TheFogan

don't they actually have something like that in russia, like their top hockey team has to fake losing to putin like he's a make a wish kid?

https://ktla.com/news/california/march-for-billionaires-in-san-francisco-is-not-a-joke-organizers-says/

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/an-ai-startup-founder-says-hes-planning-a-march-for-billionaires-in-protest-of-californias-wealth-tax/

apparently it looks like it's intended to be real.

Now I feel like if there's a march for cancer, or aid's, I have to take the time to research which side they are on.

What's the official rules on what they can share? Like could Ro Khanna do like a AMA where we give him page numbers... solid targetted list of

"OK so who messaged epstien about the littlest girl being very naughty", who all were the co-conspirators listed on page X, etc...

Is that information considered classified he'd go to jail for it? I mean technically everythings supposed to have been released from the get go...

Because we honestly, we've seen more than enough to know heads need to roll, hell we can point to so many points in the files where we can see specific people that's heads should be rolling where we just lack the names.

I think there's a bit of that, but also a bit of... unsubtle enshittification. I mean the obvious, AI features that nobody likes getting crammed into everything. Apples Intelligence making siri unable to do simple tasks it used to be able to do easily.

A lot of people would be happy to pay premium price for things that do exactly what they want. But more and more software companies are reversing what they do... and even when they do what you want, you still have to be vigilant on them changing their minds and removing features, or adding subscription costs etc...

Well depends, I think some industries just are fake in general,

Chiropractors, stock traders that aren't using insider information etc...

But otherwise I suppose it's just how you are "faking it". In IT the obvious joke is that we always just google everything. But at the end of the day that gets you better at knowing what to google, and over time you'll memorize most of it. and it's almost impossible not to start gradually learning the connections of how and why things work.

Well yeah who couldn't think unpredictability is long term a huge problem, especially when it comes to "deal making" above all things. IE you start with the "we'll give him what he asks for or he might attack us", but 1. that encourages everyone to eventually co-operate to get the bully in check... also it wears thinner when you don't respect deals you've already made. Your unpredictable enough and "give me $1 or I nuke your country", simple request, but if your unpredictability is high enough... they've got no reason to think you won't nuke them even if you give the dollar... hell actually more reason to think possibly the opposite, maybe your possesion of the dollar is the only reason he hasn't nuked you already.

Yeah honestly I feel that's the universal problem the world in general has.

What's worse, our "vetted" sources have all been compromised. Mainstream news is corrupt as hell... all owned by a tiny portion of rich assholes. As trust in them wanes, the focus moves to the "independent" creators on youtube, and instagram influencers, podcastors etc...

Of which many of them are actually getting paid by the same billionares, as scandal after scandal shows, and of course rich monstrocities like Meta, Google, Musk... have the power to signal boost the ones they want to, and to minimize the growth of ones they don't.

Did they actually honor it? I recall quite a few people tricking AIs into like, saying they will sell a car for $1, but the company not honoring it.

Or is it likely just car salesman negotiation tactics... IE the matress is actually inflated 75%, AI is given a hard minimum of how low it actually can go, but obviously instructed to do everything possible to close the sale but at the highest price the user will be willing to pay.

Holy frick, actually that sounds like the real hell now that I think of it. Will AI bring haggle pricing to online stores. We have to spend 20 minutes trying to give a story to an AI to get the best price on, something... which of course will then lead to someone developing an AI for shoppers trained to haggle with these for them. End result we burn up an ocean, with 2 AI's making up bogus stories about how badly they are suffering.

You know, in IT security, the weakest link will always be the users... they are easy to fool, they just blindly trust whatever you tell them.

But now, thanks to AI, computers will finally catch up to humans in their ability to be tricked. No longer will you need human users to set their password to easy things to remember. Our new AIs will actually be capable of shortening their encryption key to a common name, and leaving them on post it notes on their desks.

Or... isn't there the theory that time travel just creates an alternate world. but all timelines exist... so there's a second line where there's 50 people that brought their year 3000 band, and their instant ALS cure pod, partied with Hawking then arrested trump for his crimes before he could run for president.

I mean you can be right about the problem, where it will lead. but try and solve it an a completely wrong way.

Only if he stepped well outside what he was supposed to be doing, and looked at and/or had his goons look at a lot of classified information that they had neither the security clearance, nor the need to know to access.

So in short, yes.