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It took them 29 years.

Remember, most corp founders are in their 20s to 30s when they start. By the time you're 30 years in the faces have all changed, the original executives have retired, and unless they take extreme measures to build a corporate culture (eg. IBM, Apple under Jobs) they *will* deviate from the original course.
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Google, a brief history

2004: Don’t be evil
2018: OK, be evil but at least don’t kill people
2025: Fuck it, kill people

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#Google #BigTech #AI #SiliconValley #USA #capitalism #fascism


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What's interesting with Google is that the founders are still in control, and still somewhat involved.

Google has 3 classes of shares, A, B and C. The most common public ones (GOOG, class C) offer no voting rights, another slightly more rare class (GOOGL, class A) give 1 vote per share. The founders have ultra-rare class B shares with 10 votes per share, and still control more than 50% of the company.

So, if they cared to step in and change things they could. But, I get the impression that they're so caught up on the idea of AI that they'll do whatever is necessary to get to AGI first.

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@merc Google was ORIGINALLY an AI company. Ever since it was founded at the end of the 90s. But the "AI" that's coming out these days is utterly different—deep learning and LLMs came along a decade after the founders took a back seat. I suspect they're out of touch with the tech side of things so policy is being set by starry-eyed idiots who are trailing after the new hot stock, OpenAI.
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@santiago so true! Oh how we wanted to believe these corps were about doing good.


When you’re both gluten and lactose intolerant;

Made in a factory that once handled wheat: I must avoid this at all costs.

Contains milk: LEROY JENKINS!


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@bipartisan "They called x a fascist" and "they call anyone they don't like a fascist" are really common framings, aren't they‽ They are very handy ways to dismiss *every* warning of fascism. As so many people did with the classic fascists. Of course some people benefit from downplaying or reframing fascism. Fascists.
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@bipartisan Describing Trump as "A Moderate" is certainly a fascinating insight into your brain and how much I could trust you as a person.
@bip

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FLASH: Elon Musk reveals latest SpaceX rocket:

(Shamelessly lifted from @hedgehog1963.bsky.social — bsky.app/profile/hedgehog1963.…)

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Dear god, NHS.

You might think “the person in the A&E majors room who keeps screaming probably needs painkillers”

You might. They wouldn’t.



The scene: my bedroom, 1989. A portal appears in front of my 16 year old self. I step through.

Me: Hi there. Would you mind stopping that for a second? We need to talk. Here's a tissue for ... yeah.

Also me: Um, er, who are you exactly?

Me: I'm you from the future.

Also me: But you're ...

Me: Shush, look, we need to talk. I know you're having a really hard time in your life now. Some of the stuff you're having to go through at school is really difficult and that's what I kinda have some bad news about.

Also me: You mean...

Me: Yeah, you're gonna have to learn Portuguese. Sorry.



Seeing the number of self service checkouts in UK supermarkets is freaking me out a bit. Obviously we have them in Portugal too, but humans are still very much the default.

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@neil up here Booth's used to have self checkouts but took them out a year or two ago
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@neil Self-service checkouts take up less space (and are cheaper to run), so they can have more of them. Even if they are sometimes slightly slower (and they are often faster) than manned tills, the total throughput is higher. They can be irritating if they malfunction or you have to wait for an age check, obviously.


I hereby name this the “for fuck’s sake, it’s 2025 dongle”.

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TERF island, I am in you.


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@coyets But specifically this is something you chose to bring up when the issue of trans women being able to socialise and exercise is the topic.

Right

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Yes, I read the nine points DeepSeek provided as an answer, and could not fault any of them with the exception of using arbitrary biological values to divide people taking part in sport into categories, which is inclusive if the categories are well chosen. The 'Categories' section of the Wikipedia article 'Sport of athletics', en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_of… describes the main difficulties of creating categories in that sport.

This was, however, the only weakness I found in DeepSeek's reply.


