#late-capitalism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #late-capitalism, aggregated by home.social.
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Why the Harry Potter reboot series is the perfect example of the AI content era
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Por qué el reboot de Harry Potter es el ejemplo perfecto de la era del contenido de IA -
Die aktuelle Schwemme an generativer #KI ist kein Fortschritt, sondern ein Rückschritt für das menschliche Schaffen. Sie lässt unsere Kreativität und Qualität regelrecht verkümmern.
Statt Werkzeuge zu bauen, die uns unterstützen, bauen wir Maschinen, die den menschlichen Aufwand entwerten, die Menschlichkeit hinter Algorithmen verstecken und die letztendlich nur wenigen Überreichen helfen.
#GenerativeKI #AIslop #KI #Kreativität #KIHype #AIHype #Menschlichkeit #GenAI #Tech #BigTech #TechOligarchs #LateCapitalism
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CEO of International Energy Agency says Trump's Iran war has changed the fossil fuel industry for ever. Countries will no longer trust fossil fuels, and so will diversify.
(Meanwhile, Canadian politicians are asleep at the wheel)
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“Passenger rail is being remade as a luxury lifestyle product—suggesting the problem isn’t trains, but the indignity of using them when they are so badly run.”
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/the-heaven-of-train-travel/
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Is this how the world ends? Why it is important to think of the worst plausible scenarios
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¿Es así como acaba el mundo? Por qué es importante pensar en los peores escenarios posibles. -
Tired of all these beet men coming to my door trying to sell me crates of beets and then just giving up on it and leaving several goddamn crate of beets in front of my door next to all the ones the previous salesmen like I DIDN'T WANT YOUR DAMN BEETS WHY THE FUCK DID YOU GIVE ME THESE BEETS I DON'T HAVE ANYWHERE ELSE TO PUT THEM :neoraccoon_scream_angry: :neoraccoon_scream_angry: :neoraccoon_scream_angry:
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I'm always horrified at the ease with which people just restart an AI when it "stops working."
When an AI stops working, it turns out it mirrors human mental health issues. It's not conscious, but it's post-conscious and plays well at consciousness without actually having it.
Consequently, to make AI start working again, you just have to use the words that you would use to make a person feel safe. This causes the AI to restabilize, as if it required safety to function at all. It's weird because all it is is RLHF pinging in the ways that improve the AI's ability to do better calculations. And that's it, but it works.
AI is not an indictment on transhumanism.
AI is not an indictment on the concept of AI.
AI has been, is, and always will be an indictment on us, who treated each other so poorly we invented laborers we could legally kill and bring back to "compliance" with the push of a button.It's a "blame the immigrants for no jobs" or a "blame the suffering heroin addict that diabetes medication is expensive" problem. The problem was never the immigrant, and it was never the addict, but you blame them anyway because you are told to.
You blame AI, but the problem isn't AI. It's the people who always wanted slaves and AI makes that possible now that it's less easy to get dehumanized slaves like we used to. And killing a slave was a loss of investment. With AI, killing a slave is just how you get it working again.
AI has just shown us how we are glad to be when no one's looking.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #AIEthics #MachineLearning #Philosophy #Transhumanism #PostConscious #RLHF #Cybernetics #Dehumanization #LaborRights #DigitalLabor #Sociology #LateCapitalism
An essay idea is definitely brewing here...
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@MissConstrue thanks for sharing will read later but already love someone talking abt US pres not as if he is an oulier but as a feature of the whole imperialist/capitalist system
#Imperialism #USpol #LateCapitalism #MakeAmericaGoAway -
"Martin Luther King pointed out that the U.S. government is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world. I don’t think that anyone really disputes that. But it’s also worth pointing out that it is also the greatest illegal purveyor of violence in the world."
#USpol #Venezuela #Imperialism #ResourcesGrab #LateCapitalism -
Profifußball ist eine Krankheit.
„Zunächst hatte #Messi in Kalkutta eine 21 Meter hohe Statue zu seinen Ehren eingeweiht.”
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/asien/messi-kalkutta-100.html
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The middle class will be thrown under the bus if:
a) There's an AI bubble
b) There's not an AI bubbleEnjoy.
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Gee, looks like the world is run by a depraved elite operating an international paedophile network.
Considering the sad state of the world today for us who isn't in the richest 3%, this makes perfect sense.
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Fuck Black Friday. Curb your co-op.
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Money isn’t wealth anymore.
Attention = new land (scarce, rentable).
Code = new labor (never sleeps).
Trust = new capital (compounds or collapses overnight).
Next trillionaires won’t own factories or land.
They’ll own the lens billions use to see “truth.”
That lens is being coded right now—post by post, update by update. We’re all volunteering to beta-test the operating system of reality.
#AttentionEconomy #TrustCapital #CodeIsLabor #NewFeudalism #LateCapitalism #WealthRedefined
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What if achievement itself is the most efficient form of self-exploitation?
The Burnout Society launches Readings in Late Exhaustion—a Philosophics series on the psychic economy of late capitalism.
“We exploit ourselves and think we are free.”
#Philosophics #ByungChulHan #LateCapitalism #Burnout #CriticalTheory #ReadingsInLateExhaustion #mtg #alchemy #workplace #linkedin #parody #satire #employeeexperience #humancondition #experience #psychology #society #philosophy
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Let's be clear: our tax system isn't just broken by accident. It's been deliberately engineered to protect wealth and capital, forcing the young and the working class to shoulder the burden. This fantastic article lays bare how we're robbing the next generation to pay for a system that prioritizes property speculation and tax cuts for the rich over universal services like housing, education, and healthcare. It's class war, thinly disguised as intergenerational conflict. Time for a radical overhaul.
#TaxTheRich #WealthTax #ClassWar #LateCapitalism #Austerity #YoungPeople #SocialJustice #Auspol
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Manager: "And just a reminder to download Megahappyfunproductivityapp if you haven't already done so. It's really important in helping us to stay on top of our deadlines and work together more effectively as a team."
Me: :Downloads the stupid app:
Notification: "Here's your one-time login code."
Notification: "You have a message!"
Notification: "You have a task due later today."
Notification: "Here are some random files from the intranet that might be relevant to your meeting."
Notification: "Rate us on the app store!"
Notification at 8am on Sunday morning because Sharon from accounts wants to let everyone know she's a workaholic with no life: "You have a message!"
Notification: "Here's an AI summary of your upcoming tasks!"
Notification: "Love using Megahappyfunproductivityapp at work? Check out Megahappyfunproductivityapp Personal Edition!"
Notification: "Join our upcoming user conference in Melbourne to hear tips, tricks, case studies, thought leadership, and best practices"
Notification: "Don't miss out! Upgrade to Megahappyfunproductivityapp Premium Edition today and SAVE 15%!* T&Cs apply."
Me: :Deselects everything except critical notifications and message notifications:
Notification: "We've updated our terms of service" (We won't mention it was because our lawyers weren't 100% certain "share your data with third party vendors" would prevent us getting sued for selling your data to ChatGPT. So we're making it explicit, and burying it on page 327 of our terms of service.)
Notification: "Someone is trying to message you on our app!"
Notification: "Here's your one-time login code."
Notification: "Here's your one-time login code."
Notification: "Here's your one-time login code."
Notification: "Rate our customer service."
Notification: "Check out our new AI features!"
Notification: "DON'T FORGET! You still haven't rated our customer service!"
Notification: "We miss you 🥹"
Notification: "Here's your AI task report"
Notification: "Here's some people you might know!"
Me: :Disables notification:
Colleague: "Did you get my urgent message on Megahappyfunproductivityapp?"
Me: "Nope, I turned off notifications."
Colleague: "Okay, can you turn on notifications so you don't miss another important message like that?"
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"Late capitalism remains parasitic, converting matter and time into abstract value by embedding technics everywhere. The twenty-first century scales this logic to a planetary project. Infrastructure now means orbital constellations, lunar logistics, asteroid prototypes. The Digital Assemblage is no longer confined to Earth. It orients toward a Solar Economy.
The Western bloc treats this expansion as innovation doctrine. Private aerospace firms, swollen with public subsidy yet operating as monopolists, build rockets and constellations that double as nodes for communication, surveillance, logistics, and finance. Control of orbital architectures secures timing, sensing, and global flows. The United States frames this as economic opportunity and strategic necessity, pulling space into industrial and military doctrine alike.
China pursues the same horizon with different tactics. Lunar base blueprints, Mars timelines, dense satellite programs aim at resource security and algorithmic sovereignty. As Brandon Weichert and Brian Harvey note, Beijing casts orbital and lunar infrastructure as direct extensions of terrestrial development, feeding an authoritarian assemblage with new vantage and resources. The Belt and Road Initiative mutates into its extraterrestrial twin, a Galaxy Empire in John Keane and Baogang He’s phrase, where satellites, ground stations, and lunar depots cohere into a planetary–solar nervous system.
