Alaska repealed most state taxes in the 80s due to the oil and gas boom. After a decade of low oil prices, state government has shriveled to a husk. With such a low tax burden, it feels like no one has any skin in the game but we still want responsive govt services. It’s a race to the bottom.

my main point: a lot of people who are skeptical of AI are speaking from a place of pretty damn rational and reasonable anxiety about what their future looks like, not just petty beefs about being outclassed at trivia (and like, Wikipedia has existed for a very long time, so what)

Doomscrolling is the weaponization of literacy

Shock and Uh.