I saw it reported that Francis’s intent is that it’ll bring bad publicity on Israel when they inevitably bomb the mobile clinic.

“Didn’t half give me the horn!”

They must have high hopes of monetizing us further with AI, to relentlessly push it on us like they’re doing.

It’s inevitable they’ll do everything they can to degrade the usability of their shitty products.

Your circadian rhythms and neurotransmitter levels are usually crap at that age, so jet lag might not have as much impact as it does on a young, fit person.

MBS probably roofied him as a joke.

Ask ChatGPT.

There are surprisingly few customer-facing tasks that don’t require accuracy and truthfulness. LLM-style AI cannot guarantee either. So the only AI-enshittification options that are really available are at organizations who don’t give a shit about their customers (e.g., Republican-led governments), fraudsters, or the replacement of humans in doing unimportant tasks (which a sensible business would just stop doing altogether).

Day trading, like compulsive gambling, is a sign of innumeracy coupled with self-sabotaging behavior.

Any foreigner on a Saudi work visa has their passport held by their employer, from bankers and doctors to ditch diggers. That’s not to minimize the appalling living and working conditions of low-paid foreign workers there.

If it has US backing, that means Trump administration backing. And that, in turn, means they’re not going to do anything to help the Palestinians. Just some window-dressing to deflect attention from US involvement in the genocide.

Yeah, so much for all those promises of disintermediation being a benefit of the web.

And fuck the region-blocking that often comes with cloudflare.

In principle, that was true. In practice, some animals were more equal than others when it came to educational opportunities. Wrong class origins? Black mark. Wrong ethnicity? Black mark. Applying for a university place that’s intended to go to the local party big-wig’s nephew? Black mark.

And once in education, how you fared wasn’t just dependent on your academic ability. Political criteria and connections mattered just as much.

And don’t forget the 20 million or so broken eggs needed to make that shit omelette in the first place.

One of my statistics professors at college (this was real statistics, not teaching psych majors how to abuse SPSS) had been a Soviet planner. Along with the problem of fiefdoms (which is common to any large enterprise), there was a problem of measurement. As business-school dweeb will tell you, any metric that becomes an objective ceases to be useful as a metric, since it’ll be gamed.

Now try collecting 10,000 metrics used as goals. Everybody’s lying to the boss in order to look good. Everyone’s got a side hustle because they’re barely paid enough to survive. And the penalties for non-compliance with orders from on high are brutally severe but spottily enforced. Anyone who’s worked under a micromanager will know what this is like. Now imagine when the state is itself a micromanager. From an information-theoretic point of view, the effort to collect and validate the data needed is many times greater than the effort to do the job itself. So it doesn’t get done and quality and resiliency of the production system suffer.

Seems that they want to repeat the USSR of 70s

State capitalism with nationalist elements.

And while you’d be OK with one job for life, for many of us, that’s a vision of living hell, no matter how good the working conditions might be. And those working conditions would be shit. Nutlick’s “vision” is of multigenerational wage slavery, with no environmental or safety protections, no constraints on abusive employment practices, nothing but immiseration.

Are you taking orders? Or are you taking over?

What left?

It’s not unusual to see bootlickers on Lemmy, but sandal-lickers are relatively rare. How do you enjoy the taste of shib-shib?