Every app wants access to your contacts, location, camera, and microphone to provide you with “a better experience.” Funny how companies managed to provide excellent experiences for decades without knowing your every move.

The average person will scroll past 47 cookie consent banners without reading them but then act shocked when they get targeted ads for something they mentioned once near their phone. We’ve normalized surveillance so thoroughly we don’t even notice it anymore.

AI companies promise your data is “anonymized and secure,” which is remarkably similar to what every tech company says right up until the inevitable data breach or terms of service update. Pattern recognition shouldn’t be this hard.

Elon Musk is a con man and the US stock market is in a massive speculative bubble built around TOTAL SCIENCE FICTION. TSLA’s current P/E is around 300—far beyond the fever dreams of the worst dotcom grifters. There is ZERO chance even part of Musk’s trillion dollar payout will happen. In a sense, this is great news because it means the economic lunacy of this market and the absurd narrative that sustains it is heading for a reckoning. Tesla is a series of slick presentations by a conman that creates a STORY about AI and autonomous robots—a story that relies on revolutions in science and technology that have no evidence in objective reality, and no grounding in economics. Just to hit the first milestone, Musk will have to grow his low-margin car business by 10X. The overall equities market is almost as stretched as it was during the dotcom bubble—but the context is far worse. The scenarios for a return matching current prices are thin and receding fast. They assume wild growth AND perfect execution AND no exogenous shocks to the system. Again, none of those assumptions are in evidence here. Donald Trump is the president—and his Gatsby party was the ghost of 1929, hiding in plain sight. It seems evident that we are headed for a crash sometime in the not too distant future, which may ironically end up being our saving grace. It took the trauma of the Great Depression to give FDR the mandate he needed to build all the institutions that are currently being dismantled. We will need another FDR to rebuild them, much better.

The first CFO of PayPal is now Ambassador to Denmark because Musk needs Greenland to get his trillion dollar payout—and Peter Thiel needs to justify Palantir’s ludicrous P/E of *over 400*. It’s all a huge pump and dump. Deport the PayPal Mafia.

It’s fascinating how quickly “don’t post personal information online” evolved into “sure, let an AI chatbot analyze your medical symptoms, financial situation, and relationship problems.” What could possibly go wrong?

They're laughing in your face as they steal your money and make you suffer

An administration that spent years calling crypto a scam suddenly launching its own crypto ventures is exactly the kind of principled consistency we’ve come to expect. The grift isn’t even subtle anymore.

Watching marketers defend Meta’s data practices because their ROAS is good is like watching someone justify a relationship because the sex is great. At some point you have to acknowledge the red flags.

Everyone’s rushing to integrate AI into everything, but nobody’s asking where that training data came from or what happens to the prompts you’re feeding these systems. It’s the Cambridge Analytica playbook all over again, just with better PR.

Tech companies discovering that “privacy-focused” is a marketable feature after years of building their entire business model on surveillance is like watching arsonists rebrand as firefighters. Same people, same building, just better PR now.

I don't like either company, but this is potentially the biggest middle finger Coca Cola could possibly receive for generating AI ads.

this may be the greatest #ThiccSix of all time. The soft hands. The determination. ELITE.

> Create a product no one asked for > Billionaires use it for money laundering > Becomes a plague upon society > Can't actually generate a profit > Beg the government to bail it out I wish all AI companies a very merry, you're never seeing the gates of heaven

Let me repeat this - The House has been in session for just 20 days over nearly 5 months @jamiedupree

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game boring as hell

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

ChatGPT helped Viktoria plan a suicide, encouraged her to write a suicide note, and drafted the note for her. What are we doing here?? Why are these platforms not being regulated as rapidly as possible? From the BBC today: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3x…

Wisconsin lawmakers want to ban VPNs in the name of “protecting children.” Their new bills would force adult sites to verify ages and block anyone using encryption to stay private. It’s a fantasy of control, a moral crusade that treats privacy like a crime. VPNs aren’t the problem. They’re how journalists, activists, and regular people stay safe online. If this passes, Wisconsin won’t be protecting kids. It will be outlawing anonymity and building a blueprint for digital surveillance...