Yeah, I know the point of this site is to give us a dystopian shock by showing us how much information Big Tech extracts from our photos, but it's inadvertently a pretty good advertisement for Google's Vision API. It did a fantastic job of summarizing the photos I threw at it.

I wonder how unique those floor tile patterns are? If that's taken on a military base in Korea, it might be possible to find the exact location of the photo.

> The military’s professional norms are a check against a potential abuse of power.

Right. And norms might be a bulwark for six months or two years, and then they'll crumple against relentless assault. It's the same progression we've already seen play out in many areas of government with Trump's first term.

It sounds like a debutante ball for the newly-minted ultra wealthy

Every ad I've seen from Temu is either AI-fabricated non-existent products, or real products with impossibly low prices. I wish somebody would sue them into the ground for false advertising.

In my experience, they're legit, but only for first-time customers. They basically eat the cost of the difference to get you in the door.

Aliexpress does this as well. You have to log in to see the real pricing.

That's where creating new accounts like [name]+aliexpress2@[domain] come in handy, no?

I mean we're talking about saving around 2-3$ from some really bad garbage products you use once and throw it in a corner.

It might just be me, but every Temu ad I see is a normalish product, but the image is designed to look like something sexy or illicit when viewed as a small thumbnail.

You seem like someone who doesn't want to shop like a billionaire! In all seriousness I 100% agree, I feel like this company is a massive house of cards that will end up like Evergrande etc. What is crazy is almost every site I visit I see a Temu ad so their ad spend is borderline insane to begin with, it growing larger is even more unbelievable.

Johannes Vonk and the Clogheads... now there's a band from the days when the bin man was hard

If you flip it from "Explore" to "Research", the UI becomes a lot more practical.

It's a shame, the Ameristan near-future dystopia parts of Fall were quite good, but the virtual world plot became increasingly silly. My mood would pick up whenever I landed on a chapter that got back to the "real world" plot.

I call it "trust arbitrage"

Such bad memories of the team where everything was oriented around the weekly demo: One day a week spent on throwaway work to make a demo run, and then getting yelled at for not being productive enough.

I’m probably being a bit naive here but isn’t the idea that you are just demo-ing the work your team is already meant to be doing? In that case turning the work into a demo should be as simple as running a bunch of tests on a big screen. Tests that you would be writing anyway.

What am I missing?

Office politics.

Like a manager forcing you to make the sexy bits first so the demos look nice?