#latecapitalism — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/06/03/heavily-in-debt-loss-making-with-eyes-on-sending-people-to-mars-why-would-anyone-invest-in-spacex/

Kookulainn @[email protected] · 2026-07-16 · 20:14 UTC

It's ironic how the "ignorant masses" (ordinary people) pay for the stupidity of the "masters of the universe" whose decisions affect their savings, and therefore their futures.

And everyone without a vested interest could see it happening, but it happened all the same.

$135 dollars was the insider price for SpaceX shares, it isnt even worth that much now.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/06/03/heavily-in-debt-loss-making-with-eyes-on-sending-people-to-mars-why-would-anyone-invest-in-spacex/

Kookulainn @[email protected] · 2026-07-16 · 20:14 UTC

It's ironic how the "ignorant masses" (ordinary people) pay for the stupidity of the "masters of the universe" whose decisions affect their savings, and therefore their futures.

And everyone without a vested interest could see it happening, but it happened all the same.

$135 dollars was the insider price for SpaceX shares, it isnt even worth that much now.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/06/03/heavily-in-debt-loss-making-with-eyes-on-sending-people-to-mars-why-would-anyone-invest-in-spacex/

#latecapitalism #spacex

Kookulainn @[email protected] · 2026-07-16 · 20:14 UTC

It's ironic how the "ignorant masses" (ordinary people) pay for the stupidity of the "masters of the universe" whose decisions affect their savings, and therefore their futures.

And everyone without a vested interest could see it happening, but it happened all the same.

$135 dollars was the insider price for SpaceX shares, it isnt even worth that much now.

RE: https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/116913648824840900

Oberst Enzian @[email protected] · 2026-07-13 · 17:01 UTC

LLM AI models don’t matter because they are actual garbage. Anyone using them on purpose is a garbage person. No offense meant to Oscar the Grouch, though.

As for orchestrating garbage… I mean, why would you bother? It’s a waste and you’ll never get that time back. Stop being lazy stupid twats and do the work yourselves. No offense meant to actual twats… which really shouldn’t be referred to that way… and they do a lot of work and are important, unlike AIs.

RE: https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/116913648824840900

#ai #foolishness #latecapitalism

Oberst Enzian @[email protected] · 2026-07-13 · 17:01 UTC

LLM AI models don’t matter because they are actual garbage. Anyone using them on purpose is a garbage person. No offense meant to Oscar the Grouch, though.

As for orchestrating garbage… I mean, why would you bother? It’s a waste and you’ll never get that time back. Stop being lazy stupid twats and do the work yourselves. No offense meant to actual twats… which really shouldn’t be referred to that way… and they do a lot of work and are important, unlike AIs.

RE: https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/116913648824840900

#ai #foolishness #latecapitalism

Oberst Enzian @[email protected] · 2026-07-13 · 17:01 UTC

LLM AI models don’t matter because they are actual garbage. Anyone using them on purpose is a garbage person. No offense meant to Oscar the Grouch, though.

As for orchestrating garbage… I mean, why would you bother? It’s a waste and you’ll never get that time back. Stop being lazy stupid twats and do the work yourselves. No offense meant to actual twats… which really shouldn’t be referred to that way… and they do a lot of work and are important, unlike AIs.

RE: https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/116913648824840900

#latecapitalism #foolishness #ai

Oberst Enzian @[email protected] · 2026-07-13 · 17:01 UTC

LLM AI models don’t matter because they are actual garbage. Anyone using them on purpose is a garbage person. No offense meant to Oscar the Grouch, though.

As for orchestrating garbage… I mean, why would you bother? It’s a waste and you’ll never get that time back. Stop being lazy stupid twats and do the work yourselves. No offense meant to actual twats… which really shouldn’t be referred to that way… and they do a lot of work and are important, unlike AIs.

#creativity #tv #carrie #pathetic #usculture #latecapitalism #conservativescantmakeculture

#ai #foolishness #latecapitalism

Oberst Enzian @[email protected] · 2026-07-13 · 16:52 UTC

Why is this desirable or necessary? Are we fresh out of stories to tell? Are the “content creators” in Hollywood so desperate for eyeballs that they’ll vomit up any IP of the past, hoping to exploit nostalgia while delivering another boring ass retelling of a story that somehow evades everything anyone enjoyed about said story?

