While true this still won’t make the Cyberdrumpf meet EU regulations. You can’t make it street legal here.

At least half the list is bullshit to some degree. AI and robots are clouded in fear mongering for the working class and despite advancements is still heavily overhyped. Jet fuel from cooking oil or green steel will be too expensive for those industries to even consider and law makers won’t give them decent incentives to even try it. I’m looking forward to advancements in the medical field however.

We often forget to mention how the free press and opposition were the first who got dismantled in the Third Reich. What followed were unions, people with disabilities, queer people and then other minorities at last. Many of them hoped that despite everything that’s happening around them and threats from Hitler to go further, they would be spared. Surely he wouldn’t go that far… and when he did there was nobody left to help them. Anyone who could’ve had any say in anything to stop the next step got liquidated before the Nazis could make their next move deeper into fascism and total control of the population.

Thank goodness there’s no incentive to monetize persuasion. If we lived in a world where corporations or governments tried to constantly persuade us we would be in quite the predicament.

Idiocracy was waaaaay too optimistic about the future.

I wondered that a while ago when Tesla was worth more than many other car makers combined while producing far less vehicles than any single one of them. And I remember people telling me about projections and expectations and that it’s only a matter of time until everyone drives a Tesla basically. Sounded like mass hysteria to me back then because the rest of the world won’t just sit there quietly and let Tesla have a monopoly. People bought shares because they rose rapidly in value, causing even more people to buy shares. It’s a pyramid scheme like so many things these days and people have no problem with it apparently. They love gambling and playing lottery. Value investing is too boring for them.

I mean it’s pretty obvious, isn’t it? Anything regarding Chinese politics or recent history is a big no-no. Like it will tell you who the president of the US is but will refuse to tell you about the head of state in China. I’m assuming same goes for anything Taiwan or South Chinese sea. The self censorship is rather broad.

Human exploitation and subsidies are hardly innovative nor invented in China. All major innovations in EV are made in other countries for them. If anything, innovation puts you at the losing end because China will just copy you cheaper.

Republicans are already preparing laws for another Trump term in 2028 but he’ll likely need a puppet for 2032

First Trump term? Better get used to it or prepare to not browse the internet for a while. It will get much dumber from here.

How exactly is this a surprise to anyone when the same applied to crypto and NFTs already? AI and blockchain technologies are useful to experts in tiny niches so far but that’s not the usual tech savvy user. For the end user it’s just a toy with little use cases.

How do people not see through this theatre? It wasn’t even subtle. Oh right, the brainrot…

Yeah and tomorrow they‘ll replace their logo with a swastika. But only for US users of course.

I think those „success stories“ were always at least a little fabricated by the algorithm that somewhat randomly pushed a selected few lucky users immensely just to show the rest how you can become a media sensation overnight. It gives the platform free publicity as opposed to distributing visibility more evenly. Besides the ad revenue on TikTok is almost non existent even compared to Youtube. It was never a platform that you could realistically become successful with even if you got views.

It makes a lot of sense from the perspective of the US, but a lot of countries will likely have the same debate about not only TikTok, but american social media sites and their influence on their democracies now. Especially giving the timing. Not only is Xitter known to shrug off EU regulations in actively pushing disinformation campaigns but apparently Facebook and Google are joining in too now. All the while there’s a war happening in Europe right now. The EU could make the wise decision to make the same demands to those companies that the US made towards TikTok. For our own safety.

To the surprise of some people I guess but certainly not to chinese users.

Man I wish European governments would take more control of our digital town squares that are entirely owned and handled by foreign corporations who seek to erode democracy.

Must be an awkward relationship, though. I don‘t know if I would want that because if I‘m that talented, I wouldn‘t need a job offer from the people that antagonized me.

And that’s always the case with industrial revolutions. Workers have to fight tooth and nail to not become suppressed by the means of production we don’t own. This one will be no different.

It may look innocent until the Chatbot nags you about buying that very cool new product they’ve heard so much praise about. This is very dangerous and needs tons of regulations.