OpenSI doesn’t really roll of the tongue does it? What will they do? update to OSI? because that’s already a bunch of things…

It’s been called AI since before the technology actually existed. I’m not calling it anything else.

After my big, tired, sigh my first thought was that it was some kind of dumb ass rebranding attempt.

It’s not that complicated Ed. I got a pretty clear picture from an hour of research. Maybe if you get out of your algorithm for 20 minutes you might find something more tangible on the situation than a few chapters from a dusty religious text and the word of a bunch of rich assholes with vested interests in the region.

That’s fair but also keep in mind that the most accurate statement is that it works for ‘the shareholders’ and over time ‘the shareholders’ have become less and less people and more and more entities that are holding the stock. Various Funds, Institutions, and other organizations. It’s a democratic council that is dictated by whoever holds the majority of voting shares. When we talk about millions of shares more often than not the voting majority is housed in one way or another within an institution. It’s not ‘A’ boomer, it’s a management fund holding the retirement portfolio of thousands of boomers if not just another company that managed to secure 15% or more of voting weight.

I push back because the focus should always be on the system and on the wealthy class. Not the demographic of some retired asshole that’s benefiting from the system itself.

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I can’t be sure, but I think it was just one of the old launch clips from Hulu or something just rebranded to Trump. I swear I saw that exact montage like a decade ago.

legit first thought was Biff TV. as if Biff had a network in the movie but I don’t think he did.

TLDR: The CEO is the captain but the board is the admiralty.

The CEO is the face of the company. The board of directors is the what actually sets company policy and usually has the power to remove the CEO if they aren’t managing the company the way they want.

CEOs may agree with the board’s vision but if you want to know who’s pushing anti-human policy you should look first at the board. They choose the CEO and they can remove them with a vote.

There are many people that we don’t see in the news everyday that sit on multiple boards and direct policy across industries. When a firm or bank buys out a controlling interest in a company’s public stock they usually put someone on the company’s board. Why do you think a United CEO getting killed didn’t slow UHC down all that much? The CEO is a face, a captain, but the board are the admirals. CEOs aren’t without blame. They usually have freedom of implementation but they are always acting with oversight of some kind from the board.

It’s easy to point at the CEO because it’s one person, but really if you want to make any kind of lasting change you need to target the people who are sitting on multiple boards and pushing the anti-human policy.

The board of directors is also chosen by the shareholders and typically the entities with the most stock to vote aren’t people (or at least aren’t good people.) Think of anyone who could have the money to buy a controlling share of a major publicly traded company.

Circling back, The CEO is the company face, The board is the interface between the company and the rich unknowns. Usually those unknowns are other organizations that have controlling stock. It gets incestuous pretty fast.

Everyone looks at the CEO. People should be looking at the board of directors.

They want the internet to be as cable, radio, and books before it. It just took longer because of the complexity of the systems. They can’t stand that people for about 20 years had the means to educate themselves and they’ve been fighting to censor it since at least 2012. The problem is that now the tech bros are on board. Before they still had enough idealist types internally to keep them pushing back.

It was only a matter of time. having been raised in the free and open internet it really breaks my heart.

‘Flockroaches’

over here in America, we had a friend in our group that outright refused to switch to signal. Not to make it seem like it’s the only factor, but that friend is no longer around, and we all use Signal.

All names are washed away in the grandness of time. The sin is not to burn out but to waste your light in darkness alone. The virtue is in knowing personal cost of the clarity that your light grants to others.

I was pretty young at the time, but the thing that I always think about is the movie Enemy of the State when I think about 9/11. Because before the attack, the general narrative was that we need to be worried about what power we give our government and how much they spy on their people and how far they are willing to go to maintain power. I think about Tomorrow Never Dies a lot too, where a media mogul tries to control world governments and people by controlling the news. I was maybe 7 or 8 when the later came out, but I always remember them in terms of 9/11 because after that attack, both movies started to become prescient. The internet was the only thing that kept me informed on what was really going on in the world. Now even that’s changing.

It wasn’t just 9/11. There’s nuance to what they do that gets lost in translation. The most 1-to-1 for me would be Pearl Harbor.

No one from the US planned the Pearl Harbor attack, but it is believed by some that Roosevelt made policy decisions that goaded Japan into attacking the US as a means of gaining support for entering WWII.

No one in the US administration planned 9/11. What is today framed as incompetence was clearly stonewalling from people in key places of power to allow an attack to manifest. It’s been years and I don’t remember everything I’ve ever heard that’s been debunked. I do remember the head of the CIA refusing to send intel to the FBI was a big sticking point. I think I remember there being a drill going on that day about hijacked planes that made communication confused. I still don’t get why building 7 went down, or why some claimed it was almost totally empty that day.

So too with Israel. HAMAS has been allowed to fester in Palestine by the top Israeli officials, going so far as to assassinate more moderate candidates and even smuggle in money to fund the organization. Israel has for a long time had what is considered one of the most sophisticated and robust information networks in the world. There is no way that at least grumbles of this attack were unknown.

I grew up through 9/11. I saw what patriotism does to people and what leaders use it for.

I watched so much scifi on Netflix back in the day. It was really an end of an era moment when they lost Star Trek and Stargate.

It’s not fully accurate to lay the blame at the feet of Netflix. At the time, they just saw the writing on the wall and did what they had to do to survive. Their catalog was massive because, early on, no one thought streaming would work. They had a massive collection of shows and movies that didn’t pull enough of an audience to air on TV for ad revenue. Netflix was able to get a TON of long-term deals that they used to grow, but when those contracts were coming due, the rights holders pulled out and started trying to make their own services. At that point, Netflix basically had to become a studio and pivot to original content, or else they wouldn’t have content at all.

The long and the short of it is that because Netflix was first, it got to set the stage for the golden age of streaming, but because it worked, it was inevitable that streaming would become cable.

It’s not Netflix’s fault. It’s just the course of the entertainment business. They suck now, but back then, I couldn’t think of a single bad thing to say about them… well, maybe that they got rid of the 5-star rating system. That system was definitely used to get metrics for their early programming.

It does seem like the tech bros in power now saw those 80s dystopia movies and went, “yes. that.”