schizo
I don’t know if it’s the system keeping them from analyzing it so much as it’s simply that a good number of tech bros fall into the Actually a Nazi or the Paid Enough They Don’t Care categories and for the most part happily keep on doing what they’ve been doing. If any of them had actual ethics or morals they’d take action, but they just plain don’t.
Perhaps I’m too cynical, but after 20+ years working in tech, with most of the last 10 being in an abuse role at a PaaS company and seeing how management is willing to play endless whataboutism (my favorite was our Jewish lead council going on about how there’s nothing wrong with Nazis having a voice and a platform, and then some crazy story about bullying when he was a kid) and the majority of non-management is happy to just shrug and play along and so you end up with a Nazi bar, as you mentioned.
The problem is that, right now, ALL the bars in this horribly tortured analogy are Nazi bars and everyone gets subjected to the Nazi propaganda.
indelibly a product of capitalism
They’re being funded by the capitalists that want to replace all those annoying human workers with the cheapest possible alternative.
Of course, the problem is that while a LLM is the cheapest possible option, it’s turning out that it’s the most useless and garbage one too.
(Also, I’m shockingly infuriated that the tech workers that would end up being the ones replaced the soonest are so busy licking boots rather than throwing their shoes into the machinery.)
People were also quick to start reaching me via SMS instead of IM.
I found that too: people who actually want to talk to you (and aren’t just talking to you because you happen to be in a group with someone they DO want to talk to) will hop through all sorts of modest hoops to do so.
Even after moving back to a real smartphone, there aren’t any apps installed outside of SMS for people to contact me, because I really enjoyed the very clear signal that the conversation was actually important and actually needed my input vs. the constant stream of noise that existed before.
Man, Amazon is giving Google a run for their money on enshittification and product cancellation.
This is more hilarious because the spy device not only cost more for the ability to show you photos, but it ALSO had a subscription fee to do so on top of that.
I’m completely befuddled as to what the hell they were thinking, and why they think replacing family pictures with more ads is somehow going to make people do anything other than Ron Swanson these stupid things into the nearest dumpster.
I’m always confused by the people who get bit by malware that requires you to bypass Gatekeeper.
Perhaps I’m just a privileged tech nerd, but when your OS goes ‘THIS IS A BAD IDEA, YOU SHOULD THINK TWICE’ perhaps uh, don’t do that.
Maybe it’s just a poor UI on the part of Apple that’s not properly conveying there-be-dragons to users who don’t quite get what they’re doing?
So now I don’t think they are even trying
I mean, would you? The whole damn playerbase basically goes ‘lol read quest text? watch cutscenes? no time, need purps!’.
If I were Blizzard, I’d probably stop caring about story too because the player base doesn’t care all that much either, and the ones that do aren’t going to quit over a shitty story at this point: if they were going to, they already did in Shadowlands.
The high-quality onboarding experience?
Oh for fucks sake, this is just people entering information into a webpage.
Just another failing business model trying to find somewhere to “extract value”.
