Apple's done this before, saying if anyone's going to displace one of their products, it should not come from outside the company.

I still haven't seen any sci-fi mention the required hydrocarbon sources for space travel. So many things need to be flexible and gas/liquid impermeable.

"Oh geeze, not this shit again" post.

in Night City

Man+Dog unimpressed.

"My hovercraft is full of eels. Do you want to come back to my place, bouncy-bouncy?"

"They slapped my peener so we're not showing tariffs on Amazon"

It's agents, all the way down.

Which is what every tech CEO is slavering for; electronic slaves and no pesky labor costs. Just 10,000 rich men running the world from the golf course or bedroom.

^^^THIS^^^

All of this.

I'm picturing management/hiring thinking anyone can do "A. I." and will be slotting people in who don't understand business logic, much less coding practices required for ongoing 'expert systems'.

Will be a total shit-show when something breaks or changes need to be made due to business needs.

and showing quarterly reductions in Labor Costs, so they can get that yearly 5% bonus.

Where's the [corpo-fascist] fun in that?

Yup, by mid-'90s I was fed up with enshitification of US FM stations. Got into CD changers for the car and home, culminating in the Sony DVP-CX850D 200 disk changer I had for many years.

Once the PowerMac G5 came out, finally had a system fast enough to let me rip all my disks to disk.

They Thy Master is 'in'.

All sounding like Wolfman Jack

[I'm doing my part] gif