Wow he only had to tank the company before his 50m worth of EA ownership became a problem…

YouTube is cancer. They have made this the way you get content and likes. Creators spend hours trying to get a proper thumbnail since it has such a huge impact.

Basically YouTube demands clickbait now.

Take one people and take their homes away, take another and call them “the chosen people or Judea” and tell them they can take the homes of the other people.

Now one group has been told by the “world” that this place is theirs because God said so.

The other is literally kicked outta their homes and is told it’s their fault. Also they’re walled in and can’t leave… and then they’re told they’re gonna get fucked unless they leave… but they can’t leave…

I was always told “The Stupid Tax” wasn’t a real thing… but then Elon goes and does another thing…

Come on people you’re all staring at flashing LEDs distracting you and you’re ignoring the giant spolight of Riccitiello’s ownership of over 400,000 EA shares.

He moved the EA stock price by 2 dollars the day they announced the Unity deal.

New hire, brought on board comes to a Monday meeting.

The company Quality of Worklife Balance survey has been returned, and it’s awful. It’s just after the 2008 crash, and we’re barely treading water, but the company held on. The CIO brought everyone into the largest conference room, meant for hundreds (there’s a couple dozen of us standing around, the chairs weren’t setup) and we stand around her as she procedes to tell us “Why is your QWL so low, you should be talking to your managers about this! I don’t wanna see another QWL survey this bad ever!” In a very yelly tone.

One of the managers raised their hand, and asked, “Folks feel like they’re not being listened to and that they’re not getting enough leeway to make decisions.”

CIO: “Well they need to get over that.”

And that was the first meeting a bunch of developers and IT folks got to see at that company.

Many other shenanigans occurred there, but my personal favorite was the quarter million dollar genset system all setup and tested multiple times – fueled and ready to go, failed in a major power outage because someone left the key in the “test” position on the generator.

– That CIO thought they led people, they did nothing of the sort.

It’s almost like the CEO of the company (John Riccitiello) supporting the most Indie game developers holds 53 million dollars in EA shares or something…

Even, and most likely especially, if Unity does poorly does EA benefit… I bet ya Riccitiella knows all the features of Frostbite, but couldn’t tell you if you can do native reliable UDP networking in Unity…

He noticed in 2015… How much you wanna bet he trusted it more back then and it almost killed him a bunch.

So he must have definitely did it. Elon is anything if not consistent, he’s gonna back the contrarian horse if someone tells him there’s a race.

This is what’s wrong with the world oof. It read like a post from 2008 making fun of people for not getting the joke, and everyone… predictably didn’t get the joke.

I think it’s important to remember how this used to happen.

AT&T paid voice actors to record phoneme groups in the 90s/2000s and have been using those recordings to train voice models for decades now. There are about a dozen AT&T voices we’re all super familiar with because they’re on all those IVR/PBX replacement systems we talk to instead of humans now.

The AT&T voice actors were paid for their time, and not offered royalties but they were told that their voices would be used to generate synthentic computer voices.

This was a consensual exchange of work, not super great long term as there’s no royalties or anything and it’s really just a “work for hire” that turns into a product… but that aside – the people involved all agreed to what they were doing and what their work would be used for.

The ultimate problem at the root of all the generative tools is ultimately one of consent. We don’t permit the arbitrary copying of things that are perceived to be owned by people, nor do we think it’s appropriate to do things without people’s consent with their “Image, likeness, voice, or written works.”

Artists tell politicians to stop using their music all the time etc. But ultimately until we really get a ruling on what constitutes “derivative” works nothing will happen. An AI is effectively the derivative work of all the content that makes up the vectors that represents it so it seems a no brainer, but because it’s radio on the internet we’re not supposed to be mad at Napster for building it’s whole business on breaking the law.

I’m not American, and I don’t know exactly what the legal differences are between “indicted”, “charged” and “accused”. When is he going to be put in handcuffs and detained in a jail cell like a normal person would be if they were suspected of committing a crime (like stealing a handbag for example) but not convicted yet?

He is getting slightly better than normal rich person with expensive lawyer treatment.

America, as a pure service economy has prices for bribery and extortion as well as minimum service levels for the legal system. If you pay for economy (with your life) you get a defense attorney appointed by the state who sits across from the judge and DA you’re going to have to deal with, and has lunch with them, or makes deals in the bathroom… They’ll fight to make sure their life doesn’t get disrupted a whole lot and they can keep defending the endless stream of defendants.

The middle tier is the “hire a reptable firm, and get a junior associate” level of service, that’s where you get someone who’s overworked, and desperately trying to keep all their partner’s cases going, and they can spend 1/10th of their time on your case, they don’t have any worries about not having a job though so they can dedicate the time in court to defending you.

The top tier is the “hire a reputable firm, and you get a named partner” they care about their reputation, and make sure they only take cases that will make them look good. And they look good by doing the best damn job they can in front of the cameras, in their filings, and in front of their client. You get the white glove treatment, and 90% of the time of the junior associates helping the partner.

It’s no wonder why you typically only get the “Go home and sleep it off” result from an indictment from the highest tier of service.

Because there are sadists in every field.

If google adjusts creators revenue by 1/3 I’ll pay that.

Well theoretically 100% of the unsolved could be, they haven’t solved them after all.

Of course Florida would do this, they’re part of the “Mark of Cain” south.

That is: Southern Preachers maintained the horrific canon that black slaves would only survive as subservient to their white masters, because god had marked them. This is a big part of all the separations of churches during the civil war.

Systemic refers to it being ingrained in the system. This is a town that refuses to accept that a black man won the election because they only handed it down among white folk.

If the system is 2 people, 1 in power and 1 without it can be regular racism and systemic racism.

Their representatio ratio is as systemically biased as apartheid south africa… So… yeah its systemic, but it really seems regular racist too.

That’s basically a prison graveyard, they’re on prison property and no one can visit…

In cases such as this it would be amazing to bar them from having funerals.

“You’re too old to sit in a cell, so we’re just not going to ever lay you to rest”

Maybe it would help these criminals think about ramifications before committing their heinous offenses.

Oh come now, we have much worse punishments: they’re now under conservatorship, by Britney Spears dad and are on their way to the cheapest old folks home in their state. They’re “technology safe” so they can’t access the internet for their own personal safety…

Ya know, old folks prison, where poor people go after their family forgets about them and they die of neglect.

That honestly just sounds like they’re going after more government contracts. Gov’t compliance can sometimes require asinine security controls because they expect the users are the weakest link in every design. That can sometimes be true, but when folks are developing things you sometimes have to let them make foot guns or they can’t build things.