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Micron reported a revenue of $37.38 billion for fiscal year 2025. Nvidia reported a revenue of $57 billion for just its latest quarter. AI is hot. Meanwhile, inflation and interest rates continue to depress consumer spending power here in the U.S., which is reflected abroad as well. AI has also torched jobs—it’s fueled thousands of layoffs already.

Torched jobs, the environment, and climate.

Sure, in the grand scheme of things, the fevered pace of tech often has led to good outcomes in the end.

Only when it’s well-planned and well executed, with people and our habitat treated well.

But that doesn’t change the individual impact of incomes lost, plans destroyed, security evaporated. So when a company makes a play for my agreement through emotion, I always wonder: Who benefits from this vision?

For some reason, your comment made me think of https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0104692/plotsummary/

Even if you think you’re getting away from USA politics and economics, it is still influencing other politics and economics, and I don’t see how discussions can entirely avoid the elephant in the room.

Unfortunately, USA politics and economics is affecting everyone right now and has been for over a century. The problem may self resolve in the next decade or two, assuming the human species survived that long.

https://archive.ph/S2v2Y

This is a good reason not to let Jeff Bezos convince you that computer saas is a good idea.

https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/jeff-bezos-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud-bezos-envisions-that-youll-give-up-your-pc-for-an-ai-cloud-version

Rent seeking. Landlords are leeches.

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Yey 😑

On the plus side, maybe the notion of American Exceptionalism will diminish a bit, which is long overdue.

Hope is a powerful thing, and I fervently hope so!

I feel like most people are so far gone they couldn’t even begin to connect with their honest human self outside of the traditional indoctrination we all receive from our national cultures.

Thinking about Lemmy and most people around me, it seems like it.

Lol; that’s what the EU common people said about too big to fail, too.

I’ve been extremely pleased with librewolf, and never disable ootb settings.

From what I’ve read, the update broke things (go figure) so they pulled the update to fix the issue.

Jack Dorsey can kick rocks.

Since the fifties? Since founding, and IDC if it was a word or Hitler had risen yet. The concept was baked into the Constitution with “free white landowner men.”

How many times has Big 5 been debunked yet employers still like it for reasons?

Plus the post filled with buzzwords that superficially sound smart strung together in a way that say nothing of value.

“Yet it seems, at times, bizarrely unaware that many of those notions were meant to be dystopian or satirical – dismal visions of where our worst and dumbest habits could lead us.”

They are very aware. They’re just counting on the bulk of John Q. being unaware, because they’ve steadily been dismantling the already woefully inadequate public school system and replacing people reading books with short-attention span, dopamine hit inducing low-brow social media and television programming.

.ca gov is toeing the line so far.

Aged like milk

https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymo-ceo-car-death

It’s a dystopian government’s dream.