"Saying 'Thank you', 'Please' to ChatGPT? It's costing OpenAI 'millions of dollars', says Sam Altman" (headline on mint, by Ravi Hari There's a photo of Altman with the caption: Despite the massive expense types to polite ChatGPT conversations, Altman says it's "tens of millions of dollars well spent."

lol

"The left went too far" in contemporary U.S. politics is almost always a lie and a very convenient way to rationalize moral failure. For example, "MeToo went too far" replaces "I do not care about sexual violence or its victims and I don't want to have to even feel bad about that"

the cult of the individual will kill us all

different workers from one another, lumon spreading lies to ensure they don’t grow solidarity, the illusion of choice purported by lumon, etc. the last chronological form of alienation mentioned by marx that should occur under capitalism, of course, is the alienation of a person from themselves 2/2

not telling you shit you don’t know, but worth explicitly elaborating for your audience that the show is very explicitly an exposition of marx’s alienation in a contemporary setting. a floor of people who don’t understand what the purpose is of what they do, the intentional sectioning off of (1/2)

me either

have you ever played rugby