#creativity #tv #carrie #pathetic #usculture #latecapitalism

Oberst Enzian @[email protected] · 2026-07-13 · 16:52 UTC

Why is this desirable or necessary? Are we fresh out of stories to tell? Are the “content creators” in Hollywood so desperate for eyeballs that they’ll vomit up any IP of the past, hoping to exploit nostalgia while delivering another boring ass retelling of a story that somehow evades everything anyone enjoyed about said story?

#creativity #tv #carrie #pathetic #usculture #latecapitalism #conservativescantmakeculture

#creativity #tv #carrie #pathetic #usculture #latecapitalism

Oberst Enzian @[email protected] · 2026-07-13 · 16:52 UTC

Why is this desirable or necessary? Are we fresh out of stories to tell? Are the “content creators” in Hollywood so desperate for eyeballs that they’ll vomit up any IP of the past, hoping to exploit nostalgia while delivering another boring ass retelling of a story that somehow evades everything anyone enjoyed about said story?

#creativity #tv #carrie #pathetic #usculture #latecapitalism #conservativescantmakeculture

#conservativescantmakeculture #latecapitalism #usculture #pathetic #carrie #tv

Arthur Flenyo @[email protected] · 2026-06-22 · 14:01 UTC

How modern electronic music got trapped by the capitalism, and why its future is only beginning.
(my thoughts)

There are people who say that electronic music has run its course by now, and that just as every possible technique on the guitar has been explored, so too has everything that could be tweaked on a synth been tweaked; so, according to them, electronic music has reached a dead end and nothing new will come of it, only endless nostalgia cycle.

But I think they’re wrong, not only because electronic music hasn’t developed specifically in terms of its content (it's still remains a very abstract "genre" most of the times, especially compared to prog. rock or classical music, for example), but also because the market has imposed such a huge restrictions on production that people, it seems, have forgotten how to think without them. When it comes to electronic music, these restrictions are as follows. About 50 years ago, subtractive synthesis took over the entire market because of it synths then became cheaper, more compact, and faster, which led to many technologies being completely forgotten and many concepts remaining unrealized. For example, in the USSR, almost all films made before the 1970s used the ANS optical synthesizer, which generates sound from light beams, and the sound produced by such instruments differs from that of digital or analog synthesizers, even though it may be a wave of the same type. It sounds unique even compared to today. But because the market required an industry to be created and market required only these types of technologies that could be put into mass production, all this diversity was discarded. Today, we could start studying all of this anew, but we don't. And it seems we're stuck in an endless loop of simulacra and “nostalgia.”

Also, there are some people saying that neural networks "democratize" art. In reality, they don’t, because democratizing art means making its best examples accessible for the masses to absorb and be understood in its complexity. So, while some say that neural networks "democratize art", others complain that everything sounds monotonous and boring. But in essence, digitization, the shift to DAWs, and the ease of music creation represent a past wave of “democratization” that, by lowering the barrier to entry, has already made a lot of things uniform.

About 30 years ago, even within the same genre different songs were created by different people using different instruments under different conditions; it was recorded and processed in different ways, resulting in greater diversity. At the same time, the very limitations of the past pushed people to think and act creatively with what they already had.

In short, it’s incorrect to say that electronic music has reached its limit and realized its full potential. It has simply reached its market limit. In reality, there’s such a vast field for growth!

#ElectronicMusic #SynthHistory #Enshittification #LateCapitalism #CapitalistRealism #Creativity #Resistance #Hauntology #Simulacra

#electronicmusic #synthhistory #enshittification #latecapitalism #capitalistrealism #creativity

Arthur Flenyo @[email protected] · 2026-06-22 · 14:01 UTC

How modern electronic music got trapped by the capitalism, and why its future is only beginning.
(my thoughts)

There are people who say that electronic music has run its course by now, and that just as every possible technique on the guitar has been explored, so too has everything that could be tweaked on a synth been tweaked; so, according to them, electronic music has reached a dead end and nothing new will come of it, only endless nostalgia cycle.

But I think they’re wrong, not only because electronic music hasn’t developed specifically in terms of its content (it's still remains a very abstract "genre" most of the times, especially compared to prog. rock or classical music, for example), but also because the market has imposed such a huge restrictions on production that people, it seems, have forgotten how to think without them. When it comes to electronic music, these restrictions are as follows. About 50 years ago, subtractive synthesis took over the entire market because of it synths then became cheaper, more compact, and faster, which led to many technologies being completely forgotten and many concepts remaining unrealized. For example, in the USSR, almost all films made before the 1970s used the ANS optical synthesizer, which generates sound from light beams, and the sound produced by such instruments differs from that of digital or analog synthesizers, even though it may be a wave of the same type. It sounds unique even compared to today. But because the market required an industry to be created and market required only these types of technologies that could be put into mass production, all this diversity was discarded. Today, we could start studying all of this anew, but we don't. And it seems we're stuck in an endless loop of simulacra and “nostalgia.”

