Forcing AI on to employees is the norm for companies nowadays. Employees can't speak out against it directly, because doing so would negatively impact their performance review or perceived cultural fit, when layoffs in tech are also common.

Councillor Moise, representing a ward where 70% are renters, says about eight of the ten people who come to his office are people looking for support in avoiding eviction and keeping their homes.

As a Canadian, I just wish I could interact anywhere online without being inundated by the minutiae of American politics, things happening in another country. Distant forces and algorithms dictate what my brain thinks about. Maybe only a total monkish retreat from modernity could turn it off.

if not Ponzi, why Ponzi-shaped?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Sounds almost identical to a Telsa fire a few blocks away from me in Toronto last year. Four people burned to death inside when rescuers could not open the doors. Horrifying.

Doubt we'll see him in the 3rd. But I hope so.

Imagine if we got money back from the tech corps every time our phones lied to us. Either we'd all be rich, or our phones would stop lying. Either outcome seems preferable to our current reality.

Too bad that place selling steamship tickets at the lower right isn't still there, I'd like to ride on a steamship.