it is a noteworthy shift that Bush et al felt the need to lay like two years of groundwork to justify invading Iraq on WMD grounds and Trump is just saying "Venezuela's oil is our rightful property" and sending in the Navy

This policy change is not driven by negligence or pseudoscience. They understand what they're doing. It's one of the many attacks on your quality of life to increase leverage and power.

AI is similar to crypto or NFTs in that it is a solution searching desperately for a problem. NFTs kinda fizzled out except for the people who live in that bubble.

Crypto abandoned the search for a problem and simply leaned into the gambling that it actually was, almost from the start.

I know this because they tried to recruit me and I strongly considered it but they’re also a “do an unpaid writing test where you have to also make it playable” company so that’s not something I vibe with

Again I say: how fucking interesting that remote work technology is bad and not worth adopting despite all research pointing to productivity gains, but genAI which offers NOTHING is so important to adopt and force on people who have no use for it despite all the horrible things genAI does