Also, there are some people saying that neural networks "democratize" art. In reality, they don’t, because democratizing art means making its best examples accessible for the masses to absorb and be understood in its complexity. So, while some say that neural networks "democratize art", others complain that everything sounds monotonous and boring. But in essence, digitization, the shift to DAWs, and the ease of music creation represent a past wave of “democratization” that, by lowering the barrier to entry, has already made a lot of things uniform.

About 30 years ago, even within the same genre different songs were created by different people using different instruments under different conditions; it was recorded and processed in different ways, resulting in greater diversity. At the same time, the very limitations of the past pushed people to think and act creatively with what they already had.

In short, it’s incorrect to say that electronic music has reached its limit and realized its full potential. It has simply reached its market limit. In reality, there’s such a vast field for growth!

#ElectronicMusic #SynthHistory #Enshittification #LateCapitalism #CapitalistRealism #Creativity #Resistance #Hauntology #Simulacra

#electronicmusic #synthhistory #enshittification #latecapitalism #capitalistrealism #creativity

Arthur Flenyo @[email protected] · 2026-06-22 · 14:01 UTC

How modern electronic music got trapped by the capitalism, and why its future is only beginning.
(my thoughts)

There are people who say that electronic music has run its course by now, and that just as every possible technique on the guitar has been explored, so too has everything that could be tweaked on a synth been tweaked; so, according to them, electronic music has reached a dead end and nothing new will come of it, only endless nostalgia cycle.

But I think they’re wrong, not only because electronic music hasn’t developed specifically in terms of its content (it's still remains a very abstract "genre" most of the times, especially compared to prog. rock or classical music, for example), but also because the market has imposed such a huge restrictions on production that people, it seems, have forgotten how to think without them. When it comes to electronic music, these restrictions are as follows. About 50 years ago, subtractive synthesis took over the entire market because of it synths then became cheaper, more compact, and faster, which led to many technologies being completely forgotten and many concepts remaining unrealized. For example, in the USSR, almost all films made before the 1970s used the ANS optical synthesizer, which generates sound from light beams, and the sound produced by such instruments differs from that of digital or analog synthesizers, even though it may be a wave of the same type. It sounds unique even compared to today. But because the market required an industry to be created and market required only these types of technologies that could be put into mass production, all this diversity was discarded. Today, we could start studying all of this anew, but we don't. And it seems we're stuck in an endless loop of simulacra and “nostalgia.”

Also, there are some people saying that neural networks "democratize" art. In reality, they don’t, because democratizing art means making its best examples accessible for the masses to absorb and be understood in its complexity. So, while some say that neural networks "democratize art", others complain that everything sounds monotonous and boring. But in essence, digitization, the shift to DAWs, and the ease of music creation represent a past wave of “democratization” that, by lowering the barrier to entry, has already made a lot of things uniform.

About 30 years ago, even within the same genre different songs were created by different people using different instruments under different conditions; it was recorded and processed in different ways, resulting in greater diversity. At the same time, the very limitations of the past pushed people to think and act creatively with what they already had.

In short, it’s incorrect to say that electronic music has reached its limit and realized its full potential. It has simply reached its market limit. In reality, there’s such a vast field for growth!

#ElectronicMusic #SynthHistory #Enshittification #LateCapitalism #CapitalistRealism #Creativity #Resistance #Hauntology #Simulacra

#simulacra #hauntology #resistance #creativity #capitalistrealism #latecapitalism

Arthur Flenyo @[email protected] · 2026-06-22 · 14:01 UTC

How modern electronic music got trapped by the capitalism, and why its future is only beginning.
(my thoughts)

There are people who say that electronic music has run its course by now, and that just as every possible technique on the guitar has been explored, so too has everything that could be tweaked on a synth been tweaked; so, according to them, electronic music has reached a dead end and nothing new will come of it, only endless nostalgia cycle.

