• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    Has there ever been a case where a CEO makes a claim that x will change the future of human history and then the CEO has turned out to be correct?

    Remember 3D TVs the technology that was so obviously never going to catch on except amongst CEOs. Now where are they? Can you even buy a 3D TV anymore?

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    I’m so tired of hearing reports of what CEOs and billionaires say, as if it was news. These people aren’t smart, they just managed to stay on stop for longest. Quit giving them a platform.

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      Dude, yes, that’s the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the picture! 🫪

      This, btw, is one of the best uses of generative AI I’ve seen to date. 😆 Well played.

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        I honestly wasn’t trying, I told it to stitch up two pictures. I expected a side by side, not a merger. But it looked really fucking cool

  • The Velour Fog @lemmy.world
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    Why do these colleges keep inviting these chucklefucks to speak to the various student bodies that clearly hate them? Humiliation tour or something? Or are they all completely up their own asses?

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      American university to just weird. The university of my hometown tends to get speakers who would you would be excited to meet in the street. They had Patrick Stewart once, everyone was totally fine with him.

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      the leadership at a lot of companies have a very poor read on public sentiment, kind of strange given how much data they collect and how much they like to talk about how good they are at using that data.

      And a lot of high level leadership at collages run in the same circles are executives at big companies. These speech events are sort of a benefit for both sides, the leadership at the collage gets to advertise what a good job they’re doing that they were able to get someone so influential to speak, and the speaker gets a sudo-academic platform to state their ideas and an ego boost from the huge in person captive audience.

      A lot of them just kind of write off the discontent they see as “a vocal minority”, so when mass confronted with actual public sentiment, i do think it kind of blind sides them.

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    4 hours ago

    He’s right we may regret leaving the necks of billionaires unsevered

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    What mental gymnastics would you need to not see the obvious contradiction here? He’s obviously lying, but how could he think people would actually buy this argument? It’s insulting. Super insulting. And yet he will be the winner in the end. AI has singlehandedly ruined mine and many people’s lives and he’s just LAUGHING AT OUR DEMISE. Is this what Luigi felt before assassinating that health care CEO?

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    I hope when he gives his lecture, the students egg him on.

    And when I say egg him on… I mean throw. At. And a large quantity of.

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    7 hours ago

    “Humans aren’t evolved to process that much change,” he said, adding that the scale of the change is unlike anything the world has seen.

    LOL, your massive plagiarism boxes are not that impressive, you pompous shit.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      I love the hubris.

      Humans aren’t evolved to process that much change, says a man who grew up in the 20th century. At the start war was just a scrap in a field, the most advanced piece of technology was an x-ray machine, and a major airport was a relatively flat piece of grass made for gliders made out of wood and canvas, by the end we’d had two world wars and one cold war, computers were everywhere, we had MRI machines and satellites and even a space station in orbit, and there are millions of flights a day on jet liners.

      Yeah, no other human has ever lived through so much change.

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      They can’t even fucking troubleshoot basic electronics. The less popular the product, the more likely they are to give you instructions that might kill you. Literally kill you, by the way.