🤖 Behold, another "insightful" exposé on how #AI is the big, bad wolf 🐺 out to gobble us up while tech overlords twirl their mustaches. It's like saying "don't believe the hype" with a side of conspiracy—because nothing screams credibility like a dash of paranoia and a sprinkle of technological ignorance. 🙄
https://thecon.ai/ #Critique #TechOverlords #ConspiracyTheory #DigitalParanoia #InsightfulExposé #HackerNews #ngated

Matt #Godbolt bravely tackles the monumental challenge of creating #URLs that last forever—because we all desperately need browser tabs from 2012 🌐🔗. Turns out, cramming an entire compiler state into a URL just might not be the pinnacle of efficiency 🧐. But fear not, Google has come to the rescue, because who doesn't love outsourcing their problems to the tech overlords? 👾
https://xania.org/202505/compiler-explorer-urls-forever #Matt #CompilerState #BrowserTabs #TechOverlords #HackerNews #ngated

So, Jay Graber thinks she can save social media by "handing power to users" 🤔. Apparently, overthrowing the tech overlords is as easy as waving a magic wand and saying "be nontoxic!" 🪄💬. Meanwhile, we'll be over here waiting for unicorns to fly. 🦄✨
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/14/blueskys-quest-to-build-nontoxic-social-media #JayGraber #SocialMedia #TechOverlords #UserEmpowerment #MagicWand #HackerNews #ngated

"There won’t be any immediate changes in the day-to-day, and Mom will continue to be so proud of everything you are doing, despite having no clue what being an account manager for Venmo’s TikTok means." https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/your-mom-has-been-acquired-by-omnimomcorp

#satire #techoverlords

'Let's have three meetings at the same time to discuss it...' ('No, let's not, thanks') Cognitive shredding courtesy of our tech overlords

https://www.brainpizza.com/p/lets-have-three-meetings-at-the-same

#MeetingOverload

#TechOverlords

#CognitiveShredding

#WorkplaceEfficiency

#DigitalDistractions

#TechFatigue

#ProductivityChallenges

#SmartWorkHabits

#EffectiveCommunication

#WorkLifeBalance

Big Tech earned enough revenue in the first seven days and three hours of 2024 to pay off all $3.04 billion in fines from last year.

"2023 was the second straight year these five companies were fined over $3 billion, showing that they view fines as nothing more than the cost of doing business"

https://proton.me/blog/big-tech-2023-fines-vs-revenue

#bigtech #techoverlords #amazon #alphabet #meta #apple #microsoft