#FUCK SILICON VALLEY

[hellyeahheroes]

AI companies stole my videos by NerdSync

[tacofriend]

I think a lot of social media owners are like petit tyrants. They've got their own little kingdoms full of people they control and think that, because users like the website, the users must like them. Only then they find the peasants revolting or, most often, just making silly jokes about these self crowned Napoleons of the Net, and these guys just go hog fucking wild on their own citizens. "No more KUNG POW PENIS! We're hunting down anyone with adblockers! Unverified users get pushed to the bottom! If you criticize our blatant transphobia we're gonna cut off your goddamn head! How dare you say that I'm a transphobe! I'm the biggest fucking ally in the goddamn world!"

They're a bunch of socially isolated, self-important, authoritarian assholes, and if you don't worship them, you're a terrible, ungrateful peasant, unlike those good peasants who pay $4 a month for a little blue check mark and worship them like the kings they believe themselves to be.

[thecrankiestofgremlins]

I had to get a new laptop recently (coffee = fried hard drive) and I was genuinely shocked that the laptop itself was trying to get me to allow both Microsoft and the company that made the laptop to monitor how I used it. Not just error reports, they wanted to monitor both what programs I opened and what I did with them. Even when I thought I'd deselected everything, I caught location services on when they shouldn't have been and had to deselect a bunch more.

Plus, this thing was deadstock: they were trying to get rid of it because this one *didnt* have that Recall program (the spyware "AI" thing that takes screenshots every couple minutes). So they want to put *MORE* of this shit on personal computers.

I had gotten used to spending a minute or two refusing third party cookies on every website and routinely deleting ad profiles on apps. But for some reason this knocked me for a loop even though it's a logical progression.

And it gets worse when you consider the implications re legal work. Lawyers and paralegals and anyone who works in the industry all have client files with personally identifying information on their work laptops, and lawyers aren't known for being very tech savvy, so there's a very high chance that a lot of these surveillance programs haven't been deselected on their computers. Adhering to GDPR laws is tricky enough, but now you *have* to have a certain level of tech literacy to comply with them, and honestly I'm not sure I've gotten everything (see: the obnoxious persistence of One Drive copies of all my files).

It's genuinely enraging. It makes me mad. Because *maybe* I can be laissez faire about my *own* information (however bad of an idea that is), but I legally cannot be about clients' information, and this shit is so pervasive that the legal education system hasn't even started to cover these issues yet.

Fuck tech bros and the bullshit combat robots dressed up as dogs they rode in on.

You know what? I don't want to change my VPN every six months cause it was caught selling information. I don't want to go deep into the settings of every website I so much as look at. I don't want my internet browsing to be a constant leap through hoops so that companies can't do things which should be illegal anyway. I want privacy to be the default and for it to be difficult to take it away, not the other way around. Is that too much to ask?

[ardathksheyna]

Jesus Christ on a crutch. On the heels of the backlash against Adobe, you'd think that Big Tech would have learned its lesson but the morally bankrupt dumbfuck techbros in Silicon Valley are evidently /that/ arrogant.

That's some chutzpah there, I'll tell ya.

[msclaritea]

AI and Echoes of the Enlightenment | Psychology Today

The Digital Self

AI and Echoes of the Enlightenment

Personal Perspective: How today's Cognitive Age is a second Enlightenment

Today, as we enter the Cognitive Age—an era defined by the extraordinary fusion of human intelligence with the advancements in Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models—we are witnessing the emergence of what can be compared with a Second Enlightenment. This new epoch is not merely a continuation of past revolutions but a unique renaissance of cognition, where the symbiotic relationship between human and machine intelligence is rewriting the narrative of human potential and capability.

A Cognitive Expanse

The original Enlightenment championed rational thought, bringing forth a wave of intellectual emancipation from traditional dogmas. In the Cognitive Age, AI and LLMs are the new harbingers of rationality, offering insights derived from vast, complex data. This modern form of reason mirrors the Enlightenment's intellectual rigor, but with a computational power that far exceeds human capability alone, forging a path to discoveries once thought impossible. Let's take a closer look.

Oh, look. They're admitting it. The men of the original Enlightenment were all selfish, self-centered perverts, who wanted to do the thinking FOR Society. They supported Slavery, freedom for only themselves, from wealthy backgrounds and households of very low morals...just like the Silicon Valley of today. Enlightenment... Illuminati. Industrialists.

[netscapenavigator-official]

Twitter’s rebrand is proof that Silicon Valley is in a minimalism death spiral and that not a single cryptobro has ever had a creatively appealing thought in their entire life.

[xo-punisher-xo]

Good night to her ONLY

[witheredgardenparty]

Has anyone talked about how each member of the Genius Society represents the over reliance on the belief of intelligence but not the act of intelligence?

[dekaydk]

Every time I think that Silicon Valley executives like Eric Schmidt cannot possibly be any more sociopathic, they prove me wrong.

...One of those reads that just makes you grit your teeth. Repeatedly.

[irenic-raccoon]

Babygirl you're so particular I need you

[pysgodyn]

heh heh thing i made today

[samuraisharkie]

I can’t wait to see how badly this new business venture of Watcher’s fails. I hope Steven, Ryan, and Shane’s America centric self obsessed asses lose everything and I hope Steve has to sell his Tesla and bullshit matcha machine and the others have to downsize whatever else bougie shit they have and LEARN how valuable $6 is, not just in the US but everywhere else. This is going to crash and burn and I can’t wait to see the decline.

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

i'm so tired of the world being run by techbro dickbags who would curbstomp an infant if it would increase their profit margins i think they SHOULD all kill each other i think they SHOULD just do gladiator battles in the colosseum i think they should die but at least make it entertaining

[nando161mando]

Turns out fast food workers, who generate billions in value, can’t be automated by silicone valley

[relentlesshag]

jarrich as a form of numbing the pain

[tomwambscunts]

Paul Rudd is too famous of an actor to play a famous actor named Ben Glenroy