It’s well worth the minimum amount of extra typing and reading to say “installing from outside the Play Store” to push back against the idea of the locked down CorpoPhone being the default… or the norm… or the legal requirement.

It’s a small push back commensurate with the small amount of effort, but it’s a subject worthy of the attention.

I reckon that means it is not actually your own device.

Middle management seems like exactly the kind of jobs that LLMs could actually replace and do a good job at.

We individual contributors do the actual creative work and make gears of industry turn.

The owners at the top will want to stay rich and stay in control because obviously being rich means they are “one of the good ones”

All the layers of hierarchy in between? Their main functions are to filter all the information about their department to send up the chain, or to take the marching orders from above and fill in the details for everybody below them. With some human margin of error. And that’s the best case scenario is somebody who actually does their job and does it well.

Filtering data into summaries, generating new data from simple high-level descriptions, and not doing it “correctly” or “optimally” but “believably?” I think we found the job LLMs were invented to replace!!

(in reality, I’d much rather see $100,000 salaries go to 100,000 human managers rather than the same $10 Billion be split between tech giants and shareholders, but it’s still funny)

These geniuses expect to continue the infinite growth of human society’s economy by getting rid of ALL the humans, including the ones that buy their product!

And what you describe is probably the best case scenario, that the well meaning artist misses it in a rush.

In the real world much of the time I bet the artist is well aware and frustrated because the game already shipped (with no input from them or their boss) to make it by the end of the quarter and now the press assets all have some bland slop BS front and center instead of the real version staring back from their own monitor.

What about the slightly larger bonuses that quarter for the executives who had the outside-the-box and paradigm-shifting bright idea to eliminate the V&V department? HUH?

There’s probably a dusty old Ferrari buried in some retired rich guy’s 7th garage, and all the world had to suffer for it was a few fucked up networks here and there and losing the respect of IT people all over the place.

What you say is totally rational, which is why many of the people supporting these monsters are doing it for irrational reasons. Things like hate, anger, and bigotry seem to be very effective right now!

I present you with the rare two-headed “best subthread of the day by the best username of the day” award!

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It’s like these insane old fucks running the world actually want to make sure that part of their legacy is leaving a constant trail of traumatized "other"s in their wake that will grow into the “terrorist” targets for the next generation to kill.

To these people, human joy is an indulgence for the weak.

You know how over-exaggerated cartoonish villains will talk about how love and caring make you weak? Basically that.

They seem like exactly the kind of evil that has to push the bounds of human depravity just to prove to themselves how privileged and powerful they truly are.

Like with those Epstein files we aren’t talking about as much since we’re waiting to see if this is WW3 – you have a variety of powerful people who are probably not pedophiles in the mental illness sense, but they fuck teenagers because it’s a combination of forbidden fruit and domination/control and half a dozen other things that stimulate their dark triad brains.

That sounds like an awful situation where a bunnch of young lives would be sacrificed in an ongoing series of attacks so that the evening news could be saturated with graphic tragic shit leading up to Trump being “forced” to do whatever they have planned next.

So I assume that’s literally evil plan A, and reality will turn out worse.

I find the balance. They are less than a half hour drive away and we don’t see them all that often.

My kid has grandparents and cousins he likes. Fortunately at most of the get-togethers at grandma’s house, we tend to separate into two floors of the house. So I get to hang with my nieces and nephews and spend most of the time with walls between me and the old miserable people.

That makes me think of how much it annoys me when things are really messy and disorganized in our house, which is very often.

It’s like there’s no indexing. Where is thing X that somebody else used last? Time to start a fresh empty-cache brute force search of the whole space!

What’s astonishing to me, as an American who grew up in white conservative rural and suburban areas, is that the racism is just one facet of a much larger shitty state of existence.

I see the same things IRL from ordinary people, like extended family, that I see from the people in the media who seem like hyperbolic caricatures trying to test Poe’s law.

It’s just an existence based in negativity. Every request has a hurried frustrated tone. Every discussion is composed entirely of complaints. The complaints about others are bigoted sure, but also very focused on money and material possessions which those other people never deserve and the speaker is neverrrrr jealous about. Personal identity is built from all the things you don’t like.

I have a good relationship with my family, but they are still miserable and draining to be around.

😅 Hey there fellow human Fediverse user!

✈️ Wanna get away from all the AI slop?

👍 Well you are in the right place.

😎 Lists are great, and bulleted lists are classy, but emoji-bullet lists are the coolest most human thing ever!

🧐 Using glue in place of pizza sauce actually binds the fat and makes it more healthy!

🫡 Do YOU have two 5090s on order like a good person?

Same with what we were hearing about the Linux desktop!

…yet here we are in 2026 and literally all my desktops have since become Linux, lol.

Narcissism + recklessness + greed + privilege, filtered through a heavy layer of survivorship bias, and whatever jackass makes it to the end was apparently a bold visionary genius the whole time.

But then once they’re in that club, the money and notoriety are their own advantage.

I finally got to read this article and the situation is even better/dumber with more context. I didn’t realize the layering at first.

This CEO used AI to avoid paying human lawyers to help him figure out how to avoid paying human game developers.

This asshole needs to get some kind of “Yo Dawg I heard you like AI” anti-award.

Trapped Americans getting whoopsie-killed as shit all over the place gets blown up? That sounds like a great justification for throwing more money and lives at attacking the Epstein Files-- I mean, Iran.

Honestly I would be more surprised if it were simply a gutted and incompetent goverment, rather than intentional.