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6 hours agoThe company will not survive if Musk doesn’t leave.
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No, get ready for our collapse.
11·2 days agoThis horrifyingly big bubble needs to sustain the mystique around AI so desperately companies are willing to bribe the “experts” any amount of money to sustain the grift a little bit longer.
People will look back and bitterly laugh their asses off at how obviously devoid of reality the AI hype train was.
Mark Zuckerberg recently told investors that Meta plans to continue throwing money at AI talent “because we have conviction that superintelligence is going to improve every aspect of what we do.” In a recent open letter, he described superintelligent AI as technology that would “begin an exciting new era of individual empowerment,” despite declining to define what superintelligence actually is.
No better quote illustrates how the US economy is going to keep collapsing into a second great depression along with the nonsense AI bubble it has irrevocably chained itself too.
You can tell it not just from the fact that AI is really only useful as a way to obscure culpability in violence, but from the empty way all the “experts” and “cutting edge tech companies” have blindly lined up behind AI with zero critical thinking involved making it clear as day AI is the perfect empty promise for an intellectually bankrupt society.
AI is a match made in heaven with the catastrophic delusions of our day.
0·5 days agoI am so turned on in a SFW way like my skin is tingling this is awesome news!!! Very Fucking Cool.
Newsom is trash, just because he play fights with Trump doesn’t mean he is on our side.
0·9 days agoThe ultimate reason is that developers by and large were successfully convinced by the ruling class that they didn’t need unions to advocate for their quality of life as it pertains to their career.
This is what the tiny part of a massive iceberg of consequences poking above the surface look like.
It won’t, it just rationalizes giving up on fighting climate change with the flimsy handwaved promise of massive economic growth someday.
0·10 days agoWhy should we believe them when they say they will stop? This is meta’s only real solid business model meta/facebook has found so far so I doubt laws factor into their thinking much.
0·10 days agoLol because AI is an unprofitable bubble the only place companies like Microsoft can go other than using AI to obscure culpability for mass violence (whether it be for “deciding” what Palestinian to murder next or denying lifesaving healthcare) is monetizing surveillance of their customers.
0·11 days agoHey, it benefits me when more people play these awesome indie multiplayer games!
It pains me when people put up with insane amounts of nonsense when they just want a battlefield like experience, they don’t want lootcrates, popups that distract you when you open the game… skins… casinos… battlepasses…
If that is your jam, great, but it is alarming how little indie big map multiplayer vehicle shooters there are for the health of the genre as a whole, I have made long rants about how EA fucked over the genre by dropping mod support after Battlefield 2 ughhh.
Because of that I get a lot of joy sharing these games because I know most people like me until fairly recently hadn’t heard of some of these gems and they are the perfect anodyne to all the AAA enshittification nonsense happening in multiplayer big map competitive shooters that actually have good vehicle gameplay.
Go play!
yawn
Here are some better recommendations for games that aren’t owned by EA.
Operation Harsh Doorstop - free and moddable tactical shooter with big maps and vehicles, vanilla gameplay is fairly realistic but there are mods that totally change up the gameplay like Casualfield. This game has a dedicated group of youtube content creators who hate on this game… I don’t get it… because the gunplay is fantastic and the mechanics are an elegant evolution of Project Reality type squad spawns and player built basic infrastructure. Sniping is also a BLAST. Singleplayer is in heavy development but multiplayer is where it is at now with the game. It is in early access and is definitely rough around the edges, but the core gameplay is just straight up better than 99% of fps games I have played so I don’t really care lol.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/736590/Operation_Harsh_Doorstop/
Easy Red 2 - Really fantastic WW2 tactical shooter with big maps and LOTS of different period accurate vehicles and a quickly growing population of players. The general interest this game has in portraying WW2 beyond the tired and boring moments that are usually portrayed is very cool and the gameplay is ROCK solid. This game is extremely affordable for the amount of scenarios, weapons vehicles and historical context that is brought into the game design in a clearly thoughtful way and I recommend ALL of the DLC even as an impulse buy when you purchase the base game. It is worth it, Easy Red 2 is an absurdly easy recommendation at its price point.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1324780/Easy_Red_2/
Angels Fall First - A superb Battlefront-like/Battlefield 2048 that is first person. This game is in early access and has a small playerbase but the core gameplay is polished, locked in and very very fun. Weapons feel great, vehicles are easy to jump in and start using but clearly have a lot of skill depth to them… Overall the menu and UI is FANTASTIC, at the deploy screen the game will prompt you if a vehicle is available to take and let you spawn directly into it, you can also see a cue of vehicles that are going to spawn for your team soon… Check it out! Even with the low playerbase it is a great bot bashing game, the AI is fun to play against and uses vehicles.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/367270/Angels_Fall_First/
Also, for kicks and giggles I am gonna recommend Empires Mod an old source engine multiplayer RTS/FPS team based hybrid that is actually still in development which is super cool. By now the UI has lots and lots of quality of life additions and tooltips and the whole thing is very impressive even if the age of the source engine and various components going into the experience are obviously very dated, Empires Mod is legitimately still an awesome game and it deserves way more players! There is a discord you can check out to find out when games are happening.
It seems like Teardown is ripe for a themed expansion!
The second civil war in the US has begun, and this is how the battles look.
thank you, great focused explanation!
You aren’t understanding me, you keep trying to debate from the axiom that this is a zero sum game.
In otherwords when I say
“We need to increase wages and employment opportunities across the board for immigrants including tech worker immigrants”
You hear
"We need to hurt tech workers born and raised in the US who are already hurting.
