I don't see ads on Facebook either, because I don't do Facebook.

If you pay, your data won't be used for advertising purposes. But rest assured it will be used some other way.

Because crucially, the one thing Facebook isn't saying is that paying will stop the data collection.

Of course, the best way to avoid Zuckerberg collecting your data is not patronizing any Zuckerberg site.

I'm guessing MAGA didn't onboard the economic laissez-faire espoused by the traditional - now defunct - Republican party.

So just like the GOP, MAGA pretends to have national interests at heart. But unlike the GOP, MAGA's approach is much more socialist.

A kind of national socialism if you will...

my ass. Even indigenous US social media platforms are a complete privacy and data safety nightmare.

At this point, I genuinely question which of China abusing Americans' private data or the American monopolies in cahoots with the American fascist state doing the same thing is worse.

"We like pain and misery, but we'd like to get it from a different vendor".

Intel banks on Apple publicly saving an American trainwreck to butter up the orange utan for favors.

That's it. It's the only strategy here. None of this would happen absent Trump.

remember that 10c goes toward funding a fascist regime.

I've heard of those famed supernovae that were visible with the naked eye in the middle ages, and I've always wished I could see one too in my lifetime.

I might just be lucky before I go nova myself.

They don't need AI for that. Teams - and pretty much all Microsoft products - are honeypots designed to collect data.

Well, no so much "honeypots" in the case of products that employees are forced to use at their workplace: they're no honey needed to attract them and get them to give Microsoft data. If you disagree with Microsoft's privacy invasion, you lose your job.

That's the genius of Microsoft's particular brand of invasiveness: instead of convincing individual people their products are good enough to relinquish their privacy for (Facebook), or convincing a large part of the internet to let them sneak in their trackers (Google), Microsoft convinced the bean counters at most companies to install their spyware and ram it down the throats of people who need to make a living. Disgusting...

Anyway, the AI thing is just the turd on top of the shit cake.

What's gonna stop obesity among Americans isn't permanent standard time. It really, REALLY isn't that.

A good start would be making healthy food that isn't 1,000,000 calories per pound, and not made of fat and sugar mixed in unknown chemicals affordable. And taxing the living shit out of junk food. And getting people to stop eating supertanker-sized servings.

Typical AI shill answer (and the word "agentic" in the sentence is a dead giveaway too).

Wrong logic: a person's job should be gone if your "agentic" thing does the job cheaper AND at least as well.

As always, AI shills conveniently forget to factor in the quality of the work produced.

The reality of AI is, while it might be cheaper than real workers, it also enshittifies the entire world. And that's a fact.

Does it work without a Facebook account and 24/7 creepy corporate surveillance?

Oh...

The issue is: how many people did AI displace?

Hmm no: I trust a coal miner to produce better code than an AI vibe coder.

is right: it's going nowhere.

Adapters are your friend. Undo that knot in your pants.