> The device, which Heyneman said does not work, is meant to recognize the unique characteristics of a silicon chip to prevent financial fraud.

> I give him the same pitch that I gave all the business people in Davos,” Heyneman said. When Chris drilled him on his code, Heyneman admitted that he had used Cursor and Claude Code to vibe code the entire thing. Chris then took it upon himself to explain the code to Heyneman, line by line.

This is parody right?

Lack of shame, and antisocial behavior in general are also directly economically rewarded nowadays thanks to the attention economy.

Oh man, we’re fucked though. No one is going to stop these people.

Even in the US I can feel the scale tilting as normies start to rationalize a mass surveillance on unprecedented scales.

> Cold War warriors gonna flip out.

All of these people folded immediately when a fat TV retard won. I’ve seen them literally call for the nationalization of private companies that act contrary to Trumps desires in the last couple of years.

To be fair, that's not too inconsistent. These people aren't neocons, though perhaps they are getting neo-conned.

Expect a lot more of this.

Not everybody. Some very mentally ill individuals thought we’d all be living in some start-trek post scarcity TV show.

> And I can't even understand why this obsession of lowering interest rates in the USA.

You have to understand how much the middle and lower classes can become addicted to cheap lines of credit made accessible to them.

As a man, I never understood how bad this was. I have only felt unsafe in an Uber a few times, mostly because the driver should have had their license revoked due to their advanced age.

Without going into too much detail, I’ve learned just how bad it is. On the “less” vile end of things, my current parter had some desperate slime try to offer her money for sex. I made sure he reported him, but Silicon Valley loves to enable sex criminals, I imagine he’s still out there.

This is why Lyft enables women to order a woman driven Lyft.

https://www.lyft.com/women+

Uber received 400,000 reports of sexual misconduct from 2017 to 2022 - https://web.archive.org/web/20251023145410/https://www.engad... - August 7th, 2025

> Uber only disclosed 12,522 serious sexual assaults during the same period.

Uber’s Festering Sexual Assault Problem - https://web.archive.org/web/20251023144648mp_/https://www.ny... - August 6th, 2025

Uber does offer a similar setting in some markets. It took a while to roll out in the US because of legal uncertainties. So Uber waited until the feds gave them a promise that no action would be taken related to offering a “women only” or “women preferred” feature.

A few years back, I had fun setting up an old X11 terminal I had in my rather eccentric retro computing collection.

But I don’t think I had much memory in it. I had ordered a fair bit more, but maybe only 4-8M.

I did get it to work with only minor difficulties, but man only the simplest of applications could run. The barebones basic GUI text editor that came with Ubuntu couldn’t even start up.

> Meta’s in-house lawyers demanded the erasure of any and all evidence of this finding. When asked by Senator Josh Hawley how often she’d witnessed an underage user being exposed to inappropriate sexual content on Meta VR, Savage replied, “every time I use the headset.”

We need brutal, public executions for people like this.