I think that folds pretty well into both points A (reserving personal hardware for the wealthy) and point B (the ability to mandate software installations is a valuable mass surveillance touch-point)
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The people inflating the bubble have to know what they’re doing, right? It’s hard to come up with an economic scenario where the market doesn’t crash and burn as a result.
I can’t shake the feeling that two key motivations for bleeding all this cash are A. For moving more wealth to the top (which, y’know, is already happening in umpteen different ways beyond AI), and B. For quickly building surveillance infrastructure, seeing as how eager the Pentagon/DHS is about AI
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Technology@lemmy.world•Quote of the day by Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on" — a dire warning on the er…English
1·23 days agoWhat is the threat model for this type of surveillance? Can any device measure this?
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Technology@lemmy.world•Zuck defends monitoring employees to win AI race in purported leaked audioEnglish
19·1 month agoYou’re not winning the race, Mark
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Technology@lemmy.world•Meta data center allegedly muddies Georgia town's drinking water, investigation underway — EPA promises immediate investigation after congresswoman brings dirty jars of water to hearingEnglish
14·1 month agoNon-zero chance we will get clips of RFK drinking the water on TikTok while promising that it’s safe
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Kind of impressive when you think about itEnglish
49·1 month agoJust like Skype getting lapped by Zoom during COVID
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World News@lemmy.world•UK moves to ban smoking for everyone born after 2008English
5·2 months agoYoung kids in America at least hate both
How young? That hasn’t been my experience with plenty of teens and young adults I’ve been around who vape all the time or go looking for cigs while drinking
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World News@lemmy.world•Musk snubs interview summons by French prosecutors amid X probeEnglish
4·2 months agoWhat’s the next step now that he didn’t show?
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Technology@lemmy.zip•Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai — Amazon reportedly declares “hard down” status for multiple zonesEnglish
4·3 months agoBoth Dubai and Bahrain, which are still lit up on the AWS health dashboard
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Technology@lemmy.zip•Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai — Amazon reportedly declares “hard down” status for multiple zonesEnglish
17·3 months agoJust FYI this isn’t new, happened a month ago if I’m not mistaken
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google told staff worried about Pentagon AI deals that the company is 'leaning more' into national security contractsEnglish
16·3 months agoLike who? There aren’t many jobs around, let alone jobs in this field for companies that aren’t evil
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•War Is Hell. But Is it Good for the Economy?English
18·3 months agoNot prosecuting pedophiles is bad. But is it good for the economy?
So, like, my internet-connected lightbulbs would have to verify my age, too?
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL the Windows 7 default wallpaper was created at a resolution of 10800×6750. The size of the source file is 556 MB.English
241·4 months agoTIL there’s a Windows wallpaper wiki!
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Technology@lemmy.world•OpenAI resets spending expectations, tells investors compute target is around $600 billion by 2030English
3·4 months agoInvestors: oh ok np

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Android@lemdro.id•Google confirms Android’s Quick Share-AirDrop interoperability is expanding to more Android devices this yearEnglish
111·5 months agoWhy create an open protocol when reinforcing the duopoly will do the trick?
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AssholeDesign@lemmy.world•We can't even pump fuel anymore without holding a digital billboard (Netherlands)English
20·5 months agoI’ve always seen comments like this when this topic gets brought up, but it’s never worked for me at any pump. I usually start pressing all the buttons when the ad plays, but never any luck
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Technology@lemmy.world•“IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trialEnglish
4·5 months agoMost of my feed winds up being world news so I just end up feeling sad


Does this analysis adjust for all the BS listings on Indeed? At least from my past experiences reading and applying on online job boards, I see a lot of job postings that are scams or advertisements backed by no real intention of actually hiring anyone