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This is the first use of the term maxing that I don't object to.

It's the paperclip problem but clippy instead

We spent 40 years bringing personal computers up to full capability, and then Intel and Nvidia said "oops, that's not profitable enough, let's go back to the 1950s mainframe model so everything is rent."

Phishing the DOGE teens but instead of malware it’s just a link to the highly addictive Universal Paperclips game

I clicked on it to install (why?) and it said it wasn't compatible with my device and failed Score 1 for Chromebook

I tried to troubleshoot my internet Last week and I had to spend 15 minutes dealing with their text ai thing (100% unhelpful) before they’d even let me call

And who invented Clippy? Melinda Gates. She was the person in charge of Microsoft Bob which gave us Clippy. She and Bill met while she was managing that project.

Fuck. That. Shit. The internet is now a swamp surpassing politics.

The Enclippification of All Things.

I feel like more accurately we've fallen into an abyss of Asking Jeeves

They want a world with minimal out lay for wages, which is a zero sum game because the harvest revenue of Govts is the lower and middle classes. Corporations get their bulk income from Governments. Break the Govt and you run everything is the playbook. Ai is a weapon.