The Hollowing: Part Deux

Yesterday I posted a piece on "societal permission" for TechGods to create an economy without working people.  Those pesky employees actually give feedback when their workplace turns into a sci-fi nightmare.

As part of Zuckerberg’s all-in AI push, Meta announced it would fire ten percent of its workforce, or nearly 8,000 employees, leaving many uncertain about their future. The company is also demanding that employees produce more than ever by using AI agents and coding tools as much as possible, with AI usage now a factor in performance reviews.

People can only take so much and the lopsided deal has gone on for far too long. 

Insatiable TechGods copied the private equity underwriter (PEU) playbook which pushes incapable technology as a replacement for headcount reduction.  PEUs have a long history of crapifying workplaces and decreasing product/service quality. 

Disabled people can wait to get their motorized wheelchairs fixed and water for AI should be prioritized over "baseline human comfort."

Of course Bezos is talking his own book.  If its water you want Jeff, there are oceans all around.  I'm sure you have a great view of it from your Miami penthouse.  

In West Texas you can have all the frac water you want.  Technology exists for desalination and detoxifying produced water from oil wells.  Apply that intelligence to Prometheus' cooling resources needs.

Better yet, Jeff, use that intelligence to stop Amazon related scams.  

Here's a sci-fi nightmare.  

A driverless car stalks a 76 year old woman as she is funding her granddaughter's child harm lawsuit against Meta, facebook's owner. 

The car's onboard computer posts a scam AI video to the woman's facebook account.  It's an AI fake of Bill Gates pushing a dementia curing supplement based on honey from Turkey/Nepal.  The woman buys the product as she has experienced more confusion of late.  

The product arrives within its one hour promised delivery time.  No signature is required so the driver rings the doorbell and leaves the package on the front doormat.  The driverless car monitors the woman's Ring camera as it waits for the woman to come to the door.  It revs the engine, drops into gear and floors the gas.  After bending over to pick up the package the woman sees the approaching vehicle and turns to run into her home.  

Her storm door is heavy and she struggles to get it open.  In a panic she tosses the package at the driverless car.  A chip with the tiny gyroscope inside the package voids the woman's product warranty as this major movement occurred post delivery.

The driverless vehicle shifts into "off-road" mode which elevates the undercarriage giving it greater ground clearance.  It climbs her two level brick stairs and slams into the back of her legs.  Bricks shatter, the door frame collapses and the woman is pinned under the vehicle, which shifts out of "off-road" mode, increasing the weight on her chest.  Unable to breathe, she is dead within minutes.  The driverless car sends a message to the entity that gave it the assignment.   

Meta's defense attorneys jack up the motions driving up the cost of the granddaughter's lawsuit.  Their aim is make it so expensive for the plaintiff that they cannot afford to proceed with the 76 year old woman's money tied up in the estate.  In the meantime, Meta executives are working on a law that would exempt social media providers from child harm lawsuits.

That's one less person needing cooling resources for baseline human comfort, the new TechGod name for potable water.  

And these are the people elected officials cater to?  Sickening.

Politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new TechGod brethren.  Increasingly, more are one.