My guess is they’ll ship them off to Israel as soon as consequences are a real possibility. People accused of pedophilia often do the same thing and get away with it.

Now that’s class solidarity!

That rate of exploitation is pretty wild though, $2/hr while earning hundreds for the employer. Most capitalists begin uncontrollably salivating just thinking about that.

This is a power thing though, the closest we have/had in terms of rate of exploitation was silicon valley software engineers. They got basically free everything to distract them from how much they were being exploited. If working circumstances were worse, they would have demanded higher pay or quit, because they could afford to.

As the article notes, in the Philippines that is not the power dynamic at all. These are already among the highest paying jobs, and I doubt these workers are in a position to bargain for better. There are too many people willing to take their job, either in their own country, or in other impoverished countries.

The police works in part at the behest of that senator, he deserves all of the blame.

Yes, and he’s such a great communicator as well. In those few paragraphs he packs arguments to convince people ranging from idealist liberals to cynical leftists.

Yes, 100%, the Democrats should have been taking turns disrupting until thrown out. Fuck respect for these institutions, it’s not like the Republicans are showing them any respect for institutions, with their executive branch constantly breaking laws.

Given she freely admitted to shooting a puppy, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was her.

Nah, just a TI-84 and teach them programming in BASIC

But it can be sold as good enough to credulous management, thereby still doing damage by getting people laid off in the short term.

There’s this famous quote about investing which goes: “the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent”. I think that equally holds for the labor market. Just because you and everyone around you knows your job can’t be replaced by AI, doesn’t mean there won’t be an attempt to replace you which lasts long enough for you to lose your house.

I think this is mostly a symptom of the gerontocracy. Most elected officials have not grown up with computers, which is already likely to make them incurious about them. Couple that with being in office so long, likely developing a very high opinion of themselves that they know best. I would guess a significant minority is actively hostile to learning anything about computers, so you can hire any professional to explain stuff with baby talk, it won’t work on them. Combine that with the rest of the technologically illiterate politicians just being indifferent, and you get this kind of policy.

It makes more sense if you read it as a threat.

Yup, just look at what happened to De Blasio. Mild criticism and they kidnapped his daughter.

In other news: violence against Jewish people is on the rise.

Why? Because of the chat control stuff?

Also it’s mostly security through obscurity. It is just difficult enough to dissuade most people, but not actually secure because that costs money.

That’s true yeah, there is a lot less retail investment in those companies.

What is similar to the dot com bubble though is many “smaller” companies (i.e. not Google or Meta) are buying into AI as an investment into infrastructure for their company, just like was happening with useless websites during the dot com bubble.

The AI bubble is going to be like the dot com bubble I think, but with the world being so heavily financialized it might spiral into something like 2008 or worse…

WE WILL WIN! WE WON’T REST!

That’s also something you could prevent by not allowing children of clergy to become priests.

Come to think of it, that may be a good idea for politicians as well. Children of politicians often get internships and opportunities through their parents, which gives them a massive networking advantage if they eventually want to hold office themselves.

I doubt they’ll be that stupid, however, all bets are off with the MBA’s back behind the wheel…