Removing the act of payment…

Lol that’s hilarious 😂

Turns out, it’s sort of a cross between an Automat and a Mechanical Turk.

It’s like finding out that a vending machine actually has a poor person locked inside it that is forced to take money and send out the right drink. Incredibly dystopian.

As it seems to be with a lot of supposedly advanced tech these days, it’s all just smoke and mirrors with real people still doing the hard work.

It’s especially funny that this story exposes how the tech didn’t really work on it’s own and they had to employ a small army of people to make it seem like it worked, yet the writer still called it amazing tech ahead of it’s time. 

Just Walk Out, whose impressive technology was truly ahead of its time.

Nope it’s totally the same thing - just read through the fine print here: https://www.rewe.de/service/datenschutz/bilddaten-kassenloser-einkauf/

I expected theft, or the system was faulty. The reality was way way worse. Huh.

“largely because offshore cashiers were rewatching videos and assigning items to different customers.”

I guess he was the White Power Ranger all along, huh.

so this guy was successful in getting a former employer to pay him unpaid royalties and now he’s outing himself as a supporter of a criminal organization headed by a guy who has a long history of not paying the people that do work for him

You mean aside from the white nationalism and the “anti-woke” cultural wars? Yeah he’s a shitty dude. 

“There’s too much division” says the guy who wants to restrict the definition of “family.”

I just talked to an executive at a very smart tech company that decided not to lay off their entire talent staff during the tech recession, but instead to re-train them to do other critical tasks.  This way, they get people who know the company doing important stuff, and the talent staff will be in place to snatch the…

Of course there’s fucking stock buy backs.

In other, completely unrelated news:

100%. I work for a fortune 500, and it is the same cycle every time. Our economy is dependent on the myth of unlimited growth. When you lay off all of these people, it frees up reporting cash for shareholders to see. Which means when they actually do have growth, they will need to re-hire anyways and have massive…

Over 6000 layoffs in the video game industry, but how many people have been laid off in the Tech Industry altogether from 2023-present? The fact that companies can just throw their workers away while claiming record profits is ugly capitalism at its finest, but the sheer unchecked accountability for companies to…

“Voluntary recall” almost always means that NHTSA went to the vendor and said “There’s a problem, and you don’t seem to be fixing it. It sure would be a shame if the government had to issue a recall instead of you doing it yourself. Sure would be a shame.” The UI on the right is FAR superior.