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We have already cracked solar and battery tech. Coal is dying. Nuclear appears to be near dying as well. This has happened in the past three years or so.

If you're a director that's a new Maserati. Who's my candidate? I have never voted, not sure what you're trying to project on to me.

They broke Democracy. That's putting it nicely, I think, and being charitable to Facebook when you could use much more malicious phrasing based on their actions.

They broke Democracy. Get used to that phrase, you're gonna be hearing it a lot in the coming years, because they broke Democracy.

The massive spike in FB stock as this was announced is not exactly encouraging. All those executives getting paid largely in equity learned... what exactly did they learn?

They don't even have to admit they did anything wrong? Zero fault? For breaking Democracy? What the hell.

So any website can make arbitrary requests to localhost or any internal LAN server? You could have a field day with just a little bit of internal knowledge on that one.

Do random malicious web pages in IOS still have the ability to open the app store too? Was that the genesis of all this nonsense, just trying to make the app store easier?

You're getting too lost in the weeds here.

It doesn't matter if a company takes your data, does a poor job of anonymizing it, and then decides to label it as "training" for their "AI" or if they just stick it all in a flat .txt files and process it in Fortran.

It's the exact same thing. You should be mad about the data being saved and used. Splitting hairs over implementation details to try and find a loophole is just a waste of time.

This is a great read. I spend so much time fighting the web. If you want to maintain a shred of privacy you then have to regularly read about all the latest trackers, dns monitors, browser fingerprinting techniques, shady vpns, blocking social domains, etc, and even then you're probably not very anonymous or private.

I hadn't ever really considered just giving up on the browser before. But I think yeah, maybe it's time. The web has become such an awful cesspool of surveillance capitalism, I'm tired of fighting it all.

IBM was a true pioneer in the bullshit AI industrial complex with all that Watson nonsense.

Many companies seem to have copied that strategy of just pretending they are sprinkling some AI fairy dust on whatever and that it's better somehow, while actually doing zero work.

Outside of that accomplishment I have no idea what IBM has been doing since the 90s.