MerryJaneDoe

The word is appreciated, but a link would be better...

Yeah, I think people are making some pretty naive assumptions about all the new datacenters popping up for AI. What the fuck do you think the government is asking AI to do for them? Shitty cartoon artwork? Photoshopping vacation photos? Or, maaaaaaybe...I dunno....something like data collection and analysis on every byte of information sent across the tubes of the interwebs?

I get what you're saying, but reading these examples has me shaking my head in frustration. The administrator doesn't work in the office. They work in a different office, or from home. Meetings between two higher-ups can't be cancelled because 1. The employee wouldn't even know that a meeting was scheduled and 2. The meeting is scheduled via Outlook and the only way to cancel it would be to have access to your boss's computer while it's unlocked. But supposing you could do these things, and you caused a 2% loss in efficiency by gunking up the keyboard and canceling the meeting. Great, they lost 2% for the day. It's 2% loss of efficiency for people who only work at a 75% efficiency to begin with. They get another keyboard and reschedule the meeting. Tomorrow, you have to start all over again. It won't be long before you're found out. The system is built with these things in mind. The number one security concern in any company is the employees. This is not a new thing and corporations are very good at creating systems of accountability.

…get busy asap and fuck it up from the inside…

Easier said than done. Security and risk mitigation is one of the first (if not the very first) concern of any IT company in this day and age.

I’ve been a system engineer. Digital assets are locked down, meaning that I couldn’t access anything outside of my scope (which was small and midsize banking websites). Physical assets (servers) sat in three remote locations, highly secure and staffed by a different team. Everything is backed up 5 different ways in 5 different places. Every keystroke is logged. Every door uses a passcard.

It’s built to be a trustless system of sorts, where no single person holds the keys to anything too important. Regular audits and individual accountability for every outage are the norm. About the only way to fuck it up would be to somehow incite a mass exodus of seasoned engineers.

I think what people often miss about these systems (not just IT, but all of our systems from finance to healthcare) is that they are supported by very intelligent, motivated individuals. These people are fighting hard to make sure that nobody can fuck up their work. They aren’t sitting ducks - they are nigh impenetrable sentries.

Is it? Why is China “bad”?

So...hold out for a couple of years and then buy when cheap RAM floods the market?

Look at American history. This really is business as usual, sad as it might be.

Alas, I fear the US might be too far gone for ranked choice to have an effect. The problem is quality of candidates. Since Citizen's United opened the door for unlimited corporate money in elections, literally 90% of candidates are on someone's payroll. "Grassroots" is a thing of the past. Mass media and name recognition are everything.

Absolutely! Ummm…how though?

Where are progressives on that scale? Oh, and do fascists, I definitely want to know how a fascist stacks up against a liberal!

A person can be smart. “People” are not. Groupthink changes a person, especially when tribalism is involved. The masses are easily led by “us vs. them” narratives.

Don’t “save”. Invest.

Cursive as a primary concern and dental hygiene as an afterthought? Hot take…