Whatever, it's a better retcon than everything J.K.Rowling said about Harry Potter.
The Matrix having a bunch of trans themes > Dumbledore having a throbbing gay sex backstory and the 1 jewish student being named Goldstein.
The Matrix actually supports those themes and readings within the work.
May be an orange, but you sure have a smart system to alert you if the kibble is late.
An app is always a red flag, especially if it's the only way you can interact with the device.
We could live without anything that uses ads to "sustain" itself. Nobody hosting ads on their service is doing so to "maintain" themselves. They just want profit for their labour... they are entitled too, but its a business choice, never a necessity.
And yeah if I use something, I'll always pay for no ads. Ads cost so much more of our lifespans and contribute so fucking little to those that host them. Garbage.
I respect your take, but I think it is wrong.
Who's houses are the datacenters being built next to?
I think Ai hate might be the single most unifying position in the west right now.
Most people didn't even trust algorithmic automation before agents came along. lol
Some transit channels have uploaded mirrors to PeerTube but the numbers are minuscule compared to their Youtube channels.
Cynically though... they've been peddling nothing for two decades now. Big data, the cloud, SAAS, web 3.0, metaverse, nfts, llms, there's always a new nothing born.
They are all going into debt over datacenters. Google issued new shares... how? why? They all make so much money and still they can't cashflow this expansion.
What blood will there be to take?
In a sense, its the system functioning as it should. If you have a healthy democratic society with good principals, juries should acquit people for things that may be crimes but are perfectly reasonable and justified.