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Meta is different from IBM in that Zuckerberg made himself god-emperor and cannot be voted out of his position. IBM’s survival took guts and re-invention, Zuckerberg showed that he is a one-trick pony that stole the one trick from the twins.

My money is on Meta ending like Sun Microsystems or Yahoo! Bought for trinkets by some bigger brand, stripped for staff and parts, and then five years later you get an email saying that Facebook is going to be discontinued come January 1st, please join us at Amanvidia.

Low-security federal prison? Isn’t that Club Fed, the notorious country-club federal prison for rich people?

It’s sort of weird to live in the time line where the Head Honcho Big Cheese both starts a war for no real reason with no real goals that makes fossil fuels expensive AND has a personal vendetta against wind farms that makes renewable energy impossible to build.

And on top of that a third of the country thinks he’s the best President America has ever had!

[Edit: And of course the newest over-hyped technology is super-extremely-power-hungry!]

This is more important that just AI overviews and establishes that companies are responsible for the editorializing they do. That’s much more important in algorithmic suggestions, which drive people into doing things they never would have done otherwise (see: Trump voters).

I hope this stands through all instances and is applied generously, because so many people have been fucked up beyond recognition by following the trail of the algorithm, especially on social and video sites.

What a stupid ego trip by Dassault. They are the ones that can’t cooperate, that want to run the entire program by themselves.

Let Hungary show the world how it’s done. No accountability always means repeat offenders when it comes to public corruption.

I swear I haven’t bought anything Sony since that happened. There are just betrayals that go too far to ever be forgiven.

It starts with “they are giving up the shares voluntarily,” then three months later Mike Johnson introduces the Artificial Intelligence Secure from Terrorism United Patriotic Information Delivery bill (AI-STUPID) that authorizes the emergency purchase of 16 Trillion US Dollars of AI shares on taxpayer dime. 14 go to the AI companies, 2 will water the swamp.

The White House Ballroom is the blueprint, and itself it is the brain child of the Mexican Safety and Security Border Wall.

Reverse Uno!

I sense that all started with the stupid GDPR popups. If so, then sincere apologies from Europe.

Since the election, the public broadcaster has already changed its tone, while top private broadcaster TV2 – owned by Orban-allied businessmen – saw its main news anchors replaced and news director pushed out.

Does anyone know why there were changes at the private broadcaster? Is it to be more government friendly, or more of an opposition force?

I mean, we are talking about people that confidently state the high gas prices are worth it. Definitely PROUD of their choice.

I don’t think we have spent enough time considering how groundbreaking the COVID response was.

Suddenly, there was a safety net. All COVID-related medical expenses were covered by the government, testing was free. When vaccines came out, they also were free and distributed with an equivalency-focused, needs-based attitude.

It was like the catastrophe showed what life can be like, what a huge benefit free healthcare is, and how much being able to rely on stabilization helps out everybody.

Then came 2022 and it was literally all over. Suddenly, you have to pay for everything, and the poorest feel the pain of hunger again. For literally no good reason, as there is plenty money sloshing around.

I am pretty confident Democratic party voters would censure the man at a more than 90% rate for his handling of the Peters affair.

It’s such a shame. Polis was doing good work in Colorado, until the siren song of tax cuts made his bank accounts change his mind.

Thank you for being kind! USA?

many of whom are older people with serious health conditions who had been living in the United States for years or even decades

I wish no harm to anyone, and I hope these people find a way back to the country they love. Still, this is exactly the demographic that voted Republican for decades because they were “tough on immigration.” Did they really think racism stops at Cuba?

But “endless half-assed slop” is the Official Motto of 2026!

Totally! Except the current crop of anti-maskers doesn’t seem to care about their kin, so retrieving their bodies is probably an effort too far. If it were the cult leader, then maybe?

Fun story: I was in my teens and my aunts came to visit from abroad. They had gone to the local video store and asked the clerk to give them something for their nephews. The clerk asked a few questions about my brothers and me, and told my aunts to come back the next day.

They came to visit and proudly handed us the video tape. We put it into the machine and it played and incredibly horribly terrible sci-fi. It was so B-movie quality, the laser rays zapped off in a totally different direction than the guns were pointing.

Aunts leave a few days later, disappointed that the movie was so bad. A week later, my mother says, the tape was bidirectional (Video 2000, the German standard of the time), we should see if there was something on the other side. We put it back in and, lo and behold, there was a movie.

It started odd. A mansion, a lady entering an expensive car. She hands her little Maltese on a leash to the butler and drives off. As soon as she’s gone, the butler kicks the dog into the giant fountain in front of the mansion and goes inside. There, he and the maids get naked and into bed.

At this point, even 15-year-old me knows what’s going on, and the entire family starts staring at my mother, who started the whole thing. She was intently looking at the screen, saying things like, “Oh, it must be so relaxing when your boss is gone and you can just rest in bed!” or “Well, staff in this mansion, they are really friendly with each other!”

Then there was silence. Then she said, “Turn off this filth!”

And we never spoke of that Sunday afternoon again.

$500,000 is absolutely nothing compared to what Brin would save if the tax is shelved. These people are so disgustingly rich that even a .01% tax on their fortune constitutes what other people would consider wealth.