Throw that junk in the trash!
Category: Capitalism
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Google Chrome silently installs AI model on your device without consent
Photo by Engin Akyurt on Pexels.com At Chrome’s scale, the climate bill for one model push, paid in atmospheric CO2 by the entire planet, is between 6,000 and 60,000 tonnes of CO2-equivalent emissions, depending on how many devices receive the push. That is the environmental cost of one company unilaterally deciding that two billion peoples’ default browser will mass-distribute a 4 GB binary they did not request.
— Source: https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install
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U.S. Threatens to Invade Greenland
How will we be talking about this in a week? In a month? In a year? Nothing seems predictable anymore, as Anthony says in this clip. The U.S. isn’t playing by the rules anymore, so why should anyone else? Who will stop them? (Via Silent Middle Child on YouTube.)
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Japan Is What Late-Stage Capitalist Decline Looks Like
In a functional society, basic human milestones are incentivized. You want to form relationships, get married, buy a home, and plan for the future. In late-stage capitalism these same milestones become financially punishing and logistically impossible. The incentive structure flips into absurdity – what should be rewarded is punished and what should be discouraged becomes adaptive. Unhealthy social behavior looks maladaptive or irrational until you look at the material reality – owning nothing, living in pod, and eating bugs is rational in an irrational economy.
https://oceandrops.substack.com/p/japan-is-what-late-stage-capitalist
