*There's a human employment future here where everybody is a truck-farmer, working in home-construction and maintenance, or an armed bodyguard
*Medieval France, basically
*Sometimes you've just got to set-aside the ol' briefing-papers, kiss-up to the Black Swan, and accept that the Wolf is thru-the-door and gnawing fresh bones in the living room. #Futurism
Why not?
For people who have not poisoned their brain with information overdose addiction, Twitter and Bluesky are both uninteresting because fundamentally they are sites for people who cannot live without gossip but also happen to have multiple degrees.
Note: If the above doesn't ring true to you it's because you're using the free version of ChatGPT.
Clegg: Mr Zuckerberg, I'd like to bring to your attention an issue with...
Zuckbot: CARBON LIFE FORM DESIGNATE:CLEGG, INQUIRY: WHY ARE YOU DISTURBING MY DEMEANOR?
Clegg: I ... I ... nevermind, High Overlord.
*Terms like "vibe" and "slop" and "hallucination" are pretty alarming, but they may also be a sign that we're getting a grip on what models can really do
*It's kind of a sloppy grip, but powerful computers that are mushy by nature, that's a novelty
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This is good.
Occupy Mars with a Robot Army under banner of the Sentient Sun
*When we invented magic wands, consumers will demand cheap but functional Chinese magic wands from racks at WalMart
The year is 2045. Nurse is the only job left. It has been hastily retconned to a male coded job and every nurse now wears tactical combat gear and has a gun.
CIA Agent goes to doctor. Says she's depressed.
Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great unstable government is in town tonight. Go and start a color revolution. That should pick you up."
CIA Agent bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor... America is that color revolution.”
Maturing is realising that the human experience is utter shit and not feeling like shit is THE abnormal behaviour.
*And once you do notice that about Trump, you can understand that "sanewashing" applies to every aspect of human affairs; that "news" exists not to reveal existential truths, but to provide a comforting lacquer over the raw chaos
Honestly would be kinda funny if it ended up being the European century after the USA committed suicide, Russia botched Ukraine, China purged everyone who knows how to army and some dork in Brussels is left holding the bag for global order.
omg
Long live the Bay Area Special Administrative Region - under the enlightened guidance of the Regional Technological Coordinating Directorate, with the support of the Meta-Apple-Salesforce Workers' Collective, vanguard of the Pan-Pacific Century !
Britain feels more and more like a middle aged man who walked out on his family because he wanted to enjoy the company of multiple young ladies and now tries to convince himself he has won because he gets access to the children once a fortnight and three Only Fans subscriptions.
"It is better to lie on the naked ground and be at ease, than to have a golden coach and a rich table and be worried."
*I tend to agree with Epicurus here, except that, if you placidly settle for the tub of Diogenes, the guys with gold will try to round you up and put you in a labor camp
*These are interesting times, aren't they? I used to boast that "Hey, STILL aren't 'weird enough' for me," but that was before the weirdness-engines got their own data centers #Austinite #KeepAustinWeird #MightBeEnoughNow
i'm going to spend the rest of my life figuring out how a small band of elites decided that acting as the global currency and primary military hegemon was gay and feminine coded
As a white guy without a degree who swings a giant hammer at the sparks and steam factory, I think of my uneducated, proletariat comrades - Mark Zuckerberg, Bil Gates, Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos - and smile as I imagine us rising up against the bourgeois baristas, teachers and librarians. ✊
I often think about the White House Correspondents Dinner where Obama roasted DJT over the 'truther' stuff, truly the stuff of butterfly flaps causing hurricanes
„Erst als amerikanische Spezialtruppen vom Flugzeugträger USS Vance, der seit einer Woche in der Elbmündung lag, Berlin angriffen, um Bundeskanzlerin Weidel wegen unzureichender Remigrationsleistung festzunehmen, wurde den Deutschen die Lage schlagartig bewußt.“
Bro is more embalmed than Ramesses II
The brainless US fucks who have disarmed us and invested literal billions into russia to keep it afloat during 90s deserve to live through this shit. The same goes russian fossils-addicted EU countries and the ones who have blocked our NATO membership.
*If 1989 was "1968 upside down," 2026 is like 1968 inside-out
*It's like the Chicago Cops from '68 are on a riot and demolishing every pillar of the Establishment that hippies always disliked
