If you think it's trivial you must not be paying attention. You cannot keep your data from Google. Government websites include google tracking. Google drives past your house to take photos and sniff your wifi traffic. Your employer hands your data over to google. Your doctor hands your data over to google. Your bank hands your data over to google. You can limit how much you actively and voluntarily give them, but you can't free yourself from them entirely and still function in society.
Google doesn't care about privacy, but its easier for them to keep collecting your data if they can also keep it from getting unintentionally leaked to others.
The last thing Google wants is for people to start thinking about the amount of data they're handing over.
I'm sure that Sam isn't too worried. He's got to have many homes and bunkers all over the world. One crazy guy at your gates is easy to ignore. If AI ever starts putting massive numbers of people out of work and people end up angry and desperate and with a lot of time on their hands they could start to get troublesome though.
There are downsides to both formats, but with paper there's no company keeping track of the date/time I open the books on my selves, or how often I open them, or how long I spend on each page, or how long I take to read the whole thing. I also don't have to worry about the books on my shelves being remotely and silently censored or edited. I don't have to worry about ads being inserted into them and I can freely read them and sell/loan them to others long after they've been banned.
If it helps, the bright white pages yellow with age.
It'd be nice if dark mode caught on as an option. https://darkeditionbooks.com/ tries, but it looks like they don't have much more than works in the public domain.
> modern layoffs in aggregate are at least partially (~20%) intended and communicated as being ways to get rid of 'low performers',
In my experience they're often used to get rid of high wage earners and people with benefits no longer offered by company. Those people then get replaced with new hires who get paid less and have fewer benefits.
Web search is a thing that is increasingly filled with AI slop that drowns out actual content. "wading through sites" for me means "wading through sites returned in search results".
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