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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • I sat down in a meeting with our CEO who announced the company was going to change fundamentally with AI, then told the developers to write something from his visions. I dunno what’s going to happen from here on out, but probably my CV has to be undusted soon. After talking to colleagues, they agreed it seemed like the CEO had stared down the LLM abyss too long and was far gone. He was convinced most jobs in the company could be automated away and that humans would have to be monitored to see if they can keep up with AI and be fired otherwise.

    This can’t end well.








  • I think immigration is a distraction and a veil to protect the rich. With the wealth and infrastructure, Europe can take in millions of people. With the wealth it possesses, we can have a strong social security net, free education, and maintain our current lifestyle quite easily. We “just” have to distribute the wealth, money and power better.

    Look around, every country in Europe is struggling with maintaining its population numbers. The cost of living crisis, the lack of prospects, the bleak outlook, and centralisation of wealth is hindering people from seeing themselves with children, much less affording them. The workforce is shrinking quickly and cannot provide neither manpower nor the money to pay for the pensions of the evergrowing group of retirees - that is mostly because the money is either flowing outside of the countries or into the pockets of the rich and wealthy.

    The problem isn’t “the muzzies” nor “brown people are destroying our culture”. It’s that people who come to Europe are being treated like they don’t belong. Governments aren’t doubling down on integration but are instead ostracising them despite requiring them. It’s a formula that will bear its nasty fruit. You can fly in thousands of Indian nurses, treat them like shit, and expect them to be happy. Invest in their future, invest in them, and the neighborhoods they are in.

    Happy, successful citizens do their best to see their country thrive. Poor, sidelined, citizens forced to survive might be easy to control and pit against each other, but they do not make for a stable society.

    Pointing fingers at groups within the 99% doesn’t do anything but help the percenters or dot-percenters.