Fair, but don’t you think it would have been worth letting that play out? Meanwhile blue states were stepping up & winning the PR battle.

The courts might have restored SNAP this week, no? Why now?

I hear people frame affordability not as nominal prices, but as life questions like ‘can I pay for a 4y college with a summer job?’ or ‘will child care cost as much as my mortgage?’ or ‘will this medical procedure erase my savings’ or ‘are tech execs hell bent on destroying my profession?’

For once, Dems held the cards but folded (I suspect) once big airline donors made enough calls

Honestly, how can one talk about affordability in terms of groceries but ignore the massive cost increases for child care, elder care, health care, higher education, cars, and yes housing?

Meanwhile nobody knows what’s going on in their own backyard without the reporting previously done by local papers

Having worked on plastics legislation, the suggestion that “moderates” have been equally as helpful as the environmental ‘left’ on the issue is laughable

This piece fails to acknowledge a major component: the AI business model is built on literal theft of many affected workers, no wonder people are pissed off

Enshittification in its purest form, makes me wanna vomit

This is no straw man argument, you’re inherently inviting bias of each LLM you use without knowing how or why those papers are chosen

Exactly, using LLMs inherently introduces a layer of bias, and crucially there’s no way to know *how* those papers are being selected.

I also wonder how much investment in data centers is effectively being siphoned away from less speculative industries and human capital

Love the Bells

Yeah, harrrd disagree. I acknowledge it's far from perfect, but imho it's so much better than nothing.

Not sure what that means, but feel free to close the thread. Fwiw, when I 'followed' you, it allowed me to comment, I assume that's a bsky thing

I'm all for more public goods, but I don't think the goal should be an ultra-powerful state (*gestures at the US*). Imho, we need a system in which the people are more powerful than the state, including creators, perhaps we disagree.

I think the degree to which this technology literally depends on the people it's disenfranchising makes it very different. Cameras don't depend on portrait artists, but AI does. Also, the notion that jobs are the only material harms caused by AI applications is, I think, wildly incorrect.