Updated this blog post a bit today. The amount of impossible things we have to believe is not going down, let me tell you that. Staying sane is getting ever harder. https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-impossible-things-we-have-to-believe/
The Impossible Things We Have to Believe - Bert Hubert's writings

“Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’ I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” – Through the looking-glass, Lewis Carrol by John Tenniel To stay sane, we have to accept that our climate is going completely haywire, but that it is ok to mostly ignore that since saving ourselves is apparently not cost-effective.

Bert Hubert's writings
The reason for the update is the world's decision to make one of the worst people alive the world's first trillionaire. Well done world! https://www.theverge.com/tech/949259/the-worlds-first-trillionaire-is-a-killer
The world’s first trillionaire is a killer

Elon Musk’s empire of wealth is built on suffering.

The Verge

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It seems that we collectively are not yet discussed enough of these 'too rich' people. Give it a little time and people will finally have enough.

We don't mind rich people as long as they pay their fair share in corporate tax and income tax. Pay their workers and suppliers properly and take care of the planet we all live on.

@bert_hubert Die AI code is bizar. Programmeurs lezen de boeken van de GoF, Robert Martin (Uncle Bob), Martin Fowler en proberen vervolgens veilige, goed gestructureerde, onderhoudbare en begrijpelijke code te schrijven (wat verrekte lastig blijft!), maar dat AI onnavolgbare kluwens produceert is oké, volgens de visionairs. Het is alsof alle elementaire fouten opnieuw worden gemaakt.
@bert_hubert This is the new aristocratic era, with billionaires as the new nobility. We need a new (digital) Robin Hood.

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I came across a pithy term sociologist Ulrich Beck invented for such problems: “organised irresponsibility”

www.sociology.org.uk/notes/SS_1_risk%20society.pdf

@Akshay seems apt... thanks for the reference!