If the AI industry gets bailed out (and that's a multi-hundred billion dollar "if"), it will be because the technology they create makes shit like this possible.
To try and end this on a somewhat lighter note (source):
Also, fake old-celluloid-film filter for something that was supposed to be from 20 years ago? Really?
I was gonna say that was probably the slop extruder's doing, but it looks to have been applied manually for some godforsaken reason. Best guess is whoever was behind this audiovisual extrusion thought "celluloid filter = Nostalgiatm".
hallucinatory RETVRN clips about the good old days
Nostalgiabait is the slopgens' specialty - being utterly incapable of creating anything new isn't an issue if you're trying to fabricate an idealis-
such as, uh, walmart 20 years ago?
Okay, stop everything, who the actual fuck would be nostalgic for going to a fucking Wal-Mart? I've got zero nostalgia for ASDA or any other British big-box hellscape like it, what the fuck's so different across the pond?
(Even from a "making nostalgiabait" angle, something like, say, McDonalds would be a much better choice - unlike Wal-Mart, McD's directly targets kids with their advertising, all-but guaranteeing you've got fuzzy childhood memories to take advantage of.)
Its also gonna be an apocalypse-level event for Silicon Valley, who have incinerated hundreds of billions of dollars and every last remaining bit of goodwill they had through creating and marketing the cultural pollution engines behind this bubble.
For the artists whose life work was stolen and abused by SV to pollute human culture, for the workers forcibly deskilled by capital's digital slop looms, for the millions of people who have had to suffer through the myriad harms of the AI cancer, the bubble's burst will be grounds to celebrate like nothing else.
Training the kids not to trust AI at such a young age. Real forward-thinking, that Massachusets contractor! /s
Not marking with the chatbot is apparently not an option. AI might save money in the future! So kid, we’re gonna keep treating you with contempt. It’s good preparation for your future.
AI as an ideology shows contempt for humans and human-made work, so seeing believers in AI double-down is completely unsurprising
Winamp was literally right there, do fascists now know anything beyond mindless consu- oh, wait, I answered my own question, of fucking course they are
There's a lot of hype for Omarchy because its an open endorsement of fascism disguised as a Linux distro. