capitalism has a way of turning everything necessary for human survival into a business opportunity. housing, healthcare, food, education, even our attention. everything has a price, and someone is always making a profit from your need to survive then they tell you to work harder.
nobody talks about how exhausting it is to live in that space between "things will get better" and "I can't take this anymore". it's like your emotions are constantly swinging back and forth. leaving you both hopeful and defeated on the same day
Sam Altman CEO of OpenAI thinks people having RAM in their personal computers is a waste when it could just be serving Data Centers instead. Weird, I was just thinking that all those billions of dollars in their bank accounts is a waste when it could just be serving the public by being reinvested into the community.
Google is reportedly pulling the plug on AI Overviews after the feature's massive computing costs and declining ad revenue cost the company billions in market value. Turns out forcing AI into everything wasn't such a brilliant business strategy after all.
I once read somewhere that after an especially exhausting life, some souls choose to reincarnate as a tree, spending a century resting. I haven't looked at trees the same way since then.
Isn’t it beautiful to think that the same moon watching over you tonight once watched over your great-great-great-great-grandmother, and every generation before her? Across generations, through joy and sorrow, light and darkness, we’ve all looked up at the same moon.