Ed Zitron is an absolute paragon in this fucking mess. At least somebody has their head on straight.

What is going on?

Business idiots. People have this bizarre perception that if someone has a bunch of money that they must be “smart.” I mean, you’re on hexbear, so I probably don’t have to explain that. It’s clearly false.

So why are they everywhere?

Again, business idiots. If you, as an incompetent moron, could hypothetically boost your quarterly earnings by firing laying off workers while getting kind of, sort of, I guess, the same output, what would you do? I remind you that your entire career relies on this. You make the cuts, or you get cut. So you roll out the LLM bullshit. And sure, it’s cheap now. We can weather the expense. Until you need it for your company to function. Then they jack up the price. Because what are you going to do? You already fired everybody. The LLM is running everything. You have no idea how anything even works anymore. You pay it or you go out of business.

It is a weapon.

Gov uses AI to “age check” people. People just use AI to make faces for the AI. AI uses AI faces to “learn.”

Damn. I was fucking strapped last time I took a train cross-country. Nobody asked and nobody cared.

“Hello fellow human and sandwich enjoyer! Is this the main bus to the city, where sandwiches are made? I’ll have one ticket, please!”

Sweet fucking refried beans I can’t stand anymore. I was on there a little while ago reading a comment thread and the whole conversation just devolved into people calling each other bots. No opinions, no facts, nothing. Just “You’re a bot!” “NO U!” Fuck sake.

Ions are great once you’re up in space, provided time isn’t a factor. Unfortunately without investing in launch loops, or space elevators, or orbital rings, or rotavators, or other such technologies, getting out of Earth’s gravity well is the really expensive part that will still require liquid-fueled rockets. But I hard agree: we should be investing in getting out into space (rather than blowing each other up.)

We fight over land and territory. Solution: make it easy to just leave. Go make your own territory. Space provides that opportunity. The problem: then the people that do become ungovernable. They might go out into the black and do fully-automated luxury gay space communism. And we can’t have that.

The Culture Intensifies

Ahh yes… “Starship.” That piece of crap that has only managed to deliver a flaming banana to the Indian Ocean at mach 10. Once. The rest of the time it breaks up into a debris field before it can even manage that much. Yeah, I’m sure that’ll happen any day now. Right around the same time as FSD that was set to be rolling out about 10 years ago.

But no, let’s rediscover rocket science from first principles because the last 60 years of established doctrine don’t “move fast and break things” enough. Absolute fucking morons.

I’m also reminded of that 1950s slogan of “Energy so cheap you won’t even meter it!” Yeah still waiting on that one too 75 years later.

Indeed

This comrade gets it.

OMFG, you are correct. I had fortunately forgot about Whatifalthist. I thought that guy disappeared into the void after his 10-hour, 4-part “autobiography” of made-up bullshit.

Right? What’s wrong with TPB? I just get torrent links off there when I’m too lazy to get it off usenet. Do they have comments?!?

‘All US forces must now assume their networks are compromised’ after Big Chungus breach

‘All US forces must now assume their networks are compromised’ after Beanis Supreme breach

Yep, the math checks out.

Look, man. I don’t know shit from fuck about Swedish politics, but the “fuck me” eyes and pursed lips while mugging the camera seems fucking wildly inappropriate for a prime minister.

GOOD post.

Get the fuck out of here with that shit.

“Viralstyle is a full service solution for building and operating an e-commerce business for print-on-demand merchandise. By partnering with Viralstyle you can offer buyers every color, style, and size available with no guesswork, upfront cost, or print minimums. We’ll handle your inventory, shipping and even your customer service.”

I’ll bet you ten hexbutts right now that she’s absolutely plugging her own merch.

Goes outside.

Doesn’t get enough attention and clout from libshirt in public.

Immediately explains shirt on bsky then posts picture of self-explanitory shirt.

“gottem ”

Includes link to merch store so you too can “gottem” through consumer treats.

No notes.

"Do you need chat gpt to fuck your wife? Yeah?

Incoming Sam Altman.

You all have sex?! I just shitpost all day.