Authoritarianism is an admission of abject weakness.

A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.

Yes, she did.

The specious notion that money is in any way an intrinsically finite resource is the most damaging social construct of the modern world.

Religion is the opiate of the masses, economics is its fentanyl.

Sending is easy, receiving at full fidelity is the interesting part.

The ‘AI’ angle is purely cover for the manufacturers actively choosing to now behave like the pharmaceutical industry. They’ve identified a window to pull this shit, and coordinated this opportunistic collusion.

The only meaningful response is to create a diverse production base to remove the choke point the current incumbents are leveraging, but that would require a concerted, collaborative effort by parties who can’t see and/or don’t understand the problem.

Data is often called the new oil, but I’d argue it more closely resembles uranium.

LLM’s are like asbestos, a carcinogen later generations will need to carefully remove from the environment they’ve inherited.

What is currently labelled as slop will more accurately be treated like irradiated sludge.

I’ll worry about ‘AI’ when something that can legitimately be mistaken as intelligence is demonstrated.

In the meantime, these explosively imprecise, statistically luke-warm, grey goo extrusion sphincters need to be exclusively opt-in, and not forced on anyone who hasn’t explicitly consented to a lobotomy.

As per the Peter Principle, ‘AI’, when used by businesses, means Amplified Incompetence.

Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.