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About half of GLaDOS’s scenes in either Portal game.

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He talked to Netanyahu, Netanyahu refused a cease-fire. What specifically do you think he should be doing?

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Yes. And nothing is as short-sighted as greed.

Every company I’ve been at follows this cycle: offshore to Cognizant for pennies, C-suite gets a bonus for saving money. In about two years, fire Cognizant because they suck and your code is a disaster, onshore, get a bonus for solving a huge problem. In about two years, offshore to Cognizant and get a bonus for saving money. Repeat forever.

This will follow the same rhythm but with different actors: the cheap labor is always there, and sometimes senior devs come in to replace the chatbots because the bots are failing in ways offshore can’t make up for: either fundamental design problems that shouldn’t have been used as a roadmap, or incompetently generated code that offshore assumes is correct because it compiles. This will all get built up and built around until it’s both a broken design AND deeply embedded in your stack. The new role of a senior dev will be contract work slicing these Gordian knots.

Ah, there’s the dream they’re chasing. Chatbots write the code for free, and junior devs play janitor to the robots and fix it up. No more expensive senior devs! The savings can be used as an executive bonus.

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citizenship status, immigration status, national origin

How?

religious or philosophical beliefs

So it actively listens in case someone says out loud they’re a communist? Because I’m damn sure that “philosophical beliefs” isn’t part of a purchase order.

health diagnosis data

Oh good. Soon AI will be watching my skin over time so my insurance can deny claims as “pre-existing” when the computer figured out before I did that I have melanoma.

and genetic information.

Genetic information. Amazing. I guarantee this means, in part, that they’re literally measuring your dick with their cameras, because it’s not asking for a blood test to start your car.

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You can’t even convince normal people this is bad. You really think there’s enough critical mass among naysayers to really matter? I can (and do) only run Linux at home, but as soon as my bank switches over to requiring this bullshit, I’m going to have to play along on a different device.

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I want to be a Lore but I’m just an Odo.

Measuring galvanic skin resistance isn’t bullshit. But it’s certainly not telling them what they claim it does.

Devices of that type are usually advertised to consumers as biofeedback machines and used for detecting autonomic sympathetic arousal to train the user to control anxiety.

Because of the harsh consequences in Scientology of failing an auditing session, Scientologists also to learn to control their responses when they’re on a meter. In effect, users can train themselves to lie to it. This is how they end up with those stares that are somehow both intense and vacant.

I was slogging my way through TOS season 2 this week and had to go watch TNG for a while to be rejuvenated by a captain who actually listens to his officers.