Something tells me the amount of clicks that button gets is way, way lower than Google will ever admit.

Turn and shoot each billionaire. EZ.

The point though is that I ultimately don’t care for wealth. Stocks and indexes would be playing into the same billionaire game that I would be trying to steer away from (albeit an impossible feat to dodge entirely).

I would probably use it in local governments to provide housing and better shelters for the poor; donate to programs that help children in underrepresented communities; buy materials for schools; contribute to mental health services and police reform (through community-lead programs).

I was lucky enough to witness managers deal with this ahead of time. Plus, I just know myself and I know that I shouldn’t be managing other people. I have ADHD and my executive dysfunction makes me a terrible decision maker. I learned my limits and stuck to them.

I can see that. I’d hope I could offset it by actually dumping my personal funds into working class programs and offer direct relief, but I know it’s a stupid thought exercise. The reality is that I’ve been in tech for years and have always actively avoided FAANG companies, and any and all paths that lead to corporate or management.

Even the tiniest semblance of power can go to a person’s head. You had $25 worth of merchandise in your hands, Karen. The store will be okay without you.

How does that make him richer? I’d use the money to help all of the folks he’s fucking over.

I’m convinced this is the only good printer in existence. They are an absolute workhorse.

This is why I always tell employers up front to never put me in, nor consider me for, management tracks. “I like to work in the trenches.” I have no desire to be among these corporate people.

I’m taking the money and giving a fat chunk of it to programs and things that my government refuses to do anything about. I don’t give a fuck about shallow things like “selling out.”

This one stings. I grew up with PBS and feel like it kept me open-minded, curious, and empathetic. Kids need more of these positive voices in the world and they are dwindling fast. Now they’re going to become the targets of a ramped-up wave of right-wing propaganda.

I want to see this one. I understand the author’s fatigue after Endgame though and how things meandered. Sunday matinees!

Can’t believe it was that long ago. We had no power for a week. I slept on a screened patio in my undies because the house was stifling hot. Gave all my ice cream away to the folks fixing our lines because it was melting anyway haha.

I feel like those ones, with the exception of Guardians, had enough of a surface level fanbase to garner attention, but those examples also had stellar casting and production. Guardians has a unique enough cast of characters to pull in even folks that weren’t familiar with the comics.

I lived through Charley and a slew of other hurricanes. Things never truly, fully recover and it’s just going to get worse with the current admin talking about getting rid of FEMA funding. We are planning our exit but it’s tough when you have family and friends here.

I’ve been turning this into a new adventure by reviving all of my old tech. The other night, I installed custom firmware and homebrew stuff on my 3DS XL. I also dug out my Nexus 5 and booted it up. That thing is my permanent backup phone.

The author starts off a bit immature in their commentary, but I pushed through and they touch on a simple point that I relate to:

All of this stuff feels like homework now and Disney and Marvel have pumped out far too much minor stuff that all intertwines in one way or another. I want to like it and I do make exceptions (Loki), but I’m too casual of a comic reader to bother with the remainder of what we have now. Endgame was the cliff where I drove off and lost interest (and to be fair, that’s a pretty big void to fill).

This movie in particular interests me but mostly because of the cast. I couldn’t tell you much about any of the characters. The reality is that it’s going to be a really hard sell to get surface-level comic enthusiasts and general-superhero-movie-lovers to buy into stories about minor characters they’ve never heard of.

Uhhhh Florida disagrees…

There is absolutely zero chance I would allow anyone to theorize what they think I would say using AI. Hell, I don’t like AI in its current state, and that’s the least of my issues with this.

It’s immoral. Regardless of your relation to a person, you shouldn’t be acting like you know what they would say, let alone using that to sway a decision in a courtroom. Unless he specifically wrote something down and it was then recited using the AI, this is absolutely wrong.

It’s selfish. They used his likeness to make an apology they had no possible way of knowing, and they did it to make themselves feel better. They couldve wrote a letter with their own voices instead of turning this into some weird dystopian spectacle.

“It’s just an impact statement.”

Welcome to the slippery slope, folks. We allow use of AI into courtrooms, and not even for something cool (like quickly producing a 3d animation of a car accident for use in explaining—with actual human voices—what happened at the scene). Instead, we use it to sway a judge’s sentencing, while also making an apology on behalf of a dead person (using whatever tech you want because that is not the main problem here) without their consent or even any of their written (you know, like in a will) thoughts.

Pointing to “AI bad” for these arguments is lazy, reductive, and not even remotely the main gripe.

“I didn’t post it!” *

* His marketing team did after he told them to.