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FUCK SPEZ

Fuck Spez!

I disagree. The persons making AI are definitely tools.

Unless I misunderstood the statement.

Very interesting and reasonably priced! Thanks!

Can someone just start a damn privacy-first email coop already?

Sharing CBS News articles isn’t helping.

100%. There’s not even anything that great about them. There’s no world in which a person is forced to own a Tesla.

Why is it okay to hype products made by actual, literal Nazis? What the fuck is wrong with us?

“Can’t trust anyone these days” makes it sound like Meta isn’t the absolute first entity you shouldn’t trust under any circumstances.

Spies on you

The agreement is only as good as the hospital’s vetting, so I may be a little optimistic after seeing a very thorough and protracted process on my side. If you work for a healthcare system that’s okay with Beacon and Oracle, then it may be time to evaluate whether they’re a good healthcare system to work for.

Medical AI has guardrails out the wazoo. By the time it’s made available to a physician, it’s probably been reviewed by a council, vetted by IT, and negotiated heavily by Legal. If the data leaves the premises, it’ll be thoroughly protected and isolated.

That said, fuck AI. I’d give up medical transcription to get the environment, economy, and sanity back. Musk’s data center is running dozens of natural gas turbines in a low-income, primarily Black neighborhood 11 miles down the road from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. It’s positively ghoulish.

I also really loved Max Payne 2 and Tron 2.0 from that era.

Go retro and play System Shock 2. Just trust.

Somebody once tried to sell a box that would cancel all your streaming services and only fire the account back up for a month at a time when you wanted to stream something. It was a phenomenal idea with a genuine problem worth solving, completely torpedoed by the fact of the box costing $400 up front and I think requiring its own subscription.

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I’ve talked for years about something I call the Cupholder Quotient. Number of cupholders divided by number of people seated comfortably in a car. Greater than one is good. It’s an off the cuff measurement of a car’s design quality and it tends to be pretty accurate. The more cups a car is designed to support per passenger, the more likely the designers were empathically considering how the vehicle might be used from the passengers’ perspective.

Only note: it’s capitalism that selects for sociopaths in leadership roles.