The payouts range from $1 for simple tasks like “subscribe to my human on Twitter” to $100 for more elaborate humiliation rituals, like posting a photo of yourself holding a sign reading “AN AI PAID ME TO HOLD THIS SIGN.”
Seems like a gameable system. Just whip up an ai-generated image and make yourself a cool Benjamin in a few minutes.
Evidently the only evidence of that was an email Epstein wrote to himself, though. Not really interesting or relevant from a law enforcement standpoint.
I've read that burnout can also come from the inability to make what feels like useful progress. The pandemic and the switch to working from home broke the illusion that the 9-5 was actually necessary, and I think people are waking up to the fact that the work is bullshit. Sudden awareness that all you've been doing is spinning your wheels can lead to a breakdown.
There's probably other authors here, but a dominant theme of Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch was that capitalism was feudalism in decay. The enclosure of the commons and the switch to waged labor was a reaction of the ruling class to the threat of social mobility created by technological development.
"Sure, I turned Twitter into an on-demand deepfake porn site called X.com, but history will vindicate me when that ends up saving the United States of America."
I'm torn between "They're dabbing on us, they're the hungry ghosts irl and they will not rest until the world is swallowed whole" and "the author whose only notable Asian character was named Cho Chang probably has no idea what the word means and someone pulled a funny prank"
She really named her boat after the repeated cycle of reincarnation that comes from the inability to detach from worldly desires and care for all living beings, huh?
They later clarified with an explanation that it is okay to compare mild criticism of Jews who support the Zionist genocide to pogroms and blood libel.
Seems like a gameable system. Just whip up an ai-generated image and make yourself a cool Benjamin in a few minutes.