comrade helium has exposed engineering flaws with Boeing hardware and for its trouble is being ejected into space. another tragic whistleblower death 💔

burger bettin’

patty prospecting

beef beliefs??

I saw “supermarket” and tried to parse it like “superstructure” or “superprofits”

does this mean i’m not a lib?

reposting my hot AI take

Just because capital can’t possibly imagine more than 5 minutes in the future, and just because capital can only speak profit and couldn’t fathom progress for the sake of progress, doesn’t mean that AI isn’t real and scary. The technological hurdles are similar things that have been overcome in past technologies, the incentive to replace workers with machines is just as enticing as it’s ever been, and if we’ve seen noise and fervor like this now with this little of the total reward reaped, expect to continue to see this much noise and fervor until the last drop of blood has been squeezed out.

or, the single most jarring and disorienting emotion I have felt in my life - both simultaneously

don’t they know? Xinjiang is literally a place

fwiw the game isn’t exactly “by” dunkey, he (and all his staff at bigmode) just published it, Billy Basso is a genius and deserves credit here - just a light PSA

I just tell them it’s about facial recognition cameras (which is also entirely true). That shuts them up pretty quick, you can see them thinking after they hear that

democracy dies in the light

The mishap is the second to occur in the last week

unlimited mishaps on the first world

fwiw telecoms (or i guess its direct predecessor in many cases?) is so ubiquitous that it’s virtually an appliance. It’s unlikely that you even know anyone who doesn’t use telecommunications at least five times a day. probably a hot take but: AI sucks, but so did the steam engine three years after it’s debut. It was a gimmick that broke all the time and, even when it was working in full, could barely be finagled into doing a very small array of specific tasks. And then it got better. Check back on AI in ten years.

The reason for this bubble-looking graph is that all of the capitalization of low-hanging fruit gets completed and then the company has to start operating with slimmer margins. Cisco has almost a hundred thousand employees and 57 billion dollars of revenue, they just aren’t growing quite as fast any more.

Is the mentioned video publicly available? Does anyone have a link?

Can you direct link the video for folks without twitter? We can’t follow the thread

If instead everyone who creates content also ran their own instance

this can’t be it, sadly. All of the best content creators on tiktok are not in the position financially or technically to host an instance of anything, let alone configure and maintain it. This is especially true for journalism, politics, and ordinary goofball content, which in my mind are three things tiktok is best at and are critical to its value. There has to be a way for someone with no technical background and no money to share their voice if this is to be “federated tiktok”.

There’s a book called How Capitalism Ends by a guy named Steve Paxton, it’s that largely libbed up brand of trot brit socialism but it did have some good points interspersed, one in particular I’m thinking of here is an argument for making a distinction between a “technocracy” and the rest of the working class:

It’s important to note that the technocracy are not excluded from the proletariat because they earn too much money, or because they enjoy a large degree of autonomy in their work. It is the effective (though incomplete) control they exercise over productive assets by virtue of their technical knowledge that separates them from the proletariat. They make largely autonomous decisions about how and where productive assets will be deployed, and the expert knowledge which gives them the ability to do so puts them in a different relationship to both the means of production and to the bourgeoisie than that of the proletarian. At the same time, they do not enjoy the full range of ownership rights over the assets they control – they cannot sell or bequeath them for example. This limitation sets them apart from the petty-bourgeoisie.

I kind of like this distinction in this context, might be more prudent than labor aristocrat in describing some folks

working on it

I edited it to a less flaky proxitok mirror

https://proxitok.lunar.icu/@el.chepito1985/video/7357758176504089898 video of the issue

yes

don’t know anything about this dude except that he proved that you can purchase your way into being allowed to commit first degree murder with your own hands