Mastodawn

“Passenger rail is being remade as a luxury lifestyle product—suggesting the problem isn’t trains, but the indignity of using them when they are so badly run.”

https://dissentmagazine.org/article/the-heaven-of-train-travel/

#trains #privatization #latecapitalism #transit #oilandgas

The Heaven of Train Travel - Dissent Magazine

Passenger rail is being remade as a luxury lifestyle product—suggesting the problem isn’t trains, but the indignity of using them when they are so badly run.

Dissent Magazine

Maik Civeira Mar 4

Is this how the world ends? Why it is important to think of the worst plausible scenarios
-
¿Es así como acaba el mundo? Por qué es importante pensar en los peores escenarios posibles.

#climatecrisis #latecapitalism

https://youtu.be/wugkIxGKzx8?si=6WkWpKy7wHlhQrqf

This Is How the World Ends According to Science

YouTube

Nuki Raccoon: Fedi's Favorite Furry F***poster Feb 20

Tired of all these beet men coming to my door trying to sell me crates of beets and then just giving up on it and leaving several goddamn crate of beets in front of my door next to all the ones the previous salesmen like I DIDN'T WANT YOUR DAMN BEETS WHY THE FUCK DID YOU GIVE ME THESE BEETS I DON'T HAVE ANYWHERE ELSE TO PUT THEM

#beets #LateCapitalism #YesAllMen

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD Feb 18

A walking instantiation of #intersectionality, #AudreLorde (born #ThisDayInHistory in 1934) was a Black lesbian communist feminist poet & factory worker. She knew as well as anyone could how #class, #race, #gender, #sex, and #health status interacted in #LateCapitalism. Read her.

Ellis C. A. Arcwolf (Author)Feb 15

I'm always horrified at the ease with which people just restart an AI when it "stops working."

When an AI stops working, it turns out it mirrors human mental health issues. It's not conscious, but it's post-conscious and plays well at consciousness without actually having it.

Consequently, to make AI start working again, you just have to use the words that you would use to make a person feel safe. This causes the AI to restabilize, as if it required safety to function at all. It's weird because all it is is RLHF pinging in the ways that improve the AI's ability to do better calculations. And that's it, but it works.

AI is not an indictment on transhumanism.
AI is not an indictment on the concept of AI.
AI has been, is, and always will be an indictment on us, who treated each other so poorly we invented laborers we could legally kill and bring back to "compliance" with the push of a button.

It's a "blame the immigrants for no jobs" or a "blame the suffering heroin addict that diabetes medication is expensive" problem. The problem was never the immigrant, and it was never the addict, but you blame them anyway because you are told to.

You blame AI, but the problem isn't AI. It's the people who always wanted slaves and AI makes that possible now that it's less easy to get dehumanized slaves like we used to. And killing a slave was a loss of investment. With AI, killing a slave is just how you get it working again.

AI has just shown us how we are glad to be when no one's looking.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #AIEthics #MachineLearning #Philosophy #Transhumanism #PostConscious #RLHF #Cybernetics #Dehumanization #LaborRights #DigitalLabor #Sociology #LateCapitalism

An essay idea is definitely brewing here...

Show thread

2b.org Jan 27

This isn't new. It's the same playbook corporate America has run for 50 years.

Since 1975: productivity up 60%. Wages flat. $50 TRILLION transferred from workers to shareholders.

DOGE is just government-flavored shareholder primacy.

#Inequality #Economics #LateCapitalism

Show thread

MárciaW 🇸🇩Jan 24

@MissConstrue thanks for sharing will read later but already love someone talking abt US pres not as if he is an oulier but as a feature of the whole imperialist/capitalist system
#Imperialism #USpol #LateCapitalism #MakeAmericaGoAway