Kirk

Wow I went to fact check that claim and it's actually no exaggeration. Here is the AP article.

Google and Amazon provide cloud computing and AI services to the Israeli military under “Project Nimbus,” a $1.2 billion contract signed in 2021, when Israel first tested out its in-house AI-powered targeting systems. The IDF has used Cisco and Dell server farms or data centers. Red Hat, an independent IBM subsidiary, also has provided cloud computing technologies to the Israeli military, while Palantir Technologies, a Microsoft partner in U.S. defense contracts, has a “strategic partnership” providing AI systems to help Israel’s war efforts.

Crazy to see Palantir, Google, Microsoft mentioned alongside ...Red Hat.

Anytime someone anywhere on the political spectrum uses the word "woke" without also defining what the fuck it's supposed to mean I just cannot take them seriously.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/39828-i-ve-come-up-with-a-set-of-rules-that-describe

S-tier satire of the conservative "Trekkie" (please Gene, I hope you're being satirical). Real comments like that always make me think of Douglass Adams' "rules" on growing old:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

Anytime someone says Star Trek's progressivism was never "hamfisted" I usually just point them to the after school special that is Let that be your Last Battlefield:

I have an adjacent vent and that is I hate how companies put so little effort into the UX of their mobile web pages. Privacy concerns aside, I would still prefer not to have 100 apps on my phone and just use web pages; but my bank's web page suuuuucks and so well, I have the app.

IDK I think we'll continue to see incremental gains for a long time, especially as normies abandon desktops/laptops entirely and the entire market shrinks. Windows will probably continue to dominate in enterprise for long past when it's fashionable.

It's crazy because Apple had every reason to be FAR ahead in that game.

That's totally reasonable I only brought up Google Glass because it was famously ridiculed ("Glassholes") and yet still more fashionable even today than these things.

OK I can get into this.

First of all, all of these eye computers are dumb, but at least Meta's Ray Bans look more or less like normal glasses. Even Google Glass was sleeker looking than these, and that was 13 years ago. I don't know what Snap is thinking.

Same, and I personally know two people who I would describe as college educated white-collar folks, but definitely not into "tech", who recently told me they switched to Firefox.