Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

"Plenty of people got dynastically rich off of the fake numbers that propped up the pre-2008 housing bubble and the pre-2001 dotcom bubble. Those same people – and their ideological heirs – are now all-in on AI. It's impossible to overstate how structurally important AI is to the US economy. AI bubble companies now account for the value of 35% of the US stock market ..."

@pluralistic, 2025

https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/13/then-they-came-for-me/

No wonder they're so relentless in finding new uses for Trained #MOLE.

#AI
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

"But the factory owners and their investors had captured Parliament, which ignored its own laws and did nothing as the 'dark, Satanic mills' proliferated. Luddites only turned to property destruction after the system failed them."

@pluralistic, 2025

pluralistic.net/2025/05/27/ran

This sounds disturbingly familiar. Maybe it's time for some creative property destruction?

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

Anyone fighting concentration of wealthy with property destruction needs to be strictly ethical about it, especially remaining nonviolent (no living things harmed). The Unabomber-style approach is an antipattern that leads to fascism, not liberation.

It's also important to be strategic about it. Destroying things that ordinary people depend on is dumb and counterproductive. But what could we destroy that only benefits the 1%? Eg the things degrowth targets (private jets, superyachts).

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

Even better, what sort of nonviolent property destruction bleeds wealth from the hoards of the 1%, returning it to the population at large? Eg Attacking the security systems in corporate supermarkets so people can fill their pantries for free.

I'm taking inspiration here from wildcat strikes by public transport workers, where they kept the services going, but refused to charge passengers for riding them.

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

"Amazon is among the most notorious abusers of blue-collar labor, the workplace where everyone who doesn't have a bullshit laptop job is expected to piss in a bottle and spend an unpaid hour before and after work going through a bag- and body-search."

@pluralistic, 2025

https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/27/rancid-vibe-coding/#class-war

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#Amazon#LabourRights#WorkerRights
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

"Amazon's blue-collar workers are under continuous, totalizing, judging AI scrutiny that scores them based on whether their eyeballs are correctly oriented, whether they take too long to pick up an object, whether they pee too often. Amazon warehouse workers are injured at three times national average."

@pluralistic, 2025

https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/27/rancid-vibe-coding/#class-war

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

"Amazon AIs scan social media for disgruntled workers talking about unions, and Amazon has another AI tool that predicts which shops and departments are most likely to want to unionize."

@pluralistic, 2025

https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/27/rancid-vibe-coding/#class-war

This shit makes the USSR under Stalin sounds like a workers utopia by comparison. Why have we allowed organisations like this to exist for so long? No more. It's time to end them, in ways that make them impossible to recreate.

#SystemChange

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