Utilities beholden to investor groups have been price gouging customers long before AI came along. We need governments that can competently govern and regulate.

Finamp is the official iOS Jellyfin music player. If only the would publish the latest beta version to the App Store! Apparently it’s so much better than the current release, but I refuse to sign up for test flight and the associated Apple terms.

Stiff competition, that. This guy is just playing it safe, saying what his bosses want to hear.

Personal privacy is always worth the cost. The ‘subsidies’ can go away anytime, so better to not be locked into an expensive spyware platform to begin with.

Tech companies don’t innovate anymore. Their Wall Street string-pullers demand reliable profit growth so they kill innovation through buyouts and are left with stale products they can only make worse and/or charge more for. Layoffs are a direct wealth transfer from working class labor to wealthy shareholders and the street rewards execs for it every time.

And if you’re thinking AI is innovative, it’s got executives in a fever pitch for the same reasons - so companies can fire expensive labor and big tech can become even more monopolistic, shove more ads, push more propaganda, and control the internet. It’s fortunate it doesn’t work that well so far. Bubble can’t pop soon enough.

A key aspect of a corporation is to protect execs liability. Anything they do is the legal responsibility of the corporation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_liability

Also see Citizens United in the US.

Never believe a billionaire’s sales-pitch

They really don’t think past the next quarter or two. And even if they did they aren’t lacking on new ways to exploit people.

But the filthy wealthy gotta grow their wealth somehow!

You think everyone should comply? You don’t avoid fascism by staying quiet.

This is hilarious and to the extend everyone would avoid ice agents like the plague makes it even better.

You never have more power against an authoritarian than you do right now.

You have to resist, push back, fight etc. or you keep losing.

Good job. Keep speaking up!

People are good a justifying things to themselves. And when your invisible-friend-for-adults backs you up, well now you’re infallible.

Remember when Visa and Mastercard made a big deal defending the right to buy guns on their platform? https://finance.yahoo.com/news/visa-won-t-block-gun-180848343.html

The Orange Poo Smear doesn’t have friends. He’s a narcissist. That’s very thin ice for any type of relationship. As we saw with nearly his entire first term administration, people that get to know him learn to hate him quickly. This goes double for billionaires like Murdoch who are used to always getting their way.

Haven’t seen the past few episodes but that’s a real shame to hear. Seems like his show would rather be cancelled than conform.

The amount of power shareholders hold over every major (American) enterprise isn’t talked about in a way that presents a clear problem between increasingly expensive and shitty services, layoffs, anti-worker practices, political corruption and these shareholder groups. C-suite are part of this group but they’re also afraid of removal via hostile board takeovers and so easily justify acquiescing to shareholder demands. Perhaps it’s because the same investors hold the same sway over (American) media with the added benefit of using it to brand themselves as exceptional leaders. Lots to untangle there…

Their business model has been to undercut and extinguish their competition for as long as they’ve been around. The ‘good’ you talk about is about controlling the market and leaving you with no choice as they’ve already largely done with your ‘nicer stuff’. Workers will be shit-canned without a second thought if they realize their ai/robot dreams. Drugs will become more expensive again once they capture the market.

The world depends on everyone voting with their wallets despite the inconvenience. You don’t have to be perfect, just make some changes. Pay more and support your small local businesses whenever possible.

True. Don’t forget longstanding disenfranchisement, gerrymandering, and voter intimidation. It’s also true democrats ‘vote for us, we’re not republicans’ is the laziest campaign slogan and the most their billionaire mega donors will allow. But republican wannabe facists have been stacking the deck for a long time with no repercussions. No surprise it also led us here.

Exactly. The ‘public services’ he wants to save is bribery to avoid paying his fair share. This guy is offering a ‘powerful people’ club membership so he can avoid giving back to a society that enabled his mindblowing fortune. Our system has gotten so used to it he’s totally good with saying it all out loud as if he’s some sort of victim.

Society’s cancer.