every day I feel worse about the next 6-12 months and better about the next 2-5 years.

AI in education is being treated as an unbelievable, better-than-Covid opportunity for profitmaking by the exploitative, predatory, extractive edtech industry

Smart. I continue to hurl myself on that landmine lol.

We’ve gone absolutely too far for saying the emission spouting, city ruining, leading cause of accidental death before age 40 should be eliminated! People genuinely don’t believe me when I say ‘look I don’t want to drive anywhere anymore.’

The South Parkian ethos of "conservatives being bad is preferable to liberals being annoyingly correct" has reached its apotheosis atop a mountain of child rape victims

Indeed. Impossible to forever hold to such rigid codes of behavior, and if the fate of fucking up is worse than death, that intrinsically changes the stakes on what you’ll do to avoid it.

Genuinely did not expect the biggest opposition to be from students, but that’s probably a positive sign for what’s down the road if we can get past this hell

Of course they then do all sorts of nefarious shit in support of upholding that honor: choosing Worf’s father as a scapegoat because his family is not powerful enough to worry about offending, attempting to kill people to maintain that fiction etc etc

The social-interpersonal ethics of American businesses is such that executives are treated like mini kings, which very much has an “elites kicked in the head by a mule”/“dictator’s dilemma” effect on their sense-making and constructed knowledge, and how people just carry out their insane decisions.

The number of poor saps saying “Chomsky” in the replies

Yes, that’s an existing problem, but it doesn’t mean it will always operate that way. And it doesn’t seem that they’re planning to introduce those same stipulations given they use the term “cultural workers” and explicitly call out people who don’t get captured under the term working artist.

I think your overall point on everybody needing housing is correct, but want to point out that subsidized artist housing means that people who aren’t independently wealthy can afford to be professional artists.