"I can go ramp, I can go stairs" -- Trump's audience in Texas gives him an extremely tepid round of applause as he brags about being able to go up stairs without falling
NAOMI KLIEIN to SAM ALTMAN:
"...you ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation and without credit to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed.
You are not 'liberating human creativity' -- you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft 'training data'."
laughable to think young healthy people get any sort of government help lol
my schizophrenic cousin has to prove every single year that he’s schizophrenic to keep receiving any assistance. my blind great aunt has to go to an office every year to prove to an agent she’s blind
The people in power want you to be stupid, empty serfs whose lives are measured only in terms of economic output. There is no public good, only the bottom line
The 00s and early 10s were a particularly debauched era of dubstep, drugs, and date r8pe that happens to be directly upstream of just about every sociocultural malaise political reactionaries complain about today. That's not to mention the concurrent beginning of ZIRP in 2008.
Let me get this straight. Musk was paid $5 billion through the DOGE endeavor and the only thing DOGE did was dismantle the entities that were investigating him for fraud. Wow
TMZ is now chasing politicians & getting engagement they haven’t seen in years.
Their politician posts get like 10,000x more engagement than their celebrity posts.
I predict they’re going to pivot to politics, & social media censorship may have been the trigger. How funny.
“We exploit the Holocaust and anti-Semitism to protect Israel from criticism. It is a trick we use”
—Shulamit Aloni
Former Israeli Minister of Education. In 2000, she won the Israel Prize.
Water may become an endangered Resource as crazy as that sounds, in Illinois you have Ai for Amazon using 300 million Gallons of water, You have the Bitcoin in Texas using Massive amounts of Water, META in Georgia using Massive amounts and Microsoft using a Thousand Million Gallons in a year. That’s just to name a few.
I'm not sure if it speaks to human dignity or human laziness that we haven't wrecked the society yet with the world of technological abundance quietly delivered by Alibaba. Everyone with a debit card can wield sci-fi weapons. We just choose not to.
I miss let’s plays, man. I miss long incremental series of a game that has a lot of player agency. I miss seeing challenges and tens or hundreds of episodes. I miss being excited for it.
Did the algorithm kill them or did they all turn into Minecraft exclusively
So I reposted this a few days ago, because I wanted to see how many people understand the gravity of what's unfolding in front of our eyes. I've waited for a few days I've read the comments, I read the quote tweets. I'm going to say that we are probably 10 years or less