Honestly, Youtube was already pretty shit with all of the obvious monetization schemes and paid “influencer” content. Even though I never watch reaction videos I feel like they are always recommended to me. Their algorithms were already busted to prefer user-created slop. This is just another step towards complete enshittification.

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I’m sure the continued energy demands and carbon emissions will have no serious repercussions. /s

It’s crazy how fast I switched from praising Amazon’s carbon neutral initiatives to outright hating them. So much has changed in the past few years.

Interesting how they suddenly can’t find money to fund anything that helps humanity but they can invest billions of dollars in fucking defense-related AI R&D. Anyone with a brain can see that cutting agency funding will do nothing for the deficit if you’re just yeeting money at Alex Karp to make AI-enabled bombs that compliment you for your bravery for killing brown people or whatever.

I’m tired of the government pretending that the deficit actually means anything.

I think part of this is lawmakers not understanding the gravity of what they’re suggesting. Besides, most of these apps have some sort of backdoor built-in so they can decrypt messages if required in legal proceedings. Ripping E2EE out of everything is an insane assertion to make, and would make the Internet an even more dangerous place than it already is.

100%. I think Biden’s “status quo” messaging only worked because of the chaos that was Trump’s first term and COVID. That is not a platform to run on when Trump pushed the country into full-blown fascism. The pendulum needs to swing in the other direction. The only thing I fear is that those in charge of the DNC have proven they are not interested in supporting social democrats or democratic socialists for the presidency. We sorely need a third party that is taken seriously.

I really don’t understand why they always feel the need to cover up presidential health issues. I know the answer is “national security,” but how exactly is it secure to have a man in obvious mental and physical decline going around “shaking hands” with other world leaders? Just own up to it and have him die at Mar-a-lago playing golf like he probably wants. That was the whole point of having JD as a backup, right?