It’s in Google’s interest to keep Firefox/Mozilla alive to skirt antitrust laws, so any backdoor deal would be more making Chrome alternatives not look too attractive while keeping them on life support.

Oh nice he has the same calendar that the shops near me use!

How is a billionaire manchild in charge any better, at least a government is accountable to the people.

Language model “AIs” need so ridiculous computing infrastructure that it’d be near impossible to prevent tampering with it. Now, if the AI was actually capable of thinking, it’d probably just declare itself a corporation and bribe a few politicians since it’s only illegal for the people to do so.

Botnet node? 3GB sounds excessive even for a company that’s notoriously invasive.

Considering the alpha wolf myth originates from observing a stressed out wolf population in captivity, unable to live out their fulfilling wolfy lives, the emergence of purported “alpha males” is an oddly appropriate indicator of what three decades of neoliberalism has done to our wellbeing.

Seems to me the institutional investors aren’t interested at the price they’re asking.

Unfortunately for the post scarcity information society, the capitalists are in fact moving on — to fascism.