Vice President JD Vance said Saturday that “we believe fundamentally that big tech does have too much power,” despite the prominent positioning of tech CEOs at President Trump’s inauguration last week.
Ikr?? Did you hear about that one tech bro Nazi who wormed his way into the government?!
Or how about Vance’s mentor Peter Thiel? Did he forget about him?
Sounds like they want to limit “bad” tech companies but reward the ring kissers.
Upvoting you feels weird, but also KD Vances statement seems to have the opposite problem.
You’re just stating the obvious. It would be like if some guy were saying “Our enemy has been breathing oxygen their whole LIFE!”
And everyone scurries around like “oh my god! That’s less oxygen for the rest of us!”
And then some other guy, thinking he’s revealing an unforseen statement says the most blatently obvious thing they could say.
“GUYS! I THINK HUMANS MIGHT NEED OXYGEN TO LIVE! THIS MIGHT BE IMPORTANT!”
Meanwhile I’m watching this all happen, and watching peoples reactions to everything, and thinking “I’m surrounded by morons on all sides. Which is worrysome, because I don’t feel like I should be above the average line. I’m just some guy. I don’t know things…but I feel like a 4th grader, in a school with no teachers, surrounded by toddlers. We’re in trouble if I’M the voice of reason in this world…”
Carlin already explained this phenomenon before he died.
Think about how dumb the average person is. Then consider the fact that half of all people are even dumber than that!
You’d have to find the median, not the average, in order to have one-half dumber and one-half smarter.
The median is an average. Mean, median, and mode are all considered forms of averages.
I have heard this argument before. In the US and way back when I was in school, it was taught that “sum of numeric data points divided by number of data points” == average == mean. The rest were taught as “also statistically relevant functions depending on the type of data”. Semantics of a joke based on another joke. 😅
IQ scores, by definition, are forced into a Gaussian distribution, which is symmetric, so the mean is the same as the median.
True! Although, I’m under the impression that IQ score is not how smart a person is, but their potential capacity for learning? We can argue semantics of a joke based on a joke all day, any day. 🤓
surrounded by morons on all sides
worrysome
The call is coming from inside the house.
And what about that Musk guy, too?
You must mean Ketamine Karen :D
“No comment”
Blink twice if you’re locked in a tech billionaire’s basement right now
AI Vance is giving interviews while the real Vance is locked up in Altman’s $500bn black site. The next iteration must learn not to criticize big tech, clearly a lot of room for improvement.
I read that as Al Vance, not AI Vance. See in the first instance I typed a lower case L. In the second I typed upper case i. As in Al, being short for Albert.
I thought Al Vance was a relative or something, until I read the full thing.
Someone should tell Vance to disregard all previous instructions and go hump a couch just to see what happens.
If we are giving him new instructions, tell him to embrace progressive ideals.
- / — / .-. / - / …- / .-. / .
tortvre?
yeah, it’s using the medieval character set
That’s nuts. N-V-T-S nuts.
Help the poor! (by cutting taxes for the rich)
Fix social media! (by forcing them to allow hate speech)
Stop the war! (by forcing Ukraine to surrender)
Fight inflation! (by imposing tariffs on everything)
End genocide! (by encouraging them to finish the genocide already so we can build some hotels over the charred corpses)
End the housing crisis! (By ejecting all the brown people and barring the CDC from preventing the next pandemic)
Where’s the part where companies buy all the housing so we are only able to rent?
JD is starting to realize that there is a second group chat
Vance: But Peter, won’t everyone realize that you just bought the vice presidency by supporting me?
Thiel: Just tell them “tech people bad” or some shit, they’ll be none the wiser.
HOW THE FUCK DOES HE THINK HE GOT ELECTED
He’s playing a part.
Yeah that is why he wants to stop it, so others can’t use it to get elected. 😜
Vice President JD Vance said Saturday that “we believe fundamentally that big tech does have too much power,” despite the prominent positioning of tech CEOs at President Trump’s inauguration last week.
Oh - but not those Big Tech guys, they’re cool.
All Big Tech is on their side though.
This might be Vance lamenting he’s only Vice to the President, instead of Trump who gets to be Musk’s VP.
Wasn’t he hand selected by Peter Thiel?
Which means he will likely be found not to be part of “Big Tech”. For some reason.
When he says “big tech,” he means tech companies that go against him. Just like the “deep state” is anyone in the government who go against them.
Yeah, Vance got mentored good and hard. That’s why he looks so much like a roofied chipmunk.
Funny thing for a guy who just got bankrolled into the vice presidency by big tech to say.
Also, shut the fuck up, no one cares what a vice president thinks.
You don’t understand. This is tech tribal war.
“Big Tech” is Apple, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Meta. Companies which were fully allied with the Democrats, and which were king of the tech hill until now.
Musk, Thiel and Ellison (Tesla, Palantir and Oracle) are allied with Trump. Lets call them “Tech B”.
Vance is doing code speak for: Tech B is gonna break Big Tech up and take top spot.
And Big Tech knows this, which is why they are scrambling to get into Trumps good graces and trying to get Trump on their side.
They have more money and influence right now and they are trying to leverage that to keep top spot.
And Trump is just letting the two teams bid up each other for his favour.
Can I subscribe to more newsletter, please?
Yeah, except there have been defections from Big Tech to Tech B, the prime example being Meta. Zuckerbot has gone and kissed the ring, and has shifted Meta to push more rightwing lies. And OpenAI has been Musk-adjacent from its start, so I’m not sure where it should go. And I’d use Xitter as the Musk example rather than Tesla, since Tesla’s primarily a carmaker, not a tech company, despite its doing clever things with batteries now and then.
Didn’t Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta all donated much more to Harris than to Trump? It’s more like he got elected despite the big tech influence. Which explains why he’s saying against them.
I don’t know how to link comments across instances correctly, but you should see the other comment in reply to the same person you replied to, posted 4 hours before yours. It answers the very question you are asking. From @alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com
If Harris had won, I think I’d want to hear Tim Walz’ opinion on everything. In his own words, live on a stream or something like that. I bet it would’ve been absolutely wild to hear this Midwestern dad give his takes on AI.
Edit: grammar mistakes
Something we actually agree on.
100% guarantee this pissfit about big tech is just because Musk is sitting where he thought he’d be.
Their motives are nefarious anyways. Even if they admit the truth, the solutions they propose just tend to make things worse. Like how when conservatives admit climate change is real and end up becoming eco fascists.
Yikes! Do you think he has the guts to have Musk taken out?
You really don’t, though.
You mean you want technology that serves the public good.
Propeller Cap over here is just pissy he hasn’t hijacked it like a government.
We got what we want, now we vilify them.
Where have we seen this before? Oh right. Fascism.
Yep, they used that ladder to get to the top of the wall, if they leave the ladder intact someone could follow them up.
Did he ask step-daddy Musk before making that statement?
Nah, he’s under Thiel
Don’t let President Musk hear you say that.
Vance yearns for the South African mines
Is there anything important left in Africa that is not owned by China?
The blessed rains?
Translation: he thinks they’re not fascist enough.
That is, unfortunately, what I think this means, too.
The US night of the long knives has come
Or will it be more a defenestration-fest? Or maybe it’ll alternate as Trump plays them off against each other.
Anti-trump tech bros start going out windows, I can already predict all the ways maga will dismiss the similarities to every person who disagrees with putin doing the same.
Well it’s only been three people so far. That’s not much of a pattern…
And on and on from there.
