I think a lot of the criticism of OBAA
assumes we should like Bob and we should not --- Bob is a doofus who doesn't really accomplish anything. Now Sensei....
Titanfall 2 is $5 rn and it is also 10 of the funnest, dumbest hours you can have
A dozen
It’s been said before, but the extent to which the academic, cultural, professional and pedagogical world was already governed in a way amenable for LLMs to succeed, well before LLMs existed, gets far too overlooked.
"Alexa Plus"
Ok fair enough
Cyborg conservatism over on X
What is going on here
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It sucks so bad that the supposed capital of the free world is now a news desert but I guess that makes sense
Self-appointed war and geopolitics expert David Sacks is starting to wonder if the man he helped get elected, the rule of law he helped break, and the massive corruption he facilitates might have downsides.
Yes he's embracing the cringe
Type of thing that makes a man say god bless America out here we ball
I mean come on
I like to imagine the unread texts counter on Xi's phone ticking upwards
Skill issue with the lecturer imo
Ed Sheeran would never
I will NEVER join the conversation
I think this is much, much more true than anyone would like to admit, and it explains why Florsheim shoes occupy so much attention despite being intrinsically silly.
Fascinating Bloomberg piece about how AI is used as an excuse for downsizing, but isn't usually the real reason:
> “We’re restructuring around AI” is a growth signal. “We over-hired during the pandemic and revenue softened” is an accountability signal.
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Nearly half of American workers ages 18-64 in the private sector do not have a retirement plan
AARP, Torsten at Apollo
Yep. That's so much of academe. You build up a straw man to respond to and succeed with your new paradigm.
(This is not a minor point! The destruction of craft labor was a key historical moment but that discrete event is not equivalent to real subsumption as a consistent dynamic of capitalist production. Most of Braverman's book isn't about the factory.)
This is your king???
"Braverman examines this process and assigns a term to it; he calls it deskilling." --Chibber in Jacobin
(The word "deskilling" does not appear once in Labor & Monoploy Capital)
The Israelis have every reason to think the relationship is eternal on account of every president saying so.
Responding to a layoff notice post with "hey here's my article about layoffs" is crazy work
A week after FIU college republicans were exposed for celebrating Himmler's concept of a "Nazi heaven," UF college republicans are disbanded for doing Hitler salutes.
