technerd

Hmm, 800 billion. Should think about rebranding a company to really rhyme with this one...

Weird how creating conditions where powerful people never have to face real accountability leads to powerful people abusing their power. Who could have predicted that?

The Kinahan cartel is accused of running a global criminal network involved in drug trafficking, arms smuggling and money laundering. Despite international pressure and sanctions, the footage shows the group’s leaders continuing to appear publicly in Dubai.

The video of a United States Senator joining the violent removal of U.S. marine from a hearing and hideously breaking his arm in a door is an example of what has been unleashed in this country. They’re tapping in to get in on the violence.
And then he bragged about it on X later.

board rooms thinking paying couple of extra points on taxes is like cutting off an arm and a leg

now it's bombs into schools instead

billionaires being billionaires

if they cared for others, they wouldn't be

I doubt the last part is true. Very much.

Idk. I'm often surprised it does as well as it does. But equally often dismayed how unusable some of the attempts are.

What confuses the conversation is the assumption (?) that all software dev tasks are equal. Also implicit in these statements is that human intelligence adds nothing over LLM.

I'd read this dystopian sci-fi.

Trump has yet to lower flags to half staff.

He did for Charlie Kirk within an hour of his death.

both sound like something to avoid

hard choices

is jail better for health though?

CEO. So much genius.

Social media is a decade+ long regret and a mistake. Enjoy your other activities.

Browsers are fingerprinted. Plus the many other ways your data is collected.

The day tiktok doesn't get your data is the day when they stop sharing videos freely.

There are no free lunches. If you're not paying for it...

I will never click on a TikTok link.

And I'm sharing this because it's social media and sharing is what we do here.

😁🤪😂😂😂

The interesting bit is that everyone in Silicon Valley has known Larry Ellison is scum for at least three decades by now.

But nothing changes. It's always about if one can catch some scraps falling off of the billionaire's table.

Money is power.

Politicians are only the errand boys. Dirty energy is yesterday’s garbage. Want to stop this current wave of madness, tech billionaires need to be brought down.

yes, the capital class is inclined to fascism, and they don't actually care about us and never have. it's interesting how people thought these guys were different, just because they had a good sales pitch but we've been here before. it's just now they have accumulated so much capital and power.

And Torvalds and Woz are entirely happy where they are and what they have.

Because greed and domination over others was never the motivation.

They are more intellectually balanced compared to Zuckerberg, Andreessen, Gates, Jobs, Musk, Thiel and so many others.

This. Also, journalism died long ago. The way the tech industry reports is just stenography no actual check that what theyre selling works as intended or has any customer safety in mind (any other industry products have to pass safety checks food, toys, furniture, clothing, hygiene products etc etc)

Pretty much the same degree of moral depravity of the rest of big American corporations in this late stage of capitalism. When the primary purpose of the company is to grow its stock price, morality has left the building.

An old screenshot talking about Google on top. It says "Google is a pure search engine — no weather, no news feed, no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter. Nothing but a fast-loading search site. Reward them with a visit. Below is a screenshot from The Phantom Menace, where Anakin Skywalker is walking next to a building and behind him you see the shadow of Darth Vader.

We don't shame Volkswagen enough

The most scathing critics of Silicon Valley circa 2014 barely scratched the surface of the treachery these companies have shown.

Providing your products to criminal regimes planning to use them to violate human rights on a massive scale is a choice!

We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.