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AI IS GREAT EVERYONE USES IT TRUST ME BRO IT’S SO GREAT JUST GIVE IT A TRY BRO TRUST ME BRO JUST ONE TOKEN BRO ONE SQUARE KILOMETER OF RAINFOREST IS ALL IT TAKES AND ALL THE BIG TITTY MICKEY MOUSE JPGS CAN BE YOURS PLEASE JUST USE AI the chatbot is holding my family hostage please.

People don’t like that generative AI is based on stolen content. People don’t like that it’s being forced into everything. People don’t like that it isn’t even good at most of the things it tries to do. People definitely hate it’s attempts at ‘music’ and ‘art.’ People don’t like it’s immense energy costs. People don’t like that it might render them, and everyone else, unemployed. People don’t like that they’re owned by oligarchs.

Oligarchs invested trillions in the hope of firing us all and no longer paying us wages. You need to get some class consciousness.

Wild that people just casually admit to outsourcing their thinking to a machine. I’d never willing post something that embarrassing. Butlerian Jihad Now.

If in your bedroom is all you can do, that’s better than nothing, but the ability to effectively organize online only is limited.

I know this sounds like a stupid platitude, but the solution to doomerism is to organize. In real life, with living, breathing humans.

Join whatever organization is active in your community, start attending meetings, find a campaign to plug into, and spend at least a few hours a week doing something positive with other people that also want to do something positive. And, after you campaign with them, socialize with them because organizing can be hard but feeling connected to members of your community feels better.

I helped found a mutual aid working group in my DSA chapter; we spend all month taking in donations, and then host a monthly Food Not Bombs-style food and hygienic supply distribution for the unhoused and food insecure. The feeling you get when you actually help improve people’s material conditions is genuinely just the best.

And, yeah, definitely get off Twitter.

Steam, too. It was originally unpopular DRM for Half-Life 2. It had a broken offline mode that could only be selected when already online. It had no meaningful customer service and people permanently lost their accounts with no avenue for appeal (and probably no human even involved).

What a terribly written article.

So it’s bricking an external piece of cheating hardware and not users’ actual PCs, or…?

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Kobo has it’s own ebook store, plus it connects with Overdrive (outdated version of Libby) to handle library checkouts.

Kobo is also really easy to sideload books on to, so you can, you know, just get them from wherever…

By allowing oligarchs to continue owning the means of production (and wealth, control of the state, etc.), whereas workers will have lost labor to withhold.

The oligarchs will give us just enough UBI to not riot. It’s going to be used as a bribe to keep them in power. That’s my issue with calls for UBI; they permanently entrench class dynamics. Our only (peaceful) leverage as workers to improve our conditions is to withhold our labor. If AI actually succeeds in mass unemployment, we lose that and we’ll be forever at their mercy.