Same across the world. A few weeks ago a former prime minister of Belgium was stopped going through a red light. In normal circumstances, this means you immediately lose your license for 15 days while you have to appear before a judge. Judge completely waived his liability, citing his “standing” as a former PM. Which to me translates to “this dude is above you plebs, he can do as he wants as long as he’s not too egregious about it”.
I was the only one cut from my team of about 10 for AI. I had been there the longest (10 years). It’s all very transparent, but there’s nothing we can do against it.
I already got cut. Lost my 10-year IT job to AI last year. Now I’m working in a factory, packaging waffles 8 hr/day. The irony of me doing drudgery that could be fairly easily done by a machine, while a machine is doing something that requires agency, decisions and creativity, is not lost on me.
I want to get off mr. Bones Wild Ride. Forever.
The whole Stop Killing Games debacle clearly showed us that the EU, despite its rhetoric, isn’t interested in championing consumer rights in the slightest.
Sadly, there’s dozens of millions of those.
Willing to bet a nonzero amount of Western journalists/activists’ phones are equally compromised. In 2026 you simply have to assume that a smartphone is a 24/7 spy center trained on you if you’re of any importance at all.
Tobacco is low grade radioactive as well.
That’s quite obviously the end goal here.
When oil is 200/barrel industry will switch out of simple necessity.
Yea, this is gonna be the big one. I can feel it in my bones.
I once got a 2k camera + gear + extra (Sigma!) lenses for three fiddy. No Loch Ness monsters involved tho.
But they don’t ask questions. You can teach them sign language to a degree and they WILL use it to communicate, but so far none of them has ever posed a question to their researchers.
Nothing a quick pill won’t fix.
Now, convincing your wife to take pills for YOUR illness, that’s another thing.
Nopepad now.
I actually think the young crowd at MS would resist this. This looks much more like a top-down decision from marketing overruling engineering.
Independence would have been the best possible outcome, although I agree it was unlikely at best.
I remember posting about how giving HK back to China would inevitably lead to this outcome.
That was in the early 2000’s. So incredibly sad to see it happen exactly as predicted.
Epstein famously flew them to his Island on his Lolita express. There was no law enforcement there as it was all private. That’s one way to flaunt international laws.
Turns out, people have long memories when it comes to having their loved ones slaughtered.
That was never the objective in the first place. Blanket surveillance and getting people used to the idea of zero privacy, ever again.