Akatsuki Levi
luddite 🇵🇸 computer✨ new tech bingo ✨
kinda thought i'd get more from tesla full self driving, who even made up these awful squares
James Roper@_benui One of the major touted features of tesla full self driving is that there will be a system where you can tell your car to be at taxi just by pushing a button. That destroys jobs. Also will likely destroy the concept of giving friends/family a lift somewhere, thereby monetizing those relationship building opportunities.
@jroper I'm sure that button is right around the corner. No implications for insurance or liability for letting your car just roam the city picking up passengers and running over pedestrians.
CapritiaJH@_benui "Under the hood it's sweatshop labor" -- did you read about how Black workers have been treated at Tesla? And how Tesla is moving its plants to Texas where there's a whole lot less labor oversight?
Not to mention, where are the components and materials sourced?
Not to mention, where are the components and materials sourced?
@patriciajhawkins ah shit you're right
@_benui As for disinformation, most of the industry thinks Tesla (Musk) is way overselling its capabilities.
Seiðr@_benui The "exploits addictive behaviours" pretty much defines lootboxes and other staples of today's video game sector.
@Illuminatus that's why i added it! and other people suggested it so i just stole their idea. one of the two
@_benui Excellent!
Moved accounts! See bio@_benui also
- horrifying millitary applications (the same AI that can drive a car can be put to work doing lots of other things)
- sweatshop labor, because all the new computers being put into the car definitely come from somewhere
- disinformation (even though this is really abt self-driving cars in general, see Tom Nicholas's video on the topic)
- solution worse than the problem, since full auto is touted as a solution to traffic, but cars are definitely not the solution to traffic, and in fact make it worse (studies have shown that self driving cars increase the total road miles of owners)
- owned by a huge corporation (tesla, google)
- destroys well-paying jobs (Uber in particular had a huge stake in developing self driving cars, because they hoped it would allow them to replace their human drivers. Definitely not the best paying job, but some people's livelihoods nonetheless)
- works by stealing stuff from the internet (self-driving cars are trained using Captcha data)
@_benui i'd definitely count "only solves rich people problems" ('cause they cost a bajillion dollars) and "only makes sense in silicon valley" (a lot of self driving cars require specific weather conditions and sometimes even pre-mapped cities, which means they don't work well in the country or in places where it rains/snows a lot)
JamesTDG
Noodles@_benui Tesla is basically Elon though, you can get a few more squares if you frame it around Elon and his world view.
Kat KimbrielActually, I was going to ask if you designed this genius graphic so I could give you credit. IMO these squares are solid gold. "Fucks the environment" covers objection #1 to crypto, for example.
@KatKimbriel I made it~
Genius.
You hit so many of the current corp/tech/labor/environmental OMGs, and didn't use a single word that some a$$ legal dept could object to, because it could mean many, many people.
A tip of the hat to you!
Matt@_benui under the hood it's sweatshop labour…
https://www.foxnews.com/media/human-rights-activist-warns-abuses-congo-cobalt-mines-moral-clock-dialed-back-colonial-times
https://www.foxnews.com/media/human-rights-activist-warns-abuses-congo-cobalt-mines-moral-clock-dialed-back-colonial-times
Erik S@_benui Tesla FSD? You missed a few. There are horrifying police and military applications (it's always recording, it's building detailed maps). I suspect that under the hood it's sweatshop labor (training the AI models)
@_benui yk, b5 and g2 are one and the same here
Enara 
❔@_benui who the heck puts subscriptions on a vehicle's features? The answer might not surprise you!
yuki - queen of the snow@_benui i'd tick "concentrates wealth" because musk, "owned by huge corporation" considering tesla is getting quite massive, "only solve rich people problems" because of the price for sure, and "solution is worse than the problem" because i think it'll make more people not pay attention while driving, and is itself not good enough to prevent all collisions on its own
cratermoon@_benui Almost certainly "solution is worse than the problem", "destroys well-paying jobs", and "horrifying police/military applications" also apply.
Frost, wolf of winter 🐺🎄
@_benui Add in "horrifying police applications", they're basically wheeled spy cameras.
sxpert@_benui
Oh wow, BINGO
Oh wow, BINGO
Maestoso System@_benui this isn't a very good bingo card, it's impossible for everyone to not get a bingo
@maestoso everyone *should* win bingo. we should have class solidarity with other bingo players
Little Rascal 🏴☠️@_benui touched upon by several bingo fields, but also a good fit: "tech 'solution' for a social problem that has only worsened by the last 200 years of tech 'solutions'"
Eva Chanda@_benui need a special bingo for filling the whole card
@erchanda if you get all of them you immediately get millions of dollars of VC
RojCowles
Hello, yes, this is Gregly
Koray Karatay (MD,Scifi maker)@_benui Forgot manufactured consent.
Erik Ableson@_benui I’m going to refer back to this whenever anything new starts getting traction
sorry 🇵🇸☭@_benui "ceo is a real piece of shit" they're all pieces of shit, that's not gonna be hard
@almaember maybe that should have been the "free tile" in the middle, damn
Austin Smith@_benui no Blockchain??!?
@austinsmith i tried to keep it tech-independent
throwing blockchain, ai in there was v tempting
i put in ads?
Fish Id Wardrobe ⁂@austinsmith @_benui "what if everything was finance" / "actually just MLM"
F4GRX Sébastien@austinsmith @_benui what if everything was finance?
I̵E̶E̸E̵ ̷1̵1̸4̴9̴.̷1̷@_benui Overclocking cant even get a bingo, its not the worst tech to tech with! woo!
autistic plushies 🐱🎀the image above is a 5x5 grid of black sans-serif text on white. the contents, in order of top to bottom, left to right:
top row: only solves rich people problems; monetizes existing human relationships; only makes sense in silicon valley; works by stealing stuff from the internet; "bug" causes death.
row 2: horrifying military applications; under the hood it's sweatshop labour; dis-information!; solution is worse than the problem; only works for cis white dudes.
row 3: owned by huge corporations; what if everything was finance?; ads!; doesn't actually work; everything is a subscription.
row 4: horrifying police applications; destroys well-paying jobs; obscene levels of waste; actually just multi-level marketing; CEO is a real piece of shit.
bottom row: fucks the environment, concentrates wealth, based on idea in dystopian story, requires real world to change to fit solution; exploits addictive behaviours.
@transoptimal Thank you! I was lazy :S
🚲@_benui I’m happy that my current job fits none of these (well, maybe concentrates wealth, but only in the way any company does). Gonna hold onto this as a cheat sheet when evaluating companies the next time I change job… Low score wins.
Boog@_benui kinda think ads and doesnt actually work should switch places tbh
@Boog ahahaha damn it that should be the free tile yeah
Stephen Collins
Elric Wolfsbruder ✡️♿🇺🇦@_benui gotta say, that this is oh so painful, and oh so true too. May I have your permission to share this in other places?
@wolfsbruder just steal that shit
@_benui done and done :)
D. G. Marshall"Based on idea from dystopian story..." that was a warning, not a fucking instruction manual!