Listen man, the guys in private equity thought that they'd be smart enough to wring higher profits out of the name they bought. It turns out that they can't, but is it fair to penalize them for it when there are pensioners getting money for free? What did those old farts ever to for Kodak?

MAGA supporters were crying about the government interference when DHS told Twitter that the anti-vax misinformation could kill people. They were demanding that social media be made a common carrier when when neo-nazi's were being kicked off.

Now the President is shaking down research universities, telling companies to fire their CEOs, and having people deported for writing Op-Eds.

They're cheering now because their motivating value is power for herrenvolk. Always has been. Going forward there is no reason to humor assertions to the contrary.

I'm willing to go along with a stupid reason, as long as it doesn't undermine the plot. Countries have gone to war over guano. But I draw the line when naked aliens who are killed by water invade a planet which is covered by water that often falls from the sky.

He will be pardoned after a completely unrelated purchase of 1,488,420.69 Trumpcoins.

There are a bunch of Michael Crawfords. Do you feel more represented by the Phantom of the Opera or the Young and the Restless guy? Good news either way!

The enshitification will continue until it is no longer profitable. Cheap bad translations will choke the market for good translators.

America has a lot of people with a lot of money and no ideas of their own. We should go back to 1972 tax rates: they could still afford second yachts, but they wouldn't be willing to invest in a machine that gets juice out of a bag filled with juice.

The current administration is trying to free-up non-AI impacted jobs for Americans, and trying to force Americans to work those jobs by cutting Medicare and curtailing opportunities for women and minorities (certain Americans are more American than others). They think we can return a society and economy like the 1950s and 60s because they think AI and a cruchy-fascist oligarchy could give us a similar relative advantages vis-a-vis the rest of the world.

But even if they fail or are just wrong, they see fewer brown people as a win (see our treatment of law-abiding Afghanis and Hatians).

This is a shameful epoch of our history, and we can console ourselves that this administration would use any soft-power for the worst and dumbest purposes.

The end of your legal career is a lot more than the "cost of doing business" unless your actual business is something other than the practice is law. (Anecdotally, I've only heard of it being accepted when it might reduce a jail sentence for defrauding a client.)

When human labor has been mechanized or automated, the increase in output has always been captured by the owners of the means of production. I can't think of a reason why this time would be different.

The closest I can get is that AI would allow individuals to make movies without a studio. But, in that scenario you avoid employing actors, technicians, craft services, etc. So it's still a net negative for the masses.

Can you think of an application of AI in which "the masses" are able to maintain the status quo?

There was a time when Republicans agreed that it was bad when Trump had his minions storm the capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power based on absurd lies. Now absurd lies are the truth and Republicans argue in public that acts of war should get Trump the Nobel Peace Prize.

You can still leave the cult.

Let 100 government-approved paragraph engines relieve us of the burden of thought.

This is like arguing against the catalytic converter mandate by pointing out that people can still buy an old Packard and restore it.

How will normies ever learn that Israel killed Kennedy and the greatest ongoing humanitarian crisis is the genocide of Boers unless Gemini mentions it while summarizing your universal remote manual?

You aren't being entirely fair. For example, the current Secretary of the Army served honorably in the Army where led a cavalry platoon and was deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Then he went to Yale Law School before working in private equity. Anyway, here's a video of him saying we currently have an astronaut on the moon.

Detractors on the left will say he's a delusional moron, because there haven't been any any astronauts on moon for 50 years. But Trump supporters will quickly and accurately point out that we do actually have astronauts in space, which is where the moon is. No doubt up-and-comers like Secretary Driscoll and whoever replaces Ms. Bean will have risen through the ranks of Trump's Meritocracy (TM) and will have just as firm a grasp of obvious facts as the Secretary of the Army and Secretary of Defense (who was also in the armed services and has on-air television experience).