@AmericanAir How is offering a same day earlier flight (up charge) that then gets delayed and boards AFTER the initial flight even remotely good customer service? Make it make sense.
Everyone’s told plastic pollution is a “global” problem…
But the data say something very different.
Roughly 90–95% of ocean plastic comes from a handful of rivers... mostly in Asia and Africa. The Yangtze. Ganges. Mekong. Nile. Niger.
Not your grocery bag in Colorado.
Not your straw in D.C.
A small number of poorly managed waste systems are doing the overwhelming majority of the damage.
The UN isn’t structuring this like a solvable engineering problem... it’s structuring it like a permanent global revenue stream.
Because if you solve it quickly and directly…
there’s no need for decades of committees, funding mechanisms, and “frameworks.”
Claude Mythos is like Hiroshima for software.
everything you own online, your bank, your email, your photos, your identity, is now dangerously exposed in ways that didn't exist 48 hours ago
that's why Karpathy's digital hygiene guide is probably the most important thing you can read this week
here's every step to protect yourself in these uncharted times:
> use a password manager for every account
> set up physical security keys so attackers can't log in
> enable face id and fingerprint everywhere
> randomize your security question answers
> encrypt your hard drive
> get rid of unnecessary smart home devices
> switch to signal for private messaging
> use brave instead of chrome
> switch to brave search instead of google
> mint virtual credit cards for every purchase
> get a virtual mailing address
> never click links inside emails
> use a vpn on public wifi
> block ads and trackers at the dns level
> install a network monitor to see which apps are spying on you
full breakdown of each step below:
@SimonDixonTwitt Great summary. With all the headwinds for the foreseeable future, are the data centers dead or do they move forward due to surveillance state needs? How do they accomplish that with massive energy constraints?
Michigan Senator Mallory McMorrow reveals companies are using dynamic algorithmic pricing to charge Americans more based on your data
She says this is even being used to increase rents
- A $240 flight to Florida increased to $423 because you looked twice
- Uber pricing doubled because phone battery was below 20%
“Usually it's about 18 bucks, but oh, the app knows that your phone battery is low, so it's double the price.
Companies are using algorithmic pricing tools to study your personal data and charge you exactly what they think you'll pay.
This is called surveillance pricing, and it means that companies can charge you completely different prices for the exact same thing, and it's not just happening to consumers.
Some companies are now using similar algorithms to track workers and decide their wages, hours, and schedules, even their locations
— My plan bans companies from setting personalized prices based on your data — It protects all workers, including gig workers and contractors from algorithmic wage discrimination, and it cracks down on companies using these systems to coordinate things like higher rents and insurance premiums, because the economy shouldn't be a rigged game.”
@profstonge@LynAldenContact@grok And since liquid margins are a good part of restaurant income, does this necessarily imply the pass-thru consequence there as well?