Thinker, Hoarder. I gather news and current events to outline and identify issues with a Canadian point of view.
Question: I do remember the days of those RSS buttons everywhere. But I never managed to see the value in it.
Can anyone share their experience with following feeds, and how they consume this content? Is there some kind of spam/tracker free functionality that people enjoy? Are there apps out there that organize this in a way that changes the game?
I’d like to give it another shot, sorry for all the questions.
For those thinking about the switch, and happen to game, I understand that plenty of users are going to CachyOS or Bazzite as well.
I still say this is part of the larger American scam for AI. AI’s just a tool, and certainly not autonomous as the stuff of movies. US companies are just using the concept of AI to layoff workers, and they’re trying to lock in their AI services contracts before the bubble bursts.
This article falls into the scam pile for me.
Plus I’m fairly certain Zuckerberg should be charged for Crimes Against Humanity, but that seems to be an issue for another day.
I’m not convinced that “AI” is even what it’s meant to be. Worse, I think scenarios of success are already drawn up in stories and science fiction - and 2025 AI suggests we’re not even close.
Now that more information is available concerning the US governments private recollections and thoughts surrounding their military activities in Afghanistan, I’m suspicious that this AI is a “campaign”. It’s simply another game of sleight of hand or pump and dump maneuver. The US remains a major currency reserve, but successive governments over the last 20 years have been incompetent, and the country has been mismanaged for far longer than anyone expected.
With the US signalling strongly that they are giving up competing with China on advanced technologies like renewables and batteries, there’s little else left besides the promise that AI will somehow swoop in and fix it all. But as netizens already point out, capitalist corporations cannot “benefit” from AI without taking advantage of its promise - taking jobs away from humans.
Sadly “AI”, or whatever you want to call it, is an interesting tool, but that still requires supervision or human oversight. AI is not the magic promised for all the countless billions spent, water burned, and energy depleted. I think the world is starting to grow suspicious, and the US faces a market correction due to fears of the AI bubble.
Perhaps AI’s promise remains, but how its pursued gives the impression of another American scam.
I get a sense that people aren’t against easy to understand ads - as in, one company produces a concept, markets, publishes the ad, and delivers it to you on behalf of their client.
But people are not going to agree to reading that article, and consenting to 500 advertising partners to track you indefinitely to sell your data points.
All this technology, energy, and money that’s behind the surveillance economy, is the cost of turning you into the product.
What we the privacy concerned public would like to say is go make real products to help the world instead.
Thanks for spelling out how to get started for me. I’ll give this a try later!
Thanks everyone for the responses!