"I started to wonder, how hard is it to actually make a company like Flock?” Sistilli explained in a YouTube video.

Making a company like Flock is not very hard technically.

What's hard is to buy the right politicians, and to trick enough police departments into depending on your system, to be allowed to conduct sketchy mass-surveillance with total impunity.

This guy solved the technical problem, but didn't have the means - or the desire - to take care of the corruption side of things.

ability to wrinkle myself at will

That's gotta be the shittiest superpower...

"I'm Superman! I fly at supersonic speed!"
"I'm Aquaman! I breathe underwater!"
"I'm Wrinkleman! I camouflage as a giant scrotum!"

You don’t know they haven’t just washed their hands. In fact, since they’re about to eat, it’s likely they did.

You have a lot more faith in people's hygiene than you should.

An alarming number of people routinely don't wash their hands even when they really, REALLY should. Stomach flu for example is almost solely transmitted by people who touch something with contaminated faeces on it, then bring their hand to their mouth. And that something is usually a bathroom door handle.

Judging by how common stomach flu is, it's statistically safer to assume nobody washes hands. But even if 99.9% did, all it takes is one idiot coming out of the bathroom and using the soy sauce dispenser to ruin your week.

As for restaurant staff "cleaning" things, I've seen more cleaners using dirty rags to spread dirt around and make surfaces look clean than actually cleaning anything. Even in my company, I refuse to let the cleaning lady in, because each time she comes, she uses the same rag she used in the bathroom to wipe my desk.

When you empty it through the bottom hole, it draws air in through the top hole.

I always thought finger skin that's been wet long enough got confused and took itself for clammy scrotum skin.

How to spend money to strip your car of all its resale value...

A satellite network working at 400 kph? What does that even mean?

AI is a pure product of fascism.

AI is built on massive data theft and mass surveillance, which can only happen with gigantic monopolistic Big Data corporations that have the wherewithal to carry out the theft and buy themselves the right politicians to do so in total impunity, or make themselves the indispensable partners of the fascist regime.

That's the definition of fascism: state and private enterprise in cahoots.

And now AI is turning into a tool to repress the population and keep the regime in power.

Translation: your retirement savings are one tech bro's mistake away from evaporating.

https://www.briefs.co/ai-bubble-401k/

Are you implying that scrotum skin isn't dignified?

With an attitude like that, no wonder it's frowning...

obviously

Not that obvious. The entire article is constructed as if the throttling limited the speed of the link itself to some hundreds of kilometers per hour.

This sentence from the article for instance:

connection speeds ‌had ⁠been reduced to about 160 kph or less.

It finally provided something of value to the inhabitants of Obersalzberg: a beautiful bonfire show.

Next up: Mar-a-Lago.

I bet Temu Hitler's henchmen will claim she's an illegal immigrant, therefore it invalidates the entire election because an illegal immigrant illegally took part in the vote, therefore the house Republicans will refuse to seat whoever wins.

These are generally situations when an agent or AI assistant accesses a human's account with the user's permission and login credentials. Even if permitted by the user, this goes against the guidelines of most banks requiring that humans log in to their own accounts.

The mind boggles...

Whoever gives AI their banking credentials ain't right in the head.

This sounds no more reassuring than the guy admitting to putting his dirty finger on restaurant dispensers.

they’re also forcing everyone else to spend huge amounts of their own time and money to try and deal with their activity.

Actually, they're forcing everyone to spend huge amount of money on their stock period. Your 401K is tied to the value of those feckless profit-less companies now, and a LOT of people will lose their retirement savings when the AI bubble pops.

JD sold whatever soul he possessed for power, but he remains a terminal loser.

And Google said "Yes Sir! Whatever you say Sir! Your wish is our command Sir! Please drop your pants so Sundar can suck your dick Sir!"

I hate to rain on your parade, but nothing is coming for any billionaires: they own all branches of government and they own the press.

It would take a revolution to overthrow the Epstein class, and that ain't gonna happen in a nation of fat morons.

Also, from the article:

Authors and publishers have argued that Meta made a willful choice to induce infringement by downloading and illegally distributing their copyrighted works. Since torrenting depends on a swarm of users, Meta could not have quickly downloaded 80.6 terabytes of data from LibGen or 35.7 terabytes through Anna’s Archive if the company wasn’t also seeding, authors have argued. (Meta has argued that it relied on “mitigations” to prevent seeding.)

Zuckerberg...
Always the class act...