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My power bill goes up every few months; not because my seasonal use changes year to year, but because the power company has a monopoly, and corporations with no competition do this.
Also every few months, the power company sends an appeal for customers to donate money to "help our neighbors".
Here's the thing: I do mutual aid as much as I can, but there's NO FUCKING WAY I would do it through them.
Just like I will never do it through my employer, or Walmart, or any corporation.
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After being increasingly ill over the past several years, comic writer Peter David (who also wrote as David Peters), has died.
He leaves behind an impressive body of work, and large medical bills that now fall on his family to pay.
If you can, please donate; if not, please share the GFM for that.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-peter-david
His Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_David
I just found out about these accommodations in fun places / partly in restored historical buildings. Or old train car! But also in super modern things. They are VERY COOL! #visitLuxembourg 😆
https://simpleviu.lodgify.com/en/2784534/all-properties?adults=1&sort=price
Between this and that absolutely idiotic Abundance article by Jonathan Chait, I have had my fill of dumbass think pieces for the weekend. Gee, why did Rachel Carson and Ralph Nader start public interest pressure groups, Jonathan? Was it to hold back our glorious progress? Or was it because CARS WERE EXPLODING and POLLUTION WAS HORRIBLE and ENTIRE URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS were being bulldozed down, thousands of residents evicted, in order to sell the property for a DOLLAR AN ACRE to a MAJOR CORPORATION? (I’m thinking of Boston’s West End here, but pretty much every major US city has a story like this.) And you want to RETURN TO THAT? Jesus.
I am so goddamn tired of pundits that have extremely narrow understandings of one field making grand pronouncements about everything. You’re an idiot outside of your specialized domain. Sit the hell down.
(Apparently I need the Internet taken away from me for a week.)
Man, this cockamamie prediction of the future of AI is a shining example of “Americans have lost all understanding of how manufacturing works“:
https://ai-2027.com/
The reason that Trump’s whole “iPhones need to be built in America” idea falls flat is that we don’t have the tools to build the iPhone here. Not only that, we don’t even have the tools TO BUILD THE TOOLS to build an iPhone here. We are, like, three layers of tooling away from being able to build one.
Building factories also involves, well, building factories. It takes wood and metal and concrete and architectural plans and…and according to this piece of science fiction, AGI will exist in 2027 and by 2030 it will have built an army of robots AS WELL AS creating enough consumer goods to lull the world into complacency while it builds bioweapons to wipe out all of humanity. By 2030.
And then there are the rare earths and other things that have to be mined to build the things, all of which are still human-intensive…and by 2027 all this stuff will be magically as available as water?
People really, REALLY do not understand how manufacturing works.
#ai #agi
just make public transit free
fully fund it using federal funds
it's a fucking drop in the bucket that would predominantly essentially put money back in the pockets of those most in need and it would further incentivize not using cars-
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