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But yea I saw people posting about it and that was the easiest reference to find on my phone
I’m a
But yea I saw people posting about it and that was the easiest reference to find on my phone
IRGC report that Haniyeh killed by short range missile. Maybe a shoulder launched missile? https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/8/3/haniyeh-killed-by-short-range-projectile-fired-from-outside-home-irgc
That certainly seems like the idea most techbros have, turn white-collar workers into quality checkers rather than producers. The thing is I’m not sure the output of a lot of white collar jobs can be treated the same as manufacturing output.
If you replace half your labour in manufacturing a TV, the value of a TV drops and with competition between firms prices & profits tend to drop too. But you can slow down this profit loss due to competition with anti-competitive behaviour: patents, cartels etc.
If you replace your graphic designers with AI, the value of graphic design drops but what you were really trying to “produce” with your fancy branding and packaging was a sense of perceived quality (value). Now that this is lower, consumers adjust their perceptions quickly and you have to demonstrate your product quality by spending money on things AI can’t replicate yet e.g. in-person experiences, or even just video promotion (in the short term at least).
I quite like Ed’s writing for a cathartic rant against the stupidity of AI.
Has anyone got any reading recommendations on the LLM insanity from a marxist perspective though? Assuming AI can replace labour in some industries, it immediately comes up against the LTV, with the value of the output immediately going to almost zero. Companies therefore have to maintain monopolistic false scarcity, which of course tech companies are already trying to do, but it seems to have wider implications for the economy - technofeudalism I guess.
I ended up renting a byd a few weeks ago, felt luxury as hell, for I assume much less than western brands. although I’m not a car guy.
This is so cool, thanks for posting. I’ve suddenly got 8 bags of oyster mushrooms all fruiting!
I agree, I think this could work. Google already has featured snippets, this just feels like an extension to that. I’m pretty sure those snippets often screwed over the sites they were taken from too, because people read them but don’t click through. But the AI summary ensures they get even less credit/ad revenue.
Any high-value search terms and Google hides the summary. So you either get ads or AI slop for every search.
Hell yeah dude
Israel can have little a genocide as a treat
Channel 14 reporting that US called off an immediate strike: Hebrew Link
No idea what that really means
It’s definitely not a trend here, but when it does come up it’s very technocratic and always in the context of well-paid email workers. It feels more like the tech and finance PMC pushing for job benefits on an individual level, not connected to class consciousness. The argument also makes more sense for those jobs: “we all know we aren’t actually doing anything productive anyway, can we have Friday off? We’ll just cancel a few timewasting meetings.”
“Israel” has done another aid massacre https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/3/3/israels-war-on-gaza-live-every-minute-counts-as-hunger-kills-in-gaza
The ethical response would be to [redacted]
Good year for tunnels, bad year for helicopters
“Yes we won’t be able to assist in any meaningful way, but we’d like to confirm that we are, in fact, the bad guys”
Cop cloning technology
The COTW, NZ has deployed 6 soldiers to the Red Sea: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/507356/new-zealand-to-deploy-defence-force-to-red-sea
Need a :nz-cool: emote
Hey it’s my little corner of settler-colonialism in the South Pacific. I can throw out a few thoughts here, although take everything with a grain of salt.
Many of the points can be looked at through a familiar settler-colonial lens. Think the Canada of the Pacific. Maori arrive about 500 years ago, with the Brits beginning colonisation about 200 years ago. Familiar story of decimation of the Māori population through introduced disease, violence and land dispossession. The nuance here is some of the concessions Māori were able to get from the British, most notably Te Tiriti (note: it’s a very short text, worth reading if you’re interested). This has helped to get: dedicated Māori seats in parliament, some reparations for stolen land, co-governance of some land and assets, etc.
This goes along with significant racism towards Māori (and Pasifica) that has always been a major part of our politics but is currently being leveraged in a more American style culture war approach by the right. E.g. demanding government departments to use English names
In terms of foreign relations and economy: Our economy consists of exporting milk powder and trees to China (a mostly lactose intolerant country?), Tourism (don’t look too closely at how fucked the land is from all the dairy cows), consultants sending emails, service workers serving the consultants, and majorly: investing in houses.
Economically we are completely reliant on China, but culturally aligned with the UK and more recently the US. Which is going to make the next decade… Interesting.
Extremely cool and fun. Probably the cheapest urban transport available too (assuming you replace the calories burned on a regular bike and don’t just waste away)
100% this. I feel like I haven’t discovered any new artist since what.cd went down