JWM (Joe No Se)

Krugman is right. The South African emerald mine heir who grifted and financially engineered his way to billionaire status needs to face severe personal accountability for his actions with DOGE. Thousands have died as a result, while Musk’s own businesses had their regulatory bodies incapacitated. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cAKGQQsF2RA&ra=m

@pluralistic@mamot.fr This one hits close to home…literally half a mile, where the SF Board of Supervisors meet. The billionaire oligarchs have poured hundreds of millions into city elections in recent years, buying a majority on the board…and a mayoralty. My district supervisor certainly supports the resolution, but the rest of the board is composed of oligarch-financed neoliberals who will likely shoot the resolution down.

We need a hashtag! #JEdgarBoozer

@pluralistic@mamot.fr 'Of course, tying individual executives' bonuses to making a number go up has a predictably perverse outcome. As Goodhart's law has it, "Any metric becomes a target, and then ceases to be a useful metric.' We're living this in the Salesforce ecosystem right now. They recently replaced all their well-functioning support forms with agents powered by their bet-the-company AI bots. And the outcome is predictable: it's twice as hard for partners and customers to get the specific help they need, and which they knew how to easily get from the support forms. Many of these forms kicked off automated processes that are essential to partner business. Now you have to argue with a bot that gets things wrong, requires more effort to interact with, and acts as a case deflection tool. All because someone had a number-go-up metric to meet.

@argals There are plenty of undeserving. We just call them “billionaires”

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social I think I found their pitch deck…

@JensHannemann@mastodon.online @pluralistic@mamot.fr I went the same way with Timbuk2 bags. Have had many over the years, and never really switched them because they wore out...just because there was a better model. I've had good luck with my Osprey hydration packs too. One nice thing about consumer products is that the only lock-in they can get is in (a) distribution or (b) brand awareness. And we still have ways of discovering good products and buying directly from the manufacturer. But as Amazon, Google, and others tighten their chokehold over the digital end of our economy, we risk losing that too.

@JensHannemann@mastodon.online @pluralistic@mamot.fr It's fantastic to have an independent choice. We do have an independent chain called Sports Basement here in San Francisco. But it's not exactly a go-to store for things like this.

I do remember when they started. It wasn’t too long after Timbuk2 came of age here in San Francisco.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social unexploitable may be a better term.

@amorablackrose He doesn’t JUST count… https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXPnH0C9UA&pp=ygURTGVtb24gZGVtb24gY291bnQ%3D

@monkeyben@mastodon.sdf.org @Lazarou@mastodon.social "Stop constructing stairs now or there will be....trouble"

@Lazarou@mastodon.social Someone else called it the best album cover Rage Against the Machine ever made :)

@pluralistic Cause I don’t wanna be…plutocracy?

To which the court responded “Go home, Space Karen..,you’re drunk. Or in ketamine. Or just entitled.” :)

@mullvadnet NO AND THEN!

@stefan@front-end.social My favorite “news” articles to ridicule lately have been of the “See what ChatGPT said when we asked [X]” variety.

@monkeyben@mastodon.sdf.org @Lazarou@mastodon.social I suspect that underestimates how selectively bad the future can get… https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WzrmlTe5_94/Uv3_nKtJomI/AAAAAAAALfE/9ctSqmMjx-o/s1600/tmp_Figura+Robocop+Robot+ED+209578665960.jpg

@Lazarou@mastodon.social @monkeyben@mastodon.sdf.org And sometimes SkyNet may take our side… https://www.yahoo.com/tech/self-driving-waymo-cab-smashes-163331253.html

@mlrife@mastodon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr Maybe he’ll get Keanu to do promo work.

@randahl@mastodon.social - Tested this on both paid and free GDrive, with the same behavior. I've found that Google often inserts tracking links in their docs. Super frustrating.

@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social Check out the sponsored ad the Apple App Store shows when I search for ICEblock. How appropriate.

@SteveClough@metalhead.club They’re not actually seeking feedback. They have put you on a marketing stop campaign masquerading as a survey, unfortunately.