I think it’s just been easy to ignore how evil they are.

They’ve been tightly linked with Peter Thiel since they took over PayPal which has constantly stolen people’s money. It’s just harder for an auction house like eBay to be obviously evil.

This is a very American thing.

Measuring popularity in terms of money spent.

By this metric, spending time with loved ones or going for a short walk has zero popularity.

The quantified scientist would be the first to tell you that he’s making these determinations on a sample size of one (sometimes he gets a friend to help, and then it’s a sample size of two).

So maybe what ever tech you’re thinking about will work for him and not for you or vice versa.

Unfortunately, it’s kinda like the wild west out there. The tech changes so fast that no one has time to do a big study and figure out what actually works.

Oh it’s much worse than that.

https://www.404media.co/how-cops-use-flock-to-track-people-not-cars/

Cops have used Flock’s FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes include the target’s race, according to data reviewed by 404 Media.

Yeah, it was from a list of factors that contribute to an overall decrease. That doesn’t mean that it affects everyone in the world, just that it is part of the reason for some of the decrease.

It’s not even USB. All data connections are wireless and either through a phone connection or a Wi-Fi mesh network (and calling it a mesh is generous, in practice this will be a dodgy daisy chain of connections running down the road).

That’s fine for updating the timing of lights to match sunset, but it sucks for data heavy applications like video surveillance.

Remember that anthropic are renting this data center, and should be seen as just as responsible as Musk.

https://www.theverge.com/science/935229/spacex-anthropic-ipo-ai-capacity-deal-colossus

Also Musk is such a loser, he built and ran this giant polluting data center without knowing what to do with it, and ended up renting it out at what looks like a loss.

Having pleasantly cool nuts is good for your sperm production. I guess it probably does something similar for testosterone production.

You can order those directly from china via the big resalers like AliExpress or temu.

You’re still giving a cut to a big Amazon like company, but even when you buy things like phone cases locally, the local shops probably just brought it from one of the big resalers anyway.

Oh he’s just using an LLM to write all the posts. That’s why it’s garbage.

Interesting. The story in the west was that the translation for silksong was shit and that’s what pissed everyone off.

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/silksongs-disastrous-chinese-translation-has-received-an-official-fan-made-overhaul-and-its-just-been-pushed-live-on-pc-with-patch-4/

Like the beef!

It’s so cheap in America because of all the hormones they feed the cows, and that makes it illegal to sell in much of the world.

He’s from Germany.

Anything less bland than an American chain might kill him.

Misinformation = might be mistake

Musk really needs to do it now to get a decent listing.

The problem is he has no income for all his AI stuff, Twitter advertising revenue is still in the toilet, and spaceX’s biggest customer is the US government, but the Democrats fucking hate him, and the mid terms are coming up.

So time to squeeze the little guys to get some revenue.

Got to cash out their shares using your pension fund before they go bankrupt.

Calm down Rambo, the second amendment’s only good for two things.

1. Making it easy for kids to shoot up a school.
2. Sitting there with your thumb up your arse and convincing yourself that your rights can’t be taken away so long as you’ve got a gun.

The only person that almost managed an insurrection was president at the time.

Does it matter?

The Dems can’t filibuster for the supreme court.

Providing there’s a Republican majority there’s literally nothing they can do to stop it.

So this is pretty good.

https://measuredcollective.com/is-google-forms-gdpr-compliant/

It’s a list of things you need to do in order to make the use of Google forms gdpr compliant.

One thing they don’t touch on is the use of personal accounts to collect data. People tend to use Google forms because it’s easy to set up using their personal account, but that essentially removes any company oversight from the collection and data processing. This makes it much harder to satisfy the data controller requirements.

Of course if it’s an external contractor gathering the data and processing it independently, your company is likely to dismiss all this as not their problem.

If it’s real academic research it will have had to go through ethics approval, and this should include data handling, and gdpr compliance.

You can blame American puritism for that.

No sexual content on these websites, instead we’re going to stir up rage and sell everyone an AR-14.