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A little over a decade ago, headlines declared that AI and robotics were poised to wipe out close to half of all jobs. In that moment, the threat wasn’t generative AI. Instead, self-driving cars were supposed to eliminate millions of driving professions in a matter of years and AI was to enable a massive wave of automation that would move beyond the factory and into retail stores and restaurants. Robots were even going to find their way into old-age homes and other short-staffed care sectors.
In the mid-2010s, we heard the same narratives. Advanced AI and robotics were going to wipe out up to half of all jobs, the industry and its aligned researchers told us.
All manner of work, even in retail and care, were going to be wiped out.
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Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.
*ahem*
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Everyone knows the economy is doing great. I dont know why homelessness is up and a record number of people are working 2 jobs, but that has nothing to do with the economy. The economy is a chart with a line going up, not that other shit. Grow up
Speed-running imperial decline, day whatever
preposterous Scooby-Doo villain behavior
I really desperately was hoping to carry forward some of my indomitable energy and can-do spirit from my twenties into my thirties and I'm not gonna lie y'all I think this aging thing's got hands
"Let's check out how the stock market is doing on the brink of possible nuclear war! And when we get back, Brian will talk to you about how to protect your assets from the apocalypse."
CRITICAL AI FOLKS - this initiative is so important. Share, read 👇🏻 this is a grassroots effort to solicit PUBLIC opinion on AI regulation.
So many ivory tower conversations about AI reg’l allude to the public having a voice. Well, here’s a successful example of doing the work. 🔥
Speechless.
Considering they defeated Iran nine times last week, I bet they were really surprised.
This is absolutely fine and will not make you weird,
“clown event still possible” put that in your pocket, I can already tell you that this is the key phrase of 2026
"The idea was that these things are removing friction, so let's add some friction back in," said Lavigne, using the engineering term frequently used by tech bros to describe inefficiencies in a system. He argues that LLM chatbots have taken this idea of "friction" to an extreme, presenting any unpleasantness or difficulty we encounter as something that should be outsourced to Silicon Valley's thinking machines—even if overcoming that difficulty is part of what makes human creativity meaningful and worthwhile. "Anything that removes the friction of something that's difficult, it makes you not learn, and it removes the learning you've already achieved."
this is such a good point — Silicon Valley’s entire concept of viewing all human struggle and unpleasantness as “friction” to be iterated out is deeply anti-social. we‘re so obsessed with instant gratification that tech bros now want us to forget that this is how human beings grow and learn.
All of the 90s Trek shows we adore so deeply took at least 40 episodes to really become great. You gotta let shows cook, man.
he keeps going abroad to distract from how he’s gutting the public service back at home
"Bunch of guys obsessed with Ancient Sparta can't beat the Persians at sea" was probably one of the known-knowns, come to think of it.
canada is shooting itself in the foot with a new immigration policy driven by racist backlash to cost of living issues
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so i'd like to announce that i have two online talks coming up: “Countercultural Fascism” and “A Short History of Nazi-Satanism”
April 9 and 16, 2026 at 1 pm EST / 10 am PST
sliding scale $10–$100 (covers both)
but NOTAFLOF
to register: www.spencersunshine.com/presentations
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More data in the hands of private companies is not going to help you.
It's just going to compile more of your most personal details into a machine that seeks to profit from it, and that's the *best outcome. * the worst outcome looks like this.
Entire sections of the political class in numerous countries appear to have become so inured to technocratic economistic micromanagement and unmoored from the concept of actual politics, they have completely lost grasp of the basic idea that actions incur consequences.
There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down
ceo: what does the focus group say
head of marketing, falsetto: I want my, I want my APC
I quit smoking in October and I've done well but now it's finals season and my approach was always to chain smoke while trying to figure out what to write for papers and I don't have my crutch. And this paper is going to some conferences so I'm REALLY MISSING THE FUCKING CRUTCH
This podcast continues to be a BALM FOR THE SOUL as I try to finish my masters in studying HORRIBLE THINGS
God, are you there? It's me, in the denim jacket.
