At his White House news conference, Trump announced alternative options, including an immediate 10% global tariff.

Lol, the US is a clown show.

a robot is still going to be cheaper in the long run

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I'm working with people that seem to try to offload a lot of their work to AI, and it's shit, and making the project take longer and shittier. Then they do things like write documents in AI and expect people to read that nonsense, and even use AI to send long, useless Slack messages. In short, it's been detrimental to the project.

I don't buy that. There's little reason to automate those jobs because the labor is so cheap. And as someone who has worked most of those jobs in the past, most of those workers could be easily trained for different jobs; most are actively taking it upon themselves to train to get out of them.

Would be cool. I've tried, and was even able to get an interview with one, but was rejected :( This job market sucks; everyone's getting many more applications than they're able to deal with, and cooperatives are more hesitant to accept new members than regular businesses. I guess I'd have to create a new cooperative if I wanted to work in one, but I'm bad at/hate securing and negotiating contracts.

If you consider the Zapatista's anarchist, they are a federation of autonomous municipalities that do stuff like this (along with hospitals, schools, etc).

I agree that company fundamentals don't matter, and that the goal right now seems to be techno-feudalism.

Retail is ~40% of the stock market, and retirement is ~20%. I think it will pop whenever the next recession starts. If enough people lose their jobs, and start selling their stocks and dipping into their retirement to pay bills, these stocks will tank. It's my theory that these stocks are held up by all the people passively investing in index funds following the SP500 and NASDAQ. During any small sell-off by active investors, a lot of people's retirement plans will eventually automatically just buy and slowly bring it back up.

A scare, widely reported by media, could also cause people to take enough notice where a lot of people manually adjust their plans. But, yeah, the media is pretty captured now, and will avoid reporting on stuff that could cause scares.

I doubt the US would try to occupy or "nation build." I assume they'd just bomb a bunch of people and do some small operations with special forces. The goal is to probably set their nuclear program back significantly, and try to do the same thing they did in Venezuela (cut the head off of government, replace with someone they can control, and literally steal their oil for the oligarchs).

A significant amount of the AI money is going into/coming from surveillance and "defense" sectors. Also, the ultra-wealthy obviously see it as a tool to disempower labor through automation, so much so that they're laying off masses of people before the thing actually works. The amount of money being invested into AI only makes sense if it does take a large percentage of people's jobs. And, automation/industrialization has indeed made people's lives worse for multiple generations. E.g. extremely long shift work, soot-filled cities, two-penny hangovers, urban squalor, etc. "Engel's pause" is one example of this.

I think I'd install proxmox on all machines because there is a proxmox provider for Terraform. Then, manually create the VMs, and to learn the barebones, use kubeadm to set everything up, and kubectl to manage it. Once comfortable and knowledgeable with that, start messing around with Terraform and Ansible.

I paid ~$180 for my used mint-condition Pixel 6 on Swappa. You have to look up which exact model numbers are bootloader unlockable, then filter on those.

Yeah, it is probably worse in terms of UX. I've been intentionally using "worse" software, developed mostly by volunteers, that's free (gratis and libre), and doesn't spy on its users for a long time now though. For instance, FreeCAD and GIMP is pretty bad on the UX side, and FreeCAD is even pretty buggy; but I don't feel like I'm being exploited by using them. Cinny does look nice.