We do this all the time. I’m certified for a whole bunch of heavy machinery, if I were worse people would’ve died

And even then, I’ve nearly killed someone. I haven’t, but on a couple occasions I’ve come way too close

It’s good that I went through training. Sometimes, it’s better to restrict who is able to use powerful tools

Okay, that’s pretty fair. You seem to understand the tool properly

I’d argue that version control is not the correct layer to evaluate output, but it is a tool that can be used in many different ways…I don’t think that’s a great workflow, but I can conceive situations where that’s viable enough

If I were handing out authorizations to use AI, you’d get it

That sounds like copium… But I’ll hear you out. What if VC? It better not be version control

The difference is people aren’t being responsible with AI

You’re projecting competence onto others. You speak like you’re using AI responsibly

I use AI when it makes things easier. All the time. I bet you do too. Many people are using AI without a steady hand, without the intellectual strength to use it properly in a controlled manner

America hasn’t gone insane, our democracy has been hacked

We are not ok with any of this at an insane level of unity… More than we’ve had for anything in my lifetime. Congress members are resigning right now in the hopes of saving their careers

We’re up against the full weight of the global 1%. They’re trying to hollow out our county and leave it as a playground for billionaires

They own the media, the administration, the highest court, and to some extent our law making bodies

This is a disease. It’s coming for everyone if it isn’t stopped

That’s a symptom, not a cause. The kind of symptom that can kill the patient, but the root cause is upstream

Even before citizens united, the money was working behind the scenes. You can trace it back 100 years, back to the Technocracy movement. It became the heritage foundation, which helped to prop up Hamas (because they’re hardliners), and encouraged Israel to use the Palestinians for surveillance and weapon testing

They have many organizations, but there’s a particularly evil clump of money controlled by a few families that are straight up enemies of humanity

Oh, I’d feel nauseous lol, those nuggets are so gross and I don’t really like the fries

Of course we should talk about the suburban white moms and how ICE is affecting them

Everyone draws lines between themselves and the victims… Unless you have the wisdom to realize there is no line. But the vast majority, even ones with empathy for the victims, will never understand that

So yes. We should be highlighting all the ways we are connected to the victims. We have to chip away at this idea that you’re safe because you’re a white suburbanite

We’re all connected. When they throw Maria in the van, your child loses a caretaker. When they raid buses, they’re stealing food off your plate.

They are attacking you when they come for your neighbors. That’s where you have to get people to mentally

Because where’s the line now? It’s between us and the government actually doing the thing

Unironically, yes. Creations turning against their creators, classic. The wizard was probably set up as the personalization of some force or ideal, like a Greek god

And let me guess… This led events that set up some kind of call to adventure for a hero, who initially ignores the warning signs until something bad happens, then he goes on a journey through a wider world than he could ever have imagined, and after defeating the villain and/or ending the threat he returns home changed?

That’s a total shot in the dark, I have no idea what movie you’re talking about, but in modern storytelling we usually have an A and B plot. And the heroes journey is by far the most common story in media

How close was I? And what’s the movie?

You’re projecting competence. That plan is about 4 layers too deep for them

They have no plan to survive the midterms, let alone stabilize their rule. They’re not even deporting more people than Biden was, the bottleneck is still the number of judges. The ICE facilities are all full

The plan is, give right wing terrorist groups guns and tell them to get wacky with it. Oh, and make sure we get some tik tok footage

It’s all that straightforward.

Did you know we accidentally invaded Mexico a few weeks back? Like, full on beach assault style. And then sheepishly packed up when the “fog of war” cleared

The master plan isn’t project 2025 - that’s a wishlist from crazy Technocracy people

No, the master plan is to loot the government and get away with it by earning favors from the oligarchs

The cabinet has already sold their homes to live on military bases… Does that sound like a long term plan? Or does it sound like a rat waiting for a good time to cut and run?

I literally got a text saying “Breaking! Dems to pass bill making path for illegals to become legal!”

I wonder if the Lincoln assassination inevitably led here. Or maybe the last fork in the road was the Bush v Gore election

I use one, just standalone to play videos. I’d recommend it, they’re really good monitors and decent speakers

The problem is that this would work, but only on the masses. And they’re the type that isn’t going to actually read the files… And have you seen the news lately? Every station sane washes trump and the admin

Anyways, the files are going to be released soon. And frankly no matter what they release, it won’t be enough to convince people that they haven’t hid the worst of it

We just have to feed fuel to the fire in a few days

I know, this is the dumbest counter argument ever. I’ve never once seen it work, but people keep saying it

It’s not that cut and dry. Yes, it brings the ad industry ever so slightly closer to collapse…

But until then, you’re just helping Google sell ad buys faster and pumping up their metrics

Google has gotten fined for doing exactly this fraudulently multiple times to juice their numbers

True… Except there’s a big problem with that

There’s not many things I would want that I’m not aware of

So would they going to show me 2 ads a day, or would the same 4 things be plastered everywhere each week?

Any term we pick is going to be offensive. We’re gesturing at the concept of them being less human than us

But like… It’s kind of true. It’s like they don’t experience the world around them, they just adapt to it without comment like a Sim

They just seem like they’re missing the spark. NPC is probably a kinder term than what we’d come up with otherwise

I’m a huge fan of AI, but come on… It’s being used in the most reckless and insane ways. It’s so insanely destructive to society

Our experience so far has not been that AI is capable of or going to replace our labor. However, the threat of AI and the use of AI mandates has been used already to drive down wages, institute speedups, and generally degrade our working conditions.

Have you noticed how a lot of software has been getting worse, like way buggier? How three times now, huge swaths of the Internet have gone down?

It’s because tech companies keep laying people off. They’re already operating a skeleton crew, and now they’re trying to replace portions of that skeleton crew with AI

And already, it’s not working.

At this rate, remotely complicated software is going to become a lost technology

I always say it’s 12…