But I think they’re wrong, not only because electronic music hasn’t developed specifically in terms of its content (it's still remains a very abstract "genre" most of the times, especially compared to prog. rock or classical music, for example), but also because the market has imposed such a huge restrictions on production that people, it seems, have forgotten how to think without them. When it comes to electronic music, these restrictions are as follows. About 50 years ago, subtractive synthesis took over the entire market because of it synths then became cheaper, more compact, and faster, which led to many technologies being completely forgotten and many concepts remaining unrealized. For example, in the USSR, almost all films made before the 1970s used the ANS optical synthesizer, which generates sound from light beams, and the sound produced by such instruments differs from that of digital or analog synthesizers, even though it may be a wave of the same type. It sounds unique even compared to today. But because the market required an industry to be created and market required only these types of technologies that could be put into mass production, all this diversity was discarded. Today, we could start studying all of this anew, but we don't. And it seems we're stuck in an endless loop of simulacra and “nostalgia.”

Also, there are some people saying that neural networks "democratize" art. In reality, they don’t, because democratizing art means making its best examples accessible for the masses to absorb and be understood in its complexity. So, while some say that neural networks "democratize art", others complain that everything sounds monotonous and boring. But in essence, digitization, the shift to DAWs, and the ease of music creation represent a past wave of “democratization” that, by lowering the barrier to entry, has already made a lot of things uniform.

About 30 years ago, even within the same genre different songs were created by different people using different instruments under different conditions; it was recorded and processed in different ways, resulting in greater diversity. At the same time, the very limitations of the past pushed people to think and act creatively with what they already had.

In short, it’s incorrect to say that electronic music has reached its limit and realized its full potential. It has simply reached its market limit. In reality, there’s such a vast field for growth!

#ElectronicMusic #SynthHistory #Enshittification #LateCapitalism #CapitalistRealism #Creativity #Resistance #Hauntology #Simulacra

#electronicmusic #synthhistory #enshittification #latecapitalism #capitalistrealism #creativity

J. Ellis Burgos, LPC @[email protected] · 2026-06-08 · 15:15 UTC

CW: On the Unkept Promises of Capitalism (1/2)

#Mythopoetics #Anthropomorphism #LateCapitalism #SystemicLogic #CorporateCritique #PsychologicalHeuristics #Hyperreality #BizarroCareBears

Anthropomorphism is a natural human phenomenon. To answer it, we have 3 choices:

* Deny it and do it unintentionally, thus believing that corporations love you because they told you they did.
* Accept it and rebuke the tendency constantly, viewing corporations as constructs without independent moral agency.

...

#mythopoetics #anthropomorphism #latecapitalism #systemiclogic #corporatecritique #psychologicalheuristics

J. Ellis Burgos, LPC @[email protected] · 2026-06-08 · 15:15 UTC

CW: On the Unkept Promises of Capitalism (1/2)

#Mythopoetics #Anthropomorphism #LateCapitalism #SystemicLogic #CorporateCritique #PsychologicalHeuristics #Hyperreality #BizarroCareBears

Anthropomorphism is a natural human phenomenon. To answer it, we have 3 choices:

* Deny it and do it unintentionally, thus believing that corporations love you because they told you they did.
* Accept it and rebuke the tendency constantly, viewing corporations as constructs without independent moral agency.

...

#mythopoetics #anthropomorphism #latecapitalism #systemiclogic #corporatecritique #psychologicalheuristics

J. Ellis Burgos, LPC @[email protected] · 2026-06-08 · 15:15 UTC

CW: On the Unkept Promises of Capitalism (1/2)

#Mythopoetics #Anthropomorphism #LateCapitalism #SystemicLogic #CorporateCritique #PsychologicalHeuristics #Hyperreality #BizarroCareBears

Anthropomorphism is a natural human phenomenon. To answer it, we have 3 choices:

* Deny it and do it unintentionally, thus believing that corporations love you because they told you they did.
* Accept it and rebuke the tendency constantly, viewing corporations as constructs without independent moral agency.

...

#bizarrocarebears #hyperreality #psychologicalheuristics #corporatecritique #systemiclogic #latecapitalism

J. Ellis Burgos, LPC @[email protected] · 2026-06-08 · 15:15 UTC

CW: On the Unkept Promises of Capitalism (1/2)

#Mythopoetics #Anthropomorphism #LateCapitalism #SystemicLogic #CorporateCritique #PsychologicalHeuristics #Hyperreality #BizarroCareBears

Anthropomorphism is a natural human phenomenon. To answer it, we have 3 choices:

* Deny it and do it unintentionally, thus believing that corporations love you because they told you they did.
* Accept it and rebuke the tendency constantly, viewing corporations as constructs without independent moral agency.

...

