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DrMandalay··on Why Are We Betting on the End of the World Instead of Saving It?
Because Americans only save the day in movies. In reality they're the ones fucking everything up. They only know how to break.
DrMandalay··on R/opensource bans AI-made and AI-focused projects and non-English speakers
Classic Reddit mods. They've ruined that platform beyond repair.
DrMandalay··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
McKinsey and the others are good at selling solutions to a C-Suite that keep those jobs, because they're seen as the client, whole stripping out the workers who actually add value. The consulting does it's job, secures the decisions that protect the bosses, and in doing so often ruin the companies they're there to "help".
DrMandalay··on Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case
There are much worse scandals internal to meta that get ignored because 8200.

Onavo is one that would really sink meta in a fair world. But I guess fealty to Mossad keeps that one out of the news (and the courts). The firehose into Palantir for about a decade is another. Scuba is another. I could go on for days, bit someone will probably bump me off.

DrMandalay··on Meta fined $25B for 'lies' over user data privacy
Wait until someone finds out about onavo and scuba...
DrMandalay··on IDC: PC Sales Nosedived 20.1 Percent in Q3
I wonder why that is? Could it be because all the AI tech Bros made personal computing unaffordable? Awful humans
DrMandalay··on 'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth
St Helena is where the minimum wage workers on Ascension come from. It only exists to provide cheap labour to Britain's Atlantic territories.
DrMandalay··on 'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth
The oldest gay tortoise there is. You can hear the grunts when he and Frederick are fucking from the other side of the valley.
DrMandalay··on AI companies leak data to advertisers [pdf]
The word is "sell" not "leak". This title takes away all agency from the thieves selling private data to advertisers.
DrMandalay··on Show HN: Concrete Calculator – Estimate Cubic Yards, Bags and Cost
One day America will use grown up measurements. Until then; this nonsense.
DrMandalay··on Google Earth to be axed next year [video]
Earth on web is shit.

Earth Desktop is useful for one thing: mapping large datasets onto a globe.

I use it very often because I don't have to upload gigs of data just to review my own datasets. Now? Will have to vibecode an alternative.

What a fucking waste, Google. Category-leading technology theft and you still manage to fuck it up.

Are there any Google products left that haven't been enshittified to death?

DrMandalay··on All Smokescreen, No Fire in Data Center Foreign Influence Claims
My keyboard is broken. Whenever I write "Israel", it auto-corrects to "Russia" or "China". I think the author of this article has the same problem.
DrMandalay··on Anthropic Says Iran Used Its American AI Model to Target U.S. Navy Warships
That's a better use than targeting a girl's high School, which is what the yanks used Claude for. Is hypocrisy and hubris taught in American schools? Or are they all just born with unreal amounts?
DrMandalay··on Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models
Right now, hypocrisy is the American way. There is nowhere on the planet respected less.
DrMandalay··on Gloria Steinem has died
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DrMandalay··on Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private
GCHQ has done it's job of obfuscating it's existence pretty well, for most Brits to still think they've had any privacy at all for the last few decades.