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it's almost as if the regulatory regime where chemicals are given the benefit of the doubt until proven harmful was a mistake
"inert" = the dirtiest* word in the english language
*matter out of scope
Inertia is matter at a pace.
Inert, etymologically, comes from the Latin intertem, ""unskilled, incompetent; inactive, helpless, weak, sluggish; worthless. As of 1774, "indisposed or unable to move or act", with respect to a person or creature. The application to chemicals only comes in 1800.
So, not the benefit of the doubt, so much as the benefit of a weak indisposition toward action. Worthless immobility.
It's an old truism that in a gold rush, the only people who come out ahead are the people selling the picks and shovels. But that's not true - there's *even more money* to be made wholesaling picks and shovels to the retailers who operate the frontier mercantiles. Go meta!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alaskan_Gold_Mining_Supplies_(1897)_(ADVERT_277).jpeg
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Today's economy is dominated by pick-and-shovel wholesalers. America is a gerontocracy drowning in MBAs, while there's no one to do eldercare:
So it's not surprising that we don't ask why these AI god-botherers need our stupid money while they're immanentizing the eschaton. Why would they operate a hospital if they could go meta and sell the doctorbots to the MBAs running the hospital?
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The scam economy boasts a bewildering array of ancillary services, like a $150/month service that lets you produce fake screenshots showing vast monthly income on *other* scam services (November Kelly calls this "The world's most expensive 'inspect element'"):
https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture/posts/faux-high-level-163443872
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It's an old truism that in a gold rush, the only people who come out ahead are the people selling the picks and shovels. But that's not true - there's *even more money* to be made wholesaling picks and shovels to the retailers who operate the frontier mercantiles. Go meta!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alaskan_Gold_Mining_Supplies_(1897)_(ADVERT_277).jpeg
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Take the world of online grifters, who don't just peddle get-rich-quick PDFs, they *also* peddle tools to generate get-rich-quick PDFs, as well as tools to steal other "wealth influencers'" insta videos and deepfake yourself into their pretend private jets:
https://www.404media.co/how-i-bought-a-private-jet-by-selling-10-subscriptions-to-404-media/
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The scam economy boasts a bewildering array of ancillary services, like a $150/month service that lets you produce fake screenshots showing vast monthly income on *other* scam services (November Kelly calls this "The world's most expensive 'inspect element'"):
https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture/posts/faux-high-level-163443872
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maeool
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Très intéressant ⤵️
>Le développeur de #Saracroche nous a avoué vouloir lui aussi encourager les commerçants à s’enregistrer sur #OpenStreetMap pour être facilement identifiés dans l’app.
À lire sur ce bel article qui met en avant @cartes_app et @CoMaps :
https://www.lesnumeriques.com/societe-numerique/l-impossible-quete-pour-une-alternative-souveraine-et-privee-a-google-maps-a259052.html
maeool
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@segundo @abies77 @Bristow_69 L’intégration d'OSM dans la base de données de Saracoche est en cours. Plus de 400 000 commerces seront référencés par leur numéro de téléphone. Il y aura un lien vers Cartes.app.
A curious irony in the fact a great many of the free and open source platforms championing digital sovereignty are themselves utterly infrastructurally dependent on big tech apparatus GitHub, itself owned (and mined) by the ruthless and closed source market monopolist Microsoft.
We're gaining ground fast, but we've still got a way to go in the truly sovereign platform space. To use is to support, and that means any point along the supply chain.
@JulianOliver I recently saw a post from some GitLab employee about how it's impossible for them to deploy updates to GitLab itself during certain times, because they use 3rd-party libraries that are hosted on GitHub, and GitHub's become so unreliable that the pipelines are guaranteed to fail during peak hours.
Don't invest in a rideshare company, buy options to invest in a rideshare company:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/13/collapse-porn/#collapse-porn
The inverse relationship between doing something useful and making money is deeply ingrained in our economic wisdom.
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Take the world of online grifters, who don't just peddle get-rich-quick PDFs, they *also* peddle tools to generate get-rich-quick PDFs, as well as tools to steal other "wealth influencers'" insta videos and deepfake yourself into their pretend private jets:
https://www.404media.co/how-i-bought-a-private-jet-by-selling-10-subscriptions-to-404-media/
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@grafton9 ecco 😄
Curiosità: l'oggetto dell'email lo aveva scelto il grafico?
