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Software since 1998.

Black lives matter. Trans lives matter. LGBT+ rights are human rights. Healthcare, security, a decent income, and housing with dignity are human rights. Abortion is healthcare. Science is our best hope as a species. Kindness and empathy are the noblest of human traits.

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I’m disappointed (but not surprised) at the steady flow of on social media: rapid-fire collages made of footage of burning houses, accompanied by dramatic or sad music, incoherently stitched together, sometimes even cynically including obviously AI-generated footage. Most of them include some sort of drone shots, even though all flight (including drones) has been prohibited in firefighting areas.

As is the case in all disasters, these kinds of videos are harmful. While there are legitimate videos from actual victims who post their experiences, they soon get outnumbered by videos taken by outsiders exploiting the situation, then compiled into self-serving viral collections. They are barely informational, not at all educational, and always exploitative.

If you see one of those videos in your feed, please don’t give them engagement. Block the creator if you can. Report them to your moderators and tell them you don’t appreciate such nonsense.


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Software engineers: CAPITAL IS NOT YOUR FRIEND. You are not a billionaire; you are a worker. Rich investors are trying to take your livelihood away any way they can to keep more money in their pockets. Don’t be smug because you make more money than the median; your worth is smaller than a rounding error on any given billionaire’s spreadsheet.

I repeat: YOU ARE A WORKER. Stand with your fellow workers AGAINST capital. Capitalists and billionaires make life worse for others. They’ve been coming after other workers; and now they’re coming after YOU.


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Can Zuck actually pull this off in 2025? Probably not. But that’s not going to stop him from laying off engineers again this year, and forcing the remainder to rely on to get work done that their ex-colleagues would have helped with. AI is still going to suck, but Zuck is going to force it to “work”.


Software engineers: CAPITAL IS NOT YOUR FRIEND. You are not a billionaire; you are a worker. Rich investors are trying to take your livelihood away any way they can to keep more money in their pockets. Don’t be smug because you make more money than the median; your worth is smaller than a rounding error on any given billionaire’s spreadsheet.

I repeat: YOU ARE A WORKER. Stand with your fellow workers AGAINST capital. Capitalists and billionaires make life worse for others. They’ve been coming after other workers; and now they’re coming after YOU.

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on ’s show (no link because , find the clip yourself):

“Probably in 2025, Meta, as well as other companies, will have an AI that can effectively be a mid-level engineer that you have at your company that can write code. In the beginning that will be very expensive to run, then at some point a lot of the code we have in our apps will be built by AI engineers instead of people engineers. In my opinion that will augment the people working on it. My view is that in the future people will be so much more creative and freed up to do crazy things.”

I state again: to most capitalists pouring money into , THE CORE VALUE PROPOSITION FOR AI IS DISPLACEMENT OF HUMAN LABOR. What capitalists want are slaves that replace workers.

Robots have replaced a lot of *repetitive* human work, and capitalists have hoarded all the profits from their increased productivity. Now they want AI to replace *intelligent* human work, and capitalists want to hoard those profits too.


Can Zuck actually pull this off in 2025? Probably not. But that’s not going to stop him from laying off engineers again this year, and forcing the remainder to rely on to get work done that their ex-colleagues would have helped with. AI is still going to suck, but Zuck is going to force it to “work”.

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Tags: #zuckerberg #joerogan #fuckzuck #ai

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@NanoRaptor Ability to consciously manage the amygdala.


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