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Tech Continues to Be Political

by SethMLarson on 2/18/25, 10:12 PM with 15 comments

• by pfych on 2/18/25, 10:35 PM

  Seeing all these big tech companies walk lockstep with the current administration is quite upsetting. As a non-American, it's kinda terrifying to see how quickly everything has started falling apart.

  I sure do hope all these big tech companies do the right, ethical thing with their AI products! ...

• by teddyh on 2/18/25, 10:26 PM

  The article uses a mangled and incoherent version of the gun/printer meme (how would a printer, by itself, be useful?). Here’s what I believe to be the original (and actually understandable) form: <https://imgur.com/6wbgy2L>

• by jauntywundrkind on 2/19/25, 4:56 AM

  I don't particularly love this submission, but the headline feels so weighty & so real.

  So much if what's happening (and terrifying) in the world is wrapped up around the tech industry, and especially especially the infosphere. The one tech built, the infosphere that increasingly is used to shape & syndicate & spread the political.

  It's all tech. But instead of being responsible helpers, instead of having discussions, there's so much hands off, just letting the machines go as they may. So many discussions we can't or won't have because it's "politics".

• by paulddraper on 2/18/25, 10:27 PM

  My English teacher made me write essays in 12pt font.

  I wonder what she'd think of > 24pt font.

• by golly_ned on 2/19/25, 6:23 AM

  I couldn’t follow the line of thought between eugenics and AI.

• by userbinator on 2/19/25, 4:48 AM

  > We have no way to measure intelligence

  Stopped reading there.