They have just stolen the language of kindness and try to present their hatred as kind.

You completely missed the point that you are making good ugly people feel shame and like they’re being associated with these people because they were born unfortunate looking. Because your implication is that being evil actually impacts how you look, which further implies all ugly people are evil. The people I give a shit about in this situation are the people caught in the crossfire, I’m not here to save MAGA feelings, I’m here to save the feelings of people who have been shamed for being born with similarly unofortunate looks being shamed further by being told that if they’re ugly it must be because they’re evil inside.

But you do you.

You know this is really cruel and dismissive to kind, loving, wonderful people who happen to not measure up to social beauty standards.

There are beautiful evil people as well.

Yes, the MAGA cult is ugly but the only ugly that matters is the ugly inside, and MAGAs are ugly inside.

Literally everything the administration does is rape-coded.

“Oh, you don’t want these people in your city harassing your citizens and you’ve gone through the trouble of making laws with intent to enforce to prevent it from happening? Well then we’re just going to do what you don’t like even harder then!”

Literally everything is “oh people don’t like it well here’s more of it then since you don’t like it” when it comes to these asshats.

It’s way beyond “the cruelty is the point” by now.

By fleecing rubes it seems.

There’s still a little time to get in at reasonable prices before they truly blow up and go insane. I’ve definitely started seeing increases such as a WD 8TB that went from $204.99 to $239.99 overnight after a short period of being out of stock. Depending on brand and size, some are still available at retail prices, but they’re quickly running out.

.crackhouse

To the shock of absolutely fucking no one. We’re officially at the “the rules are made up and the points don’t matter” part of the US decline.

Goblin mode makes its entrance

Jeeves apparently was classier than that all the way until the end.

Who gets bored when you can hunt poor people for sport?

“There is no war in Ba Sing Se” energy.

There’s already a lot of evidence that the majority of the economy is currently functioning off the economic activity of the upper 10% of society. That 10% accounts for 50% of all economic activity. They just want to take it a step further.

Cory Doctorow still uses pgp if you email him, I think his key is on his website, IIRC

“I’m convinced that this has been fixed,” House Rules Committee Chair Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), who voted against FISA renewal in 2024, said Tuesday.

Oh it’s “fixed” all right. If the entire GOP is suddenly like “oh this is fine now that Trump’s in charge” it definitely means “the fix is in.”

Bill Hicks always had the best bit about this.

That’s definitely a path as well, but considering how smart (at least in math and computer science) you have to be to be developing AI in general. Those are not easy people to replace because of their skill levels and skillsets. Them just leaving and refusing to do the work is honestly a lot better play than trying to get everyone in the company on board for unionization. Only OpenAI is strictly an AI company. Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Twitter all have their fingers in other pies, meaning you would need to get everyone in a massive company on board. Far easier to just get all your colleagues on board and just bail to build your own thing.

LMAO a hunger strike in front of companies who literally don’t give a shit if you live or die.

I think the scariest thing about Artificial Intelligence is the absolute fucking basement-dwelling, fart-sniffing, booger-eating, antisocial narcissists with zero ability to empathize with other human beings developing and “training” it. They spend their lives acting like a victim because they’re “autistic” but I have met plenty of autistic people who aren’t self-aggrandizing, narcissistic assholes, so it’s not because of the autism, it’s because they’re assholes.

We’re essentially letting AI learn socialization from the people with the least quality socialization skills and interpersonal skills available. That’s the scary part, the idiotic shit it will learn from these narcissistic fucking idiots.

Employees need to start figuring out that whining about it doesn’t change shit because you’re in a corporation, not a democracy. The only leverage they have is their numbers. They need to put up or shut up, the only way to stop this is for entire swaths of people to quit their jobs. Further, Google has plenty of people wealthy enough to start their own business, these people have options that a lot of others don’t. If they still care more about their paychecks than they do their ethics, I couldn’t give a fuck about their opinion that they won’t actually stand up to defend.

At least Timnit Gebru stood on principles (mostly anyway, she at least threatened to quit and they fired her), and the paper Google fired her over is more important today than when it was written in 2020. It was literally a prophetic document for all the issues we face regarding AI today.

Google pretended it fixed things by doing a lot of fake inclusivity bullshit (not that including people is bullshit, but rather Google’s methods are those weak and pointless corporate ideas of “inclusivity” are bullshit), and brushed the contents of the paper under the rug. The reality is that paper was way too on the nose of real problems for them to allow to be published as it was.

Anyway, if the employees didn’t figure it out six years ago when they shitcanned Gebru for standing up for herself (and humanity), I doubt they’ll magically figure it out now.

EDIT: typos

I don’t want to live in this universe anymore.