If you've ever worked at one of these big companies with fancy buildings, it's interesting that in the end, they're the same depressing row after row of cubicles, or "shared working spaces"
The architecture might look neat outside and upfront, but otherwise it's just sad and boring inside the actual working area.
Big thing about RTO is that these places just suck to be at. Quality of workspaces have been going down for years as they try to cram more and more people into less space.
We finally get a reckoning that a lot of people can just work from home and the economy won't blow up, but instead, rich folks want people back in the torture zones.
These doofuses at Ford can't seem to trace slow sales to absurd price hikes. The lightning was the electric truck that made sense all the way up until it didn't. Now it's back the the drawing board.
I'm for what we gotta do to get off gas and weaken that oil money, but I wish these manufacturers would stop pretending like they didn't know what the problem was.
Platforms like YouTube and Reddit have the fundamental issue that they feel entitled to incredible amounts of money for serving content they didn't create. They make lots off money off the back of creators, then find new and malicious ways to be a platform that's just painful to be on.
I disabled watch and search history on my Google accounts (recommend everyone do that), and now there's this passive aggressive blank home page when I open YouTube as if that's the best experience they could come up with. Don't show me content I'm subscribed to or anything, just a blank page like fuck you.
There should be a way for creators like the author here to be compensated, while the platform gets a fair cut for hosting it and making it easy to find the content you want. Google, across all their platforms, has forgotten that getting people to the right content was what made them the best platform in the past. Instead, it's forcing you through a swath of shit you don't want, in hopes they make more ad revenue.
If a CEO is saying it, it's likely the most chickenshit explanation they could've come up with about the situation.
Whats interesting about Zuck in particular is he's trying to blend in with normal society despite never really being a part of it. I hope he knows that we see him, and he'll always be a billionaire dick head who was ultimately bad for the planet.
Ah, sounds like what-about-ism. Metas behavior doesn't exempt Apple from criticism. That logic tends to drive all of our standards and expectations down.
Theres room to criticize and expect more from all of these companies who are more than capable of doing better.
This is true, but AI can be used as a tool to summarize and otherwise distill a massive amount of information to a form that someone can make sense of. It was probably cost prohibative to go through this data before or making specific snooping tools.
Without watching the video: this is an awesome rendition of The Heart of Darkness. Definitely worth the probably <$10 you'd pay for it, or sailing the high seas. Also a great performance by Nolan North.
Edit: To Clarify, I mean the game Spec Ops the Line
I'm over the era of ads dominating our lives. I know not everyone can do so, but I'm willing to pay a fair rate for a fair search and AI service. If we have to continue to live in this system then I think we should better enable competition in the tech space and stop some of these mafia business monopoly tactics.
Some companies are just disgustingly greedy. I pay for a new TV, for example, and that thing is trying to download ads and report my usage non-stop and I paid fairly to own the device. I'd support any political party that actually wants to protect consumers from the nonsense business pull.
I know this is supposed to be humorous, but there's a reason why these languages can, and are doing what they're doing.
Core dumps are also worth learning about, they're really helpful if you understand them.