I want to believe

Depends on the operation. It’s pretty easy in ranger or vifm.

I mean if you don’t like camp, maybe. If you do, then this movie has some big shoes to fill!

Yeah it’s hard to tell. Are they scamming just because they can, or because it’s the only opportunity left.

If I was an editor I’d leave it in too. I can take the embarrassment of admitting I didn’t proof read every article in order to embarrass some asshat using LLMs to generate slop news.

Agreed that Crypto, NFTs, and I would even say LLMs very broadly speaking, are not evil technologies (LLMs are incredibly unfortunate – this is perhaps the worst time in history for them to become available) per se. All of these have limited applicability. But obviously any new platform or tech has to disrupt entire industries or else it’s a total flop, so we get these idiotic bubbles.

Bitcoin is a huge bubble propped up by speculators and sooner or later it will come tumbling down.

My take (OK actually this take) is it’s because all the “legitimate” grinds are funnelling value up to 10 different billionaires, leaving less and less to go around. The only thing left is scam economics – fooling desperate people to ““invest”” in the latest grift, on the gamble that they can get their measly capital in on the new bubble before the suckers and bag holders come sniffing around. But of course the 0.01% own the whole gameboard, so good lucky screwing over your fellow investors, and oh yeah, every single working person.

I think that’s why the AI platforms are being pushed so forcefully – like, there is nothing organic or deliberate about them. Just like Crypto & NFTs. There’s no other way to make oodles of money anymore.

We’re rapidly approaching a world where entire conversations happen without readers or writers, yet somehow count towards KPIs.

You come at my gleaners you best not miss

Very nice. More democracy.

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So hard to choose… but that’s a flammy for me, too.

Just remember that “the economy” really stands for “rich people’s yacht money” – by that metric it’s doing great.

Earl Grey every day.

It’s so easy to make an unsatisfying cup, but when you get it just right 😍

And the smell

What are you suggesting then?

barf. barf barf barf barf. wtf!!!

I remember reading in a game design book how they had a real hard time saying why “play” was different from “work,” since you’re often performing the same behaviours and chasing similar short term goals.

lingua fucka

Above and below the page/plane is the z-axis.

But some people “hold” the page up in front of them, or down on the table.

Oh fuck