The real crisis, for tech nerds at least, isn't "start drinking the AI Kool-Aid or be replaced"
It's "try to grow even a little bit as a person and act like a courteous and civilized adult, or be replaced because you're such an insufferable asshole to have to be around"
I'm going to drop a cobalt-salted, anti-matter chain reaction nuclear hot take here, so feel free to block or hate me, I understand. People don't love Claude Code or art generators because AI is so capable -- it's not. People are just stupid and miserable to work with or talk to.
I don't expect anyone to be a soulless machine, hustle and grind to death for a company, or to match my insuppressible try-hard energy. That's not necessary. But do just a little better maybe? Also fuck the company -- the C suite assholes do nothing and literally steal from us.
I got another J-Rock song stuck in my head but it was just something that Spotify used to push, and I don't use them anymore for obvious reasons. Fuck. I keep thinking it was "mol-74" or some string of numbers and punctuation like a Hiroyuki Sawano song title, but it was not them
And the more evidence we get... who fucking knows what space is, wtf is time, no fucking clue what gravity is. The same with morality. Listen to people, we cannot be divine, we are all idiot prisoners trapped in the lowest, basest bug brains, so do your best and forgive others.
I hated all the people in my high school who got drunk & high all the time so I gravitated towards the "clear-headed" "straight edge" mindset, but you will never be more rational and "deep" than a bumbling drunk realizing you are just an angry horny insect aspiring to be Godlike
I watched some physics YouTube videos and there's the concrete Newtonian world, space is a container, time is a cosmic clock, gravity just means shit goes down (more generally: towards much bigger shit).
I keep looking for monochrome poster art to print out and hang up around the room and I'm locked to this aesthetic of "HEALTH album cover" and doomer pessimism that's very close to scratching the itch, but not quite.
The anime pervert "foot burger" thing but instead of an Asian girl, it's the mountain man hipster beard millennial burger joint guy in suspenders. "We do things a little different here! ๐ซฆ"