My increasing distrust for big tech has soured me on "deep integrations" like this. I feel this is just laying the foundation for subscription based cars.
"Sorry, you have not paid for Apple CarPlay Ultra Plus Max, we are reducing your max speed to 50 mph (~80 km/h)"
"To enable, AM radio for 12 hrs please authenticate on iPhone or use fingerpick on start button for iDNA authentication and 10% off!"
"Sorry, to unlock back doors you must add Aston Martin Ultra Premium Accessibility. Alternatively, just shove passengers through front doors"
"You are currently on the freemium plan with advertisements enabled. Prior to vehicle starting, you will be subjected to 30 minutes of tailored advertisements"
"Credit card on file has expired. Car is disabled. Please contact Aston Martin + Apple support for further assistance."
"Oopsie woopsie, car cannot connect to telemetry system. Cannot operate vehicle while system is unable to connect to internet."
I am not optimistic. Elon and his brother own majority in the board.
This is all smoke and mirrors. Board opens search for a replacement. Go through the motions of finding a replacement. Delay. Delay. Delay.
Then on a particularly active news cycle, report search has failed, and it gets buried beneath the bullshit that Orangatuan administration did that week.
Bro got replaced by some ex-Activision-Blizzard MBA zombie. Humam got 86’d/golden parachuted from Blizzard after only <2 years as “Vice Chairman”. Then a 1-2 yr gap.
Humam about to get another massive bag once labor force is cut, platform further enshittified, and corp books are sufficiently cooked/prepped for IPO.
Amazon really going hard on the bribes to get government cases dropped.
The next 4 years are going to be the Wild West in terms of
big business regulation. If country survives the next 4 years, the next administration is going to be fighting an uphill battle to clean up this gigantic mess.
If we somehow have any allies at the end of this, I would be very surprised.
No logic. Using this as distraction as rest of administration does atrocious things. Flood media with enough bullshit and the most egregious shit gets unnoticed.
No due process for deported migrants.
People getting picked up off the streets to never be seen again.
Orange man floating the idea of US citizens getting sent to foreign prison.
Oh, and the genocide going on with Israeli govt hardly getting any notice. Have to follow UN directly and parse through their reports.
We are only 3-4 months into this shit stains presidency/"leadership".
I thought BPA and derivatives such as BPS were banned at the federal level. I remember hearing these claims back in 2010. There was a whole campaign with plastic bottles and “BPA-free” marketing.
I for one ascribe the blame to at least 40 years of pseudoscience -- neoclassical economic theory [1] -- pushed by neoliberal economists. These same neoliberal economists are often backed by the rich (fuck you "Chicago School of Economics" [2]) . For decades they have pushed this narrative of "government bad" and "private sector" good. Taxing the rich only means you punish the people you want to help (middle and lower socioeconomic classes). This pseudoscience gave birth to the godawful economic policy of "trickle down economics".
Decades of:
defunding public services (by both parties, by the way) to make way for tax cuts for the wealthy
middle class wage stagnation (ie, take for example the minimum wage and sub-minimum wage for tipped employees)
decimation of union participation and subsequently power to labor
cheap money backed by the faith of the US govt and given to the ultra wealthy as a means of extracting wealth from the people -- see private equity
Want to know why many people are easily manipulated? They can't afford the same lifestyle as their parents. Drowning in debt to greedy capitalist pigs. Years of this cycle and once the algorithms detect this, you can be easily turned into cannon fodder for the ultra wealthy.
"hey bro, your life is shit because immigrants took yer job!! Govt trying to inject microchips into you! Join the FrEEdOm CoNvOy!"
Get us into fighting a culture war against each other, when we should be banding together and fighting a class war.
My increasing distrust for big tech has soured me on "deep integrations" like this. I feel this is just laying the foundation for subscription based cars.