All the city council people i know got their job because the big developers in the area backed them. One of them even owns 100k+ stock in palantir. We need ranked choice voting so bad

The purpose of a system is what it does. Gotta get those recruitment numbers up!

If you’re going to start counting shipping costs for the goods then you should compare thet to Amazon

Maybe I should say “critical of algorithms”. The point is it’s not engineered to "maximize engagement "

Put the AI critique aside for a moment. Many people on lemmy dont like algorithms managing their feed. There’s probably a big overlap between people who are pervasively sensitive to dark algorithms and people who perceive AI as a dark algorithm parlor trick .

Why is Xavier Becerra on the list? The Democratic governor front runner for California?

I meam that’s how it was after the founding of the USA. See the sedition act.

We have Facebook …

We wouldn’t even call it AI anything then. The whole framing as it is now is to undermine creative work. It’s hard to imagine how it would even remotely resemble what it is now, a cold reading con.

I think for many Accelerationism is speaking towards the capital transformations of society,
not the decline of empire. Even so, Trump is the accelerationist choice

Emotions aside, is their assessment of events incorrect? Harris is a more sane war hawk, recognizing that doesn’t make you an accelerationist.

I would assume the artificial womb would have a power save mode.

Because the common folk is too poor to afford admission.

I thought we were sharing comedically bad definitions of political systems.

Why should the law treat these things as the same though? If the law is blind to bigotry then that’s a larger problem.

Pretty sure socialism is when government does things and communism is when government does lots of things.

Catherine Liu pointed out how a lot of leftist spaces end up reproducing vanguards because of internal contradictions. Seems relevant for some reason…

Socialism is when small youtuber, capitalism is when popular youtuber.

Pretty sure my kid is going to be a billionaire because I read “Rich Dad”, why do you hate billionaires?

That’s iike living in a house that is falling apart and saying if I just let it fall apart completely then I won’t need to fix the house