Isaac Asimov had a pretty scathing critique of George Orwell’s 1984. He said that it was unrealistic that a pervasive surveillance state could exist and be effective on the grounds that someone has to do the watching, and the manpower required would make it unfeasable. The data centers aren’t being built so we can have pictures of anime waifus with messed up fingers. They’re being built to sort and correlate the massive amounts of incoming information from things like flock cameras and any phone app that decides to sell your information. They’re necessary infrastructure for a fascist surveillance state. Yes, there are false positives. Fascists do not care.

The companies on the other hand…

Will get bailouts.

Which in turn is an algorithm-incentivized DDOS attack on art.

because AIs are workers

They are no more workers than a forklift is a worker.

It sure looks like they’re working on making Badgey a reality.

And that 1 tutorial is half an hour long with the 15 seconds you need buried somewhere in there. And the 15 seconds are something you already tried that didn’t work.

Party leadership would rather everyone live under fascism than do either.

Never concede to right-wing framing

Democrats aren’t conceding to it. They’re writing it for them.

I’m afraid of this too. Biden was able to manage our economy’s recovery for COVID-19 better than any other industrialized nation in the world

As long as you’re a billionaire, sure.

The Democratic Party is essentially the opposition party to MAGA.

They’re the opposition party to their own left flank. They don’t oppose MAGA.

Hakeem Jeffries wants to spend a trillion dollars per year in order to kill 114,000 Americans per year.

That’s the cost of not passing M4A, and as far as centrists are concerned, it’s money and corpses well spent. It’s no wonder they have no problem with genocide, except that it’s not thorough or fast enough.

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Trump’s in office so the WSJ have to call cratering jobs numbers a “boom.”

And if they didn’t like people going bankrupt and dying to support the insurance industry, they could have changed the senate rules with only 50.

Since democrats always intended to kill the public option, they didn’t. And you’ll make excuses for them forever.

The people made it clear that they wanted a public option when they preferred Obama over Clinton. The shit wing of the party that you make excuses for killed it.

It’s always hilarious watching the supporters of the wing that killed the public option pretending that Lieberman was the only one.

Bdn Nelson also blocked the public option so people could go bankrupt and die to pad donors’ wallets.

And let’s not pretend that Lieberman wasn’t democrats’ VP candidate in 2000.

Odd thing to say. Democrats fought FOR the public option.

If you take the wing of the party that demands unquestioning support for genocide at their word, sure.

I don’t give the genocide wing the benefit of the doubt. The idea from the outset was to kill the public option with just enough no votes.

Congratulations on “fixing” healthcare. For the insurance industry and not the people they exploit.

And democrats will brag about how they fixed healthcare 15 years ago by killing the public option.

And we’re paying them a trillion per year to do it.

Both sound like reasons that centrists hate the idea so much. Plus, it doesn’t murder a single Palestinian.

I often think that “return to office” was “extroverts want a captive audience and don’t care how miserable they are.”

That, and some people really thrive in an environment where their communication lacks a paper trail because they’re duplicitous assholes.

It was fine when extroverts expected introverts to exhaust themselves conforming to a society that values you and not them.