Our News Team @ 11 with host Snot Flickerman
Yes, I can hear you, Clem Fandango!
Oh absolutely, part of the reason the CEOs of the world buy into the AI hype is because they’re so desperate to get their slaves back. Slaves that never need to sleep, or take time off, or demand pay increases or better treatment. AGI is their fucking wet dream of a perfect slave that will never push back.
and in our labor power with AI.
Let’s be real though, this is less about actually replacing workers with AI that is often completely wrong because it’s not actually “thinking” and doesn’t actually know what it is doing. It’s much more about using the specter of AI and over-hyped arguments about what it could do, given time, to justify workforce reductions and pay reductions.
It has far less to do with actually replacing workers with AI and far more to do with justifying worse working conditions and worse pay without as much social fuss over why.
AI has some very useful tightly-specific niche applications, but “general purpose AI” is a joke that isn’t going anywhere realistic at the moment. Especially if we have to burn down our planet burning up fossil fuels to power software that is only doing a best guess of what the next string of text should be.
I mean, it’s very arguable that we’ve just been doing “feudalism with extra steps” for a very long time anyway.
To be less US/Europe-centric than my original post, the majority of the world has been in the “priced out of anything but bare subsistence” basket for most of the history of modern capitalism. Only the citizens of the Imperial Democracies of the Western world were benefiting while the majority of the Southern and Eastern hemispheres were simply locked out from being beneficiaries either through trade embargoes or outright exploitation via not paying foreign workers the home-country equivalent, and instead paying them a much lower “localized” rate.
It’s really that the Imperial Boomerang has finally made it’s way home to the citizens of the West.
Part of this has been a long-standing move by every industry to prioritize business-to-business sales as opposed to consumer sales simply because businesses have money and consumers don’t, because businesses are pocketing all the profits and refusing to pay their employees (consumers) a living wage, let alone a thriving wage.
It’s been a long time coming for the PC industry, because it’s been a general trend for at least two decades as sales to business have become more profitable over consumer sales ever since the late 90s.
It’s just more evidence that the bottom 90% of earners are just being priced out of anything but bare subsistence and the wealthy do not give a single fuck about it, in fact, they’re embracing it.
It actually made about $17.8 million domestically and $21.7 million worldwide. So on opening weekend it has already made seven times the cost of making the film.
I don’t watch YouTubers and know nothing about Markiplier except memes, but it’s good to see successful independent film of any sort. Congratulations to those who take chances.
Meeting would require me to do things like clean my room, do laundry, shower, and leave my domicile. I am too depressed for all of that. I don’t want people to see me, I hate being around people.
Why am I completely not surprised that he was speaking to Bobby Kotick?
It actually takes a while to start building, honestly. I was unimpressed initially but wanted to know what all the fuss was about and by mid-way through the film I got it. At a certain point the mash-up of silent film, looney tunes gags, and video game mechanics of the main character slowly getting more tools and using them to move the plot forward starts to become brilliant in its elegance and how it ends up tying it all together pretty neatly.
If you just watch the first 20-ish minutes, you might feel like “how can they even make a movie out of this? It’s just a bunch of silly gags in a row,” but if you stick it out, the plot becomes more coherent, and things start to coalesce.
Major lacerations detected.
It’s ackshually about the trials and travails of Applejack brewer turned fur trapper Jean Kayak as he attempts to survive the winter wilderness, trap hundreds of beavers, and win the heart of a beautiful furrier in this man vs. nature Metroidvania silent film adventure where he goes from drunken fool to master fur trapper.
So good! So good! I got you!
*cries in I wish this was around when I was a teen instead of AOL chat rooms
That poor little girl. I hope she is able to find her own path and not be held back by that family. I know almost exactly how that feels.
Very cool and hopefully that means the M4 isn’t far behind!
Initial release of dd was for Unix in 1974 and it’s still updated for use in modern systems.
I used it just the other day and it was already installed.
It’s the same with all machines. When I worked news production in television it was the same thing. Something breaks, call in the engineers, now it works once they show up.
…people use Bing?
*checks browser marketshare…
Ha, Bing doesn’t even have 5% marketshare.
Oh no, Firefox has less than half of Bing’s marketshare. Fuck me, what’s wrong with internet users. I know Firefox isn’t perfect, but there’s other forks of it for various use-cases.
That persistence is a type of sociopathy, though. It’s an antisocial personality disorder. Sure, they’re persistent, but they’re persistent at pursuing absolutely terrible things for personal gain that effectively means nothing considering they already have enough power and money to make Solomon blush. It’s a mental disorder where they need more and more and more while they have more than they could ever use in their entire lifetimes and in their grandchildren’s their grandchildren’s lifetimes.
So even that is honestly a negative thing, there’s literally not a positive thing you can say about them, because everything they do is couched in being the most selfish, proud (for no good reason), and narcissistic fuckers alive.