My point of issue is that I did not say that, rather you are applying an axiom that those two MUST be inextricably linked and if there is even a remote chance we can improve the wages and general quality of life of tech workers born and raised in the US AND tech workers that want to immigrate to the US than the logic of applying that axiom becomes fundamentally questionable.
The US is the richest country on earth, or was… it is a lie the oligarchs and ruling class tell us that we cannot afford to pay US workers a living wage, tech workers or otherwise and it is a further lie that hopeful immigrants (tech workers or not) are a threat to the wellbeing of the US, far from it, immigrants are certainly the lifeblood of this country if there is anything still yet redeemable to it.
That is what you don’t realize or refuse to realize.
This is NOT a zero sum game between tech workers who want to immigrate to the US and tech workers who were born and raised in the US.
The future is a shared solidarity not an increasing division, don’t take my word for it, notice rather that large corporations favor this kind of atomization of workers into nationalisms, it makes the job of people oppressing workers in the US and abroad far easier when we take your perspective.
Longer response, but I realized I came off like I didn't like the writing in this article, which I actually think is quite good but I TOTALLY agree with your annoyance at the headline and I was speaking to the kinds of pop science artile writing that this headline embodies, not the actual quality of the text wherethin
I hope with the rise of open access science we can start to link more directly to scientific papers.
I don’t hope for this because I think most people are interested in literally reading the scientific papers front to back (I mean… what scientists even do that lol… I mean the proof-reader of the paper does I guess hopefully right?). Rather I think normalizing the practice of linking to the literal scientific paper the lazy slop journalism choking to death in ads is loosely riffing on provides a place for the impulse reader to go when they are frustrated for a similar reason.
It is easy to forget as a scientifically educated person (Which I define as someone who was priviliged enough to be consistently encouraged to study science in school or on their own time growing up for the sake of the enrichment that came from learning science for the sake of learning) that just because someone who isn’t equally privileged in scientific knowledge can’t point to what is so uninteresting and boring about the vapid pop-science article doesn’t mean they don’t sense the same thing.
This isn’t about having memorized scientific concepts or not, it is a basic human sense of when someone is wasting your time with bullshit vs. showing you something real and unexpectedly raw. It is the rush that theater people are always chasing as performers, the privilege of coming into contact with something that is as undeniably authentic as authentic can be (truth being freed from the corruptions of non-fiction in art).
People who don’t know the first thing about science are going to tap on that article and be disappointed too… and if there is a link to the actual scientific article… maybe they will tap on that in frustration… and NOW we have a moment where scientists can connect with the public that late-stage capitalism and empty AI journalism can’t jam itself inbetween.
We need a new form of abstract (I am sure people are already thinking about this, not trying to come off as this thinking this is a novel idea) that can be rolled out to that person in that brief window of opportunity that doesn’t necessarily overwhelm with details but also doesn’t lie with easy simple exaggerated narratives that an editor at a pop news organization will ultimately demand in the popular science news article.
We should remember that the magic scientists are driven to explore doesn’t need to be explained to the public, people already know that feeling intimately, we just need to show them HOW we are chasing that magic in our work, which fortunately for scientists is often easier than we think. Science is fascinating, unexpected, and far more interesting than our feeble imaginations can fathom which isn’t to insult humanity but rather to acknowledge how damn long evolution has had to build its artworks. The competition simply isn’t fair.
Look at the massive rise in youtubers covering technical subjects at length in hour long videos whether it is about science, home rennovation, gardening, succulents… whatever… The delusion of the moment is precisely that we have convinced ourselves that we are unique in desiring an authentic, complex and nuanced truth. The differences between us arise between where we allow that complex, manifold space to exist and where don’t (science or art vs religion vs authoritarian rulers/ideologies etc…).
In exchange for the remote possibility someone will actually endure that entire wall of text here are some cool scientific news publications that are actually interesting and don’t do the lazy hype overly simplified narrative nonsense you are talking about.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/
hakai is now defunct but it has a great history of marine-biology and marine-biology adjacent journalism
ok the register is tech stuff, but it is often adjacent to science enough that it is a good news source as a science interested person.
Also here on the fediverse check out !science@mander.xyz !earthscience@mander.xyz !biodiversity@mander.xyz !astronomy@mander.xyz and !biology@mander.xyz
I am not disputing the details of anything you are necessarily saying, what I am saying is that you are even still leaning into the lie that there isn’t enough decent work to gone around for all of us.
You need to get that out of your head, fundamentally, before we can begin to envision a humane path forward for tech work in the US, either for immigrants or people born and raised in the US.
Well yes, but understand this is the function of gamepass being so cheap at the moment, to convince you temporarily that it is in your best interests as a consumer to rent video games rather than buy them because for now massive corporations like Microsoft are artifically holding the consumer price of these subscription services low to entice enough customers to buy in that they can then turn around and destroy other methods of earning a living in the video game industry as anything but a tiny indie game studio and waves wand with flourish all of a sudden the video game industry sucks even more than it used to and you have to watch ads every 10 seconds even though you are paying more for gamepass “premium crystal edition” than you do for all your streaming TV services combined…
Look if that is the future y’all want, great, but just be honest about it at least?
Ok I have an idea, why don’t we just pay a living wage to US tech workers whether they are immigrants or they were born and raised in the US?
Plenty of people would in a heartbeat if Elon Musk was publicly and thoroughly excommunicated from the power structure of the company. They would have to rebuild the brand but heres the thing people hate Elon Musk not Tesla.