Post #1140880

2025-09-02 01:24 UTC

@tuban_muzuru@ohai.social @michael@westergaard.social @RickiTarr@beige.party @eyrea@mstdn.ca The boys and girls in engineering right now are so busy working for the short-term profits demanded by their brutally competing authoritarian sugar daddies that they have stopped thinking ahead. An awful lot of people actually still believe that at some point someone in this giant game of planetary chicken is going to do the sensible thing and hit the brakes and act to prevent the total apocalyptic collapse of our biosphere and civilization-- but no. No, that is an incredibly fucking naive and dangerous idea. The people in charge right now don't care about anything but winning, even if that means all they win is the nicest possible throne on the nicest possible yacht from which to rule a seared landscape of steaming rubble heaped with skulls.

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@michael@westergaard.social 2025-09-02 07:45

The people in charge CANNOT bail out now. That would mean writing off the giant investments. As long as the ball keeps rolling, the billions spent remain "an investment in the future," but the second they officially realize that a fancy T9 dictionary is really, really cool, yet ultimately not that useful and probably not the golden goose it was presented as, it is a "loss." I did read that one company seemingly has a mostly sensible reaction to the hype. CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, has rejected buying several grifting companies (Tesla and Netflix) despite it being suggested by other higher ups, and SVP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi is hesitant to paying billions for AI grifters (Perplexity and Anthropic). macrumors.com/2025/08/26/apple-discussed-buying-mistral-ai-and-perplexity/

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