Marcus "MajorLinux" Summers

I just want to remind folks who are cheering on the AI Bubble Burst, nobody will be immune to it happening.

The capitalists bet nearly everything on it and if they lose (which they most likely will), what we're experiencing now is only going to get materially worse.

Now is the time to get organized!

Mar 31 at 2:47amWeb
Show threadClockwork ☃️✒️4d ago

@majorlinux

I'm among those, and I'm fully aware that for us average citizens it's a lose-lose scenario; no utopia on the other side.

But at least in one of the two there's no (or less) soul-sucking and climate-wrecking technology.

Show threadMarcus "MajorLinux" Summers4d ago

@clockwooork And this is what bugs me when people like myself call for revolution.

Or for a general strike.

There is a singular individualistic focus on seeing AI fail that anything else that is proposed to soften the blow and make sure those in power are the ones who suffer get dismissed because at least AI is dead.

Or the war in Iran.

Sure, thousands if not millions will die, but maybe this will get us off oil.

Show threadClockwork ☃️✒️4d ago

@majorlinux

But I'm not dismissing anything that softens the blow! In fact, I'm on Mastodon, which is exactly one of such ways: an alternative platform that aims to become an alternative to enshittified platforms.

I love alternatives, and I'm all in favor of building dual power & safety nets for the people who will be inevitably screwed by bailouts and whatnot

Show threadRiley S. Faelan4d ago
@majorlinux Er, if the capitalists are waiting for whether the bubble bursts in order to decide which way to screw the other people over, why should we blame the bubble, and not the capitalists who will be doing either kind of screwing?
Show threadMarcus "MajorLinux" Summers4d ago

@riley That’s my point!

Plus, they’ve already made the decision in that they don’t give a fuck what happens to us.

If anything, they’d be encouraging the job losses because they believe they can scoop us up for pennies on the dollar.

Show threaddragonfrog3d ago
@majorlinux I have no illusions that it won't wreak all kinds of economic havoc - but I believe the sooner it happens, the less worse it'll be. So in that sense I guess I'm "cheering on" the bubble bursting, because the realistic alternative I see to the bubble bursting this year, is the bubble bursting a few years later, with years' more money and resources sunk into it, more towns saddled with giant abandoned data centres, etc. etc.