HailSeitan

AI can’t do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your Business Idiot boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can’t do your job

Nice reply essay: Saving New Orleans Is Not Optional

Reminds me of Key & Peele’s planning a heist sketch

Did everyone in the comments suffer brain damage and forget about Hertz and its bullshit AI “scratch and dent” scanners? Or the hotels charging non-smokers $500 “smoking” fees because an AI smoke detector said so? Do people defending this shitty company not see the obvious and unavoidable conflict of interest companies have to make a system like this overly sensitive in order to rack up fines? It would be one thing if the threat was a ban from the service, but it’s just so clearly an excuse to generate more profits I’m shocked this needs to be pointed out.

REI was never worker owned or operated; it was a member coop (meaning anyone who bought a membership got one vote on the board), not a worker coop.

The relevant law (the Clayton Act) requires the judge to “terminate” the monopoly, but that happens…rarely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_liberty

This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.   

    They may not mean to, but they do.   

They fill you with the faults they had

    And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn

    By fools in old-style hats and coats,   

Who half the time were soppy-stern

    And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man.

    It deepens like a coastal shelf.

Get out as early as you can,

    And don’t have any kids yourself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooded_crow

They aren’t MAGA as much as they are capitalist, and MAGA is in power right now

There goes the neighborhood