Also, not for nothing, but dismantling capitalism will be virtually impossible if this weird AI coup they are attempting works. Reality will be so destabilized and impossible to agree on we will fracture into dust.

You've really got to fight this, everywhere and time you see it. It's vital.

This is one of those times where societal pressure can really work. I disengage with anything I see using AI and I tell them so. If we don't fight this, we could end up in a terrifying new paradigm of digital slavery an order of magnitude worse than we currently have.

ALL you have to do is just not use it, tell these companies you aren't using it, and make fun of people who do. We need a mass collective effort to make genAI extremely uncool, lame, embarrassing, cringe. Everyone needs to react to it with a MOUNTAIN of hostility until they run out of steam.

This isn't unstoppable. It's not inevitable. It's greedy, short-sighted anti-human solipsists that have been rewarded by crony capitalism to the point of being toxic toward society, who think they have the right. These are the same people that want to go to space, but only with the "right" people.

It's cost me my livelihood personally, but it's coming for all of us. Literally all of us. Rich people have lost their ability to think long term, so they are going to doom humanity with this, and not in a Skynet way. These are anti-human humans and they need to be stopped, and it's up to US, sadly.

So many people have dismissed me because it's a bubble and bubbles burst, but like, this one needs opposition. This bubble NEEDS to burst, and the entire apparatus of rich people is trying to reinforce it. We have to make AI not only a class traitor thing, but extremely dorky and uncool.

I guess younger folks didn't get to try the cookies, which is a real shame

He did them all in coordinating plaid flannels, their Christmas card photo the next year must have been great

Professional sewing shops will often have multiple machines set up for different kinds of sewing applications. You might have a serger, a hemming machine, a straight stitch machine, etc

My college boyfriend asked me to teach him to sew, then made his entire family traditional nightshirts and caps for Christmas. I should have married that guy when he asked

I remember rolling a hoop, dipping a candle, and eating a very thin ginger cookie on field trips. But no mention of cannibalism at Colonial Williamsburg or Jamestown.

(those cookies were so good, I wonder if they still make them)

I think perhaps by "longtime fans" they mean Elon Musk, who nobody has ever said they played D&D with, but who nevertheless has strong opinions about the "wokeness" of D&D

Bolsonaro may die in prison.

Bangladesh's PM was just sentenced to death for ordering last year's brutal crackdown.

Are any politicians running on a "We gotta start stacking these fascists like fucking cordwood" platform?

The main reason we're in this situation is a bunch of war criminal shitbags from the Reagan administration paved the way for fascism.

And the best thing you can do is ask the grunts not to follow illegal orders. What about your part of the bargain?

Hmm I might make a tiny Krampus with raisins