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Cake day: November 6th, 2024

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  • For the record, the “actual fucking fascists” didn’t materialize during this last election, or the one before it, or the one before it… etc. I remember when the dems campaigned on “no human is illegal” in 2016 but by time of this last cycle, they were capitulating on immigration and the border to attract the elusive moderate republican to vote democrat… a strategy that failed our democracy in the end.




  • No! Don’t be humble about that, that’s just simply how this country was founded… and I don’t mean the exploiters, I mean the countless immigrants who form the working class since then. That is more than something to take pride in.

    I had a little “debate” where it was being argued the US was never a melting pot, and if it was ever, it isn’t anymore. How defeatist is that? To let the undeniable presence of so many cultures wither just as these ethnonationalists intend… You have to be bold, else you lose what you once had, or worse, never achieve anything greater.


  • I think you’re forgetting how much 100 billion is. The top 1% globally starts at about 1 mil USD in savings, which if a recall, even the whitest Americans are far enough from. And here a handful of multibillionaires escape to let your reductive worldview ultimately contribute nothing to any semblance of progress and further their torching of our lives.

    Not only are you wrong, but you sound like a psycho with a very limited understanding of the world, no different than the uberwealthy perpetuating this.



  • I argue its worse, in the end whatever is being regurgitated from what they see on youtube ends with the video duration, but these people are to believe that these things think - hell they think the AI is smarter than themselves and defer all judgement. I wish it remained an internet phenomena but I’ve met too many true believers already 😑

    /anecdote

    Guy in one of my code classes, would not just fucking tell me if he wrote his code, or the AI did. I knew the AI did, because you don’t come asking why it’s not working when he didn’t declare any variables, big red error “variable not declared”. It was the end of that semester, I was there with him every single period. The audacity to have me debug the shitbot’s chicken scratch, claim its super helpful, but also cover its dumb ass by being an even bigger dumbass and fail probably the easiest javascript course you could’ve asked for. I am honestly still in awe.


  • I eavesdropped on a project manager really trying to convince upper management to make IT let him install an AI program that (by what I heard) would read from the screen and interact with our PMS. Straight up suggesting to have himself replaced.

    I wouldn’t say this compares to say the Satanic Panic, but I mean look at how it’s being advertised - especially Apple Intelligence (seriously look it up) - this is very much the way they expect AI to be used (write my friend a birthday text, etc).

    Not to mention the real material concerns over the deployment of now even more massive and power intensive datacenters, running on gas turbines because the grid can’t feasibly power it, to feed psychophantic language generators designed to keep users hooked and reaffirming even their most violent thought, even leading kids to suicide by way of delusions - again because of how these models are designed in particular, and how they’re pushed to consumers. To say there’s absolutely no actionable concern is a farce.






  • You aren’t wrong about the abuse, but that doesn’t make it any less a cultural melting pot for those who, you know, don’t partake in hate crime or are themselves immigrants. Believing such has been taken or never existed only assures that they will in fact take that from us, as we do not have something which to continue fending for.