I decided I like this wasted money effort and resources. The market is not saturated so much as it’s waiting for true innovation, and that happens every day by thousands of small companies who are being suppressed by the big monopolies .
So the more that is wasted in AI, the more the little guys win because even the monopolies have finite resources and have to pull away from other things, new things, good things. Things that are provided by decidedly small companies who can be squashed easily
Seems more like a further slide to the right by democrats.
This sort of strategy is only going to alienate many on the left, because populism like this can only stroke reactionary feelings and not progressive movements.
It’s perfectly fine to build up a milquetoast reactionary centralist movement who lack any tools to enact change, and it may help some feel like they are doing the right thing. More power to them, I guess.
Yes, what we have here in this thread is a reaction to the collapse of tech news.
It’s still exponentially growing in all fields with tens of millions of brilliant technical and scientific people. It’s just that the reporting of it has collapsed due to .. gasp.. technology advancement which upset the economic model which supported reporting and well written articles.
That, and the fact things are advancing so fast nobody a clue what is going on outside their specific interests
Having a civilian as secretary is not bad, at that level, healthy even. But that requires a type of person who almost certainly would not be in the good graces of Trump. And anyone accepting the position now must fight uphill to prove they are not a mindless, greedy thug filled with evil
I like them for their strengths, and avoid reading about stuff they are handicapped. After reading them for a while, I agree they are not to be used for gulf states politics, Ukrainian war, and some US politics.
But, if one avoids all that, there is some excellent coverage of many world events.
US politics there is hit or miss. Some writers just don't understand the USA. They understand how America affects their own countries but have half baked notions on what makes people in America "tick" on any side of the isle. But they have some excellent opinion writers too, who really get things. Those people would be called socialists here.
They do have some correct reporting of Ukraine, but that Russian bias is a bit too raw there for me, and that Russian bias is not related to their USA handicaps. Mostly different writers and editors
I don't think they understand China that much, and their Indian coverage is interesting on what they do report. And like many news sites in the USA and EU and Japan they tend to under-report African events; but do it better than most USA media sites
Somebody (I forget who) once said that we just ended the second industrial revolution. What they meant was not factories, but people being shuffled about and breaking bonds. In the first industrial revolution, in France and England, a lot of people moved from the countryside to the cities. Here, in the USA everyone and their family has moved at least once, and maybe more , and changed jobs and careers. It probably had more effect on society than the first, once cars and computers and the internet was all in there too.
Europeans were less affected the last generation, than in the USA, because I think on average they moved around less. But with North America being so big, we in the USA are all like a lot of shaken up marbles who lost their heritage, most family (no more distant relations network for most) and are adrift.
I think its natural to shut down a lot of social interaction with so much disruption. Pretty sure any significant, rational political progress absolutely depends on us marbles getting our bearings back (dad joke)
The only good thing about this mess is it also hampers the fascists from organizing in person. Which is the only reason their demonstrations are small now
This affects not just them but all political activities and grassroots. It’s an equal opportunity handicap that gives the established parties all the advantages.
I think if people had better places to hang out at , or a movement to make a chain of bookstores, stuff like that, it could help. The French discovered democracy in parlors back in 1700s and such franchises of meeting places have been used over and over again the last few hundred years.. and there is nothing wrong in reinventing the wheel
I read the letter by squinting , totally worth the read and the post