#bridle — Public Fediverse posts

@bert_hubert

Satya says "Wait -- put on the handcuffs and blinders!"

" We put a trillion dollars into #AI to control you and fire you! "

"But _I_ will be hurt in the economic collapse the AI bubble bursting causes! ME! "

#AI #billionaire #BillionaireTools #saddles #bits #blinders #reins #spurs #bridle

A quotation from Horace

There was a stag, once, who could always defeat a stallion
And drive him out of their pasture — until, tired of losing,
The horse begged help of man, and got a bridle in return.
He beat the stag, all right, and he laughed — but then the rider
Stayed on his back, and the bit stayed in his mouth.
Give up your freedom, more worried about poverty than something
Greater than any sum of gold, and become a slave and stay
A slave forever, unable to live on only enough.
 
[Cervus equum pugna melior communibus herbis
pellebat, donec minor in certamine longo
imploravit opes hominis frenumque recepit;
sed postquam victor violins discessit ab hoste,
non equitem dorso, non frenum depulit ore.
Sic qui pauperiem veritus potiore metallis
libertate caret, dominum vehet improbus atque
serviet aeternum, quia parvo nesciet uti.]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 10 “To Aristius Fuscus,” l. 34ff (1.10.34-41) (20 BC) [tr. Raffel (1983)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/80424/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #avarice #bit #bridle #control #economy #enough #fear #financial security #freedom #greed #impoverishment #insecurity #liberty #master #poverty #selfsufficiency #servility #sufficiency #worry

"One of the reasons I liked James [#Bridle] so much was for a way of thinking that did not exclude #technology, did not designate it as the enemy, but rather—at least that’s how it felt—placed #hope in it. Where else could one place it? “Where the danger is, also grows the saving power,” as the German poet #Holderlin once wrote."
V. @jalefkowit
https://harpers.org/archive/2025/06/the-reenchanted-world-karl-ove-knausgaard-digital-age/