If you are neutral towards baseball, it means you’re fine with it as a sport, aka reinforcing its acceptance in society (I don’t give a damn about it). If you are not fine with hare coursing existing as a “sport”, you protest against it. Being neutral would reinforce its existence, if it’s already being practiced.

“Apolitical” just means reinforcing the status quo. Aka a conservative stance

As someone that has to download an app made by an Israeli firm just to open the gate to my underground parking lot, this is already a dystopian reality. Of course the app asks for all your data, so my name on it is Mr. Free Palestine.

Compared to pre-WW2 era, the work week and day has decreased from 12 hours/day, 6 days per week, thanks to the more militant labor movement.

In more recent decades, productivity has increased significantly, so we should be able to produce the same amount as before, with less labor: https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

But I’ll let you guess who is cashing in the extra profit from your work. Tip: it’s not you.

Climate damage related to AI workloads could exceed $50 billion by 2030

It’s a sad state of affairs that even when talking of extinction level threat, it is still quantified in monetary terms. Unsurprising, considering it’s written by Allianz.

“Do you know how much money our investors will lose if the human race goes extinct???”

He should be glitching and stuttering for the full Windows experience

It’s crazy to think that this is basically more powerful than the Apollo Guidance Computer that got people onto the moon. It costs 3 cents, and we use it for shit like this and then throw it away. What spectacular waste.

Firefox has implemented many of the same features that Chrome has recently (groups, split tabs, vertical tabs, reading mode etc.) but has also consistently been implementing them earlier and better. There are just so many small annoyances with these features on Chrome that aren’t there in Firefox, and Chrome is always late to the party.

The golden era of Chrome is long gone, probably because the most competent people working at Google have moved on.

I’m all for spacing capitalists, but I don’t think there’s enough of them to blot out the sun.

The idealized market was supposed to deliver ‘friction free’ exchanges, in which the desires of consumers would be met directly, without the need for intervention or mediation by regulatory agencies. Yet the drive to assess the performance of workers and to measure forms of labor which, by their nature, are resistant to quantification, has inevitably required additional layers of management and bureaucracy. What we have is not a direct comparison of workers’ performance or output, but a comparison between the audited representation of that performance and output. Inevitably, a short-circuiting occurs, and work becomes geared towards the generation and massaging of representations rather than to the official goals of the work itself.

– Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism

What profits? All AI companies have major losses. Except Nvidia of course, which just sells the hardware to the other companies so that they can make a loss.

https://isaiprofitable.com/

At best, this will just socialize the losses made by decisions of capitalists.

Sounds about right. Global warming didn’t exist in Australia before 2017

Trump phone? I was surprised this was not The Onion

You don’t seem to understand what Marx means by dictatorship of the proletariat. His idea of implementation of the dictatorship of the proletariat was the Paris Commune, which had universal suffrage, elected and immediately recallable delegates (a better and more democratic concept that the political clownshow we have in parliamentary democracy). I suggest reading past the name of the concept before talking nonsense.

Good. Golf is fucking stupid and requires huge amounts of space that could be used for parks instead