If you want to explain to yourself why companies keep launching all these dumbass AI products and hurting their sentiments and bottom line, keep this @Quinnypig banger in mind.
Things I’ve been asked to produce over the years as a manager in security:
Blockchain strategy
Metaverse strategy
Generative AI strategy
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Perhaps the reason businesses largely haven’t grown for a decade is because they have failed to concentrate on ensuring good operations and making products customers care about.. but instead they’ve rushed off the latest fad cliff like Lemmings.
25 years ago, when my FIL was terminally ill, a sermon at his tiny church gutted me.His priest described, one after another, small pleasures in the life of an Ohio farmer:
Cool breeze just before rain. Redtail hawks circling against the clear blue sky. Sitting out on the porch in the evening. A game of euchre with old friends. Snow falling silently over the fields. A sleeping grandchild.
Then he said:
These are things we must let go of as we ready ourselves to leave this world.
I hate how whenever US liberals defend immigrants they have to say how hard working they are. I just want it to be known that I support immigrants who are just as lazy, if not even lazier, than me.
I've seen a LOT of horrible tech ideas in my time. But the Microsoft announcement for a Windows feature (apparently enabled by default) to take and store screenshots every few seconds of everything you do on your PC has to be one of the most high privacy risk concepts I've ever seen. Even stored locally on the PC, it's a recipe for domestic abuse, government abuses, and a long list of other nightmares. Microsoft has jumped the shark BIG TIME.
It was an unprecedented meeting. SPECTRE, THRUSH, KAOS, Soylent, Tyrell, Omni, and at least a hundred more -- the list of organizations and firms in attendance seemed nearly endless.
There was but one topic on the agenda. A proposal by their newest member -- Microsoft -- to embed a super power spy system into every Windows users' PC.
"We call it Windows Recall. We enable it by default, and every five seconds it takes a screenshot of what the user is doing, and keeps it for months or years!"
"Won't people use that to copy movies?"
"Oh no, that we'll block!"
"Very wise."
The discussions went on for hours, reviewing the many ways that such a system could be used for evil by various authorities, governments, politicians, ransomware criminals, and many more.
The time came for the vote.
To the shock of Microsoft's representative, their plan was voted down unanimously.
"But why?" he protested. "We thought you of all people would embrace this system!"
Something you need to learn as a queer person is that you aren't going to die from secondhand cringe. It's fine if people use weird new pronouns or invent new flags you think are goofy, as long as nobody is violating first principles. Innoculate yourself against getting brainworms over the kids.
