Extinction-Level Capitalism. "AI is inher­ently polit­ical tech­nology. If AI works as intended, it will grad­u­ally corrode our liberal democ­racy, risking an irre­versible shift into another polit­ical and economic config­u­ra­tion." [kottke.org]

Welcome to the UK, where soon 17-year-olds will be legally allowed to drive, join the army, work a full-time job, have sex and even vote but not watch YouTube past their bedtime.

Sweden’s largest trade union (LO) compared per capita GDP numbers (in dollars) before and after eliminating top 5% richest in the country. Note how ultra-rich skew data. When they are removed, a number of European countries (like Sweden) are actually ahead of the US. Post-Brexit UK looks weak.

guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.

This is a (minor) plot point in Starter Villain, where all the "billionaires" in the book are horribly illiquid, starved for cash, and have so fucked up their finances that they can't even get a loan based on their paper worth anymore.

sharpen those guillotines, folks

“If you take the dementia test and think it’s an IQ test, then you’ve failed both the dementia test and the IQ test.”🤣

It's official. GW3 is a thing - we are developing Guild Wars 3! buff.ly/w3tbqpd

Guild Wars 3, eh?`I'm in.

My opponents are all communists. In unrelated news, my government will be taking ownership of the means of production.

They’re packaging it like this so it looks like a shallow trend, but Gen Z has gone through two financial crises, a pandemic, rising fascism, active shooter drills since they were toddlers, and are now being told by the oligarchy they’re to be replaced by robots. Socialism is the logical conclusion.

There really has not been a finer artist in my lifetime. John Blanche. Just going to post up a few of his classics, though in reality you could fill a gallery with all his work. #nerdlings

turns out the paperclip maximizer thought experiment was shockingly correct

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

Hennes återkommande delningar av rasistiska och högerextrema konton, bl a till stöd för Tommy Robinson, vittnar inte heller om särskilt lysande intellekt. bsky.app/profile/ande...

Fantastic new OECD data comparing international subsidies in key sectors. "For Chinese firms, almost 60% of their global market share gains can be explained by the subsidies received." Worth keeping in mind when people insist Europe’s competitiveness problem is mainly about overregulation.

Forskning är inte viktigt när man har privata vinstintressen att skydda

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

Varför heter det Sverige och inte Jantes Inferno?

Yeah I knew the narcissistic injury from that one was gonna be bloody.

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

i didn't notice the AI-ness of this article until it described tomatoes as red orbs apnews.com/article/toma...

THIS. Do I worry about the effects of social media on my 11-year-old? Obviously yes. Do I think she should be banned from it any more than young men falling into the manosphere on Reddit, middle-aged ladies being dragged into transphobia on Mumsnet, or pensioners radicalised by Facebook? 100% no.

I've used Swiftkey for a bunch of years, but this keeps popping up now no matter how many times I click it away. No, OneDrive is not a thing I use, and apparently neither is Swiftkey for much longer. Shame, because it's way better for me as a multilingual person than the vanilla iOS keyboard is.

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

007 coffee blog in progress

republicans love to put children in concentration camps and then act irreparably violated when a democrat says “fuck”

Återigen. När Garplind vill "mygga av kärringen" är det ett hot mot demokratin. När Wold vill ge yrkesförbud till vårdpersonal pga åsikter är det business as usual.

Me: writes detailed bug report, uses the word "feature" Their AI bot: "This sounds like a feature request, issue closed"

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

One of the most dystopian charts I’ve ever seen

Boromir: and why do we not EMBRACE the ring's power?? Aragorn: and what would you have us do with it? Boromir: a lot of editing advice, and also a way to take care of busy work, you know, memos about orcs et cetera Aragorn: Boromir: and difficult break-ups, if you know what I mean

Det som började med en motion från (V) har resulterat i mindre stress och halverat antal sjukskrivningar. Men högern är ju mer intresserade av att dubbla antalet miljardärer istället för dessa "farliga vänstersvängar" Lyckat test – full lön men kortare arbetsdagar www.svt.se/nyheter/loka...

the hungry observatory

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This whole thread.

Whatever your thoughts about The Boys' finale, it made Elon Musk mad, which the show's creator and cast think is hilarious.

I really hate reading LinkedIn-style posts. It's not the content, it's the rhythm. 🍿

For anyone interested in Swedish politics, or media coverage of Sweden and social media disinformation about the country, I'll be posting on these issues in the run-up to the elections that take place at the end of the summer.

"I'm not interested in talking to the recycling bin either" ought to be a broadly applicable rallying cry of the present age

A subwoofer implies the existence of a domwoofer, and other useful thoughts I have in the bathtub.

A guy who sued 27 women who called him a "psycho" and "clingy" on a "Are We Dating the Same Guy" Facebook page also tried to sue Meta. A judge just dismissed the case because his lawyer was using AI to file non-existent citations.

Jag, en autist: *dyker upp på dejten i en ben & jerry’s choklad brownie glass-dräkt*

Alien: And how did you run out of water? Earthling: Machines drank it. Alien: Machines. Earthling: We had to feed machines the water. Aliens: So the machines were holding your planet hostage for water. Earthling: No, we made the thirsty machines. They worked for us. Alien: End communication.

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