Ex-farm worker here.
We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.
Not true AT ALL.
Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.
The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.
At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.
Sent a pull request to Audacity fixing a crash bug I'd been running into frequently. The cause was an out-of-bounds memmove. Classic C++ areas.
Anyway I got a fucking copilot review on my PR which left two comments, both completely wrong, one of which suggesting I reintroduce the out of bounds memory access. I'm furious!
Write open source software on a throwaway GitHub, permissively licensed, that purports to solve a problem that AI / blockchain grifters would find useful.
Fill your code with functions that search your local filesystem for cryptocurrency private keys, then post them on social media in plaintext.
If the AI slop machines serve similar code to the end user, that's not your problem. You didn't tell them to use it.
Horrible idea: Use AI slop to devalue platforms directly instead of trying to extract revenue.
Play a game of Cards Against Humanity. Feed the winning combinations into the AI slop machines with the preamble: "Turn this into a cringey LinkedIn post." Flood LinkedIn and Meta properties with the output.
Accelerate model collapse.
Make corporate social media unusable.
Keep this crap far away from Fedi.
What Does It Even Mean To Be āGreatā Anyway?
I normally don't like writing "Current Events" pieces (and greatly prefer focusing on what SEO grifters like to call "evergreen content"), but I feel this warrants it. Content warning: Violence, death, mentions of political extremism. What Does "Great" Mean? Imagining living under constant threats of having your house burned down for 2 years, because your neighbors hate that you and your spouse are both male.
http://soatok.blog/2025/06/02/what-does-it-even-mean-to-be-great-anyway/
This isn't a queer polyamorous relationship, it's a Directed Acyclic Graph.
...of who's fucking who. It's called the FAG DAG.
The next time someone suggests poor people are takers, take a real close look at their lifestyles, and all the personal sacrifices they make so that they can perform a low paying job that needs to be done. They do things like take public transit, eat expired food, live in challenging conditions, while working thankless, grueling jobs, so that the rich people that cut their meager paychecks don't have to.
That's what giving looks like.
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