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No, there’s just a very serious reason to push AI - to help out their rich buddies by discrediting any possible Epstein connections (and also any other evidence down the line)

Laptop speakers work with being small by adding a large sound cavity around it, which allows for the sound to be amplified.

You can’t jam that into a combadge size while also keeping space for battery and electronics.

Our tech is simply not there to put proper speakers and microphones AND a well sized battery in something so small.

Especially speakers. Volume is determined by the amount of air the diaphragm can move - and there’s an exponential relationship between the size of the diaphragm and the volume of air it moves. Large diaphragm: even small movements (low amplification) can be loud because of how much air you move. Small diaphragm: even at high amplification, the volume will be low.

Smartphone speakers work this around by having an actually large speaker with appropriate sized cavity tucked away. Like, look at an iPhone teardown and see just how big the speakers are for the mediocre volume they can output. A combadge is what, 1/5 the size of the largest iPhone, in volume? And you still need to put electronics AND a battery in there.

It could work as a microphone, but not as a speaker.

No, your honour, we did not use the porn downloaded to train our AI, at least not directly.

The people working on training the AI? Oh, the definitely had a cheeky wank here and there after a stressful day! This just shows how committed Meta is to the wellbeing of our employees.

Patron-funded news doesn’t work in the combination of post-scarcity news (i.e. when anyone can have a platform because there’s no limit to entry, like owning a printing press) and economic recession where people’s disposable income drops sharply.

Even the first point is enough to kill all but the largest patron-funded news services. The two combined? Guaranteed death sentence.