you want a billionaire owned multimedia ad revenue agency (aka the “news”) to stop hyping the billionaire backed chaos cheeze monkey and the stupid shit it says?

This is exactly why instead of expecting the media to evolve or adapt I encourage people to walk away from corporate news.

I’m not a zealot, so follow it if you like, just know that it has its own goals and one of them is to hook you on its crappy product and convince you that it is the sole arbiter of truth…when it’s really stuffing its billionaire-sponsored narratives down your throat.

The reality is that if the news were in any way objective and about “the truth”, it would steadily maintain reality-based positions over time, but it doesn’t. It adapts based upon what its billionaire owners want and based upon the whims of the electorate – all the while pretending that it does nothing to influence the whims of the electorate when it very clearly does.

I think the movie Elysium is basically what they want.

There’s usually a way to get it to jump to the last input.

This news is reminding me that I need to unplug my TV from the Internet.

For the entire time I’ve been alive, we have been a supply-side economics country. Which means that rather than companies creating products based upon the needs of the people and selling them, much or perhaps most of the economy is oriented toward making you want (largely) unnecessary things that companies have created.

The news media serves this economic structure in a few different ways:

• It notifies you of new products – essentially acting as the marketing arm of the companies – to keep the economy humming along and people consuming things.
• It wants you to consume its main, likely unnecessary product (i.e. 24/7, up-to-the-second news) in order to both assist the above goal of having you consume that marketing, and because it itself is a supply-side economic product.
• It relays at every possible opportunity the message that not keeping up with the news will result in you missing out on important things, or might result in potential disaster.

It is often the news organizations themselves – and the people who act as boosters for them either unintentionally or intentionally – that pretend that you have some personal responsibility to consume every bit of news about every flatulent (be it government, celebrity, or corporate) that opened their mouth today.

Stop buying shitty, overpriced food from a dumpster organization.

If you stop buying it, you’ll help signal to the dumpster organization that their prices are too high.

We’re in the age of too-big-to-fail celebrities.

I think there’s a certain category of net denizen that becomes a more devote fan the more it comes out that the person is a scumbag.

Reminds me of when I argue with some members of my family and it seems like they wait for me to have a position just to take the opposite of it to be argumentative and contrarian.

Bonus points if it involves an “app”.

This is why I just bought two framework laptops. They’re doing the exact opposite.

Sure, but they’re likely not serverless. 😀

No, it wouldn’t be different. Though it’d definitely be better to have a discernable algorithm / explicable set of rules for things like health care. Them shrugging their shoulders and saying they don’t understand the “AI” should be completely unacceptable.

I wasn’t saying AI = LLM either. Whatever drives Teslas is almost certainly not an LLM.

My point is half-baked software is already killing people daily, but because it’s more dramatic to pontificate about the coming of skynet the “AI” people waste time on sci-fi nonsense scenarios instead of drawing any attention to that.

Fighting the ills bad software are already causing today would also do a lot to advance the cause of preventing bad software from reaching the imagined apocalyptic point in the future.

Serverless in cloud computing typically refers to ephemeral processes…things like lambdas and message handlers.

Outside of that it’s just a buzzword anyway (like “low code/no code” which is similar) so I guess any managed software is serverless by your definition?

Saying they’re the same as like saying that a self-driving taxi is the same as leasing your own car.

No saying serverless computing is serverless–which has several definitions btw like all marketing doublespeak–is like saying a taxi is driverless.

An “AI” operated machine gun turret doesn’t have to be sentient in order to kill people.

I agree that people are the ones allowing these things to happen, but software doesn’t have to have agency to appear that way to laypeople and when people are placed in a “managerial” or “overseer” role they behave as if the software knows more than they do even when they’re subject matter experts.

Especially if we let its half baked incarnations operate our cars and act as a claims adjuster for our for profit healthcare system.

AI is already killing people for profit right now.

But, I know, I know, slow, systemic death of the vulnerable and the ignorant is not as tantalizing a storyline as doomsday events from Hollywood blockbusters.

I really doubt the guy who loves low interest rates, looks to be trying to devalue the dollar purposefully, and is a corporate landlord himself will make a lot of moves that purposefully deflate the price of housing. He may do it accidentally, but I kind of doubt that too. If Trump gets his way and deports a bunch of people, welp…guess what a lot of the construction labor pool is? A mortgage is essentially a long-term bet that the dollar will be worth less than it is today. If you can afford to get one at current mortgage rates, I would pull the trigger. If rates drop again you can refinance, but what you will never be able to do is get a 2025 offer accepted on a house that’s now worth much more in 2030. My main regret in buying my place–in the pants-shitting part of the early pandemic–was not doing it earlier.

In a lot of cases, I find I’ve already read the underlying content or skipped it with my reader and therefore can go right to the comments. But ymmv of course.

I’d recommend trying RSS and if they don’t support it just quit reading them.

What is your brain doing if not statistical text prediction?

Um, something wrong with your brain buddy? Because that’s definitely not at all how mine works.

It’s like having to wait through an ad on Duolingo except without the reward.

Not everyone has money to do it, and not everyone knows you can do it. Also, as the dollar devalues most everyone will become a millionaire, but being a millionaire won’t mean what it used to anymore – which is already the case.