@leodurruti non saprei dire con certezza. viene usato sia "banner" che "logo"
I think the only reason this question doesn't come up more frequently is that we're stewing in what Douglas Rushkoff calls the "go meta" economy, in which the most respectable and smartest business to operate must be as many abstraction layers away from real work as possible. Don't drive a taxi, own a medallion that you rent to the cab driver. Don't own a medallion, start a "rideshare" company. Don't start a rideshare company, invest in a rideshare company.
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Don't invest in a rideshare company, buy options to invest in a rideshare company:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/13/collapse-porn/#collapse-porn
The inverse relationship between doing something useful and making money is deeply ingrained in our economic wisdom.
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If you were really on a glide path to creating an all-powerful deity and just needed cash to keep the venture going until the cancer-curing word-guesser awoke from its long slumber, then wouldn't you want *as much cash as possible*? Why would you voluntarily split the take with some sucky, washed, non-god-generating business from before 2022?
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I think the only reason this question doesn't come up more frequently is that we're stewing in what Douglas Rushkoff calls the "go meta" economy, in which the most respectable and smartest business to operate must be as many abstraction layers away from real work as possible. Don't drive a taxi, own a medallion that you rent to the cab driver. Don't own a medallion, start a "rideshare" company. Don't start a rideshare company, invest in a rideshare company.
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@kenobit però la manipolazione del lettore è pericolosa, è brutta, giustifica azioni orribili. E la maggior parte delle persone non si accorge di essere stata ingannata. Io non me ne sono accorto, Doctorow non se n'è accorto. Tu sì?
@lgsp Io me ne sono accorto, ma perché è un periodo della vita in cui ragiono tantissimo sulla manipolazione (su quella che subiamo o che a volte ci autoinfliggiamo).
Mi è sembrato un libro potentissimo sulla manipolazione. Manipola il protagonista, manipola chi legge, e poi mette a nudo la violenza della manipolazione. L'ho trovato bello e intenso.
(Ora sto leggendo il secondo)
If you've got a chatbot that can teach my kids, why sell it to my local school district? Why not just open a school?
If the chatbot can do the job, and if the chatbot costs less than the worker who does the job today, then the chatbot company can profitably sell services more cheaply than anyone who presently employs that worker, because the chatbot company *already owns the chatbot*.
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If you were really on a glide path to creating an all-powerful deity and just needed cash to keep the venture going until the cancer-curing word-guesser awoke from its long slumber, then wouldn't you want *as much cash as possible*? Why would you voluntarily split the take with some sucky, washed, non-god-generating business from before 2022?
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That's why they want your boss to fire you and replace you with their chatbots and split your wages with your former employer. But this just raises the same question: if you have a chatbot that can do a doctor's job, why sell it to a hospital? Why not just *open your own hospital?* If you've got a chatbot that can do a tax accountant's job, why sell it to a tax-prep service? Why not just open a tax-prep service?
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If you've got a chatbot that can teach my kids, why sell it to my local school district? Why not just open a school?
If the chatbot can do the job, and if the chatbot costs less than the worker who does the job today, then the chatbot company can profitably sell services more cheaply than anyone who presently employs that worker, because the chatbot company *already owns the chatbot*.
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Anarchist Library: **Eric King - No Way Home**
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/eric-king-no-way-home-an-anarchist-ex-prisoner-s-response-to-fire-ant-movement-defense?v=1783929975
Author: Eric KingTitle: No Way HomeSubtitle: An Anarchist Ex-Prisoner’s Response to Fire Ant Movement DefenseDate: 2026-07-11Source: Retrieved on 2026-07-12 from https://crimethinc.com/2026/07/11/no-way-home-an-anarchist-ex-prisoners-response-to-fire-ant-movement-defense
In response to the statement we
"General AI is around the corner and *it's* going to cure cancer. Cancer research is a waste of money!"
Which all raises the question: if you've truly incubated a foetal demiurge in your "AI lab," why are you offering to sell it to *me*? *What do the AI hucksters buy/One half so precious as the Gods they sell?*"
Of course, they might answer, "We need your money *now* so we can make god *later*."
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That's why they want your boss to fire you and replace you with their chatbots and split your wages with your former employer. But this just raises the same question: if you have a chatbot that can do a doctor's job, why sell it to a hospital? Why not just *open your own hospital?* If you've got a chatbot that can do a tax accountant's job, why sell it to a tax-prep service? Why not just open a tax-prep service?
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théorie :verified:
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I would *love* to hear how the training of frontier AI models is not theft, but distilling those models is theft. Seriously. Lay it on me, AI simps.
hypebot
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puppy got to go camping and it was so much fun 
