it'll be before real computers are restricted to only licensed (gov't / corporate approved) individuals? Maybe we make it to 2040 but pessimist me says they'll try to start controlling PCs before 2035.
Not much. Plutonium isn't like uranium, it's effectively safe for human contact outside its fissioned form. This has been pretty well documented.
This is a step forward which is a long time overdue. It should've happened 30 years ago, and we'd have averted having to depend on China for our electricity production (wind + solar) without the net-zero production problems those two 'sources' introduce.
Is Twitter operating just as well?
The gutted moderation lead to a lot less advertisers bidding on views.
The unreliability of the service during the transition to being so far reduced dramatically reduced the number of daily users.
The company isn't public, so we don't know if it's making more/losing less money than it was. But we can be pretty certain that the operations are not the same (reduced users less money per user).
They probably didn't want to do a large build if it's 30% price increase on a years old device.
C makes it easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes that harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
