Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude Desktop case I wrote about last month, but the scale is between two and three orders of magnitude larger. This article does the legal analysis and, for the first time, the environmental analysis. The numbers are not small.
I disagree that scolding and calling each other assholes over two words in a comment is any more called for, and I certainly don’t agree that whatever superiority complex you’re trying to invoke right now is doing anything to “elevate the level of discussion”.
I’m here to be in a space with other Marxists, consume anti-capitalist media that doesn’t sympathize with liberalism, and have conversations that aren’t in danger of being deplatformed for those stances being expressed. I am not here to feel like im better than or “above” any other community simply for language used rather than views expressed.
I disagree that scolding and calling each other assholes over two words in a comment is any more called for, and I certainly don’t agree that whatever superiority complex you’re trying to invoke right now is doing anything to “elevate the level of discussion”.
I’m here to be in a space with other Marxists, consume anti-capitalist media that doesn’t sympathize with liberalism, and have conversations that aren’t in danger of being deplatformed for those stances being expressed. I am not here to feel like im better than or “above” any other community simply for language used rather than views expressed.