They usually have to be 'activated' first, which gives card vendors the opportunity to collect your information before allowing purchases. This isnt common practice yet, but I'd bet that's coming. Even if they don't collect your pre-activation info, the date, time and place of purchase are recorded and attached to the card. It wouldn't be a stretch for law enforcement to request CC/security video from the merchant at the date and time of purchase. So I don't think they offer as much privacy as cash unfortunately.
Yes to all of this, but I think you're giving them too much credit. There's a more compelling reason that is causing this behavior cycle among executives. Like a school of fish, CEOs swim in the direction and speed they see other CEOs swimming without giving a second thought to why they're following along. There's safety staying with the group. They're going in circles because all the other CEOs are doing the same thing and they fear being left behind, regardless of whether it truly makes any business sense. There's no real thought behind it. "Big tech is doing this, and therefore so should we."
How efficient! Why didn't we think of this before? We can make vitamin B12 inside our bodies, but instead of just retaining it, we'll make it so that it has to be shit out first then and re-ingested to be absorbed. Perfect!
Jane Lauder, Kevin Warsh’s wife, is the granddaughter of global cosmetics industry legend Estée Lauder. She is the daughter of billionaire Ronald Lauder, who is the sole heir to the The Estée Lauder Companies. According to Forbes, Jane Lauder has a net worth of $2.7 billion, making her among the world’s wealthy individuals.
Jane Lauder’s father Ronald Lauder is incidentally the same person who has actively been encouraging Donald Trump to acquire Greenland!
Ronald Lauder, has shared a long personal history with Donald Trump, dating back to their days as students at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. The relationship forged during their undergraduate years has endured, with Trump and Lauder remaining close associates and trusted advisers over time.
Ronald Lauder is widely seen as the person who first encouraged Trump to consider the idea of acquiring Greenland in 2020 and has continued to counsel him on the matter since then.
This is really great (and by great I mean terrifying to see it all laid out plainly). The only nitpick is the idea that the model "is coming to europe next" ... as if this whole thing wasn't kicked off by Brexit and the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Europe was the testing bed for this a decade or more ago.
Excellent, insightful comment and I very much appreciate and resonate with this response.
I do think the protest serves to raise awareness, even if it's a bit extreme. The desired effect is not really to encourage the complete rejection of tech, but bring attention to the issues and get the average person to think a little more about their usage of it. I'm actually kind of proud of these young folks for being able to snap themselves out of the social media-induced hypnotic state their generation seems to be stuck in.
[Americans] were born into democracy and have no appreciation of what life is like without it. Chinese people, on the other hand, “have been bullied by rulers for thousands of years. We’re very familiar with these situations.”
Buddy that looks worse for you. The Chinese have been dealing with it for thousands of years but haven't managed to do anything about it? If this was some kind of flex, it's a weird one.
Completely agree and thank you for saying exactly what needs to be said. I oftwn ask how did we get here? This timeline is so far off from the one I came to expect even like 10 years ago. How do we get back to a more stable, less angry society?
I hope they sue the daylights out of Flock
They usually have to be 'activated' first, which gives card vendors the opportunity to collect your information before allowing purchases. This isnt common practice yet, but I'd bet that's coming. Even if they don't collect your pre-activation info, the date, time and place of purchase are recorded and attached to the card. It wouldn't be a stretch for law enforcement to request CC/security video from the merchant at the date and time of purchase. So I don't think they offer as much privacy as cash unfortunately.
Yes to all of this, but I think you're giving them too much credit. There's a more compelling reason that is causing this behavior cycle among executives. Like a school of fish, CEOs swim in the direction and speed they see other CEOs swimming without giving a second thought to why they're following along. There's safety staying with the group. They're going in circles because all the other CEOs are doing the same thing and they fear being left behind, regardless of whether it truly makes any business sense. There's no real thought behind it. "Big tech is doing this, and therefore so should we."
How efficient! Why didn't we think of this before? We can make vitamin B12 inside our bodies, but instead of just retaining it, we'll make it so that it has to be shit out first then and re-ingested to be absorbed. Perfect!
Awesome work. Stuff like this is what makes
selfhostedthe best community on lemmy!You are correct, and now the emerging strategy is to just "re-roll" the entire codebase any time a change is needed. It's insane.
Not a regular guy by any stretch.
NarcissOS
My god this video is 14 years old and still just as relevant. I love the bit at the end
Awesome read, thanks for this! Really interesting to hear the takes from devs and creators in the industry.
Yes folks if there's no organic demand for this glorified party trick we CEOs will just manufacture it by shoving it down your throats
Love this! Excellent work and great use case for Zigbee 👍
This is really great (and by great I mean terrifying to see it all laid out plainly). The only nitpick is the idea that the model "is coming to europe next" ... as if this whole thing wasn't kicked off by Brexit and the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Europe was the testing bed for this a decade or more ago.
Ok then, we'll be sending election monitor monitors to monitor the monitors
Excellent, insightful comment and I very much appreciate and resonate with this response.
I do think the protest serves to raise awareness, even if it's a bit extreme. The desired effect is not really to encourage the complete rejection of tech, but bring attention to the issues and get the average person to think a little more about their usage of it. I'm actually kind of proud of these young folks for being able to snap themselves out of the social media-induced hypnotic state their generation seems to be stuck in.
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Buddy that looks worse for you. The Chinese have been dealing with it for thousands of years but haven't managed to do anything about it? If this was some kind of flex, it's a weird one.
Completely agree and thank you for saying exactly what needs to be said. I oftwn ask how did we get here? This timeline is so far off from the one I came to expect even like 10 years ago. How do we get back to a more stable, less angry society?
Love the creativity here. If it works, it works!
Oh wow, didn't realize the mod did this! Very cool