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Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
Homercles replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
Just wait until copilot is embedded into the OS and can’t be turned off…keep waiting for Apple to do the same on iOS. It’s not enough that they install 100+ cookies and max out my phone’s cpu with ads just to read an article, the entire OS needs to be a data vacuum that captures every interaction I have with it while constantly pushing their paid services as notifications. When that bubble does pop I’ll be interested to see what happens with all these monster data centers…anyone remember all that excess dark fiber from the .com bust? Except here the heavy money is invested in rapidly outdated racks of GPUs, though I’m sure the rest of the compute fabric depreciates more slowly. Opportunity for some enterprising person, like Switch did in Vegas. Of course none of the trechbro dickheads or obstinate c-suite types will likely ever admit it, but seems obvious to me that Transformer won’t scale itself to sentience. Plenty of folks find it useful (or fall in love with it), but they’re not going to be operating at massive losses forever so the usual flow of hooking people before raising prices may not work for trillion dollar chat bots. My guess is we see it go the way of Grok, highly valuable as a means to steal your data while spreading disinformation sold to the highest bidder…sorta like Plaintir. Gotta justify those capital outlays somehow -
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I’m sure the odds are stacked in Bubba’s favor. After all his Walmart AR is covered with accessories worth more than the rifle, he’s stockpiled an arsenal of Chinese ammo and ‘knows the terrain’. Those tabbed SF guys have only put ten thousand rounds through their match grade weapons, practically live outside as a career and are specialized in leading an unfamiliar army against you.
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So…vetoing the THC was just a ruse to call a special session for gerrymandering?
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See also Generation, Baby Boomer.
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Or Google/Nest will sell you the Flood and Underwater Containment Kit - Universal, better known as the FUCK-U. It’ll happily monitor your water levels while collecting information to sell to your insurance company, will sporadically blare out ads for Pixel, and suddenly stop working in 3 years when Google decides to terminate the cloud service that operates it.
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This ^ These are the same out of touch, overly compensated, good ole boys who are using GenAI as an excuse to RIF/offshore FTE, cut benefits, steal your data, heavy hand RTO to sweatshop offices, lobby reduced regulation for shit like asbestos, and beat the tech workforce into submission. This dude in particular was seemingly a professional snake oil salesman with a list of shattered startups trailing him and a few anecdotal comments saying he’s an ass to work for. He’s the poster child for rich egomaniacs who are completely out of touch with the world 99% live in and are currently riding the oligarchy wave of ‘fuck you, I’m rich and I’m right and I’m untouchable…do as I say or spend six months looking for a job’ enabled by our current Pay To Play government…see Bezos, Musk, Zuck during the inauguration. Same reason diversity initiatives vanished. I just wish it’d been that smarmy fuck Jamie Dimon who’d been busted.
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Anyone who can’t see that there were failures at every level, from the federal government on down, isn’t worth the energy to argue with. In addition, Mystic will have blood on their hands and I’ll be amazed if it ever exists again…and if anything, all that pride in the history there proves they should have known better. You’re ultimately responsible for hundreds of children and every account I’ve read has painted the picture of individual cabins being lead by teenagers suddenly finding themselves making impossible decisions. Where were the adults? They had their own impossible situations you say? Ok, the whole point in designing, testing and practicing emergency plans is to take the time to think through ahead of time such that those decisions are made adtee careful analysis and can be executed without central coordination. They had an approved plan but it happened too fast? They should have had an adult with a flashlight in communication with relevant info sources, fellow camp administrators, and local authorities. You’re on a river during a huge storm, for fucks sake…with hundreds of children under your care, remember Yes it was unprecedented, no one foresaw the Charybdis-like whirlpool that complicated matters, and I cannot imagine the desperate horrors all the victims suffered…but when you sign up to manage hundreds of children for weeks at a time in a particularly dangerous spot within ‘flash flood alley’ then at the bare fucking minimum you better have your flood evac plan down cold, with multiple levels of severity. You should be fuckin ashamed of yourself TF. You aren’t, but you should be. My wife seemingly is afflicted with the same memory-influenced fondness from her time there that she doesn’t want to hear my utter disdain for how colossally Mystic fucked up…but this is Surly and I’m allowed to say you’re wrong as fuck, Texas Fight. I didn’t even touch on sirens…the fact people died because their brain was so poisoned by the disinformation machine as to reject free warning systems…you fucking people are too far gone to help, but thanks for attending my TED Talk.
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My law degree is from The Wire…so youre saying that dude was their Levy to D&B Enterprises, and that all the pieces matter?
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Gotta love the ‘regulations bad, free market good’ exuberance from the GOP…it trickles down into every corner under the mistaken belief it makes things cheaper and encourages innovation. No, dumbasses…regulations are usually there to protect you the individual/small business and often written in blood. Removing them are in the interests of large, faceless corporate behemoths who want to poison your water, reject your healthcare claims, deny you coverage, and do shit like have ‘AI’ companies running nuclear power plants to supply data centers…you want rivers that catch on fire again, Cleveland? I’ll never understand how people not only vote against their interests, but have been brainwashed to do it every single time. You had grown ass men and women rejecting free funding to better their community’s emergency preparedness for fear of…what exactly? I tell people I would absolutely love to get the fuck out of Texas, but while in Michigan I saw a dozen MAGA/Trump flags on the 30m drive from Sault St Marie to St Ignace and a ~12yo kid staying at The Grand on Mackinack who wore a different MAGA hat everyday…
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Every single level of this thing had at least one hole in the Swiss to make it happen…makes me think of AF 447 where the dumbass FO pulling full deflection on the yoke all the way down to the Atlantic shoulders the blame, but also their training + poor CRM + the pitot probes + the way Airbus handled dual input on the side sticks. - Mystic for not being proactive, not posting watch, no effective internal comms once power was lost, shitty evac plans, even way back with flood plain exceptions even if my 8yo could tell you it’ll flood there someday. - Kerrville residents who drank the raw MAGA kook aid to the point of refusing free money to better their community - Kerrville and county leadership for humoring that bullshit multiple times and dismissing the danger before hand, and that bullshit pc where he stormed off in his camo hat for the slightest bit of criticism - State leadership for patting themselves on the back and fellating Trump on tv, Abbott for his football/loser statement, etc…also see 2021 freeze, Uvalde, hurricanes, etc -TrumpCo for killing essential services, putting Kang and Kodos clones in key positions, dumbass rules that hindered aide flow, etc. Been thinking the same thing someone else said..I sure hope the dads are getting organized to hold accountability at every level and not just Mystic, because if losing your child is still not enough to flip your political switch away from this madness then I’m shoving Brisket out of the way as I run past him off the ledge.
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Once again, if Sandy Hook didn’t move the needle with those people then nothing will. They will do anything to protect the cult leader and any empathy they pretended to have has been long gone in the name of ‘the cause’.
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