Someone was recently pointing out that there were no American billionaires between Rockerfeller and Gates (obviously inflation makes the comparison a stretch) but I wonder if that long gap meant that the role and interests of capital owners hasn't got the political science attention it deserves?

"If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?" is a quote I think about constantly

Exactly. It's performance art, storytelling to keep the money spigot turned on full blast. Agents don't work, it is AI Centipede.

The key weakness in AI agents is that they're a lie. They don't work. They just don't fuckin' work. You can't set a hallucination engine to work doing tasks. It's pants on head stupid. The hype pretends this isn't the case and hypothesises a fabulous future where they work *at all*. This is a lie.

Back in the nineties I went backpacking in Southern Africa in their summer for six months (lucrative IT contract, I was young). Six months under the African sun and I came back with the skin colour of someone from Milan in late January.

FF/FG - there’s literally no way that we can afford to build social housing.

Also FF/FG - there’s literally no way that we, a neutral country, can afford not to spend billions on weapons for our military.

Material conditions are going to get much worse for the majority of people, housing securityis going to be reduced to discipline workers but we can have some racism as a treat.