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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • To Republicans, “elites” means having a college degree.

    Also depending on the context can mean “lives in a city” or “pays a mechanic to fix their car instead of gets their hands dirty” or “doesn’t go to church” or “makes fun of country folks / rural people” or “eats any food that isn’t fried or served in a disposable bag and eaten between 2 buns.”

    …But they’re never consistent, b/c they think that Trump, a literal billionaire who lives in a big city, definitely never has gone to church or gotten his hands dirty fixing cars… is somehow not elite.

    …I mean… he probably doesn’t eat anything that isn’t fried / between buns, but that’s about it.

    It’s incomprehensible / inconsistent.






  • I would argue that in their pursuit of worker rights they sought to prevent progress rather than supporting using the means of progress to lighten their own workload and then fight to receive the benefit that such machinery could provide.

    Reading more on them via this article, so Luddite is the wrong term. Maybe I was trying to use that term instead of just saying “impressing a tech-ignorant boomer like my dad.”

    I’m for worker rights as well, but I don’t think that means we should go back to the dark ages for production.

    I just think that the bosses shouldn’t get all the money from the robot savings, while everyone else works their asses off for no additional benefit.

    Sort of like how I can use a dumb “AI” music tool thing to share jokes with friends and dumb meme posts, but at the same time also think that Columbia records or whatever music corp or Ticketmaster should NOT be able to gouge the prices for concerts and then on top of that, not pass the increased profit to the actual artists.














  • Because “AI” isn’t actually “artificial intelligence.” It’s the marketing term that seems to have been adapted by every corporation to describe “LLMs…” which are more like extra fancy power guzzling parrots.

    Its why the best cases for them are mimicking things brainlessly, like voice cloning for celebrity impressions… but that doesn’t mean it can act or comprehend emotion, or know how many fingers a hand should have and why they constantly hallucinate contextless bullshit… because just like a parrot doesn’t actually know any meaning of what it is saying when it goes “POLLY WANT A CRACKER…” it just knows the tall thing will give it a treat if it makes this specific squawk with its beak.