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New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "Corporate political donations shatter record at $646M so far for US midterms"

nyc_data_geek1 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:03:13 +0000

Money is not speech, no matter what the courts say.

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "Starbase, LA"

nyc_data_geek1 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:08:57 +0000

"Underground tunnels are immune to surface weather conditions (subways are a good example), so it wouldn’t matter to Hyperloop if a hurricane was raging on the surface. You wouldn’t even notice."

Musk, Twitter, 2022

This is, on its face, an utterly idiotic and untrue statement. Look at the subways in NYC anytime it rains

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "Five tech giants are hiding $1.6T in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron"

nyc_data_geek1 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:37:34 +0000

You can't eat AI slop

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters"

nyc_data_geek1 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:55:19 +0000

Taste changes. Teslas now feel like janky, shoddily assembled, cheaply sourced ipad cases with wheels and a passenger compartment. Novelty wears off.

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts"

nyc_data_geek1 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:02:17 +0000

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't theft.

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "Jobs and Software Is Fucked"

nyc_data_geek1 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:23:04 +0000

This particular technology has been trained by explicitly ripping off a lot of peoples' friends, though.

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "The Cypherpunk Library"

nyc_data_geek1 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:23:42 +0000

Understood, apologize for my misconception of your assertion. Mass media, of course, is only too happy to cultivate such misconceptions on the part of the public.

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "The Cypherpunk Library"

nyc_data_geek1 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:02:25 +0000

Maybe don't be so dismissive of that which you lack a thorough understanding.

Recommend reading "Against the State" by James Stout, wherein he describes history of various Anarchist societies, including Barcelona during Spanish fascism, Myanmar where they are very successfully fighting the junta which wrested control from their civilian government, and Rojava where he personally visited and gives a firsthand account.

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements"

nyc_data_geek1 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:10:05 +0000

If we need to check everything AI produces, every reference and factual assertion, where is the value in what it's producing? Why should we spend the money on producing this, and the time reviewing it, when I can just do it right the first time? Where is the efficiency?

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

nyc_data_geek1 — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:34:26 +0000

Equities are underlying collateral. Prediction markets are literally just betting on an outcome, no underlying asset exists.

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics"

nyc_data_geek1 — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:31:04 +0000

He could be right, or he could just be a phone company CEO trying to get you to buy a new phone, or he could be both.

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

nyc_data_geek1 — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:05:53 +0000

Take it a step further. Words, in the financial world are largely used for obfuscation, marketing, concealing of the truth by financially motivated actors. Thus, financial literacy is looking at the numbers, market conditions and geopolitical situation, while consciously discarding whatever bullshit corporate speak is being disseminated by captured media.

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "Permacomputing Principles"

nyc_data_geek1 — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:21:10 +0000

The whole idea that pushing back against resource exhaustion and planned obsolescence is inherently apolitical is bunk, in fact. Politics are only "extra" and "bolted on" when you are comfortably benefiting from the status quo

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

nyc_data_geek1 — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:54:43 +0000

Absolutely, and exactly my point. This boils down to wasteful make-work again.

As the bard said, brevity is the soul of wit.

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

nyc_data_geek1 — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:39:56 +0000

And they are generating the longer version with AI, that you are then using AI to summarize.

This is not adding value for anyone except people whose function is to look busy, and people trying to avoid their busy work.

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "U.S. Senators Vote to Ban Themselves from Trading on Prediction Markets"

nyc_data_geek1 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:26:25 +0000

UnusualWhales begs to differ

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them"

nyc_data_geek1 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:43:18 +0000

Because your fear is their marketing, is their valuation. There, saved you a click.

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "Making AI chatbots friendly leads to mistakes and support of conspiracy theories"

nyc_data_geek1 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:39:41 +0000

“The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as “Your Plastic Pal Who’s Fun to Be With.” The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as “a bunch of mindless jerks who’ll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes,” with a footnote to the effect that the editors would welcome applications from anyone interested in taking over the post of robotics correspondent. Curiously enough, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica that had the good fortune to fall through a time warp from a thousand years in the future defined the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as “a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came.”

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

nyc_data_geek1 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:14:44 +0000

Many people struggle to differentiate between illusion and reality, these days.

There's a sucker born every minute, after all.

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

nyc_data_geek1 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:44:49 +0000

Who's going to enforce antitrust laws in this environment, pray tell?