The biggest risk I see is Idiocracy. Like, the movie.

Business workers become afraid to do or propose anything without AI signoff. Retail & service workers are told to do what the AI says, the way the AI says to do it, or get fired.

Technology innovator Marshall Brain (RIP) wrote a book in the early 2000s about an AI called “Manna” designed to replace fast food managers:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201204080050/https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

The AI just talks in your ear all day: “Empty one bag of fries into the fryer. You have 6.5 minutes, switch to the sandwich station. Make one Big Burger: grab one patty from the 1/4 pound bin and place it on the griddle… … The fries are ready, turn around and lift them into the drain hopper…”

All day, every day, exactly 8 hours plus mandatory breaks, employees on autopilot listening on ear buds.

I am shocked. Shocked, I say!

Well not that shocked.

Sysipup

No Doppler effect? COME ON. I thought that was going to be the joke!

On ice, one might say

Hourly? That’s a rookie schedule.

The 2nd one needs to “chill out” because he’s carefully shaving where he doesn’t want beard.

This is a dangerous game right-wing culture warriors are playing.

You would know, jackass.

“It was the best of times, it was the… BLURST of times? I’m not payin’ for no monkey drivel!”

It’s not pointless. If we all complain when conservatives flush the rules down the toilet and kick open Pandora’s box, then do nothing when liberals lick their corporate donors’ toes while fretting over the propriety of the tiniest changes, then the Overton window keeps moving right and we’re all fucked.

DAMNED LIBRULS

For not taking action when they had the majorities.

Seems like a fair criticism.

I opened the article thinking that, surely, the painting had been sold for cheap and gone through several hands before ending up above this person’s couch.

But no, the house actually belongs to the daughters of the Nazi officer who supposedly fled with it.

“Remember that time we didn’t say Roger? Roger.”

“Nah. Roger.”

“Me neither. Roger.”

Ken M… now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.

I’m sure Baofengtech makes a version for liberals too, probably in a brown box marked as recyclable.

Many major interest groups in New York believe a Mamdani victory would be disastrous

Disastrous for their interests, that is.

Mamdani really should distance himself from the “globalize the intifada” comments – that is an unveiled call to violence against the international Jewish community – but in the end I seriously doubt that the Mayor’s office will do anything that negatively impacts the Jewish community in NYC. Mamdani is just virtue signaling.

law enforcement and crime reduction

https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/pr001/crime-down-across-new-york-city-2024-3-662-fewer-crimes

What do they think Mamdani is going to do, exactly?

I have no statistics, but my sense is that most orgs still depend on Active Directory, Sharepoint, and other services that are Windows-based and often hosted on the company’s cloud structure. And Azure itself is fundamentally a Windows service.

Vertical integration. Windows underpins Office, and even cloud services.

Xbox though, they’ve already pretty much written its epitaph.

Hey, beating up an online streamer is our pleasant distraction from those things!

Fere hys taxation doth weighty hang upon mine mills and tanneries