A recurring “AI” evangelist tactic is using it for tasks that were already solved by tech that is more deterministic, faster, and uses less energy, but has been downgraded or de-emphasised in recent years by software companies

Like, we genuinely used to have better search and spellcheck.

A reminder: it doesn't have to be this way.

Mexico has a hell of a lot more to lose than Europe by angering Trump. Yet this is the response of its president just now.

This isn't a global phenomenon. Why have Europeans proven to be so uniquely cowardly over the past year?

Starmer is very obviously a far worse human being than, say, Boris Johnson is. Johnson is a thief, a fraud and a reflexive, instinctive liar. Starmer and his pals are coldly calculating, willing to do and say more or less anything, however horrific, for power and status.

The only question here is whether these lads think we are all idiots, or whether they know their own followers are.

You're asking them to understand "why was I so badly fooled by all of this?" when their whole identity is built around being clever people who get to explain the way things work to everyone else, and they *cannot* do that. Can't even hear the question without getting mad about it.

There is no mystery here: vaguely left wing people don’t like being mocked, kicked and insulted; the permanent reactionary spite voter (now Reform) does not respect people they already despise sucking up to them and fawning over them, and nobody likes the project, full stop.

The thing to note is that even as it does finally just become open fascism and looting, nothing changes: much the same people in power and on TV, saying much the same shit and continuing to roar denunciations at the same people. Which tells us things about what their actual job is, doesn’t it.

* Haribo used to sell a gummi candy in Germany called "Asses With Ears."

I promise this image is 100% real and not AI.