as if the majority of people enjoy their jobs?

The enshittification of employment isn’t necessary. And having a role in how your society functions is necessary for any kind of democratic control of the economy. You can’t just be a consumer, on the outside looking in.

Automating away drudgery is generally good for an economy. Automating away control is what sucks.

As if our benevolent oligarchs will suddenly give us even the smallest chance of getting some kind of basic income?

The structures of basic income are already in place. We have social security. We have pensions. We have annuities. The struggle is in if and how we continue to fund them.

Since Reagan, the answer to funding basic income schemes has been to displace the cost from higher income earners to younger workers. Now that we’ve drained that well, there’s definitely a push to simply dissolve these systems entirely.

But it’s hardly a given, any more than the Reagan Era was some historical inevitability. Americans can change course if enough of them can unify around an opposition.

No idea why this is getting downvoted. You can argue over the exact practicality of the current iteration of AI, but this is a proven good take on automation generally speaking

Nobody should be doing this, but okay.

I have to build one of these in my garage before the Chinese do it.

you need a Nazi and a tankie to agree

I thought you just believed the opposite of whatever your political adversaries believed, because they were always lying

Americans are the most propagandized people on earth. That’s why so many of them insist Russia is still communist, while another crop of them think Joe Biden is communist.

It’s all media slop, in one ear and out the other.

Can’t truly hit the big time in the US without those lucrative government contracts. Everyone knows it.

But, more importantly, these companies have already been filling up with fascist goons and spineless hacks. Trump’s giving them an excuse to do what they’ve been waiting for.

Facebook is now a site by, of, and for chuds. You are allowed to talk about beer (not the gay kind) and wrestling (not the gay kind) and how much you love beards (not the gay kind) and THAT’S IT.

All the BRICS have. Brazil just stands out, because its not a country we’ve flagged as “Evil Enemy Run By Inhuman Savages”.

the unbreakable barrier for humanity is switching the fucking social media site you go to.

Facebook is quickly becoming a retirement community, exclusively for me-maws and pepes. It hasn’t been the tool for college kids to organize keggers in nearly a decade.

But when alternatives to Facebook crop up - your Instagrams and TikToks and Discords and WhatsApps and Grindrs - they don’t last long before being gobbled up by the bigger social media giants or shut down by hostile state regulators.

In the end, everything returns to Facebook, because the big companies can borrow money for free and staple on whatever small firm is seeing a lot of early growth. I give BlueSky another three years, tops, before one of the big social media giants acquires it.

I’m excited to see the technical staffing at Facebook under Dana White.

they’re saying these things under their legal names

Facebook has plenty of promotional accounts, stale accounts hijacked by scammers, and straight up fake accounts. Hell, Meta’s been premiering entirely AI generated profiles.

You could be getting N-bombed by a fully automated synthetic personality before too long.

Ban the chinese spy tool

Americans: “TikTok is an insidious weapon of a foreign government used to brainwash our children into believing all sorts of horrifying leftist ideas.”

Also Americans: “If you don’t like Twitter, just turn off your phone. I don’t see what the big deal is. Edward Whoden? You sound like a Russian bot.”

Worked brilliantly for the Brazilian government. Lulu pulled the plug for… a week? BlueSky suddenly got incredibly popular. Musk panicked and folded on every demand. And the amount of pro-Bolsonaro/coup-posting on Twitter sank like a brick.

BECAUSE HE’S THE OWNER AND GETS ALL THE PROFITS.

Unless he’s up to his eyeballs in debt, in which case he’s just an employee of his lenders.

The company was sold shortly after, so maybe animals can sense their pending extinction (some of them anyway)?

More likely the changes were made to improve the “saleability” of the website.

I miss those days when writing an answer genuinely felt like helping to grow the global community of friend developers.

One of the promises of the internet was, supposedly, that it couldn’t really be monopolized because the barriers to entry were so low. But what we’ve seen is the influence of the Networking Effect as a means of consolidating user bases, combined with a cartel-style censorship that limits the degree to which word-of-mouth can influence a nascent community’s growth.

And now the AI comes to fully alienate us from each other, leaving even the more token communities with a “am I talking to a real person or a computer facsimile” lingering dread with each passing year.

something being labeled a “disorder” doesn’t mean it’s “bad,” it just means it’s different from average

That’s until you start talking about “treatment”, at which point you’re discussing how to mitigate or correct the “disorder”.

And that gets you to Conversation Therapy, which is just medicalized torture.

The end game of “Transgenderism is a disorder” amounts to Gitmo for Trans People.

Let’s for a second assume it is a mental illness, how does that make the people feel who are experiencing it? Do they feel loved and understood?

“Hate the sin, love the sinner” has been the historical approach far-right evangelicals use to gull parents into conversation therapy for their kids.

Conservatives have adopted much of the same liberalish compassionate language up top and horrifyingly brutal physical, emotional, and sexual abuse on the back end for drug rehabilitation and prison reform.

The American idea of love and understanding is to brainwash them into compliance with social norms, while insisting the torture they’re inflicting is a kindness.

Wonder how much longer you’ll be able to question the impact professional gambling has on the outcome of UFC matches.

it’s giving him exactly what he wants, attention.

He seems to want worship more than simply wanting attention.

all collectively ignore him

I don’t think Elon is a problem you can solve by shoving fingers in ears and squeezing your eyes shut.

Most of his Carney Act is pointed at your Congressmen, not you personally. And they’re happy to use him as a tool for money laundering, whether you look at him or not.