Incredible @jack-thrower.bsky.social chart here for @thepointau.bsky.social - the # of utes FAR exceeds the number of tradies and farmers in Aus
These are land-based luxury private jets, fossil-fuelled,heavily subsidised by the gov't and justified on flimsy pretence
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos.
- Seemingly magical properties
- Developed and experimented with to make endless products
- Poisoned countless communities in it's creation
- Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now
So when someone offers a breezy āglass half fullā take on a prolonged Hormuz closure, what theyāre really saying is:
the people who canāt afford to bid for fuel can just go without.
Thatās not optimism.
Thatās moral detachment. The unlucky 7 Billion have names and families.
It is often said that a āwaveā or ātsunamiā of technological change is heading our way. These metaphors are powerful because they shape our sense of what is reasonable, and what is unreasonable. What does AI as a "wave" imply is a reasonable course of action? (1/...)
Elizabeth Lopatto: The tech bros are not okay www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...