the fact that this is just a straightforward retelling of yesterday's events without hyperbole

You have to assume that Musk is being set up as a giant human shield. It’s unlike Trump to let anyone take the credit, yet he’s all too happy to let Musk be the face of these cuts.

When the pendulum swings back there’s a bewigged South African in the way.

I’m often hit by a sadness about how we fumbled the chance to learn from it.

It was an opportunity to collectively slow down, consume less, empathise more, make capitalism more human-sized.

And yet here we are, back on the same hamster wheel.

Economic inequality has been on an unerring upward trajectory since the 70s.

That’s why you can have a “strong economy” and rising homelessness at the same time.

I saw a non-ironic “[city name], I am in you” on here the other day.

Yeah, fair enough. Pretty lazy speculation on my part.

Yeah. Feels like this part of internetting is over. Probably a good thing but feels weird / sad.

Feels a bit weird starting again here.

It’s like watching a spin off of that show you loved, only the show you loved had a crappy last season.

He was miraculous at Sunderland. Carried a very young team through a very tough, dirty league.

I’m speculating tbf, based on the fact that he disappeared for 7 months before murdering someone while wearing a backpack full of Monopoly money.

Not sure if back pain is the cause here.

No, that’s not fine.

Rittenhouse and Mangione are both murderers. Given either a platform is not in the public interest. Because murder, imo, is bad.

Those platforming Rittenhouse are acting out of self interest. Same goes for those platforming Mangione. Two cheeks of the same arse.

Lots of people are absolutely allergic to nuance.

It’s all goodies and baddies.

You appear to think that ‘the public interest’ = ‘things that you specifically are interested in’.

Dunno man. Not sure if that’s how this all works.

We don’t publish the manifestos of school shooters, as a for instance.

It’s generally accepted that murderers’ manifestos are not appropriate for public consumption.

It’s a manifesto from a mentally unwell murderer. Publishing those aren’t usually in the public interest.

Even when they contain the revelation that US healthcare = not nice.

Seems pretty clear that he thought that public interest = the public are interested.

I’m with you. Don’t especially care that it was published, but to pretend that there was a reason beyond salaciousness / clicks is really daft.

I know he has always had his weird fanboys, but there has been a particularly odd uptick of late.

AI boosterism is doing some very odd to people lately.

There is a noticeable shift towards cult-like adoration of Elon Musk on post-exodus Twitter.

Saw a thread the other day suggesting that he may have cloned himself, and that’s why he has mastered so many fields. Hundreds of replies agreeing with the premise.

I get money people being lured by the prospect of more money.

What I don’t get is non-money people going to great lengths to convince themselves that the bad AI thing is superior to the good non-AI thing.

Feels like that particular delusion has really took hold in the last 2-3 months.

Ad agencies are still generally opposed to using AI for public facing work. Turkeys / Christmas and all that.

Marketing people are a different story, sadly.

How in which world? 🤔

If she says something of consequence we’ll read about it in the news.

I’m no longer willing to participate in bad faith tory PR.

Chronic internet addiction.

Rogan can’t go through a show without getting a minion to pull up some more internet to look at.

They’re all terminally online, and the pandemic removed what little control they possessed.

There were very significant Irish Water and Eirgrid works happening along that route too - 2.5 years well spent.

Such a pointless, Sisyphean activity too. You might as well blow dry your lawn after it rains.

Your marriage is a farce, Jaw-jez Vital.

Arsenal would have to sign a referee on loan, use him as human methadone to overcome their fans’ terrible addiction.

If you’re an insecure young man it’s fairly easy to conclude that one side sees you as a problem and the other side regards you as a victim.

Absolutely no idea what we do with it all, but it’s not going to go away on its own.

Yep - it’s exactly the response we should expect.

I think your Boston Dynamics analogy is spot on - not least because the actual commercial engine of this tech is military.

The age old tale of tech bros talking about saving the world, all the while making money off its destruction.