The fact I am howling into the social media void about my mental health tonight instead of talking to someone in my life - because there’s nobody I feel okay doing that with - seems to back up my brainweasels on this one.

Decades watching Republicans work the refs til everyone in media is scared to point out their blatant misconduct, of setting up the court system to make sure they chosen venues have outsized influence to shape the USA, of Democrats too timid to throw elbows…

And here we are.

Strongmen play by the rules until they can get away with not playing by the rules anymore, and then they just do whatever the fuck they want because nobody can stop them.

And legally speaking, SCOTUS just cut Trump a blank cheque.

Trump. Is. Going. To. Abolish. Term. Limits.

Also someone can have been involved in things that are good - like exposing info in the public interest - and *still do horrible things*.

A ton of lefties don’t seem to have a handle on the idea that JA might have both done necessary work AND also committed SA.

So yes, you freaky lickers at the boot of Roko’s Basilisk, we DO hate you for using the thing that’s going to replace creative, inspired artistic works - replace them with an endless sea of literary grey goo, perpetual derivative mash-ups & remixes of things human brains created.

The LLM tech is nowhere near the point where it could write something compelling or memorable. But because neither the hedge fund predators nor the executive suite assholes understand or value the difference between barely readable slop and artistic brilliance, they don’t care.

Because for all their talk of democratisation and what this will do for everyday folks, the customers for this scam aren’t you and me. They’re the suits who hire and manage the people who are currently doing these tasks. And they’re being told AI will cull their employee budgets.

Almost every *actual* use case that has been implemented is basically some variant of “stop paying qualified, trained, experienced, skilled people to do a thing, fire them all and make someone on a lower wage finesse the garbage this black box outputs”.

They try to paint it like we’re regressive luddites, mourning an old tradition out of sentimentality and fear of the future unknown. Candle-makers scorning the electric bulb.

No we’re observers of what happens when VC cons biz execs into cutting personnel “costs” with a gimmick.