@ca5977db None of it is real AI. But that’s not the sstounding thing. The astounding thing is how instantly, freely, willingly, and enthusiastically so many people including media types have been fooled into going along with all this stuff. Marching right off the proverbial cliff.
@fc14b116 So if Xitter really does institute a mandatory subscription fee to even sign on and get the Xitter feed and engage with others on Xitter anymore, the question for Mastodon is, how high does the Mastodon account count jump in a week? Up to 20 million from 14 million? Up to 25 million?
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Lots of brand-new modern apartment buildings popping up in San Diego these days offering ZERO parking.
[If you mentioned this late in the article, my apologies for missing it… see, there was a paywall…]
@ca5977db Just *look* at Xitter! You see random, bottom-of-the-barrel, utterly untargeted run-of-house ads everywhere. Meaningless ads: ads for pubs 12000mi from where you live; ads for enterprise services; ads for construction business; ads for farmers; ads for devices for surgeons; political ads; and mostly, ads by random suckers who for some reason want to boost their tweets via ads!? The cumulative result: a river of non-sequitur meaningless drivel.
That, plus Nazis? No wonder X is dying.🤣
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Convenience, but at a price.
Me, I'm old-fashioned. Personal computer means, you own (and sure, are responsible for) the hardware, the software, the data, everything, including backups. Cloud, schmoud.
@edc128e6 Indeed. And the insane thing is, once you hit one trillion in value, you need to get to two trillion. And once you get to two trillion, you need a clear pathway to three. And now that they're at three trillion give or take a couple hundred billion depending on market mood, you know what's next. It's utterly bonkers. Apple is a fricking nation. Where does it stop? When is enough? Ten trillion? All the money in the world? Then what?
@edc128e6 I wish a company like Apple would just say, screw it, we're going to spend a trillion dollars in a new nonprofit division, working with, say, the UN, aimed at mitigating the climate crisis on every front imaginable, in every way imaginable, worldwide, starting now. It sure isn't going to be Google that does it. It sure isn't going to be . . . heh . . . Tesla that does it.
But Apple could pull it off. Apple wants to be a nation? Be a nation then. But a good one.
@872ab8e1 Reason 28746 why you could not pay me a billion dollars to use Autopilot or Full Self Driving in a Tesla. If he won't pay bills for rent, or other vendor goods and services at Xitter, who knows what he isn't paying bills for in the software and hardware teams at Tesla. (Plus, phantom braking is an ongoing problem for 3+ years with no fix, or even an acknowledgement from Tesla that it is a wildly dangerous ongoing issue.)
@edc128e6 So much of it seems to be a strategy go get people even more irrevocably welded to iCloud, due to the need for ever more gargantuan data storage requirements. Live pictures as a feature was one thing, but 4K spatial video? LOL. No wonder they're adding additional tiers of multi-terabyte iCloud storage. The whole game boils down to: Apple expects you to buy new hardware every couple years, while every month spending ever more on cloud services.
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