My early paranoia about corporate AI is really maturing. No one’s really laughing at me anymore either.

The greatest blernsball player was a machine for playing blernsball.

Surveillance has always been baked into consumerism similar to foreign aid. A large part of foreign relations is capital and rhetoric.

Microsoft is getting creepy. OneDrive has surpassed McAfee as most aggressive proprietary virus.

Microsoft started creepy in 1978 and has been getting worse every year.

I clearly remember them in the 1990’s and that was a mess but this 2020’s AI hivemind MS is a whole new beast.

I see a lot of people that smoke marijuana being off balance psychologically and I believe it’s because weed inhabits R.E.M. and they smoke it to go to sleep which creates a viscous cycle.

Obama set the record for deportation. I wonder if ICE used similar methods when he was president. There might be a roadmap for digital invasion of privacy going back that far.

Governments subcontract the private sector for everything from food processing to defense. I’ve heard that Mexico can’t afford to effectively patrol their boarders. It’s only natural for them to turn to a company like this.

I feel like a lot of this in any country is turning criminal activity into institutionalized predatory business practices. It turns loan shark slaves into economic serfs. Homicide goes down and suicide goes up.

I disagree with your premise, but Homicide seems objectively worse than suicide.

That’s the point; make the horrific palatable by shifting blame and manufacture consent. Suicide is higher than homicide and everyone shrugs.

Coming up with bad ideas isn’t a skill either.

I’m still concerned about MS using the code I write on my laptop to train AI. Tinfoil hat wearing Linux users are starting to make a lot of sense to me.

It's been interesting the past year or so watching myself turn more and more into one of the tin-foil wearing linux users. I'm not sure how it happened, but self-hosting became more and more alluring and hyperfocusing on taking as much data as I can offline became worth spending entire weekends on.

I didn't become paranoid, everybody else didn't!

I thought that’s more what the CoPilot change is really about - not your repo, but all the code CoPilot read while it is offering helpful completions, etc - so literally the code on your laptop. I cancelled my account.

You don't need a tinfoil hat so see the value in having a computer you fully own as opposed to one where some company can push whatever you want and all you get to say is "yes master" or perhaps if you are really lucky, "maybe later".

It's not tinfoil, it's aluminum foil. I.. I mean, I heard it's that.