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“I’m mixed on Al. On one hand, I really enjoy using it to write software. On the other hand, I’m really nervous about its impact on the world,” the engineer wrote in an internal forum for coders.

Yeah, that’s the catch isn’t it? On one hand, we’re ceding skills to oligarch-owned chat bots that are working day and night to create to neofeudal police state where their air conditioned bunkers can survive the climate apocalypse, but on the other hand, it makes your job slightly easier (until you’re inevitably laid off).

It’s a really tough spot to be in.

I do my best to have solidarity with the entire working class, but 👉👈

Hard disagree. We aren’t hating AI and it’s users nearly enough.

“Make no mistakes, don’t use en or em dashes.”

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I appreciate this for bringing the clankers out for me to block. Butlerian Jihad Now.

We need a maximum voting age. People that won’t be around for dinner shouldn’t be in charge of the groceries.

Not that I want to defend Plex which is definitely enshittifying, but I don’t think most people are buying Plex to stream their own media. They’re doing it so other people can stream their media. Not wanting to buy a domain and set up port forwarding or a reverse proxy or whatever doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. My grandparents are never going to use Tailscale, and even if they did, I don’t think there are any Tailscale smart TV apps.

Disclosure: I run Plex and Jellyfin (and Navidrome) in parallel, and bought a lifetime pass years ago.

Until the Motorola deal sees fruition, Pixels are the only way to use GrapheneOS. I don’t think that using GrapheneOS makes the project more difficult.

It’s ironic that arguably the best way to de-Google a phone is to get a Pixel and use GrapheneOS.

Nice.

Not disagreeing at all. The mass unemployment of a bunch of industries is terrible. I’m just saying the other side of the coin is also terrible, that we’re heading towards a world where humans have lost the ability to perform important skills to (potentially hostile) chatbots (owned by billionaires) that we won’t be able to properly manage or oversee. That’s the flip side of most ‘positive’ AI stories: ‘AI is better at detecting early breast cancer… And the doctors that use AI have gotten worse because of it.’

Not just that the next generation of experts will hypothetically be employed as baristas, but I don’t think people take the risk of deskilling enough. The next generation of would-be experts won’t be as good at whatever because they’ve learned to rely on AI. We risk effectively transferring valuable skills from humans to Musk- or Altman-owned chatbots. That should horrify everyone.

Both words are complicated, debated, co-opted, etc., so it’s hard to come up with a definition and relationship that’d be universally accepted. But Socialism, broadly speaking, is the ownership of the means of production (things that, when work, generate money like factories, etc.) by the workers. Different variants of socialism call for that ownership by different means, usually either by a government as a proxy for the workers, or by industrial unions, or by the workers’ directly.

Communism is a variant of Socialism that, broadly, assumes that socialism will eventually progress to a classless and stateless society.

It’s complicated because ‘social democracy’ and ‘democratic socialism’ are two distinct ideologies, who’s definitions have flipped throughout history, and who’s biggest proponents (in the US at least) get it backwards.

Social democracy isn’t a form of socialism since it’s still capitalism, albeit one with guardrails. Most people that identify as democratic socialists – aside from social democrats misusing the term – are socialists that want to draw a contrast with Marxism-Leninism and other perceived ‘authoritarian’ forms of state socialism. But it’s hard to define a concrete definition for the term since people use it as an umbrella term, including it’s adoption by some state socialists.