#mythopoetics #anthropomorphism #latecapitalism #systemiclogic #corporatecritique #psychologicalheuristics

Rafael M. @[email protected] · 2026-06-02 · 08:52 UTC

Capitalism has failed, Capitalismis failing and Capitalism will fail, in all aspects, global society must overcome it before it's too late.

#capitalism #capitalismkills #latecapitalism

Rafael M. @[email protected] · 2026-06-02 · 08:52 UTC

Capitalism has failed, Capitalismis failing and Capitalism will fail, in all aspects, global society must overcome it before it's too late.

#capitalism #capitalismkills #latecapitalism

#latecapitalism #capitalismkills #capitalism

Rafael M. @[email protected] · 2026-06-02 · 08:52 UTC

Capitalism has failed, Capitalismis failing and Capitalism will fail, in all aspects, global society must overcome it before it's too late.

#capitalism #capitalismkills #latecapitalism

Joanna Bryson, blathering @[email protected] · 2026-05-27 · 21:23 UTC

I mean seriously, why are there no #insects in #Cyprus? Is this planet already dead? Or is it some island thing I as a midwesterner don’t understand?

#latecapitalism #latecapitalismfieldcraft #insects #cyprus

Joanna Bryson, blathering @[email protected] · 2026-05-27 · 21:23 UTC

I mean seriously, why are there no #insects in #Cyprus? Is this planet already dead? Or is it some island thing I as a midwesterner don’t understand?

#latecapitalism #latecapitalismfieldcraft #insects #cyprus

Joanna Bryson, blathering @[email protected] · 2026-05-27 · 21:23 UTC

I mean seriously, why are there no #insects in #Cyprus? Is this planet already dead? Or is it some island thing I as a midwesterner don’t understand?

#cyprus #insects #latecapitalismfieldcraft #latecapitalism

Joanna Bryson, blathering @[email protected] · 2026-05-27 · 21:23 UTC

I mean seriously, why are there no #insects in #Cyprus? Is this planet already dead? Or is it some island thing I as a midwesterner don’t understand?

#latecapitalism #latecapitalismfieldcraft #insects #cyprus

Joanna Bryson, blathering @[email protected] · 2026-05-27 · 20:52 UTC

#latecapitalism #latecapitalismfieldcraft

Joanna Bryson, blathering @[email protected] · 2026-05-27 · 20:52 UTC

#latecapitalism #latecapitalismfieldcraft

Joanna Bryson, blathering @[email protected] · 2026-05-27 · 20:52 UTC

#latecapitalismfieldcraft #latecapitalism

Joanna Bryson, blathering @[email protected] · 2026-05-27 · 20:52 UTC

#latecapitalism #latecapitalismfieldcraft

Adam Wasilewski - MikroNotki @[email protected] · 2026-05-22 · 07:24 UTC

Ciekawe czy dożyję momentu kiedy gilotyny znów będą w modzie...

Adam Wasilewski - MikroNotki @[email protected] · 2026-05-22 · 07:24 UTC

Ciekawe czy dożyję momentu kiedy gilotyny znów będą w modzie...

Adam Wasilewski - MikroNotki @[email protected] · 2026-05-22 · 07:24 UTC

Ciekawe czy dożyję momentu kiedy gilotyny znów będą w modzie...

#facebook #zuckerberg #meta #latecapitalism

Adam Wasilewski - MikroNotki @[email protected] · 2026-05-22 · 07:24 UTC

Ciekawe czy dożyję momentu kiedy gilotyny znów będą w modzie...

Maik Civeira @[email protected] · 2026-05-17 · 04:24 UTC

Why the Harry Potter reboot series is the perfect example of the AI content era
-
Por qué el reboot de Harry Potter es el ejemplo perfecto de la era del contenido de IA

#harrypotter #ai #popculture #latecapitalism

Maik Civeira @[email protected] · 2026-05-17 · 04:24 UTC

Why the Harry Potter reboot series is the perfect example of the AI content era
-
Por qué el reboot de Harry Potter es el ejemplo perfecto de la era del contenido de IA

#harrypotter #ai #popculture #latecapitalism

Maik Civeira @[email protected] · 2026-05-17 · 04:24 UTC

Why the Harry Potter reboot series is the perfect example of the AI content era
-
Por qué el reboot de Harry Potter es el ejemplo perfecto de la era del contenido de IA

#latecapitalism #popculture #ai #harrypotter

Maik Civeira @[email protected] · 2026-05-17 · 04:24 UTC

Why the Harry Potter reboot series is the perfect example of the AI content era
-
Por qué el reboot de Harry Potter es el ejemplo perfecto de la era del contenido de IA