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I was talking with a friend the other day how the SAT/ACT is just a stat check on your parents's income. Kids who were just grinding flashcards for hours to just barely pass a class were getting 1500s.

He has an abcs of authoritarianism children's book he coauthored too. Had to do a double take when I saw that one at the library.

We've come 4/5 of the circle jajajajajaja

The core of these bureaucratic machines have intellectually disintegrated. All the incumbents climbed the ranks during "the end of history", the apex of Amerikkkan power. When it could say whatever and bomb whomever without repercussion. Now these cretins have to deal with the opposite. A world with opposition.

There's such vitriol in media, which trails White House opinion, for the realist perspective. As foul as those people are, acknowledging the security interest and rationality of other nations is anathema to this generation of leaders.

The Republican party, the more overtly reactionary of the duopoly, after feeding and nurturing a base of football hooligans has become infested with those same people and now openly litigates whether antebellum slavery was a good for the slaves or not.

Chinese interference is when you have unaddressed domestic issues you'd rather ignore and the more you have the more interference they are doing.

Unilateral sanctions hit different when someone is enforcing them on you.

The ballots still have blanks even the digital ones. You can vote for yourself. Or Trump or whichever of the duopoly candidates was removed from the ballot in your state.

But it does hurt the perceived legitimacy of the election. I had thought the reason so many stop the steal legislators did a 180 after the capital riots was that owning the libs wasn't worth endangering bourgeois rule.

This is shortsighted of the duopoly to say the least.

They already do this through their army and navy esports division.

The contradictions are sharpening but I think AI and generative AI in particular is this decade's vaporware. The vaporware of the previous decade was self driving cars.

As it stands, generative AIs are just expensive parakeets. Getting them to do anything other than spit up probabilistically correct information and sentences would require them to have comprehension, not just associations between strings of words. The path to comprehension, much like autonomous driving, is long, expensive, and unclear.

Both nascent technologies offer the ability to squeeze, displace, and replace labor and so they naturally attract investment from excited but stupid investors.

These investors are so dumb they gave Adam Neumann, disgraced former WeWork CEO, money for another real estate startup.

The prospective bourgeois buyers of AI are not any smarter. I've seen high level execs complain the chatgpt they bought doesn't know when some internal deadline for quarterly planning budget is due. How the fuck would it know? The damn thing read all of Wikipedia and a half dozen SharePoint pages, of course it doesn't know.

I think it's supposed to capture the "plight" of straight cishet anglo frat bros as they have to contend with not saying slurs on twitter.

oh god, yes

The number of people who saw squid game and then thought it would be a good idea irl for content is too high.