"Students boo the commencement speaker who called #Ai 'the next industrial revolution'"

She is 100% right.
What the #hoipolloi don't get is that #Ai *IS* the next industrial revolution.

Just like in the past, the working class got destroyed by the #capitalists destroying their labour with machines...
... So now capitalists are destroying "the elites", the intellectuals with Ai

So much for class #solidarity

But on the other hand the last industrial revolution brought us #socialism and #communism, so there is hope.

https://www.404media.co/ucf-ai-commencement-speaker-booed/

#regulateai #aipolitics

#capitalists #HedgeFunds #bankers #MeToo

"David Einhorn wants ladies in ‘sexy party clothes’ at his hedge fund party

Billionaire David Einhorn is throwing a party in New York this weekend to celebrate Greenlight Capital’s 30th anniversary.

If you squint, the invitation looks banal. Predictable theme ('Vegas Nightclub'), less predictable location ('Brooklyn'). But then comes the fine print. The dress code, just for 'the ladies', is more exacting: 'sexy party clothes'.

Yes, that’s right, Einhorn is openly telling women they better look hot or else to celebrate his hedge fund. You might think this is the invite for some frat party, instead of a multibillion-dollar money manager. You’d be wrong.

Meanwhile men get a free pass.

(. . .)

We had a hunch the #MeToo era that smacked Wall Street in the face nearly a decade ago had already been subsumed by cobwebs, forgotten to the winds of pre-Maga times. Maybe you remember this lovely quote that went viral from main FT last year, not long after Trump took office:

"Even the way people on Wall Street talk and interact is changing. Bankers and financiers say Trump’s victory has emboldened those who chafed at 'woke doctrine' and felt they had to self-censor or change their language to avoid offending younger colleagues, women, minorities or disabled people.

'I feel liberated, said a top banker. 'We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled . . . it’s a new dawn.'”

https://www.ft.com/content/3a19252d-ea24-4027-ae1d-3f2c982340cıo

boofuckinghoo 🙄

Elon Musk Says Sam Altman Tricked Him Into Funding OpenAI | KQED
https://www.kqed.org/news/12081798/elon-musk-says-sam-altman-tricked-him-into-funding-openai

#techbros #capitalists #fascism #AI

Georg Scholz, 'The Lords of the World' (1922)

#art #WeimarRepublic #German #Germany #political #artist #capitalists #capitalism #Dada #NewObjectivity #NeueSachlichkeit #Communism #Communist #KPD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Scholz
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/59762

"The concrete-and-steel structure demonstrates the new technical possibilities of the industrial age. To ensure the rapid transport of goods and merchandise, massive interventions were made in the river courses. New canals were created for the coal mines. The family of Hugo Stinnes, on the left in the picture, initiated and financed the construction of the Rhine-Herne Canal, as they owned several coal mines. As a representative of the steel and iron industry, Stinnes is depicted as a walking safe. Standing next to him is Walther Rathenau, the politician and lobbyist for the electrical industry. On the right is the American banker Frank A. Vanderlip, who, with a sharpened pencil in hand, is waiting to take notes. He visited Europe [... in] 1921 and assessed the economic situation of individual countries. Not far from this group stands a scantily clad woman wearing a large hat and hold-up stockings. She is photographing the idyllic scene featuring the Hohenecken castle ruins near Kaiserslautern and a portly member of the petty bourgeoisie." (see ALT)

It's worth remembering just how far #US #politicians will go to protect the #profits of #capitalists and insulate those capitalists from repercussions even when that means letting them murder #workers for going on #strike as in the #Ludlowmassacre.

#USpol #unions #striking #Colorado #CO #Ludlow #music #folkmusic #WoodyGuthrie

https://woodyguthrie.bandcamp.com/track/ludlow-massacre-2