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  • Libertarian Disneyland Can’t Pay It’s Way…

    … huh, how ’bout that? You pimp individuality over collective responsibility, allow for aggressive gentrification and the rich people will come in, enjoy it and leave nothing behind. It’s almost like removing any chance of long term sustainability removes your ability to weather shock events. https://sfstandard.com/2024/10/30/burning-man-is-desperate-for-cash/

  • Wanna Take a Guess Who Trump-Backing Businessmen Sound Like?

    The great German industrialists of the 1930s found Adolf Hitler crude. But they disliked democracy and taxes and regulation far more. … Those who are with Trump often reveal a harder ideological edge. Sometimes this is about the belief that Trump will be more resolute in supporting Israel. Sometimes it is openly anti-democratic. “I no…

  • Workers Say They Were Tricked and Threatened as Part of Elon Musk’s Get-Out-the-Vote Effort

    America PAC door knockers were flown to Michigan, driven in the back of a U-Haul, and told they’d have to pay hotel bills unless they met unrealistic quotas. One was surprised they were working to elect Donald Trump. https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-america-pac-blitz-canvassing-michigan-uhaul/ Musk’s mistreatment of workers is not a bug, it’s a feature. One can see it play…

  • I wonder if this is the tech that is generating 25% of the new code at Google

    On the tail of a the preposterous claim by Pichai yesterday: As The New York Times first reported, the family of 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III filed a lawsuit against Character.AI last week alleging that the platform is pushing “dangerous and untested” technology. Google, which earlier this year inked a deal to the tune of $2.7 billion to license Character.AI’s…

  • If you don’t see this critical point about AI systems… you’re the mark

    Put more plainly: things like ChatGPT only appear to be intelligent because they’ve been designed mimic human language to a plausible enough degree. Their creators want to believe they’re creating intelligent machines, so that’s what they choose to see. https://disconnect.blog/geoffrey-hintons-misguided-views-on-ai/

  • I hope the ACT party will join me in celebrating…

    … a massive win for property and contract law: Iwi from the top of Te Waipounamu are entitled to thousands of hectares of land and millions of dollars in compensation for a land deal struck in the 1830s which the government did not honour. In interim High Court findings released this afternoon, Justice Rebecca Edwards…

  • Elon Musk is a Fucking Idiot

    Elon Musk is a 97 IQ man who masquerades as 137 IQ man and all of his followers are 85 IQ so they all believe that he’s as smart

  • Musk is going to Twitter the US economy

    Fidelity’s latest valuation of its stake in X implies that Elon Musk’s social network is worth about 71.5 percent less than when Musk bought the company in October 2022. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/since-elon-musks-twitter-purchase-firm-reportedly-lost-72-of-its-value/ I have joked that if you wanted to know what it was like to live on a Musk Mars colony… look at Twitter. Turns out…

  • Modernity is done

    Time to grow into the next phase…

  • A Tesla is an appreciating asset…. ?

    “Buying a car today is an investment into the future. I think the most profound thing is that if you buy a Tesla today, I believe you are buying an appreciating asset – not a depreciating asset.” https://electrek.co/2019/04/12/tesla-vehicles-appreciating-assets-self-driving-elon-musk/ If you fell for that line in 2019 you’re as dumb as bricks… if you fell for…