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If my business was failing and I had to fire thousands of people I'd say it's because of AI productivity gains too. more...

Eugh. "Milestones" are all going to be battles and empire though.

At least they can't make a badger a racist flag.

One of my VR Lighthouses died last month. These things are gyroscopically spinning 24 hours a day for, what, a decade now? Nearly.

No wonder. Mostly the industry seems to be settling on using head-mounted cameras rather than sweeping infra-red beams and receptors on the head anyway.

It i more...

Final Improv session before the show this evening and mostly just practice for the final event.

Steve Hoopla threw in some extra chaos with the half of us assigned 'audience' each time given cards to shout out immediate things that need to happen: A declaration of love, a sudden death, an more...

Everyone knows when Toni Schneider says he'll "help set up Bluesky’s next phase of growth" as new CEO he means adverts right?

The next phase is the one where they tighten the thumbscrews and see who will stay anyway.

#bluesky #ceo #ToniSchneider more...

This month's slightly late newsletter for Feb is on it's way to the email box all the beautiful lovers who asked for that.

The rest of you dirty warmongers will have to read it here:

https://dalliance.net/blog/feb26/

Featuring Love, Lights, War, and Green party wins. It has bits about A more...

Since it looks like it might be a while until the Steam Machines are released, due to market bullshit around AI malinvestment and the subsequent price of RAM, I gave up waiting and Installed Jellyfin on a temporary machine.

Jellyfin is pretty nice. I like the sync-play feature so the mach more...

But yeah. Don't buy the creep's smart glasses. Don't let anyone wearing them stand near you. REALLY don't let them look at your credit cards.

In fact, if you ask me, do not pass your communications through the meta creep at all. Why would you? Alternatives exist.

I block all his servers more...

Read the second of the Murder Bot novellas by Martha Wells, Artificial Condition.

Our hacked security droid takes a job looking after more idiots in order to get a ride to investigate his missing memories.

And they get into trouble of course.

Enjoyed it more than the first one. The ship more...

Content warning:UKPol power/war

One of the best things about Brexit is how we left a power-block in which we had a veto and a vote and a large soft power reputation and a real say in it's policy and outcomes.

And now, instead, we have to do whatever the mad king in America wants. Bomb wh more...

Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS

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Unfortunately, the upgrade requires NPU processors, which will lock out millions from getting into the new ecosystem

So glad I don't deal with Microsoft any more. Thanks Valve and St more...

Content warning:#war #iran

It is such a mystery, why do American presidents start patriotic wars far from home when they are unpopular and the mid-terms are coming up and there's incriminating evidence against them in the news every day. 🧐 🤔

Nothing like this has ever happened before. more...

I have no problem, sooner Starmer falls the better and here's hoping the greens can take this result national.

But if you were Starmer, or even a supporter of the Labour party, then losing two thirds of the voters in a safe seat since Starmer took over, and coming third, might be an issue.

Content warning:re: Green Menace

I mean seriously, his response to this is to say that he wants change.

He's the one in power now, he needs to stop telling everyone we need change now that he's the one we'd be changing, surely?

Stuck on the same opposition message without any plans for more...

Content warning:re: Green Menace

Thanks to Starmer's excellent stewardship, the Labour party ruled out their best candidate for factional reasons, told the electorate how Reform were correct about immigration but Labour will do half as much about it, and alienated his base voters so much more...

Content warning:re: Green Menace

Note that all the news and polls were saying it would be incredibly close, and then it wasn't even a bit close except for the second place position.

Funny how the polls always end up biased towards conservatism and the status quo.

Love how Reform warn th more...

Content warning:re: Green Menace

Yes! Nice one Gorton. Well done Denton.

Greens more than 40 percent.

That's how you do it everyone, replicate this at the national level now. more...

Content warning:re: AI Economics

I mean if human-capable AI is here now that doesn't mean we just say the AI companies have won capitalism and they get to be the new feudal lords now!

Does it?

If they have won capitalism then now is the time to start a new game!

Dismantle capitalism an more...

Content warning:re: AI Economics

Interesting and enjoyable read. Anything this specific can't be true, obviously. But maybe plausible i guess?

I reckon there's bubble in them their markets, but that even the size of the bubble is probably over-estimated because the gain from these machin more...

Content warning:re: AI Economics

For the entirety of modern economic history, human intelligence has been the scarce input. Capital was abundant (or at least, replicable). Natural resources were finite but substitutable. Technology improved slowly enough that humans could adapt. Intellige more...

Content warning:re: AI Economics

The Occupy Silicon Valley movement has been emblematic of wider dissatisfaction. Last month, demonstrators blockaded the entrances to Anthropic and OpenAI’s San Francisco offices for three weeks straight. Their numbers are growing, and the demonstrations h more...

Content warning:re: AI Economics

The federal government’s revenue base is essentially a tax on human time. People work, firms pay them, the government takes a cut. Individual income and payroll taxes are the spine of receipts in normal years.

Indeed. Collapse in the labour economy causes more...

Content warning:re: AI Economics

In the US, we weren’t asking about how the bubble would burst in AI infrastructure anymore. We were asking what happens to a consumer-credit economy when consumers are being replaced with machines.

This is pure Marxist, exactly how Marx said capitalism wo more...

Content warning:re: AI Economics

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You say non-cyclical but then still draw a circle.

Feedback loops can be dampening or not though of course, that's the difference really. more...

Content warning:re: AI Economics

Subscriptions and memberships that passively renewed despite months of disuse. Introductory pricing that sneakily doubled after the trial period. Each one was rebranded as a hostage situation that agents could negotiate. The average customer lifetime value more...

Content warning:AI Economics

A news-report about the AI economy that fell through a time tunnel from two years in the future.

We probably could have figured this out sooner if we just asked how much money machines spend on discretionary goods. (Hint: it’s zero.)

AI capabilities improved more...

Content warning:Green Menace

Look out everyone, Zack and the Evil Green Menace are going to get you and give you free cocaine and cannabis. They're going to ban your landlord and they might even stop funding radical genocidal war in the middle east.

Vote carefully man! You should be scar more...

DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind. The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.

DDG is mostly MS Bing under the cover, with some extra stuff thrown in there. They have an AI-free search results page too noai.duckduckgo.com

They've been getting worse rather than better lately. Lately I'm trying startpage.com with mostly better results.

Day Five in the Improv Narrative house, and we're in the format I like most really. A few instructive games in the first half and a couple of longer narrative stories in the second half.

The island game was supposed to teach something about not deliberately getting obstructive.

A scene w more...

One minute summary of our tarot reading on the Gorton and Denton by-election later this week. See the full five minute show at wordcloudtarot.com

#tarot #ukpol #gortonAndDenton #election