It was a joke. Most people don’t know the difference between upload and download or push versus pull.

Internet providers would measure how much data each sender pushes to their customers

But what if my customers are pulling data rather than me sending data?

I wonder if they targeted users they couldn’t tie back to real identities. I never used an account tied to a real identity or a real email address and all of my accounts were banned for pretty innocuous or specious reasons.

One was banned for advocating violence against women, because I called Kaitlyn Jenner an attention whore. One was banned for saying Luigi is a hero. Of course all attempts at appeals were ignored.

Of course IBM has a hardware solution for you

Krishna also predicted demand for on-prem AI will spur sales of Big Blue’s Spyre mainframe accelerator cards.

These guys have read Sci-Fi where humans are governed by techno-feudalistic corporations and instead of seeing that as a cautionary tale, saw it as a roadmap.

Why use AI to read emails?

If you’ve had the same email address for the last thirty years, like me, you get a LOT of email. An email assistant is great.

Also, with proper prompting and a proper setup, email is not a vector for phishing emails because you’re not allowing your agent to click on links and enter in credentials(except for entering in the credentials for your email).

Also if you do any sort of AI email sending, you should have three different LLMs look it over before sending out and they must all be in agreement.

I’m terrified by the parallels between today and the rise of fascism in the early 20th century.

Many of these billionaires are hoping or trying to dismantle democracy and create some sort of techno feudalism where corporations rule. What’s disturbing is that many of these men have read sci fi where such techno feudalism is the norm and they seemed to have missed that such societies were never portrayed as being ideal or even good, they are always dystopic.

In Douglas Rushkoff’s “Survival of the Richest”, originally published on Medium on July 5, 2018, with the subtitle “The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind.”, Rushkoff describes accepting an unusually well-paid invitation to speak about “the future of technology” at a luxurious private resort. He expected roughly 100 investment bankers, but instead found himself sitting at a table with five extremely wealthy men from the hedge-fund world. Their questions shifted from cryptocurrency to whether New Zealand or Alaska would be safer during a collapse—and then to their bunkers.

A brokerage-house CEO who had nearly finished building an underground bunker asked, “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?”

By “the event,” they meant a catastrophe such as environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear disaster, or an unstoppable virus. They worried that money would become worthless and their armed guards might take over. Rushkoff recounts them discussing combination locks on food supplies, disciplinary collars for guards, and robot security. His response was to treat their security personnel well and build relationships rather than rely on coercion.

They didn’t like that answer.

https://archive.rushkoff.com/articles/1094-survival-of-the-richest.html https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff

I can’t see the US ever introducing universal basic income

Recent polling shows 66% of Americans support Medicare for all. The people will demand UBI once it’s needed, the only question is whether the Epstein class will comply peacefully or not.

Sure we destroyed the planet, but for a while there we provided great shareholder value.

Oracle will probably go bankrupt and then get bailed out by Trump’s government.

They know their promises cannot be kept. They are building a surveillance state for the government. When the bubble bursts, the government will swoop in and bail them out because they are too big to fail and hand over most of these AI resources to the US government.

I’m on solar and batteries. I haven’t had an electricity bill in years.

At some point it will be impossible to buy one that isn’t.

I just don’t see the utility. I can be pretty pro “smart” stuff, especially if I can run it without an internet connection, but what’s the point for a fridge?

About ten minutes ago I installed a smart bulb in my fridge. I plan to set up an automation in Home Assistant to tell me when the fridge has been open too long. I also have a temp sensor near the compressor because I had an issue with the fan going out and now if the temp is too high I get an alert to check on it.

I also have a temp sensor in the freezer and the main fridge, again to alert me when things go wrong.

But how else am I going to get on that sweet sweet subscription service for keeping my food cold?

Absolutely. Conservatives need an external enemy to take and maintain power. In the west, a large part of their power comes from the military industrial complex which cannot exist without additional conflict.

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Yeah we’re already hearing about people being put in phone booth sized cages. I wonder if the administration will continue to block access after the mid terms.