Big tech propaganda. There has been zero push back. At least until the last few years.

The entire zeitgeist from film/TV, news, academia, politics, everything has been propagandizing the world on how tech companies and the people behind it are basically modern day gods.

In film/TV the nerds have been the stereotype of the benevolent good natured but awkward super genius. The news has made them out to be the superstar businesses that are infinite money printers. Tech in academia is seen as the most prestigious departments. Politicians are all afraid of being labelled as tech illiterate. That’s why nobody can ever make any sort of legislation on tech companies anymore. It’s why “disruptive” (aka destructive) tech companies are allowed to break every single legislation ever made. Because all any techbro has to do is threaten to accuse politician for being afraid of technology. Nothing makes a politician shut up faster.

It came as no surprise that all the big tech heads were at the front row of the inauguration. We live in the dystopian cyberpunk future. For most people it seems they don’t even know. They’re completely entranced by it all.

Bogeymen are imaginary. Political troll farms are real.

Something nobody talks about is how the internet transformed into a whole other beast around 2015 to 2016. Nobody talks about it because all the bots (used loosely to mean bad actors of human or otherwise) control discourse. It’s masses of undefineable swarms of bot posting at any give moment in any given part of the internet.

You’re not my neighbor. And you just did exactly what I called you out for. Like I said, scripted responses. I’m sure you felt smug about it. Btw 30k isn’t 100k. See how that works? Or can you not handle someone trying to tell you something up on that high horse.

Let’s cut through the bullshit. They’re trying to equate their six figure salary to 30k. They’re trying to leverage social media to validate their mental gymnastics.

It happens far too often. Especially on reddit. Whether they get affirmations or refutations they use either response to further cement their position. They love nothing more than to have some poor to try to refute them so they can be condescending to the lowly poors about how financially illiterate they are. And it gives them an opening to further contort their argument out loud about how they make so much money yet are as poor as those with the lowest income. In other words it’s out of touch rich people shit.

This kind of comment chain happens so much it’s basically scripted.

The distractions have been working like a well oiled machine. This whole Epstein thing is their finest work yet.

The secret police are disappearing people. The government is shut down. All anyone cares about is something right now completely inconsequential for aforementioned reason.

Those guys knew it wasn’t ready for a demo.

I lost all my accounts by attrition. I had dozens. Maybe even few dozen.

In spite of trying the rate of replacement was basically zero. As you described it’s impossible to make and maintain new accounts.

Take this is an opportunity to wean yourself off reddit. It’s worthless anyways.

A government hackerman would be the same guy. Except working for the government.

Has anyone else noticed the recent resurgence of mechanical turk jobs? It’s all AI training work. Before the work was doing tasks directly. Now they have people training tailored AI models.

In other words the tech bros have found get another way to shoehorn themselves in as a middle man. Instead of having workers do the work itself. Now the work is delegated to AI. Which is trained to do the task by humans.

At first it said the LLM era was the end of mechanical turk work. It’s going in a circle back to mechanical turks again.

I picture the jury savoring their lunch sandwich and one of them being like, “So… not guilty?”. Everyone nods and goes back to working on their sandwich.

Idle power on my laptop.

KDE Wayland: 10 watts
KDE X11: 6 watts

It was this way when I checked years ago. Still this way as of a few weeks ago.

Russell 2000 index is a better indicator of the US economy than the popular things that everyone looks at. Namely the SP500, Dow, or their top performing component companies. The small / mid companies in this index are more reflective of the actual economic state of America. It’s been stagnant for the past 5 years. Basically it shows that real America hasn’t been doing well.

It was stagnated in Trumps first term even. The last big move the Russell 2000 index made was a rally when Biden won. Otherwise it’s been pretty reflective of the past 10 years of Trump era policy. They’ve been fucking over middle and lower American business.

Everyone focusing on the biggest companies is essentially watching the rich get richer. Contrast that with the small and mid size companies is reflective of the disparity. In other words the signs you’re looking for are already there.

Inheritance taxes are pretty high where I am. I won’t get much of what my parents have earned.

With all the free time in retirement my father has actually tried looking for more optimal ways to structure their wealth. There is none for average normies like us without getting butt fucked by the tax man. This kind of thing no doubt gatekept to millionaires and above. Those who can afford to hire people to do accounting tricks. And to buy politicians to make favorable legislation.

I’m pretty sure a big reason for the massive right wing shift over the past decade is in no small part due to this generational wealth transfer. The rich are fighting economic war that the rest of us don’t even know about.

People are distracted by the current bullshit of politics. Nobody ever talks about this generational wealth transfer. It’s the big one.

In the US they’ve already given what is it like trillions in tax breaks to the rich. The poor are funding it basically.

Everyone thinks things are bad already. I think this is only the beginning.

Equating a car to a 3d printer is certainly a take.

This is a generalized problem. It’s not only programming. The world faces a critical collapse of expertise if we defer to AI.

Read the article before replying. Too late for some of you anyways.

I got whiplash from that comment.

The era of Pax Americana is over. There is a global realignment underway. The future is more uncertain than any of us have known in our lifetime.

For a while there was an idea that globalization would elevate the world. This post war era was the first part of our lives. It turns out America and Europe decided it isn’t acceptable when the world actually started having it good. So now we have to burn it all down and enter a phase of heightened global conflict. We’ll kill each other until we’re tired of that. Then maybe there will be another period of relative peace. Seems to be the nature of humanity.

There’s a world that exists outside of your bubble. It’s real. No matter how much you bury your head in the sand.