I’m so over this AI nonsense. I use AI as a barometer at work, in that the more they talk about AI, the more I know they are adding fuck all to the organization and aren’t actually doing any work.

There ain’t much further to fall down…

AI is the 2020s version of Tulip Mania. It’s just fancy Google that elaborates, but you can’t trust the results it gives you, because it lies worse than my five year old on his way back from a late night trip to the cookie jar. It makes funny pictures of Mario committing 9/11 and all sorts of useless funny stuff that has kids smoking cigarettes at McDonalds with hot dogs for fingers. Which is great and all, but I can’t figure the last time I actually needed a picture of kids smoking cigarettes at McDonalds…

And it sucks and you can always tell when something’s AI because it’s crap. Boomers can’t, but they also can’t do most other things, so I mean that’s not really a reliable metric of its actual success either.

Boomer fuel is all it is. The new paperless society. It’s going to take my job, except my job will be on my doorstep a month later begging me to come back.

I feel like it’s boomer fuel, this AI. What actual use does it have, like it’s supposed to be changing my life, putting me out of a job, turning all of my hard work into nothing. Robots giving me handjobs and all of that. None of this is happening.

No, the only thing that is happening, is a bunch of late 50s and 60 year old executives running around at work like a bunch of robots. AI AI AI AI AI AI Beep Beep Boop AI AI AI AI AI AI

I just actually finished this book, not 10 minutes ago. My overarching TL;DR summary of it, in one sentence is this: For being an international lawyer, she’s pretty naive.

We all know Facebook is a morally bankrupt circus, that’s been well known for quite some time. The Social Network taught us that he’s a pretty selfish terrible person (plus a weirdo). That movie came out in like, what, 2010? If she thought she could single handedly change this, which she pretty clearly does, the conclusions already written that it’ll be a leopards ate my face moment.

I’m glad she shared her story, no it’s not fair, and I hope it’s brought her some peace. But I have to be honest that it was a slog getting through that book.

It’s borderline unusable at this point. No one serious uses it.

A fool and their money is easily parted. Whoever paid out these kinds of dollars for equity, the rest of the street is lolz at them

Don’t disagree. Their direction as of late is confusing and seems pretty muddled. But that’s what happens when you have a sigma male at the forfront, who kneejerks their directions around like a toddler with ADD. They need to throw the morons and their board full of grifters overboard, and get back to it. There’s pretty clearly some smart people in that company, that is if they are still there, and probably not likely at this point.

Even before all of this, with that pay package. WTAF?

Apparently there’s quite the revolt brewing for their AGM. They probably can’t remove him before hand, because they need to turf the board here as well. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen something like this, arguably if even ever? It’s happened with lots of companies in the past, but not with one this high profile. At least that I can think of.

They are going down the toilet, because they are distracted. Look, they were the most reliable EV, and they were at the forefront of the EV revolution. They built the most robust and reliable charging network (one of the key reasons we went with Tesla over Hyundai or other options), and flipped the automotive retail marketplace on their head.

But they also unfortunately have their hard work and progress overshadowed by a complete narcissistic manchild of a CEO. Who somehow controls the company with only 17% of shares held, who has a corrupt and compromised board on his side that will cater to his every little whims. A CEO who gets distracted, first with this Cybertruck nonsense, then X, then SpaceX, who then derails all innovation and future development with everyone focused on this autopilot distraction, and now all this. If I was a shareholder, I’d be furious. As a customer, I’m not sure I can rely on them anymore (could I ever?), so my future purchasing decisions will be made with that in mind.

What goes up, must come down I guess. Sigh.

It’s nice of you to assume that everyone is as rich as all these virtue signalling celebrities. Yes musk is a piece of shit, no I’m not buying another one until they torpedo his ass, yes autopilot is a scam. But I also happen to like the car, it suits our lifestyle the best, it has a five star safety rating and I’m not a Nazi just because I bought a certain kind of car a couple of years ago. Do what you want to the dealers, go after the corporate people, but leave the innocent consumers alone. None of us asked for this shit either.

Inflation’s “sticky”. It took 5 years to get rid of COVID-related inflation, and it went up for quite a while before starting to go down. This is quite a bit more substantial, and it will take a long time for the effects on the overall broader economy to recede. The inflation itself will take about 1.5 years to fully work it’s way through the system, but there’s also going to be a larger scale contraction on GDP, which will very likely put the US and many of it’s trade countries into recession as well. This will likely have a negative impact on wages. The US is also very much going to have a supply problem, which is going to then also put upward inflationary pressures on a lot of products.

Anytime a government interferes or puts in measures that affect trade, positively or negatively, it throws everything out of whack.

Facts, amiright!?

Ah so this is why ol Tim was greasing Trump up. I’m sure this will be a hit. What is he going to tarriff next, iPhones?

It’s pretty gimmicky for sure. The electronic setup on my road bike is pretty finicky too, id rather cables to be honest, but it’s just the way everything is going. It especially sucks when you are at the door all geared up and ready to go, and realize that one of your batteries is dead.

Hell it takes me the rightful owner a fair bit of careful maneuvering to get that thing off the bars (my mount needs to be both twisted while having the release latch pressed). Someone would surely be getting a few smacks upside the head as they were trying to do that. A MIPS powered headbutt or two, as well.

Wait’ll you find out about ebikes!

I mean it’s all e-waste at this point. My bikes are all carbon, which ain’t recyclable, plus the shifting is all electronic, and yeah my eMTB is a ticking timebomb that will be otherwise useless if either the battery or motor quits.

Honestly with the way the cycling industry has brainwashed most of the bicycle enthusiasts, they will have bought six different bicycles in the time this takes to break.

Otherwise, your point stands. I’m more of a Garmin Edge guy though, personally.

“I’m so excited!”

-The Boomers.

“Meh”

-Everyone else.

I was a Bluesky fan, until it was announced they took money from Bain Capital last week. They’ll quickly be forced into monetization, and enshitification, thanks to their new corporate overlords. Who just happen to be one of the greasiest PE firms in existence.

Don’t put your blinders on folks.