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"I pitted these two AI chatbots against each other to see which is best"

"I have two shits, and I'm going to fish them out of our toilet and compare them on our kitchen table."

#DeepSeek #OpenAI #AI

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Right, I'm gonna say it.

Rachel Reeves is incompetent. Her economic strategies appear to me - a layperson who pays attention - to be straight out of the 80s and thinking in progressive economics has moved a long way since then.

The problem is, Starmer has nobody better unless he puts a progressive in at the Treasury. He won't. Because he's less competent than her. He's another one who's straight out of the 80s.

Of course, they're both 80s Blue Tories, not 80s Labour.

Now, Thatcher's economics was relatively successful because of proper access to European markets and the ability to prop up its ideological nonsense with the proceeds of selling off the country's family silver. Reeves and Starmer have neither. They could have the first one back by rejoining the customs union, but they won't because they are further right than Cameron's Tories were.

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Also, don't have anything to do with Tesla, k? Unless you like funding Musk's activities.

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Turned off Apple Intelligence.

I’d hoped it would digest my email and be a useful PA type thing, but it basically just makes inaccurate summaries of notifications while using gigabytes of ram.

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That's unfortunate. I was thinking of diving into it, but I will wait a little longer.
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"this crypto email is totes legit, you should buy"

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uk's pilots are all in latvia, Cyprus, falklands and 3 in the uk for training. We could always send HMS Unseaworthy.....

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Politicians across the west: We must attack trans women.

This is what you’re attacking.

The fuck why?

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Because they have nothing positive to offer, so they try to destroy.
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Because we smash the patriarchy, and that has to be defended at all cost


Trump and Putin trying to Molotov Ribbentrop the whole of Europe can fuck right off.


What’s the easiest fediverse server to install in a docker container?

I have my Friendica server in docker and I’m used to it, but it’s three containers and there was a bit of a learning curve.

What wise is out there? I’m mostly curious.


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I need to hear from our Prime Minister, if he thinks what Elon did was a nazi salute or not?
Yes or no, no fence sitting, I need to hear what he thinks he saw because it's one of those big dividing questions about a person today that you need to know the answer to.

Like;
"Is Climate Change real or not"
or
"Do Trans people bother you or not"
Or

"Are you a bigot?"

We have to know, so we can see where we go from here.

I think I know what the answer will be too...

#UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Musk

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Am reconnecting with the trans community a bit and have discovered that the new thing GICs are doing to torment trans women, having moved on from RLE, is keeping them on starvation rations of HRT.

Arseholes



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Gale Warning would be a great name for a meteorologist. 🤔
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@Giles Moss See, the thing is the people who don't know think that "gale" and "hurricane" are the scary words here.

They are not. "Phenomenal" is the scary word here.

Waves the size of apartment buildings.

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@gilester45 this is Muckle Flugga has green water crashing over the light territory...?
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Ho, ho, ho skipper! That’s tough sailing there! I can imagine the Orca’s stay home reading by the fireplace, so that’s a benefit🐋😎

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Please don't do the misgendering of enemies jokes. We know they're vile bastards who deserve it, but there are other ways.

Misgendering and deadnaming makes me nervous no matter who it's done to. Especially if it's a trans woman. Even if it's that fucking quisling Jenner.

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I don't even like that.

Musk in a dress for example, that's not funny. It's just transphobic. It tells me that the person doing it probably thinks I look funny in a dress too.

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well yeah sure. sorry my kid is being aggressively misgendered by their teacher and their therapist told us making jokes about him that took that power back was a really healthy option( specifically misnaming and gendering) to do at home

and we actually pushed back but then 2 other mental health people gave us the same advice

and it worked. first time id scene my kid smile in a while



So Apple like, had to pivot to “AI” and increase the RAM in their phones and stuff in a huge panic.

And you get a summary of your notifications which is sometimes accurate.

Whoopie do

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@id1om If you turn all the AI features off, you get the extra ram without the AI bullshit.