RE: https://hachyderm.io/@kyleford/116008758604107641

The Corry Doctorow @pluralistic «Reverse Centaur» ( https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur )
... is *alive* !!
(last sentence to be read in Dr Frankenstein voice)

#ai #ia
#NightmareOnLLMStreet
#Noai
#Capitalism
#Marketing
#ByTheWayIfAnyoneHereIsInMarketingOrAdvertisingKillYourself

Not only are workloads increasing, by hollowing out their junior ranks, businesses are putting themselves squarely in the path of a slow-burning demographic time bomb as seniors begin to retire in record numbers.

"There won’t be an endless supply of experienced hires to fall back on, so everyone will be fighting for the limited, increasingly expensive talent with domain expertise"

What exactly is the tech-industry's endgame here?

https://www.fastcompany.com/91483431/companies-replaced-entry-level-workers-with-ai

#noai #techbros #ai #llm #technology #programming #sysadmin #linux #indieweb #capitalism #reading #art #adhd

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@kyleford/116008758604107641

The Corry Doctorow @pluralistic «Reverse Centaur» ( https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur )
... is *alive* !!
(last sentence to be read in Dr Frankenstein voice)

#ai #ia
#NightmareOnLLMStreet
#Noai
#Capitalism
#Marketing
#ByTheWayIfAnyoneHereIsInMarketingOrAdvertisingKillYourself

“Only genuine commitment and solidarity, as well as a tolerance for disagreement, will lay the basis for a dialogue around politics that posit an alternative to capitalism, a concept currently far beyond the reach of most people’s imagination. In our current conditions, the long-term process of creating the necessary ideological shift may initially largely be a case of exhibiting a willingness to do the necessary grunt work of movement building, thereby creating the conditions in which people will be open to hearing us.” - Dandy Andy

#capitalism #threewayfight

https://threewayfight.org/what-the-fk-is-to-be-done/

“Only genuine commitment and solidarity, as well as a tolerance for disagreement, will lay the basis for a dialogue around politics that posit an alternative to capitalism, a concept currently far beyond the reach of most people’s imagination. In our current conditions, the long-term process of creating the necessary ideological shift may initially largely be a case of exhibiting a willingness to do the necessary grunt work of movement building, thereby creating the conditions in which people will be open to hearing us.” - Dandy Andy

#capitalism #threewayfight

https://threewayfight.org/what-the-fk-is-to-be-done/

If anyone is still in #Brussels after the #FOSDEM: Don't miss the #Banksy museum and Banksy's + #Monet's collaborative work depicting @videolan's fight against #capitalism.
https://banksymuseum.be/en/

If anyone is still in #Brussels after the #FOSDEM: Don't miss the #Banksy museum and Banksy's + #Monet's collaborative work depicting @videolan's fight against #capitalism.
https://banksymuseum.be/en/

For my parents generation, people born during the 1930s, mass consumption of music and other arts became the norm.

Instead of playing music being social being something that unites us, the consumption of music and art became an identity marker, a signal of status, of wealth.

And since the stories about music and the arts are written for mass consumption, they only focus on famous people, their hubris, betrayals, and their tragedies.

From cradle to grave, we have been trained as commodified people, taught the pseudo-science of Social Darwinism as self-evident human nature.

The isolation of relentless competition for status and wealth now defines many relationships, and so define arts.

For thousands of years most art was folk art, that was its purpose, its function; it was already naturally “democratized”.

#Technocapitalism and the Bad Future of Music | Adam Neely
#History #Ethics #Culture #Community #Craft #Music #Arts #Science #Humanities #Ai #Fascism #BrOligarchy #Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk

Why there’s no European Google, and why that's a good thing. Great stuff by @ploum
https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.html

h/t @Tupp_ed

#software #Europe #FOSS #tech #capitalism #CopyLeft #internet

Why there’s no European Google, and why that's a good thing. Great stuff by @ploum
https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.html

h/t @Tupp_ed

#software #Europe #FOSS #tech #capitalism #CopyLeft #internet

@GeofCox
For many years I subsisted largely on small research grants that weren't taxed, and so weren't visible as an income source for my credit rating. When the time came to get a house mortgage, there was absolutely no way for me. Except that my rich dad offered to put his name on the loan.

He never paid anything. But thanks to generational wealth, I got to live in a house of my own instead of a rental apartment.

And it was way cheaper too.

#capitalism

I saw 'Castle in the sky' recently. Beyond its beauty and solarpunk themes, the movie is a great example of how destitution and anarchism should work: we could have power, but we reject it, we stop any possibility of authority to grow, we fiercely act against hierarchies.

While the villain, Muska, wishes to use the technology and military infrastructure that Laputa holds within its now infinite biodiversity for authoritarian purposes, Sheeta, the anarchist princess ( ) declines, using power against power, renouncing.

The end of the movie is quite symbolic: the non-human will persist beyond us, the pursue of infinite growth, domination, wars, power, will lead to our demise.

#studioghibli #castleinthesky #miyazaki #anime #anarchism #solarpunk #capitalism

Capitalism is so successful that it needs to steal oil from socialist countries in order to survive.

#venezuela #USA #capitalism #oil

I saw 'Castle in the sky' recently. Beyond its beauty and solarpunk themes, the movie is a great example of how destitution and anarchism should work: we could have power, but we reject it, we stop any possibility of authority to grow, we fiercely act against hierarchies.

While the villain, Muska, wishes to use the technology and military infrastructure that Laputa holds within its now infinite biodiversity for authoritarian purposes, Sheeta, the anarchist princess ( ) declines, using power against power, renouncing.

The end of the movie is quite symbolic: the non-human will persist beyond us, the pursue of infinite growth, domination, wars, power, will lead to our demise.

#studioghibli #castleinthesky #miyazaki #anime #anarchism #solarpunk #capitalism

March of The Jobless Corps - Daniel Kahn and The Painted Bird album "Lost Causes"
www.paintedbird.net

( Original Yiddish song by Mordechai Gebirtig, written ca. 1930 in Krakow.
English by Daniel Kahn, 2009. Arrangement by Michael Winograd/Jake Shulman-Ment
instrumental, "Nifty's Freylakh" by Naftule Brandwein )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KFVVKFxr60&list=RD6KFVVKFxr60&start_radio=1

#Capitalism #workingpoor

March of The Jobless Corps - Daniel Kahn and The Painted Bird album "Lost Causes"
www.paintedbird.net

( Original Yiddish song by Mordechai Gebirtig, written ca. 1930 in Krakow.
English by Daniel Kahn, 2009. Arrangement by Michael Winograd/Jake Shulman-Ment
instrumental, "Nifty's Freylakh" by Naftule Brandwein )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KFVVKFxr60&list=RD6KFVVKFxr60&start_radio=1

#Capitalism #workingpoor

Capitalism is so successful that it needs to steal oil from socialist countries in order to survive.

#venezuela #USA #capitalism #oil

"The timing and content of these reforms can only be understood in the context of the global crisis of #capitalism, marked by economic decline, deepening social #inequality, escalating imperialist conflict, and a resurgence of working-class struggle internationally. The ruling class confronts growing hostility, to worsening social conditions, Britain’s support for #Israel’s genocide in #Gaza and the costs of militarisation."