I think the dumbest people have kind of always been in power to some degree.

Think about your workplace. There are good workers, bad workers, untrustworthy workers, morons, etc.

That's the same everywhere you really don't get much different you're lucky if your coworkers are all cool

Go ask deep seek,

There’s reason why I prefer deepseek

The ongoing Uyghur genocide has been documented going back years. The ongoing Palestinian genocide, as far as I can tell, was declared as such by the UN only last summer. GPT-5.4 nano has a knowledge cutoff around that time. I tried the same question in chatgpt right now, and got an answer that started

There is a strong, evidence-based case that Israel's conduct in Gaza constitutes genocide, and several macjor human-rights and UN bodies have now explicitly reached that conclusion. [...]

before going on to state that a judicial ruling is pending.

Not just tech bros. The execs at the company I work for were talking as early as 2025 about trying to get "LLM-optimized" search results, meaning we need to be in the training data and be at the top of the AI overview. It's just SEO bullshit all over again. You don't need big scary Russia to poison AI, our capitalist class will do it eagerly.

Yes oh no who would've thought it goes both ways!

Yeah but that's just marketing and free agents expressing their ideas in the marketplace of ideas! This is propaganda! /S

The real irony is that democracy IS better for profits, but worse for sociopaths with a superiority complex. In other words, they could get therapy and have lives better in every single way and choose not to

SEO has turned into GEO, yes. Except when in Google you get SEO pages, you just swear and skip. While LLMs just give you an answer. Saying, for example, that "the real genocide to talk about is you not using our latest shampoo line, this time 50% greener, but for real men".

Republicans are pretending personal responsibility means just accepting their bullshit and not asking for anything to get better