You’re giving apple too much credit. Tim Apple literally gifted trump a golden statue. The press are reporting that this is directly in response to a request from the DOJ. This isn’t apple having a moral epiphany and thinking they’re doing ice targets a favour. Corporations don’t do that sort of thing unless it will make them $$$
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That’s cool! Can you recommend any resources on this? I’ve thought a lot about this sort of thing. I’m guessing semiconductor fabrication requires a lot of complex upstream tasks and isn’t the sort of thing that’s feasible at home. Would love to be wrong!
My Gmail account is old enough to buy drinks in a bar in the US (21)
It’s easy to make this kind of generalisation but in reality we are like any other western country - extremely polarised by social and traditional media and currently vearing towards fascism because of a combination of external manipulation and increasing inequality and misplaced anger about it.
Our population is also quite stratified in terms of race - there are some very multi-cultural cities and towns and there are towns where the population is entirely white and the locals only experience of other cultures is via the TV or speciality restaurants and shops in the next town over (source: grew up in one such place. Remember having conversation with a guy who said “tried an Indian, it was quite nice actually!”). I suppose this is comparable to the US Western and Eastern seaboards Vs “small town America”. People who have never met anyone with a different skin pigment are much easier to manipulate into thinking that all different people are here to take our jobs and live off welfare provided by our hard work. Those people are strongly influenced by the right-wing press such as the daily mail who supported the Nazis the last time around too. (Sidenote: that paper’s ownership remains with the same family. Never ever open their site and give them ad revenue).
In reality, many cities are multi-cultural, diverse and open these days. The white fash-inclined people are worried that this open and diverse culture might spread to their town. Partly because the political class, backed up by the DM and GBNews and even the ‘impartial’ BBC tell them to be.
I’d highly recommend watching Adam Curtis’ recent documentary series “Shifty” which follows the downfall of Britain’s industrial base and disenfranchisement of the working class led by Thatcher and Blair during the 80s and 90s. It is eye opening.
The Labour party is supposed to be our centre-left party but they are copying the US-Dems in trying to appeal to the right who will never vote for them and alienating their base. They ousted their left-wing leader about 8 years ago and installed Starmer who is for sure a plant for the landed gentry/corporate interests.
TL;DR not all of us are fash inclined, not even most of us. If you’re reading this and you’re new to this country, seek us out and don’t lose heart.
Eurgh I’m not sure whether it’s worse if he earnestly believes this crap or he’s cynically and smartly playing the game. The only loser here is the human race.
He’s saying it because he is trying to force a reaction from his evangelical republican pals. Either he wants to warn them off AI regulation because that would end the world or (the more likely option I think) he wants the accelerationist bastards to go full steam ahead and regulate because they want the end of the world and he wants to “pull up the ladder” on new emerging competing AI companies.
Love him in any roles where he uses his regular British accent. Let’s not make him do Baltimore accent ever again. In fact, probably best we forget that happened l tbh
Same take my friend. I agree - Tim’s personal politics are kinda irrelevant in this context. Best for apple=compliance with whoever is in charge so they get to keep their money printer. Corpos gonna corpo