AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

Reminds me of: newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

yeah in my experiments I find it's mostly good (with caveats) as a better Google (because they ruined Google) or as an advanced find and replace machine. Not really an all-powerful superintelligence or completely useless. Still not worth the social costs though

nvm. I googled it

what's the first table app?

beautiful eldritch eagle

They could have chosen the polar opposite (from the report): "those direct benefits to workers are similar in magnitude to those costs (i.e around £1 billion per year)."

In the article you said Caveman Wakes Up was 'The year’s second-best “David Berman-indebted” album' what was the first? New Threats For The Soul? Thanks

That image seems to have been around for a while, but it is a horrible AI slop image.

Lol I was struggling to understand what she was trying to say until you pointed this out

More like "zombie economists" isn't it. I remember this article where she talks about raising income tax as though it wouldn't directly increase poverty, and which would incentivise rentier activity making productivity worse anyway, vs equalising CGT with income tax.

Any time an article cites generative AI it should have a disclaimer saying that the results are unreliable and likely not informative

Radio programmes do make me go: "Oh, that's interesting, I wonder if they'll elaborate - nevermind, onto the next segment."

I respect that. But the economic roots of the far-right need to be reckoned with.

Perhaps I'm a vulgar marxist, but once capital is concentrated in the hands of the few, they will use it to fund right wing politicians, media, think tanks etc. Wealth taxes can fight this undemocratic practice.

Do you enjoy waking up each day and working to tear down any genuinely progressive directions this country could take, guaranteeing its decline and the rise of the far right? Just wondering

the tyranny of the middle-managers

Right so you either haven't read the Greens' Tax Policies or you're just ignoring them and pretending they only have a wealth tax?

It's fascinating, thanks for sharing. Enjoyed your book (Muddling Through) as well.

You didn't need to tell me anything. I was expressing dismay at becoming conscious of the passing of time, that's all

PSP is retro tech:

I'm not defending this practice, but it is something constantly done in traditiona/print journalism, "churnalism" etc. The only novelty here is the medium.

It is very funny to me that this all happened because a web developer didn't understand that when you upload media to WordPress it is instantly publicly accessible, even on a "draft" page.

I mean as someone who uses wordpress, it sounds like the web developer was uploading a PDF to a draft page, and they didn't understand that that makes the PDF publicly accessible even if the page itself isn't accessible. The easy solution is, just use a placeholder PDF instead, until you go live.

No being a student or retiring either

The desire for a greater degree of social democracy need not come at the expense of formal democracy, and therefore does not in itself refute the possibility of an end of history.

AI and the fatfinger economy Every slip of the finger is money in the bank.

Interesting, seems to be another example of what Cory Doctorow called the AI "fatfinger economy": doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...

What phone model is it?

Disrupting oil refineries and airports/private jets is "symbolic protest"?