Platner leading Mills by 24 points among people earning over $100k while trailing narrowly among those earning under $50k is, ngl, both *deeply* unsurprising and flat out hilarious
This methodology of fanboism was perfected by Elon fans relentlessly stanning for their guru slamming his dick in the door "masterful gambit sir".
The problem is that Musk tweaked the algo so now these little gremlins are an eternal nonstop firehose dogpile.
Liberals on the other site have been brainwashed into argumentative learned helplessness because everytime they predict Trump will fall he proceeds to fall with style and 800000 boosted right wing imbeciles dunk on them saying "see you moron? he's flying"
Basically the only thing we manage to control is sometimes we redirect this stuff outside and kill millions of people all around the world or if explodes in our face and we count our own dead/displaced but that's pretty much the extent of it.
The West is utterly, irredeemably Straussian.
If it's not the Cold War it's the Internet.
If it's not the Internet it's the War on Terror.
If it's not the War on Terror it's social media.
If it's not social media it's the right wing grifter circuit.
It's not boredom, it's a system that always need to fuck some more shit up just to subsist.
If it's not the Americas it's the Indies.
If it's not the Indies it's Africa.
If it's not Africa it's the Industrial Revolution.
If it's not the Industrial Revolution it's WWI/WWII.
If it's not WWI/WWII it's the Cold War.
I think casting this as a problem of "boredom" is a misconstruction.
The problem is that the West has been pumping their internal social conflicts into the "frontier" since 1492.
Every generation of problem children needs a place to go and fuck shit up to empty their metaphorical balls.
I remember looking at US TV about 20 hours total when I was in your country and coming off with the impression "how hasn't this place degenerated into a fascist hellhole yet" and I guess "yet" was doing most of the work.
You don't hate the media enough.
I dunno man, I remember an almost classic case of Berlusconi whipping my entire country into a frenzy over a completely made up crime wave in year of our lord 2008, and riding the frenzy into presidency. Few people had iPhones at all.
In fact you could say that middle class morality at any point in time is nothing more or less than the residual that either aligns with predominant violence framework or can maneuver within its space.
I think this underestimates the fact that part and parcel of middle class morality is literally calling the cops on or otherwise heavily sabotage everybody who is trying to trascend it and has the misfortune of making himself visible in any capacity.
The cathedral 1.0: mostly about human flourishing.
The cathedral 2.0: definitely about the extinction of a part of humanity and its up to them to decide if its gonna be voluntary or not.
"Year 146, day 365: They still haven't noticed"
Wow
My husband @mjowen174.bsky.social is very down and it’s difficult to see.
He had a thriving writing business until AI came along but now he’s struggling to find work.
Please repost this far and wide in the hope that he can find some writing work.
www.mathew-owen.co.uk
Hell hath no fury like a rich mid woman.
The nearest example here for me for authoritarianism would be the invention of machine guns because one trained dude with a machine gun can put down almost infinity civilians with non autos.
But authoritarianism went down not up after gatlings were invented.
To put this another way, all resistance movements had to face mainly police forces and killing or maiming policemen is a no-no because it authorises implicitly lethal police force.
Now gimme a policeman I can break apart and it's just property damage, thats not a super good trade.
Mmm it's a concern but also what happens when I can AI drive a truck full of explosives into the local killer drone depot or whatever and kill 0 people but significantly impair local order enforcement ability by government.
Calling it now: the Citrini dude is a front.
It's one thing to call the two most ludicrous speculative crazes of the decade from the depths of the SPY drawdown. OK, lucky guy.
Its another one to write a 0-content fantasy piece about economic crisis and shave 800 points of the Dow because "viral".
Now let's see how you notruescotsman "The actual users of AI" into whatever subset of people you think proves your point.
Meanwhile the intial post stated "pro-AI = pro-labor" which is comically wrong.
I'm sure all the WH twitter guys posting slop all day long are also prolabor come the fuck on.
There are 50 million devs in the world and ChatGPT alone has 900 million MAU lmao.
Your idea of "who uses AI" is utterly wrong, by the numbers.
I'm an engineer myself, the people who use it "engineering-like" are an *obvious* minority and almost never the most vocal supporters.
Not on bsky obvz but seemingly you don't live in real life.
All people who are all about AI that I know in real life are manager or businessman antilabour types. Every single one.
I even get the angle cuz I'm on such people as you describe (pro-labor/pro-AI) but it's a *very* rare angle.
Literally every single CEO and middle manager would like to have a word lmao.
In my experience the Venn diagram of "excited about AI democratizing X" and "I never actually respected or cared for labour necessary to do X" is a circle.
Can't speak to the US but my family in Europe used to go to the market, just talking with the dudes you could fruit knowledge and taste, compared to "buy random apples from unstaffed aisle".
If you go to the market now it's actually better than it used to be, but far fewer people go.
I think there's a combination thing happening of "stores presenting lots of dogshit good-looking fruit" + "fruit knowledge almost lost in a generation" + "fruit employees non-existant or not properly formed" that degraded the *median* fruit experience compared to specialized fruit vendors of yore.
Surprising! What country? Maybe this really holds for a specific set of countries thst went with a specific wave of urbanist tendencies that happened 150 years ago.
I dunno, in Europe that combo of parquet and high ceilings with moldings also screams "middle class city dweller".
These units are not made anymore, sit in the center of the respective cities, and are now very pricey per unit surface, only middle class people can afford them in family unit size.
The literal US Army couldnt stop people stealing copper wire in my town without getting good with the guys, please give it your best try, make my day.
