Except, of course, THIS ALREADY HAPPENED!!! It's not a potential risk. It is our current reality via algorithmic social media misadventure. The distinction between algorithm and AI conceals the disempowerment that has occurred.

gradual-disempowerment.ai

To tie this to the "liberation day" meltdown, with the impacts of climate change beginning to accelerate and authoritarians gaining ground in important places, we have entered an era of higher systemic risk. Up and to the right!

#stonks #climate

It definitely feels that way, even with my own offspring.

They lost the trifecta in 2018 and, somehow, got a second chance.

This isn't TDS. I don't know what the post PDT plan is, but I'm certain it won't depend on one mercurial...personality. Maybe an AI simulation of one?

About 28,800 to get within 1σ of the historic trend.

That is pretty extreme by any standard. Playgrounds now look more interesting, but are lame AF. I'm never surprised to see kids climbing on the outside of them.

These slides in my parent's hometown were so smooth it was like being shot out of a cannon.

In my field (architecture), the 2008 financial crisis hit real estate hard & the layoffs went very deep. Tons of those young professionals never came back to the field. Every firm I've worked at struggles to hire the right staff. No back-sies here. It'll take a generation to fix (if/when we start).

I think India, maybe Indonesia or Thailand, rather than China.

and the sterile "Traumatic Injury Response Protocol" language goes so much further than any supposed "woke" terminology when it comes to Newspeak. Every once in a while your kid will need to apply a tourniquet to themselves. These things just happen, you know?

Also of note, I'm only have the terrors and abstraction, not that other thing.

I would've guessed Gateway 2000.

of note, this was in 1971.