RE: https://indieverse.social/@tamazon/117486956222087055

The film Ex Machina was released in 2014.

Apparently, a lot of people who didn't see it, still need to.

Or a lot of people who did see it, completely missed the point.

Or both.

In any case, said point wasn't about AI; at least, not exclusively.

These people burying their heads in the sand doesn't negate the film's feministic or egalitarian interpretations.

Nor does it obviate this imperative to those people: be better human beings, or at least be ones worth more than so much garbage.

So, when a Democrat is the one in office, everything is their fault, but even when the GOP has all three branches and things still largely suck, it's somehow *not* their fault?

At some point, these people are very blatantly and intentionally choosing ignorance, stupidity, hypocrisy, or some combination thereof.

And I truly wish those were things I could physically smack out of the lot of them.

https://flipboard.com/@salon/elections-coverage-an3ojhhsz/-/a-yoiJ5KGVTOqYrRjyeS6Gkw%3Aa%3A3199680-%2F0

Quote of the day by Ludwig Wittgenstein: 'The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but...' and why forever won't fix us - The Times of India
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/quote-of-the-day-by-ludwig-wittgenstein-the-real-question-of-life-after-death-isnt-whether-or-not-it-exists-but-and-why-forever-wont-fix-us/amp_articleshow/132840908.cms

Poverty Is Expensive
https://youtube.com/watch?v=btS0boT8lVs&si=ubeLoCndJ7TPaWiX

#poverty #tuberculosis #healthcare #ethics #travel #money #economics #bias #EatTheRich #medicine #wealth #USPolitics #USPol #Trump

The End of The Penny (and of Congress??)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=IJyu_R4lar0&si=hdH3VNhKhE6oh_UY

#USPol #government #politics #economics

Is #Book #Publishing Dying? An Author's Perspective
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BBvze0lGcZg&si=Gdb-gd7nyMowiGSo #Reading #Culture #Entertainment #Economics

You’re Not #Addicted to #Content, You’re Starving for #Information
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9euKCrTyMEc&si=z4IP6lwbDWp59gWn

#Food #Education #Information #Content #Capitalism #SocialMedia #History #Scarcity #Economics #Addiction

The Web is Going to Die
https://youtube.com/watch?v=oOyQpwPrf2Q&si=uYYWNh9OWZQzFJOn

#GhostTowns #History #Anthropology #SocialMedia #Culture #Technology

"Terrible things are happening
outside. Poor helpless people
are being dragged out of their
homes. Families are torn apart.
Men, women, and children are
separated. Children come home
from school to find that their
parents have disappeared."
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

#Fascism #History #War #Genocide #Holocaust #ICE #USPol #Trump

@snipe Just saw the derailment news. Y'all okay?! I checked on here and FB, but it doesn't look like you've been active on either in a while. Worried about you.

"For over a decade, tech executives promoted computer science as a guaranteed path to prosperity. Now those same companies are using AI and cost-cutting to eliminate the entry-level jobs they encouraged students to pursue."

"Computer science majors have long been sold a dream that doesn't match reality... too many grads, not enough jobs, crippling student debt..."

What's Really Behind the CS Job Crisis https://www.finalroundai.com/blog/computer-science-graduates-face-worst-job-market-in-decades

#ComputerScience #Jobs #Work #AI #Economics #Education

openai burns the boats - by Ethan Ding - mandates
https://ethanding.substack.com/p/openai-burns-the-boats

#AI #Business #Economics #Commoditization #Advertising #CloudComputing

#Postman is logging all your #secrets and environment variables 😬

https://anonymousdata.medium.com/postman-is-logging-all-your-secrets-and-environment-variables-9c316e92d424

#Security

The Age Of Abundance - Tom Blomfield
https://tomblomfield.com/post/1743528547367/the-age-of-abundance

#AI #SoftwareEngineering #Economics #Business #Work

The 13 software engineering laws - by Anton Zaides
https://newsletter.manager.dev/p/the-13-software-engineering-laws

#SoftwareEngineering

Ugh. Capitalism is why we can't have nice things.

"Brace yourself for Discord to get worse: Reports swirl that the company is in talks with bankers about opening itself up to shareholders"

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/brace-yourself-for-discord-to-get-worse-reports-swirl-that-the-company-is-in-talks-with-bankers-about-opening-itself-up-to-shareholders/

#SocialMedia #Enshittification #Discord #Capitalism

The $100 Trillion Disruption: The Unforeseen Economic Earthquake
https://wildfirelabs.substack.com/p/the-100-trillion-disruption-the-unforeseen

#Economics #Medicine #Advertising #Consumerism

#WoW players should try Fellowship's dungeon-only take on #MMOs—it's like a fast and breezy version of WoW's party play | PC Gamer
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/wow-players-should-try-fellowships-dungeon-only-take-on-mmos-its-like-a-fast-and-breezy-version-of-wows-party-play/

#Gaming #VideoGames

Remember those 'choose your own adventure' fantasy books? Well, now they're coming back in this delightfully chonky e-ink console | PC Gamer
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/remember-those-choose-your-own-adventure-fantasy-books-well-now-theyre-coming-back-in-this-delightfully-chonky-e-ink-console/

#Tech #EInk #Tablets #Books #Reading #Fantasy #ChooseYourOwnAdventure #1980s #1990s #PopCulture #RoleplayingGames #Gaming

#WASM will replace #containers
https://creston.blog/wasm-will-replace-containers/