It is reasonable to believe A) AIs are a poor substitute for a human at most jobs, and B) company management is still going to replace people in search of short-term profits, even at the expense of long-term stability.

Those two things are not contradictory.

Second, “AIs cannot create new, original things” is not the opposite of “AI can produce deepfakes”. That would be like saying every shuffle of a deck of cards is functionally unique (true), therefore I invented a new card game (false).

Peanuts are neither peas, nor nuts. Discuss.

Covid numbers wouldn’t be so bad if we stop testing, and ocean health won’t get worse if we stop measuring.

Kill that messenger!

…or like literally not ready, as in “you’ll need a 6090 Ti”?

Why are there seven hands in this picture?

But it protects the company’s freedom of religion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burwell_v._Hobby_Lobby_Stores%2C_Inc

Private employers in this country (including Ramsey) have more rights than workers.

Not just music! (Though that is probably the strongest example)

It’s telling how many people are nostalgic for a society that only existed before they were born. Recent History education sucks.

I had one where I dreamed I was in my bedroom, and there was some bright shiny…thing?..on my floor. Like a glowing dot, too bright to make out any details. So I went over and picked it up; it was maybe the size of a marble. I could start to see through the light and make out a few details, but kept putting it closer and closer to my face to try and get a better view. Soon, it was clear that it was my bedroom, and when I had the thing almost right at my eyeballs, I realized my eyes were open and I was awake.

So I guess I was slowly opening my eyes, but dreaming “around” the tunnel vision? Super strange experience.

“Testing your faith” sounds like tricking people into not believing. Which is exactly what they accuse their devil of doing. This god sounds like kind of an asshole.

Top Gun (1987)

I’m pretty sure she likes me already. Enough to stick around for the last 25+ years, anyway.

I once worked for a CFO who used the word “phenomenal” so much that a drinking game around that word would be classified as a mass casualty event.

There are reports from every state, including Hawaii.

https://www.bigfootmap.com/

Some obvious jokes, but somehow there are true believers across the continent.

The CDC Fired All Its Cruise Ship Inspectors Before the Hantavirus Outbreak

I don’t think I could even pick the CEO of my own employer out of a lineup.

There are something like 24 million millionaires in the US, and over 50 million worldwide.

“Famous” is relative, but its safe to say most people have never heard more than a tiny fraction of those names.

Under the section for the leaders of each side. The six men who led the escape include the three killed in the attempt, two more executed for their roles, and Clarence Carnes.

Bernard Coy †.
Joseph Cretzer †.
Marvin Hubbard †.
Sam Shockley Executed.
Miran Thompson Executed.
Clarence Carnes Surrendered.

It’s hard to distinguish the scammed “victims” from the people who knew the crypto was worthless but bought it anyway as a barely-disguised bribe.

They really are good at painting out wire work in movies these days.

I said this when he bought Bond and the Washington Post.

Bezos is basically Elliot Carver from Tomorrow Never Dies: billionaire media mogul who manipulates the news to his own ends.

Slight tangent, but Elon Musk is even more like Hugo Drax of Moonraker: foreign-born billionaire who owns a rocket company and is obsessed with repopulating the earth with his own offspring.

Deep Thoughts by Werner Herzog.