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Same for me, too. And Elon Musk took all the joy out of his big rocket launch (and occasional explosion) livestreams when he unmasked as full nazi in public. And the Russian space program? Dead to me.
We should just get back in the sea. Our species is done.
"The experience of workslop directly erodes social connection, erodes trust in one another and in the end erodes solidarity. Because why would you stand with a person who does not do their job and offloads their work on you?"
(Original title: Dissolving the social)
“AI” exists to disenfranchise labor. That’s what it’s for. Regardless of how good these stochastic systems are or the flaws they have just being able to point at the non-unionized robot whenever the employees ask for raises or anything really is incredibly valuable for business. The existence of “AI” and the supporting narrative mean that […]
IT'S HAPPENING
GITHUB, THE FIRST ENTERPRISE CLOUD SOLUTION TO REACH ZERO NINES RELIABILITY
OK this is a first class April Fool's joke. Warhammer: 40K The Musical
Martin Wolf (FT) on how the world see the USA (right now):
'What is far clearer now... is that the US is no longer a credible world leader. If it can elect this man twice, it has lost the plot. Why would it not elect someone even worse? Such a country is incapable of providing reliable global hegemony. What it provides instead is an unpredictable wrecking ball'...
and hence, as I've remarked before, the slow but sure pivot away from the USA as an economic partner is well underway!
I saw a young person talking about how they just bought 6 vinyls from their favorite artists but that they didn’t have a “vinyl reader” to play them on yet, and I think I felt my face slide off.
I was just watching a video in which a self described neurotypical person said that when he falls asleep his brain just slows down like his body, and then just stops...
I had never thought about this that I can recall... But, like... Their brains can just not?
I can't imagine what it would be like to have a moment when my brain wasn't doing SOMETHING. If I don't have something to think about, it'll find something.
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