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@stux You can most clearly see the effect by using anon ('incognito') browser mode over a VPN. This gives YT nothing to use as background for making suggestions that are unrelated to the current video.
Then access some video you're interested in, say music or renewable energy, and lo and behold... Youtube insists on suggesting the most awful non-related crap. They are probably a worse source of brainwashing than even Xitter.
@concertina226 @Samsung I'm sure this is having a positive impact for women in many countries...
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/budget-samsung-phones-shipped-with-unremovable-spyware-say-researchers
many high profile people in tech, who I have respect for, take absolutely unhinged risks with LLM technology that they have never, in decades-long careers, taken with any other tool or technology
Maybe they should have.
I also hate the LLM force-feeding, but even before they surged the state of computing was becoming a smoldering wreck. Maybe those "leaders" just had bad judgment all along? IIRC most of them were either rubber-stamping or looking away from the IoT dumpster fire and organizing their curricula around the idea the users can't handle URLs responsibly.
@pattykimura No, its not all about profit. The greed in this case is bound up with nazi-fascist ideology; not recognizing that is a big mistake and robs civil society of the ability to anticipate their tactics.
Their next move will be to bring down the centrists in the EU, splintering it, and forming a white race axis from the pieces. Trumpists think that is what it will take to convince Russia to leave China's orbit.
I hope both of you are right. But a reasonable explanation for events is that this is being done now before its too late to preserve the dominance of the fossil fuel / extractive industries (obviously, other overlapping motivations are there as well, like burying the Epstein issue).
@hszakher @shoq Who did this at the start of the war..?
Air strikes have damaged at least four oil facilities since US-Israeli attacks on Iran began last month.
(www.bbc.com)
The dialogue here is proving far worse than I experienced on forums during the Iraq War. Very muddled thinking. Social media and a tidal wave of automatic entertainment has damaged people's faculties across the board; doesn't matter what side you think you're on.
@shoq The Trump admin has spent much more time obsessing about regime change in Europe and China (which is now official US policy, btw) than any other foreign issue.
Which region is the most sensitive to oil price shocks, having no substantial oil supply of its own? Europe.
The oil price surge was probably intended to bring down the the liberal EU order, as well as help Russia and put them in the drivers' seat in their partnership with China. Trump can force US domestic producers to keep prices here low in time for the midterms, while he and Putin extort Europe and China.
Hence the US military is more interested in stopping oil flow in the Strait than restoring it.
@mshelton Their position on building automated killing machines sounds even worse. Basically, "someone will take responsibility for it, so its OK."
@jonsnow So the machines are now in charge of parenting...
This is where the "little Johnny must stay hooked up to the cloud" idiots have brought us... Independent / FOSS products are now rendered inoperable. Yes, I realize that means a lot of very-online and cybercool numbskulls here who are reading this.
