technocrit
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- Comment on History says tariffs rarely work, but U.S. President Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs could defy the trend, researcher says 1 day ago:
Foreign countries flooding the market with subsidized cars will end up killing local production.
That’s good actually. Car dependency is a dead end for humanity.
- Comment on Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand 1 day ago:
Cars suck always.
- Comment on YouTube Blocks Access to Protest Anthem in Hong Kong 4 days ago:
It doesn’t make sense to expect any kind of morality from an evil system. Google is just a mindless legal entity seeking rents/profits while the profiteers try to avoid state violence. It’s like getting mad as a leech for being a leech.
- Comment on "X": Far-right conspiracy theorists have returned in droves after Elon Musk took over the former Twitter, new study says 6 days ago:
then out of the blue present an aligned front to push a certain narrative.
This is a good point. I see this alot with ukraine. There are many famous shills (eg. max blumenthal) who have been promoting the fascist invasion of ukraine. Now these same shills are supporting Palestine. This would be good except they are just using the issue to lure people in. Then once they’re hooked on all these accounts, they start talking about how ukrainians are nazis, how stalin was awesome, etc. It’s so transparent but so dangerous.
- Comment on A cyberattack forces a big US health system to divert ambulances and take records offline 6 days ago:
As long as “healthcare” is run for profit by millions of disparate businesses, our data will never be safe.
- Comment on Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry 1 week ago:
Strange… I found the quoted article if anyone cares.
- Comment on The ad in the middle of this article about conspiracy theories 2 weeks ago:
The MSM tries to act like the voice of reason when they’re the biggest purveyors of disinfo by a wide margin.
- Comment on Biden signs TikTok “ban” bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it 3 weeks ago:
Is that supposed to make it better?
- Comment on What do you personally use AI for? 3 weeks ago:
There is literally no “artificial intelligence” in any of this. It would show a vast degree of BS and obfuscation to promote data, statistics, and other computations as “intelligence”.
- Comment on What do you personally use AI for? 3 weeks ago:
There is no AI. But I regularly use machine learning, statistics, and other math for just about everything.