I keep saying that humanity’s toys do evolve spectacularly while humans are still working on the same basic impulses they’ve been dealing with for millennia.

Trump is a petty conman who does everything in his power to consolidate as much power in himself as he possibly can so that he can funnel as much money to himself and his gang as he can. That’s not new. The environment he’s doing in may be more complex, or differently set up than in previous iterations, but the core is depressingly mundane.

Gaza is just people hating people and other people supporting different sides while all sides give each other more reasons to hate each other perpetually, some more war-crimey, some less so. Tragic, quagmired to hell and back, but not groundbreaking in and of itself.

As for AI, the framework is the usual capitalists trying to convince everybody that their new best revolutionary thing is a word sorting machine that can sort very, very many words now very fast. Trying to cash in on the hype is the eternal constant, the occasion this time is a very sophisticated chatbot/image generator based on all the materials the inventors could get away with stealing.

And climate stuff is just this generation of capitalists stripping the planet for parts while they can get away with it. The scale is bigger, but vulture capitalism is also not even remotely new.

Just like the principle of singular attributability of data via the blockchain is a fancy way of assigning stuff to one recipient. We’ve had approaches to this before. This time the blockchain’s ledger system is the big new anchor for the human element, which will invariably at first be either grifters or people who wanna bash in other people’s heads with it.

To be fair, us elders had grifts and money laundering too, so crypto is nothing functionally new.

I feel uneasy upvoting this.

I hear that every single person who drowned with the Titanic was later found to have elevated concentrations of dihydrogen monoxide in their bodies. Coincidence? I think not.

I’d take the entirety of the USA’s military hardware. Nobody said how big the backpack was.

“Who are you and how did you get into my house?”

It’s the dairy farmer selling his only milk cow for all that sweet, sweet cow-selling cash, failing to see that this may potentially have an adverse effect on his milk-selling cash henceforth.

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They forgot the third option: don’t use it.

The Sith deals in absolutes, the Jedi uses absolutes recreationally.

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Why start at exactly that point though?

Make sure your homies’ corporations can extract as much wealth as possible before that happens. Blame your domestic political opponents for any negative consequences whatsoever.

It’s high time for another reboot of the whole franchise.

But eating sin gives me indigestion…

I get the name Monday to Wednesday, celeb gets it Thursday to Saturday. Sundays we alternate bi-weekly (allowing for special occasions where one of us really needs it).

Still waiting for Obama to take all my guns and outlaw Christmas tbh.

What? Why WOULDN’T everybody let the guy whose latest genius idea in a stunning sequence of brilliant business decisions was squeezing every twitter user for money in a service they previously got for free implant hardware into their brain? It’ll be just like a tesla: automated driving available next year since like 2010 or so (assuming it doesn’t fall apart, run over the elderly or burst into flames) in a hyperloop near you!