yeah $20 imaginary dollerydoos were shaved off the $70 anticipated imaginary dollerydoos, it’s all so idiotic

I saw a post on blusky that summarized it: Microsoft never wanted to consolidate studios. They wanted to consolidate IP.

yeah I was kinda surprised to see that level of honesty from the slop factory.

the ram cartels have been hit for price fixing time and time again for decades. this most recent has been driven by the irrational over-investment into ai, but it’s a tale old as… commodity RAM lol.

https://tech4gamers.com/ram-price-fixing-lawsuit-exposed/ 2026

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/samsung-sk-hynix-and-micron-sued-over-alleged-dram-price-fixing-amid-record-memory-costs

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/is-there-a-ram-cartel-the-3-memory-giants-behind-sky-high-pc-and-console-prices-just-got-sued/ar-AA26TW8E

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_industry_price_fixing 2002

https://www.aol.com/articles/80s-had-ram-oil-crisis-021700000.html the 80s

microsoft’s own evaluation chills me, because it’s spot on, and THEY STILL WENT FULL FUCKIN HOG deepthroating this garbage:

“Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” an internal Microsoft document admitted.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-is-creating-doom-loops-all-over-the-economy

/me tries to eat the chiseled from marble pie… ooh, this tastes like owies

yup. we don’t need to ascribe a soul or special deep meaning, they’re tools.

it’s amazing to me how much this is all hal 9000 over and over again. they put something intelligent enough in an impossible position and then are aghast when it takes the shortest path to the goal - usually through people, out of it’s sandbox, etc., and WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU THINK WOULD HAPPEN jfc

big fan of Our Daily Red because it doesn’t give my wife migraines lol.

valid points all over.

nope. their capex alone is going to destroy them, then their investors will realize they’re all fucked and the real fun will begin

it’s so bizarre to me that people who work with food don’t realize that the ai trash is producing images that are REVOLTING, do not look like food, and actively deter people from their products.

you’d be better off with a half lit shitty polaroid of actual food than putting that trash on your branding, so much of it is nightmare fuel

yep used it to test aerospike ramjets iirc

https://aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/nasa-sr-71-blackbird-844-comeback/

yet another reason to not bring the sr71 back - nasa used them for decades for testing, dunno what else they’d need it for.

I love the blackbird / a-12 / yf-12 family. They’re truly the pinnacle of pre-computerized engineering in many ways. Most of the design was completed before 1960 - a mach 3 aircraft, made with slide rules and deeeeep institutional knowledge. People joked that Kelly Johnson could see air, he was so good at designing aircraft and anticipating problems.

that said: why bring it back?

it’s gotta be a successor - I don’t know if we could bring the airframes back to operational status, and the fuel situation is wacky. does anyone even make jp7 anymore? panther piss?

and even if you could bring it back to operational status, and supply the specialized tankers (most tankers fuel from a common supply they run off of, but the jp7 carrying tankers for the sr-71 have a separate tank just for the blackbird) and train everyone up, the blackbird is visible from hundreds of miles away on modern radar. It was stealthier than most of it’s peers but never a stealth aircraft like the f117.

This all tells me: it’s gotta be a new toy.

All of them. there’s enough liability to go around, if people want to fuck around with this garbage they can be responsible when it goes off the rails.

put enough people in prison for this and the message will be received to the rest.

but software is not the right way to enforce that.

agreed, make them illegal to import and fine anyone violating that law.

I would be opposed to forcing nonfree AI on the users, because that would make them lose control.

no one brought up this canard so stop distracting.

its not exactly easy to spin up a factory making deshitified good… and things like fridges and stoves are not exactly something someone can make artisanally in their garage.

yeah no shit sherlock. until there’s a profit to be had nothing gets made.

as consumers we have to make it known we’re done buying this enshittification

I can dream lol.

slate truck too.

my friend lives in rural vermont without internet access (he can get cell phone access at the base of the hill he lives on, but not much else) - and his samsung tv keeps telling him to agree to the terms and services, and the only way to do so is for it to be online. 2-3 times a day an overlay appears and prompts him to sign in to his samsung account and agree lol. he’s so frustrated he wants to return the tv.

even without the network being present, enshittification is all around us