You would think seeing how we spend more on prisons then our schools…

We need another Mamdani

All the city council people i know got their job because the big developers in the area backed them. One of them even owns 100k+ stock in palantir. We need ranked choice voting so bad

The purpose of a system is what it does. Gotta get those recruitment numbers up!

Wait, so the government/ military industrial complex is behind this website? Lol okay

Maybe I should say “critical of algorithms”. The point is it’s not engineered to "maximize engagement "

Put the AI critique aside for a moment. Many people on lemmy dont like algorithms managing their feed. There’s probably a big overlap between people who are pervasively sensitive to dark algorithms and people who perceive AI as a dark algorithm parlor trick .

We have Facebook …

We wouldn’t even call it AI anything then. The whole framing as it is now is to undermine creative work. It’s hard to imagine how it would even remotely resemble what it is now, a cold reading con.

Wheels are more efficient.

Planes too. Everyone should have a helicopter pad or they are a fucking luddite

I think for many Accelerationism is speaking towards the capital transformations of society,
not the decline of empire. Even so, Trump is the accelerationist choice

Emotions aside, is their assessment of events incorrect? Harris is a more sane war hawk, recognizing that doesn’t make you an accelerationist.

Because the common folk is too poor to afford admission.

You actually think there’s no accountability in China? My guy, they hold their politicians to a much higher bar then we do.

It must look strange to those who conflate authority with power. A state that has power without authority is a state that is in crisis. Calling a government authoritarian is to say it’s authority comes from it’s exercise of power.

The OSX laptops was for security, you couldn’t connect to their VPN without it. It was also a way to monitor your usage

When I contracted with them we ran our computation loads on a Linux server and deployed our service to an internal Linux server. Only osx I touched was my laptop, and that was a work requirement they insisted on.

Clinton was notorious for polling people and changing positions, but that was not by referendum. Sometimes our pundits play loose with words and pretend polling is a referendum because we don’t actually have referendums. See also “democratizing” when it just means “commodotizing”

Indeed. Democracy does not exclude anarchy and in the case of the UN it’s a voluntary union, each member is free to not participate and ignore the decisions made by rest of the union. People often criticize the UN as having little authority - that’s because it’s anarchistic in nature.

If there is a point to my example it is that society is a patchwork of ideologies, there is no “pure capitalist” society just as there is no “pure anarchistic” society. So to say one ideology does not work as totalitarian society is different then saying it does not work at all.