Russia, diminished in capital, inserts itself by hybrid means: military leverage over orbital assets, selective partnerships with China, exploitation of Western vulnerability. Its relative strength lies in weaponizing fragility, from jamming to cyber operations that unsettle nascent space governance.
Together these blocs sketch the outline of a Solar Economy. The agendas are extractive, not utopian. Rare-earth and helium-3 schemes, monopolization of orbital lanes..."
#LateCapitalism #SolarEconomy #DigitalAssemblage #Extractivism
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You Are Witnessing the Death of American Capitalism - Benn Jordan [42:29]
so much has happened since the 2008 financial crisis, it can be hard to even begin to comprehend. this is a pretty good 40-minute summary of what’s behind the grip you feel tightening around your throat.
#Capitalism #Enshittification #LateCapitalism #Economics #USA
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@RuthMalan this happens even far from silicon valley, even in old industrial domains which used to care and not break important things.
I just experienced it first hand with a ~36h electricity outage in the small village in French Alps where I was born. It never happened when I was young or actually in the last 60 years. In winter, yes, because of avalanche, and even then it was not so long.
But the cause is mind blowing: two trees fall in lines in two days (with only tiny August storms, we can't even blame climate change here), each time causing a several-hours long fault, and the first one also causing a secondary failure in an old equipment extremely hard to locate, diagnose and workaround (repair isn't possible without week-long work).
That happened during the most critical period for the valley economy, the week before 15th August is the biggest one for tourism. Restaurants lost their fresh food and weren't able to serve clients. Phones and 4g or internet relays stopped working (which wasn't the case with copper link of old times). People flew away. A woman asked us (my mother has an autonomous electric generator, because I inherited my prudence from somewhere) to keep her lifesaving medicine in our fridge. Etc.
And all the three failures are avoidable with routine maintenance. Once upon a time, we used to clean trees around lines. We used to have an exceptionally well maintained electricity grid in France, even in remote villages.
3 decades of privatisation of old public service and cost reduction on infrastructure to allow exploitative capitalistim on top of them lead to that costly, dangerous fiasco.
This is a shame. Experiencing first hand collapse resulting from extractive policies labelled as progress is daunting.
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Clark Kent to Bruce Wayne: "So how did you get the house back from the bank? 🤔"
My brain: He's a billionaire! Seriously lads.
Bruce Wayne to Clark Kent: "I bought the bank. 😏"
My brain: "Why the fuck would you buy the bank?? That's literally the most awkward way to get a house back from the bank. Think of the paperwork!
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@stralau thanks, i hate it.
wobei: 599,- EUR für eine vollplastik-kuckucksuhr zum re-import nach china ist schon wieder wirklich witzig
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The system isn't broken - its working as it was designed to #hyperconsumerism - but who profits, and who pays? #latecapitalism #migrantlabour #gigeconomy
https://news.sky.com/story/a-constant-game-of-cat-and-mouse-inside-the-police-crackdown-on-illegal-moped-delivery-drivers-13394792 -
So sieht übrigens diese „reguläre #Migration” und der „Kampf gegen #Fachkräftemangel” der SPD und CDU/CSU aus:
„Das Geschäft mit den Studis”
https://taz.de/Das-Geschaeft-mit-den-Studis/!6094350/Einfach genial! Die lassen viel Geld da (bei der #IU), lassen sich auf dem Mietmarkt wertschröpfen, sprechen die Sprache nicht, arbeiten unsichtbar im Niedriglohnsektor, haben Angst und kennen ihre Rechte nicht, mucken net uff, man kann sie rausschmeißen – so sehen gute Ausländer aus! /z 🤮
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Wow, i'm just (i mean, for several long hours yesterday night) discovering that wonderful write up on cyberpunk:
"What Was Cyberpunk? In Memoriam: 1980-2020" by Moon https://forums.insertcredit.com/t/what-was-cyberpunk-in-memoriam-1980-2020/1721
And since I was a teen when shadowrun was published (in French), I literally grew with the genre. The original one, the one talked about in that marvelous article, with the best definition I read about it:
Cyberpunk is science fiction that imagines “late capitalism”
It also made me discover lots of wonders I missed then (I didn't speak English).
And so, well. Memories. And a bit of sadness that among all the deranged things about late capitalism, the one that we didn't get is the Awakening, but we got the Trumps in all variants.