I bet more than one billionaire has them on their doomsday compounds. Who am I kidding, they buy the new $250k system.

No que por los dos?

and paid the bribe

wait until Trump sees that unflattering picture of Leavitt’s double chin, she’ll be out on her ass immediately.

Yes.

They were getting a taxpayer funded bailout one way or another

enterprise equipment manufacturers have already paid the bribe.

Or just value in using their tech against them, put some ransomware in the thing and send it back to infect all the others, fucking profit or just be a good person and permanently disable them all

But the c suite got to say “AI” a lot in their board meeting and pr statements

Yep just use what you’ve got! I’m running my server off a little workstation I got for free from work. I’m working on setting up another server for my sister on one of her old laptops then we’ll use each other’s as off-site backups and for redundancy. Work with your friends and family to get them off big tech too! Pretty much everyone has some old system sitting around that could be brought back to life and act as a server.

Wouldn’t it be just so on brand if the instead of blackening the sky to stop the AI (i.e. The Matrix) we did it to keep people from getting unlimited free power without paying some oligarch for it?

That and just plain old manufacturing consent

I reminds me I should start writing my clickbait “(Millennials/GenZ/GenA or whatever) are killing TV manufactureres” article

They don’t care about the details they just want control.

But like all corporations once that IPO went through they abandoned any semblance of morality at the alter of obscene profit.

I feel that you probably agree with the sentiment but you just want to say well achtshually

The same crowd that needs the second amendment to stand up to tyranny but are nowhere to be found when tyranny is actually happening?

If you voted for the pedophile I don’t want to hear anything from you at all.

Hey don’t let Congress of the hook there, it’s the congressional military industrial complex, to quote Eisenhower.

I wonder how their advertisers feel knowing this huge chunk of ‘users’ are bogus - how much ad revenue was wasted on these 800 million accounts? If I were one of those advertisers I’d be asking for a refund.