Did you read the article? The bots are literally encouraging these kids to take their own lives. Should vulnerable kids/teens just be prohibited from using the bots or should the bots be fixed (or removed until they are)? In what world are we ok with our children having access to trash like that? The lack of accountability is once again my biggest gripe in all of this. Stories like these will continue to take place until openai and meta et al are forced to make major changes or drop their bots. What kind of sociopath releases an app that convinces young people to kill themselves and they’re like “here’s a $100, better luck next time”. Fuck everything about these bots and especially the companies creating them and doing fuck-all about the aftermath of their decisions.

Oh boy, think Elon will change his name next time he gets married? Elon Domingo? Elon Smith? Elon Trump? 😛 He can make it into a complete glow-up entering his free-wheeling 50’s era 💅

That’s because it wasn’t a vaccine!

It was the LiBeRaL mInD vIrUs!!!1!! 😯

I don’t see how that would change anything, though I’m all ears to find out why it could. I swear there’s nothing stopping these fucks from doing exactly what they want at this point.

This article is worth reading, imo. There’s more going on here than the introduction of the “Max” ‘super-app’. I wasn’t aware of this but Russia has also been subjecting its population to a “digital detox” where Internet blackouts are becoming increasingly common. In some areas the Internet is down most of the time, in others service has returned but is extremely poor compared to before the blackout. Mobile Internet blackouts have been performed claiming without evidence that it’s to disrupt drones coming from Ukraine.

In some areas this Max ‘super-app’ (which handles banking, communication, and more–and is a direct line for government surveillance) is the only option to do banking or communicate with anybody by phone. This practice is sweeping the country after declaring Meta a terrorist organization, and swiftly eliminating any Meta apps from Russian access including Instagram, Facebook, and the most popular app for communication in Russia: WhatsApp.

This is fucked on another level and i think we should be paying attention because this is presumably where Trump gets his inspiration and/or his marching orders, so i have a suspicion we’ll see something similar wash up on our shores soon enough.

I’ve been thinking about this for a while now–a mass, extended Internet disruption would not only screw up communication on a grand scale here, but business would also be tremendously impacted. It’s the next ‘privilege’ for us to have taken away and replaced with an enshittified surrogate, forcing large swaths of people to sign over even more of their autonomy to big brother in exchange to have all the things the Internet has now made possible. Want to be able to easily get navigation on gps? Talk to your friends or family? Pay bills using your bank account? Imagine there was only 1 app that will allow you to do that from now on. I can only imagine how shitty the user experience is on “Max” but i suppose in time i won’t need to–I’ll have a front row seat to try it out here in the comfort of my home one of these days, seeing the direction things appear to be heading in. I mean shit, we’re probably already nearly there and i just don’t realize it yet 🫠

watching food prices intensifies

But but but maybe it was just a preemptive strike?!? 😬

Not the president we want, the president we deserve (also, you can’t gain access to the country if this pic of him is on your phone)

Watch national guard troops get installed there now

þEBKAC?

Your keyboard appears to be broken ✨

I feel like that’s where we’re headed at this point. Major corps have all the tech and all the money. At this point we are seeing every new iteration of consumer tech/electronics costing more, lasting less time, and offering no greater value than previous iterations while sometimes actually taking away features and functionality in the process. They know they are the only game in town now and they only have to offer what they feel is enough to placate their clientele–if they even choose to go that far. People grumble, then they pay.

AI will replace people in many of these situations and it will suck and be less helpful and very problematic but that’s the best they’re going to offer. If anyone comes along trying to offer anything better they’ll be swiftly dealt with by defeating and/or buying them out. There will probably be like 5 corps that own everything one day (maybe that’s too many–3? 2 perhaps? I just can’t see it being 1 for some reason)

Can’t you just call customer service and keep escalating it to the next department until it’s solved?

/s

• FONT: REMINGTON
• CPU: NONE
• GPU: NONE
• MEMORY: 0B / 0B

🤣🤣🤣

Narrator: it didn’t

I think they were referring to the significant decrease in alcohol sales to Canada now that the tariffs are in place

“lobbying” 🙃

Forgot about those assholes. I could swear they also were involved in that aquifer water-bottling company as well. Genuine pieces of shit

Or you have your own social media platform from which your opinion can be amplified to millions.

That’s not good enough! /s