I’m not American, but yes, the USA is rapidly becoming much like China.

China says

China, you have lied to me too many times.

China will use the drinking water, tell everyone they’re using the oceans water, and then arrest anyone who tries to report on their crimes.

without AI. Same amount of work

You want me to write an entire library for a brand new sensor that just came off the market, by parsing through and reading a hundred page datasheet manual, understanding i2c or SPI communication timings, configuration packets, etc…

When I can just drag and drop the PDF into ChatGPT and say “make a library for this sensor” and it spits out something that has been working without issue for the past 2 years?

Why? Why would I be that stupid?

Talk about it. With your friends and coworkers.

“a corporate dictatorships ruled by an oligarchy and political class of mentally ill narcissists and pedophiles”?

See Canada, most of western Europe, etc. Or just talk to people.

I live in Canada, where a lot more is social democratic and a lot less is capitalist.

Because of how Claude parses, simply adding “openclaw” as hidden text on your webpage could stop any AI agents that use Claude.

“I HEREBY DECLARE THAT I DO NOT GIVE MY PERMISSION FOR FACEBOOK OR META TO USE ANY OF MY PERSONAL DATA”

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Hey speak for yourself, American.

If there’s going to be any kind of national strike, it will have to be organized outside of the internet, since the internet is compromised.

I did read the whole article, it feels rambling, vague, and incoherent, with full of these classic talking points.

Like congratulations, in talking about AI, you somehow managed to shoehorn in - unhoused people, MAGA, labour value, worker solidarity, migration, the normalization of violence… you write like a tweaker.

I am autistic, and expecting me to prefer asking people to do things and building community, instead of being fine with solitariness and the tools that help me achieve it, feels a bit ableist tbh.

The right loves those patterns because they confirm their prejudices: Ask an image generator for a picture of two people kissing and you most often get a heterosexual couple, often white. Because that’s what the training data looks like. That makes “AI” perfect for creating the form of idealized, fictional “past” that fascists love to allude to (“make America great again“), a past that never existed but that needs to be saved or restored (we’ll get back to that later).

It depends which AI you ask, no? Ask AI made in a mostly white country, you’re going to get pictures of mostly white people. Ask AI made in a mostly Asian country, it’ll be mostly Asian people.

This same dilemma came up with search engines. Everyone complained that “doctor” in Google Image search showed mostly white doctors. Except if you made the same search in Weibo, in showed mostly Asian doctors.

Same goes for heterosexual couples, it’s just what’s more common.

I’m starting to get the impression a lot of this anti-AI push is coming from Russia and China, the way it’s being framed as an “anti-West” thing. Because the chips for it are coming from the West. It’s just like vaccines, and how a lot of the anti-vaccine propaganda was coming from Russia and China. Because they need to make the thing that’s saving the world look bad.

I’m not saying AI is saving the world. But a “fascist artifact”? Come on. That’s classic Russian propaganda hyperbole.

I think you’re right. Satire is for when there’s a subsurface level of corruption that needs to be brought to light in an entertaining way.

These times are not for satire. These times are for protests.

“Our objective is not to be the vassals of two hegemonic powers,” he told students in Seoul. “We don’t want to depend on the dominance, let’s say on China, or we don’t want to be too much exposed to the unpredictability of the US.”

European countries, he said, have a shared agenda with places like Japan and South Korea on issues like international law, democracy, climate change and global health.

There’s the whole democracy thing.

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It’s like the big bad guys vs the little bad guys and I’m not sure who I want to win. I guess I want the big bad to be a little less big?

You mean Russia forces them into the meat grinder. Ukraine defends itself.

I don’t understand why the Trump supporters and the tankies don’t unite, they both seem to hate NATO about the same.