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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@KevinCarson1/116975293590616155
Musk was obviously drawing on ideas like postscarcity, UBI and MMT, which are not inherently ridiculous. But his horrible job of explaining and defending them perfectly displays his standard intellectually lazy approach of throwing out concepts he knows only from the first paragraphs of Wikipedia articles and X memes.
UBI and MMT are intended to address two different issues, both arising in different aspects a scarcity economy where market exchange prevails. In most postscarcity scenarios, costs have imploded to the point that money is superfluous for most things. Musk was exposed to the three ideas separately, half-remembered them, and slapped them together in a conversation without fully (or even partially) understanding the implications of any of them in material terms, or working out how they would interact in combination.
@paulca post-leaving google I've only had this once through cal.com, who gave me the ability to screen new meeting requests & report the garbage as spam.
@thisismissem — That's nice. I'm so early on my leaving Google journey, but I now see a clear path, and I'm heading towards the light! I'm doing it in a very "me" way though 😆
Michael Downey :notAI:
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After weeks of hesitation, I finally pushed the submit button on a session proposal for the Open Source Summit Europe. Those who know me will be surprised I selected the "Open AI & Data" track. You may be less surprised to hear that the session will be a BoF titled "How we can resist generative AI".
I'm curious to see if the proposal will be accepted, and if there's a significant enough interest from the community. If you have any feedback, please don't hesitate to share it.
Chip Butty
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pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly:
if i had access to the Force i would NOT use it to open elevator doors, but i would definitely still pretend to use it to open elevator doors
this has been pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly
Michael Downey :notAI:
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Today the Linux Foundation Event Team notified me that my talk proposal was not accepted. The past few weeks showed me that giving a voice to minorities who are afraid of speaking out is important, so I will think of a plan B.
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
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Me, pulling an entire branch off his leg: Odin I just brushed you out TEN MINUTES AGO, what do you have to say for yourself
Odin: a snack? A snack for Odin, that mommy conjured out of thin air?
I bet Freddy Krueger is upset that incels ruined fedoras.
@Alice I bet it works to his advantage.
"I'm your boyfriend now, m'lady"
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
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A question for my fellow #Zotero aficionados: Is it possible to download/snapshot an entire GitBook for local annotation?
fresco
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Because it's no longer convenient to pretend to have a conscious: Meta drops out of a major clean energy pact as its natural gas buildout accelerates | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/meta-drops-out-of-a-major-clean-energy-pact-as-its-natural-gas-buildout-accelerates/
Some rando just put some janky AI sales meeting in my calendar.
I'm working on some little projects to stop this kind of shit for good (for me, and others if they're interested).
What a shitty internet we've frog-boiled ourselves into.
@paulca post-leaving google I've only had this once through cal.com, who gave me the ability to screen new meeting requests & report the garbage as spam.
Muss irgendwas Außerhalb von Deutschland sein. Bis Padborg ist er noch gleich Unterwegs wie sonst
@star1602.de inzwischen kam eine nichtssagende Info, von wegen Baustellen in DE, DK und SE. Leider sind die ja immer restlos ausgebucht, sonst hätte man mich umgebucht 🤷♂️
@otfrom Perhaps post-structuralism too? Though that depends on the way you do it.
@cford weaponised post structuralism has proven very effective as a way of disrupting one's enemies, and I think the bottom up approach is a good way to think again about things (I'm a fan of bottom up empirical approaches like post modernism that don't try to fit things to existing frameworks)
That blows my mind.
What does the laughing cow know?
It knows how to use cow tools. It's bovine aesthetics. Tools are better when they're hilarious.
hypebot
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Follow up:
https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/116709382859132554
" #India’s #education minister resigns amid #Cockroach #youth movement #protests"
Something everyone of every country needs to learn (many know, many don't):
You fight for something, you win
You sit there, in inert whiny #cynicism and fragile impotent #perfectionism: you aid malice in your #learnedHelplessness. You've been psychologically conditioned
Especially you, lazy entitled Americans
