Its gotta be some evil delulu shit. AI is just not that good. There could be some improvements still, but its way to early to be rationally betting on it like this. I'm sure they are eager to retaliate against unionization and shit. Blame it on the recession, get bailed out, and hire us back at way lower salaries. Though idk where the US is going to get that money this time around.
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I'm still trying to understand how actually replacing people with AI is supposed to work, because the quality of the outputs is still essentially trash. I do understand that in the short term capital prefers to swing its dick around to prove a point, and maybe that's all there is to it. However, I have a sneaking suspicion that AI hype is being used to cover for a very real economic slowdown that is actually driving the lack of job prospects and layoffs. Maybe capital is just hoping that AIs can do a good enough job to keep them floating until the recession is over.
We can thank Quechua scientists for giving us some of the best agricultural technology out there. I don't have links, but its pretty interesting to read about some of the agricultural labs that were built in the andes ages ago to make this delicious monstrosity:
i'm about it. i'm a software developer, but i don't do any gamedev work atm. its an area that i would like to grow into in the future if i ever get my life to a point where i can spend time on that type of thing. i play some instruments and i like to draw and study languages, but gamedev itself is a whole paradigm that i'm not really familiar with.
whatever you want tiktok, i'll support you by never giving you any money
TO BE SHIPPING CONTAINERS
you can't modify them in any way without compromising the structural integrity of these things. that crinkle isn't just for fun, its part of what makes the whole thing rigid enough not to fall apart. If you start cutting into that, you have to come up with a whole new support structure and might as well just build it normally.
Actual prefab buildings though? That's workable.
If the democratic powers that be won't stop enabling genocide, we have to physically prevent the arms from getting to where they're meant to go. Some countries are refusing port access to arms shipments, maybe a similar action at various US ports like have been reported on some indie outlets would be in order.
Its pretty hard core, but I don't see what other options we have. Its possible that some kind of political reform could make a difference, but I imagine that would have to be done as part of a mass anti genocide movement. The timeline for that doesn't really work though and we can't resign ourselves to saying its too late.
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ban the mods tho
Some politician called the student encampments "little Gazas" they're building cop cities while our actual cities crumble. They are widening the gap between haves and have nots. I never thought I'd see anything like this in America. Its only a glimmer, but in many ways what we're seeing today is aftershocks from the civil rights era. Desegregation and breaking the south African apartheid did some damage. The potential is on the periphery of the imperial core. Marginalized and downtrodden people, the homeless, the enslaved. Whatever happens in America to change things, will start from caring for and about the "dregs of society" and finding ways to guard against increasing fascist violence. ¡Viva LA انتافضة!
I share some of the pessimism, but I direct most of it towards the privileged classes and white people because they're the big impediment here.