Except now they also steal from the labor of future generations too, via debt and inflation

Amazon and other big tech companies have helped fund Trump’s inauguration, his military parade, and his demolition of the East wing of the White House.

I hope on the other side of all this, big tech will have a reckoning with morality, and maybe restore some of the old school “Don’t be evil” ethos

Alternative viewpoint: there were people who hated or mocked social media and smartphones early on, but it took 10 years for the full horror of societal change to develop.

People are hating and mocking AI today, but as bad as we think it is now, it can get way, way worse by 2032

Both neighborhoods look like fairly old and small, minimally renovated homes in some Midwest or Southern state perhaps? I’m going to go with $220k for the pic with the bigger trees and $180k for the pic with few trees, assuming tree pic is a street that is closer to a small city center

There used to be money in writing good content to post online, so professionals did more writing, therefore there was better content for search engines to index.

There used to be less stressful times, so people who were super nerds about a topic had more time and energy to write about it.

Maybe AI translations help shift that as well, for example the massive rise in Cebuano Wikipedia thanks to AI translation bots.

But the real shift we'd need to see is broader world usage of alternative services like Baidu Baike, or KakaoTalk, etc. TikTok shows that will be an uphill battle though.

I think the dominance of English as the "language of the internet" helps maintain that English standard as well.

The question is whether the next 30 years would also see a transition away from English as the dominant language of the internet. That's a bit harder to imagine

Sounds about what I’d have expected. The stats for mental health issues, depression, and suicidality are absolutely horrifying.

ChatGPT is surfacing a view into a massive ongoing mental health crisis worldwide. About time they tried to direct these people to help

EU has its own issues with demanding encryption backdoors. There was lots of interesting discussion on my viral post about it on LinkedIn, with comments from EU folks saying "it's not necessarily better here": www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

These techniques are good, but they still rely on the US government not interfering with the technique. If the US government says: "AWS Nitro is illegal now, we have mandated that there must be a backdoor" then there will be a backdoor, and there will also likely be a gag order about the backdoor

The cost of hosting your data under the control of a fascist country is way higher than the cost of running your own hardware though.

I personally think the cloud is in very shaky territory. That amount of centralization is only possible in a high trust environment, and trust is on the decline

It’s only after time outside the American bubble that you see how much everyday life there is designed with quiet hostility, sometimes in malice, sometimes just from basic indifference.

I don’t want to live like that.

American traffic lights are positioned for the convenience of drivers in a car-centric society.

New Zealand traffic lights are positioned so that drivers notice pedestrians at the corners, and avoid hitting them.

It's a deeply thoughtful decision that has doubtlessly saved many human lives.

When an American driver approaches a traffic light their eyes are centered on the road, angled up slightly towards an overhead stoplight framed against the sky.

When a New Zealand driver approaches a traffic light they are looking at the corners of the intersection, where pedestrians are standing

Oh wow! Moonlighter is an amazing game. Can't wait to see what ya'll have built for Moonlighter 2!