1/ I guess i'm going to loosely blog the CA governor's debate?
First Q: whether or not to cut gas tax.
Steyer: blames war, windfall oil company tax instead
Porter: wants to "move away from it" posits as green measure
Mahan: attacks others, "reform tax"
Becerra: no, need for infrastructure
“No One is Paying Me” is not the same thing as "I don't expect to make money from this".
Is she invested in OpenAI, Anthropic, or any other company working in AI? If so, her statements are still shamelessly self-serving
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I love this for him
The important truth behind these statements is that CEOs believe in the enhanced productivity, but are out of ideas on what to do with it.
They don't have a vision, so we need to come up with one:
- full employment
- shorter work weeks
- universal health care
What else?
Let's assume he's right about the potential of AI to actually automate 30% of the work we do. (A stretch.) If we had new ideas on what to do, that's not 30% unemployment, that's 30% more productivity. More things being built or better quality things
Are we going to talk about the nepotism?
I feel like Apple investors should subpoena Tim Cook about this
This is going to look like windfall profits. When those start showing up in quarterly revenue calls, Wall Street will gleefully surge on positive news, just in time for the lead up to midterm elections. "The economy is booming!" — on money that was stolen from consumers
If only democrats wanted open borders.
"We believe that no human should have to ask for permission to raise their family where they want. Immigration should be a registration process, not an application process."
I've been thinking a lot lately about power. I don't know what a society without money actually looks like, or if it's even possible, but I think your first sentence is more true if you use "power" instead of "money". And maybe "power" doesn't have to be tied to economic output
One of the key ideas of the Bill of Rights is that rights don't have to be enumerated to be rights.
Courts don't know how to deal with this, because the only logical conclusion is that governments can't control your life, and we clearly can't have that.
Right. That's my point; "straight up malware" seems (to me) worse than Spyware.
This creates an unexpected vulnerability on your machine without any consent or warning; just because we don't know of any exploits of the vulnerability doesn't make it OK
The convenience of at-home charging is unimaginable to gas drivers, and yet, for some reason (gas companies paying for propaganda?) all you hear about are what a pain they are to charge on road trips. (And that is often exaggerated and is a solvable problem.)
The message shouldn't be "this is why electric cars are not a great experience", but "this is why we need to build more chargers"
From some reviews I've read about the Lightning, it *is* a good car. I think the market just isn't ready for electric trucks yet. — Articles like this focusing on what doesn't work instead of what is far better about electrics is part of the reason.
Yes, this scenario depends on chargers being more prevalent than they are now, but this is the very near future if we want it. But we have to be *told* it is possible to want it
Or, "once I've set up the accounts, I can just plug into a charger. The charger recognizes the digital signature on my car, and automatically charges the credit card I have on file. I walk into the grocery store, do my shopping, and return to a charged car."
Very much so. Road trips are the worst case scenario for EVs. Instead of focusing on this, how about:
"I never have to stop at a gas station. I drive to and from work, and when the range is low, I plug into the charger in my garage."
There are some weird and dark ideas motivating the likes of Peter Thiel and Elon Musk. Climate change is real, but solving it will require us to rethink how we create energy. They seem to be more afraid of that process than the cataclysm of unchecked warming
When they run out of ideas, they inevitably turn to government contracts so they can continue to announce increased revenues and shareholder value. This leads to the alignment of corporations and government that is the definition of fascism
They can't. There are more of us than there are of them. But we have to have the same unity, despite our differences. Whether you are motivated most by environmentalist, multi-culturalism, socialism, anarchy, or whatever else, unifying against Fascism is how we win
The people with money are out of ideas. They don't know what else they can build that people would want to buy, but rather than retire in peace, they are desperately grappling for any handhold to maintain their superiority
Naomi Klein's description of Fascism as the "pathology of injured power" is an elegant and powerful summary of this moment. The ideologies that have held sway are threatened, and lashing out every way they can. Corporatism, racism, and Christian nationalism think they can win if they stick together
Spent the weekend in Atlanta at the "Take Back Tech" conference sponsored by @conmijente.bsky.social and @mediajustice.bsky.social learning about how different groups around the country are fighting the rise of techno-fascism
Have never been to anything like this. Will be back next year
And, FWIW, I drive electric and used to own a Mustang Mach-E and it is probably my top contender for my replacement when my lease is up. Ford makes great EVs.
"Allowing the Chinese companies in would be "devastating” to American manufacturing, which Farley calls "the heart and soul of our country.”
Fuck off Ford.
Liberty, freedom, and equality are the heart and soul of our country, not the assembly line in your factories.
Remember we fixed the ozone hole by banning CFCs. I think the earth is resilient, but we have to stop actively poisoning it.
Part of the problem I've only recently realized as an American is that we are an oil-exporting dictatorship. There are people in my country who are afraid of losing our political power and insist on the continued use of oil.
Funny, I read the article and thought spyware, if anything, understates the issue. I see your point that, so far this is only "potential" spyware because no data is being transmitted, but it sounds like, if activated, this could enable Claude to act on your behalf, not just read your data
Palantir is more exactly like the Palantir. A device sold to men as a tool to help rule their kingdom and corrupted by Saurom for his own ends.