The government has been conditioned to give away control so much due to decades of corporate lobbying, spectacular they make a jump probably for social reasons without understanding the technological and economic underlying drivers. I’m sure a $500/HR big 4 consultant will provide them a slide on it in 20 years.

Shirley it’s redundant when they have the blind US Justice system™ to hold all accountable equally

You can’t triple stamp a double stamp, you can’t triple stamp a double stamp!

Screw indeed

Narrator: No one ever asked for it or is using it already.

Corporate media will be ever more obsequious to get access. Military presence for “safety” in certain cities labeled “dangerous” which all happen to be progressive. Then the self-censorship starts. Then people stop being able speak freely, let alone thinking a rule of law exists. Then it’s “underground” to have an honest conversation about politics. We’ll be in Putin’s Russia level of legal system and political speech within a few years.

“we wanted you to learn about financial markets–but not like that!” - school boards and PTOs

It’s an excellent point–for those who live without memory, the mistakes of the past are bound to be repeated frequently. It’s why the focus on reporting “now” in the news is so destructive…a random car accident death in the grand scheme of things is much less important than a local city council decision but “if it bleeds it leads”. Combined with consolidation of media ownership (lack of diversity and voice), especially including corporate music dominance in publishing and distribution, is the death knell of protest, change and democratic participation.

The fact the youth of today mostly feel they only have a voice through Zuckerfuck and data scraping IG/FB OR Chinese state sponsored manipulation and data scraping Bytedance/TT certainly answers Ops question as to where the protest music is…

“Two small pair…8s and 8s” is still a staple at family card games.

You just need to buy the North America Animal Recognition AI subscription and this wouldn’t be an issue plebs, it will stop for 28 out of 139 mammals!

“Action? Yeah…they got 4 new detectives working on the case…they got us working in shifts! Action, ha.”

Would love to see the allocation of resources in the stupid company toward crime prevention vs. developing new methods of enshittification to harvest user data

Astrology is such a bunch of junk, I mean why look so far away at the stars for answers when the truth of your future can easily be read in your palm lines? So crazy the lengths people will go to avoid the truth.

Haven’t heard “gay” as a pejorative in real life since high school in the late 90s.

The rare Cal W

There was an article this week about panic in Britain over despairing people who are dropping out or never starting to engage the workforce. Rather than suggest for solving(or even mentioning) the root problems, the article talked about how it was inexplicable why young folks wouldn’t want to work in this economy, society and culture.

Hmm…same thing in US, same thing in many industrialzed countries where it’s no longer meritocracy, people have no job security, their physical health is failing (to say nothing of mental), higher education costs are completely detached from reality while they get you very little in the job market, COL makes even staying afloat let alone building a bit of wealth throw home ownership completely impossible and most younger folks can clearly see the ship has sailed.

Yeah, why are people quitting the scam?

Caught me completely by obvious

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Customer support tier .5

It can be hella great for finding what you need on a big website that is poorly organized, laid out, or just enormous in content. I could see it being incredible for things like irs.gov, your healthcare providers website, etc. in getting the requested content in user hands without them having to familiarize themselves with constantly changing layouts, pages, branding, etc.

To go back to the IRS example, there are websites in the last 5 years that started to have better content library search functionality, but I guess for me having AI able to contextualize the request and then get you what you want specifically would be incredible. “Tax rule for x kind of business in y situation for 2024”—that shit takes hours if you’re pretty competent sometimes, and current websites might just say “here is the 2024 tax code PLOP” or “here is an answer that doesn’t apply to your situation” etc. “tomato growing tips for zone 3a during drought” on a gardening site, etc.

I’m in HR so benefits are a big one…the absolute mountain of content, even if you understand it, even experts can’t have perfect recall and quick, easy answers through a mountain of text seems like an area AI could deliver real value.

That said, companies using AI as an excuse to them eliminate support jobs because customers “have AI” are greedy dipshits as AI and LLMs are a risk at best and outside of a narrow library and intense testing are going to always be more work for the company as you not only have to fix the wrong answer situations but also get the right answer the old fashioned way. You still need humans and hopefully AI can make their work more interesting, nuanced and fulfilling.

“Resistance Fingerprinting detected in Produce.”

But tiktok is what we should be focusing on…