Post #2700313
2026-05-19 23:26 UTC
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@sansruse@awful.systems 2026-05-20 03:11
this feels like a form of critihype but i haven’t read anything else by this person so i don’t know. Examples: Artificial intelligence is entering public consciousness associated with layoffs, instability, replacement anxiety, corporate concentration, surveillance, and soaring resource consumption. That is an extraordinarily dangerous emotional foundation for a transformative technology. The commencement boos matter because they reveal how culturally toxic AI has already become among many young educated Americans. These students understand artificial intelligence well enough to fear it precisely because they already use it. They use it for papers, coding assistance, presentations, summaries, and research. They know the technology works. They know it is improving rapidly. “oh no, people dislike this wonderful technology!! But it’s so wonderful!!” Whether America ultimately requires these facilities to remain economically competitive may eventually become a legitimate policy debate, but politically that question is almost secondary. “we really need this stuff guys, people are mad so it might not happen but it’s really really important so think of that too”
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@gerikson@awful.systems 2026-05-20 07:22
same sl0bslack author has this piece (complete with punchy LLMisms) …substack.com/…/please-stop-trying-to-murder-trum… Before his murder, Kirk was influential, sure. After his murder, he became something much bigger. A symbol. A martyr. Turning Point exploded with energy, attention, emotional intensity, and recruitment after his death. In death, Kirk became more powerful than he was alive. Now multiply that effect by a million and attach it to Donald Trump. Uh didn’t I recently read how TPUSA has basically imploded just half a year since this dipshit got his head blown off (sorry “destroyed at a debate”)? Everyone with eyes to see could tell that the right jumped on this as a Reichstag fire analog, prepared to usher in a new consensus, but it fizzled out after a couple of weeks (unfortunately not before a number of people lost their jobs) Trump is sui generis. He’s not a person universally beloved. He’s a deeply polarizing chaos agent who has twisted the right into his weird image, but the point is, that image is incoherent and changes with his moods daily. There’s no Trump ideology other than what’s in his Truth social feed at the moment. Would he being assassinated bring peace and order to the land? No. Would it usher in a new thousand year Republican age? Also no. Would it be bad. Yes, but not as bad as this pseudo-leftist believes. Also it goes without saying, don’t assassinate people.