Were the bell weather for all the decisions the execs know are bad but not by how much.

Drake meme:

✋Release subscription service and destroy Audible

👉 Copy Audible and nickel and dime the users to maximize revenue per user

My loop isn’t infinite, just longer than the heat death of the universe.

There are podcast apps that don’t download your podcasts?

Don’t use Twitter.

Phones are starting to look like the top side of a jumping spider with all those lenses

Last time I went to New York the Ubers had tablets with a camera and ads in your face.

Boost is great!

My only critique is a feature request: can we get biometric lock when switching accounts?

Oh woops, I misread that.

1. Make two accounts
2. Pay gold to your second account
3. Super upvote for 10¢

This will definitely not get used to boost shit spammy content. Nope. Not a chance.

It’s 90% cheaper than organic content.

But now you’ll never be able to set your room to Baby Yoda Green, Mando Mauve, or New England Patriots Nautical Blue during the big game!

Show your support for your teams and favourite characters, for only $4.99 a month, or $59 a year (a generous savings)!

Premium members can link their Disney+, Xbox, and Spotify accounts for $9.99 a month.

Don’t forget to light up your feed with our new vibrant social media section!

It would be hella cyberpunk for someone to hack lightbulbs, install IPFS on them, and set up free storage for everyone.

Somebody would fill it all with goatse bitmaps or random numbers or something, but for a fleeting moment the internet would be weird again.

You don’t need the individual light bulb data for that, just the user accounts and device IDs would tell you who lives in the house, their relationships, and you can use the IP from the app’s analytics eventing to approximate location to estimate household wealth.

The lightbulb data sounds fun, but not valuable.

When you sell fraudulent data you get sued for fraud. You can sell low quality data if you advertise it as such.

If you create fraudulent data like adnausium you’ll likely just get banned from Google.

A lot of this data is given for free in exchange for analytics from FB or Google on ad conversion…

Likely they want detailed user data and what devices you use, and they want to cross reference that with geolocation so they can upsell you stuff.

I would say it’s likely they’ll start serving ads in the app and “recommending” you other services or things like a subscription. Any app that you have to look at will get ads these days, just look at Uber.

This is why I bought IKEA bulbs that are dumb. I avoid anything that uses an app, because it will update itself to make a new thing sell better.

These are the kind of things that apps should be more clear about.

The new Fujifilm app requires location access to even open the app, which you use to download images wirelessly. I know they want it always on to add GPS data to photos, but there’s no reason the app requires it to even launch! I should have the right to opt out of tracking because I don’t want to use Fuji’s weird social network feature.

But Google Photos on iOS requires access to all your photos and their metadata to even open. But I don’t want to use Google Photos to store ALL my pictures, I just want to download my photos. Google and Facebook both stored the exif data to determine your location, and so I can’t use Google Photos at all on iOS.

This looks dated in design to me, it looks like 2008 or so when everyone was experimenting with phone shapes and keyboards.

I don’t think you’re wrong either, but at the same time it’s not feasible for everyone to be their own agent and it’s not feasible to say employers can’t use AI.

I don’t know what the solution is, but I’m prepping for a sudden career change in the next few years.

It’s fair to compare but you can’t dismiss concerns based on that.

Past automation often removed duplicate or superfluous work type things, AI removes thought work. It’s a fundamentally different kind of automation than we’ve seen before.

It will make many things cheaper to do and easier to start some businesses, but it will also decimate workers. It’s also not something that’s generally available to lower classes to wield yet.

It’s here but I don’t have to be optimistic.

Alright, when the AI takes my job and I can’t feed my family while the billionaires add another digit to their net worth I’ll consider the pros.

There’s about 0% chance we reform society for AI, it will just funnel more wealth to the rich. People claim it will open new jobs but I don’t see it.