Youtube: Most Definitely NOT "Protecting The Community"

Short: Google wants me to login to watch a trailer to "Protect the Community." Yeah right.

Medium: The idea that the most ad based monopsony in the world wants me to log in to protect "the community" is laughably ludicrous.   What's actually happening is every company is busy enshitifying the internet as fast as they can; the latest reason is to prevent people from scrapng the internet.  You know, how Google was created in the first place?  

Maximum Verbosity: I recently downloaded and archived all my data from google or I wouldn't even be writing this.  My youtube channel has been deliberately shoved to the back corner of the internet because it's Progressive, Anti-Capitalist and Anti-Tech and Google has decided to go in the opposite direction.  The original "Don't Be Evil" company has now become the new Microsoft; a giant company that leverages its corporate monopoly to crush the competition and silo and stranglehold just like any other Robber Baron or as they call them now "Vassal company" (a term I love because its the exact opposite the high and mighty tech lords want to pretend they are; but that's what they are, lame little fuedal lords bowing and scraping to the master.)

Anywho, the point here is that youtube used to be a place where you could upload a video and people could watch it.  Then youtube needed to turn a profit and then they inserted more ads.  Then they inserted more ads.  Then more ads.  More ads, even more ads; you get the idea.   Now they have automated their moderation because they are lazy fucks; but that moderation causes a lot of abuse.  Mainly, right wing Russian and American vigilantes make a habit of filing false DMCA claims (warning fucktube link).  Google does nothing.   

Google only acts when a metaphorical "unliving" tool (we're not using the nono word because ai might literally shut this post down and might even do it otherwise because the tech companies do what they want and who is going to stop them? The Republicans? The Democrats? They both work for Big Tech which makes Big Tobacco look like a kindergartner).  The point is, most people know that youtube has gotten more and more and more suck; but now because they dont want people using youtube videos to train competitor's AI; google has locked the internet.  Of course, what people don't realize is that LLM's existed long before ChatGPT.  That's right boy's and girls....Google invented the LLM and then Microsoft Xeroxed them when ChatGPT went into their dumpster and took out the LLM and brushed it off and then Microsoft said hooboy hells yes and started the AI race that is ruining the internet, our lives, our jobs and the economy.

The long and the short of it is boy's and girls; the one thing Google most definitely is not doing is "Protecting the community" in any way shape or form.  It's protecting their turf for their own piece of the enshitiffication AI race.

Hilton Hotels - The Dumbest Hotel Chain in the World

Short: Anyone dumb enough to piss off both the left and the right is going to have bed bugs in their hotel.

Medium: In a move of shocking insanity, Hilton was given a gift of good publicity by the majority who dislike ICE driving a tank into a hospital to pull an infant out of the incubator. They refused to let them stay at one hotel. Then MAGA pitched a fit, and suddenly Hilton apologized. Then a "journalist" went into the Hilton Hotel and said "i Am A iCe EmPlOyEe, I cAn HaS rOoM cHeZbOoGeR?" and Hilton removed them from the reservation list. Except in the tight news cycle, MAGA is still pissed and boycotting Hilton, AND so is the majority. Anyone who doesn't understand their brand value isn't going to be intelligent enough to change the sheets. They will be losing a lot of money very soon.

Maximum Verbosity: As a general rule, I try to leave politics for my other blogs. This isn't about politics. This is about basic decency and common sense. What is so hard to understand about this?

Trump's approval rating is at 33%. He is the least popular president in US history. Hilton is an international hotel chain, and they got a ton of free publicity. Seriously, if the numbers were flipped—if 66% of people supported running over grandmothers with steamrollers for a promotional ICE TikTok and 33% were against—and Hilton got a bunch of free publicity for letting ICE stay there like loyal sports fans, I might not like ICE (I mean, I'd call them disgusting), but I would quietly admit at least they have basic business sense.

But math is hard, apparently. Those MBAs that get paid all the big bucks must be using New Math, because I don't get it. The entire rest of the world (besides Russia, Hungary, and other nasty places) hates ICE and its patron saint, and two-thirds of America does too. The wealthier states are blue states. Yet Hilton—which last I checked isn't run by saints but isn't exactly Fox News territory either—not only says "fuck the numbers," but they do it so badly that they piss off both the left and the right.

This isn't just stupid. It's New Coke stupid. I'm boycotting them for ideology, but if I owned stock in them, I'd be selling it right now for both business and ideological reasons. If I had been foolish enough to buy Tesla stock, I might think it's a con in its valuation (it is), but I'm going to try and make as much money from it as possible despite the fact that the guy who owns the company is a piece of shit. TSLA has a shit business model, but the cocaine cowboys fucking love it. Either way, if you do own stock (or have a soul), you should consider selling it. The people who run this company are cartoons, and soon you're going to see empty abandoned Hiltons and its subsidiary chains, like K-Mart.

MAGA got mad recently at Chick-fil-A for supporting LGBT rights. Well, guess what? Most people support LGBT rights, and they don't support companies (or churches) that like to organize hate laws against them. It's just basic fucking math, but apparently Hilton decided that it wanted to look at the dumb shit that Chick-fil-A did and say, "I want to eat some poop please." Full disclosure, citizen: when I was five years old, I ate some dog shit on a dare. And it tastes worse than you can possibly imagine. I taste it a little bit in my mouth every time I see actual dog shit. And that's the taste I get in my mouth when I think of Hilton hotels.