I, for one, want to thank Elon Musk for graciously backing up my highly sensitive government ID (that has my birthdate, eye color, height, weight), my biometric data, and likeness! It is such a nice thing to centralize all my most sensitive data into one giant honeypot waiting to meltdown. It is made even more appealing after he fired the entire staff responsible for maintaining this honeypot!

Good Lord bro. Imagine having self-awareness. With the Madison stuff also coming to light, they would have already been in the pit regardless, but this 'apology' video is kind of insulting.

Yes I also watched the whole thing and still found it equally as insulting as the highlights.

Thanks for being so transparent with us. Lemmy really does feel like home now to me. I wish the maintainers all the best as they continue to fight the forces of evil.

Are you fucking shitting me rn? I am sick of how lame this dystopian future is. Where are my neon lights and grungy underground bars? All we get in this timeline are takedown notices, corporate overreach, disappearing content and DMCA strikes.

This is absolutely grade A batshit crazy, not just your average dystopian batshit crazy.

What a clusterfuck of a HIPAA violation.

That's one angry shower.

Reading the article with the letter X in place of Twitter makes me feel like I am reading a pre-generated article with someone forgetting to replace the placeholder with the brand name.

I don't think this is too far off. Synaptic pruning leaves us vulnerable to increasingly relying on heuristics as we age. It is entirely possible that cognitive decline makes us more drawn to less cognitively taxing messaging (generally conservatives).

This isn't boring dystopia, this is just straight up Monday for a true dystopia.

When sentences begin with an inflecting "Honestly?", I am immediately on guard to completely ignore what comes next, because it is usually a steaming pile of AI crap.

I just got back to the US from japan and now I'm super depressed that I have to drive 14 minutes to the nearest grocery store... Which is Walmart.

I remember during world's a couple of years ago, the stream chat was shouting "TY MASTERCARD" everytime their ads came up

Saw a TikTok on the Saturn ad that posed how inefficient car transport is when scaled with large populations. Basically, if you remove the body of the car and have people walk on those same roads, they are just taking up so much space. Traffic is horrible even though there is plenty of space between people. The comments section lacks media literacy in the most basic sense. Either they were willfully ignorant, or just outright stupid.

All the comments were like "doesn't this prove cars are the most efficient form of transport?"

Americans truly need to visit Tokyo, or really any city outside the US that HAS ACTUAL PUBLIC TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE.

I live in Houston, the worst possible car centric nightmare and I get nearly killed every other day. It's gotten to the point where you don't even flinch when someone almost rams you in a head on because these near misses happen all the time.

I am so fucking sick of cars.

They have a PODCAST??

With windows 10 EOL on the horizon, I need steam OS to come out for desktop soon. I beg you lord Gaben. 👁️

I go to medical school in Texas. I can confirm the braindrain is fairly frightening to everyone in academics, medicine, and research here. MD/PhDs are the ones impacted most at my institution.

I fucking hate this state. I didn't used to, but it's pretty clear the state is highly corrupt.

"savage polling", when has he ever given a shit about media coverage or public opinion. It hasn't stopped him at all.

Wonderful, my day is complete. Thank you Alphabet for providing me a choice in which flavor of dystopian nightmare I'd prefer.

See that's something I've always been frustrated with.

No doubt they have my demographics, biographics, biometrics, and personal preferences stored in their cloud, then make me select a whole bunch of staircases to prove I'm not a robot.