just a few threads to tie up and then history can be done for good

this is some “I had a ticket for the Titanic but missed the boat” bullshit

Legalize the thieves’ guild and tax the rat breeders!

LED or magnetic ink?

oh, this is why windows is wasting bandwidth with constant weather and stock updates, isn’t it?

I feel like the childhood transition stuff is a sidestep, a deflection. Toddlers are poking around touchscreen computers before they can talk, that seems like a much more pressing “think of the children” moment. Not that I expect any nation in the english-speaking world to handle that with any sort of thoughtful or measured approach…

If establishment liberals had any political instincts whatsoever, they’d be countering this pivot with something like, "The right talks big about freedoms, but dumps you the second you stop conforming. Rhetorically, you can counter both anti-trans sentiment and dovetail into pro-choice abortion rights with this approach… instead, they’ve decided on neoconservative war-hawking. Yay.

I once shut down a lobby of angry, hateful gamers with “The most important freedom, for your typical yankee, is the freedom to tell people they’re doing freedom wrong”

that John Oliver image has been floating around for a few years at least, why get mad about it now?

Memes you make when you are definitely not just the most recent in a string of anglophone colonial projects.

:dukat: Now that is precisely my own sentiment. If only my wife had seen it that way when she took the kids.

doncha think this precise, narrow set of conditions and behaviors emerging in middle-20th-century suburbia are the pinnacle of achievement? that this is as good as it gets forever? dorncha wanna die for our way of life???

Must be some crisis brought on by drifting away our gender existentialist mythology, yeah, yeah definitely that, pay no attention to our inability to articulate a positive vision of the future

call them a Cold Warrior

nice vintage insult with appropriate historical baggage. yankees are allergic to historical context

Mark Zuckerburg in shambles

This isn’t a conversation about AI so much as it is about computers in general. Everything has been computerized, we’ve been living in the aftermath of that for decades now. What they’re calling “AI” is just newer computer programmes. Which, isn’t to say any of what you’ve outlined is wrong – all that is and has been a problem for a while now. I believe keeping in mind that these are just programmes running on computers gives us a clearer picture of what we’re dealing with.

…for example, computers are fragile as hell. Gotta keep them away from water from dust from magnets from electromagnetic radiation from static charges from too much voltage from not enough voltage… and on top of that, a lot of modern software (and even some hardware!) is completely bunk without network access.

The term originated in the early modern period of Europe. It refereed to a relatively new class of people who had wealth and power to rival the aristocracy, but were born peasants. IE, capitalists. If you asked a medieval lord, they’d tell you our ruling class is their middle class.

oh, they’re replacing him with AI. It’s the title of the slideshow in the bottom left photo. I assume it’s in jest

fuck Ludwig

VR is hauntology

By what means does the linen become a coat?

That’s the point logos235 is making right? That without the labor theory of value the whole thing falls apart