Respectfully. I know shit and shit-adjacent when I see it. Look around. It’s in a book, just take a look. A reading rainbow.

Collapse?

Yo momma! HER BUBBLE-BUTT SO FINE! Iz bootylicious.

Unknown. Not better. Shit is shit, no matter the origin.

In Canada that is likely a human rights violation subject to a tribunal. Murky enough to be indeterminate in terms of conviction, but a really good case of an indictable worthy offense.

Fucking nail her to the wall.

Any idea if it was big enough to hunt for pieces?

Read the article. Lol. Never mind.

Agreed, perhaps I’m just not as hopeful in the damage the cult suffers in this circumstance. It would have been damaging in an election. Things are moving fast now and still accelerating. There might not be another election, then losing Dear Leader doesn’t mean much. Fascists use fear and violence to control opposing groups in populations, not democratic consent to legitimize themselves.

There are no good choices in a fascist autocracy.

Iranian Women Tutors on Lemmy?

One of many. They are multiplying, quickly.

Trump is the disposable useful idiot to be the fall guy if the fascist coup fails. Everyone will pretend to sober up with their “it wasn’t us, it was him and we tried to fight it from the inside” story.

The fascist party is still fully present and accounted for, and are learning to exercise their newfound powers with alarming speed. Trump dying fixes nothing. They lose a figurehead, and the idiot fallguy. Their plans don’t stop. If anything they accelerate and intensify because a big escape clause disapears and the cost of failure goes up.

I see you’ve played before. ;)

Anyone wanna play the guessing game bot/tism/drugs/hungover?

I wonder how advanced China’s social credit panopticon is now? I wonder how powerful it will become in the near future? How powerful will it’s apex be? What every authoritarian and even neoliberal government is doing with this. Wall Street, The City, Singapore, Luxembourg, Casinos…

Income / maximum wealth (wealth caps)

Min and max.

Have you seen the efforts of bottle design within the liquor and spirits industry. McDonalds Big Mac boxes and fry cartons etc. I’mma answer this with a big, fat YES!

It’s a huge industry not just in manufacturing packaging, but in consumer psychology, marketing and design to make products more appealing. A good tweak bumps sales 5% is a very big and desirable deal.

Edit: A huge component of cullinary training is presentation. Beyond making food taste good, it’s appeal is that it also looks good. “Plating” lessons apply to every form of food from shelves of grocery stores, convenience snacks, fast food joints, to fine dining. The little window in the plastic bag of chips that lets you see the product. The foil lined paper lid that kept the heat in the poutine so the cold curds would heat and melt into the poutine. Etc…

Not aluminium foil, but that restaurant grade thin aluminum foil bonded to a thin wax paper. Same with Shawarma.

Yes, but “Ignorance is bliss” as well.

Sorry, I’ve worked for hedge funds and consulting firms and software companies at a high enough level to see how they think firsthand to ever doubt this.

The AI boom and data centre craze makes perfect sense my scenario. The business model without this sure as hell doesn’t support these valuations, but my theory does. It’s a risk, everyone wants it. It is every countries intelligence agency’s wet dream. It a strategic asset and gets corporate power to pay for it.

What would the cartels or mafia pay for a psycho-model-profile engineered LLM assessment model and extortion threat assessment based on key politicians, bankers, military and manufacturer worth? Then add their families, friends, all their gossip search history, pornhub, 4chan, google android, play and drive, then all your email and text messages, etc etc…

Now what would everyone more powerful than say a corp, well funded startup megacorp, large crime syndicate or medium size country do.

I mean, hey, Thiel and Musk, Putin, Xe, Trumptardius Gondii and the entire taxa ajacent aren’t that psycho? It will be fine. They said. Don’t worry they said. Checks newspaper. Hmmmm. Never heard of a hostile takeover?

Look how effective the Epstein influence operation was. Now imagine the value based on what I said about today’s off the shelf commercial tech. It was too much data collection to be viable in the beginign. But enter the advanced LLM models with perfect and all encompasing data markets (combining all systems users from all platforms through quasi-state agencies masquerading as databrokers.)

EDIT: You:

Enshittification is about making money.

Yes. ¿Por qué no los dos? Très? More search dollars by more page searches AND pushing supposedly smarter users towards LLM personality 1:1 mapping resolution of populations. Plus automation, sure yeah lots of reasons. All powerful, thus valuable. I’m guessing this is at the forefront of statecraft and state intelligence and everyone else who can bankroll this kind of power.

EDIT 2:

You know the quote about problems not being solved by the level of consciousness that created it. If you can’t see the value and ultimately fate of what we’ve already built, you are strong evidence of proving the quote true.

It’s a soft power nuclear fucking weapon from threats to any regime, internal and external. From evolution to revolution to stasis.

Edit 3: I’m sorry I get ahead of myself and forget the general audience. This is what Thiel’s Palantir was built for. Like in advertising videos and promo material. It’s an arms length extention of state power and they are milking more than one country.

Ever wonder how dystopian fiction is ruled by megacorps? This seems bond villain levels of viable. Right up Thiel, Musks, Bezos, Microsoft, Anthropic, Cohere, facebook and every other respective system from OS to hardware to retail POS. It was public military information. until it dawned on the powers that be that it works better when people don’t believe they are being surveiled. Act natural. Capture everything. Build your model, Make better higher level analysis tools to work on ever-all encompasing training data.

What we all call AI isn’t the AGI or even AI analysis tool, its the LLM data collection expert system. The AGI works on the data collected and only the well paying client (not us products) get to control them.

It starts with simple stuff like when parents text each other messages about their kids behaviour for parenting purposes and only grows from there. Total information awareness.

Edit-a-fucking-gain! And again!

To be clear, everyone that says AI is stupid is stupid. The general public havent’t seen the advanced AI. They are basing their opinions on the state of public freemium options from commercial entities with Grok and ChatGPT, AMD yadda yadda, which are the core of the interactive personality probes and mappers, not the AI that analyses the data and provides actionable guidance. Even Steam with peformance scores of gamification and strategy across a broad array of users and problem/scenario/game types/paradigms.l and consumers pay for it under the premise of games and commercial software of all sorts.

And with!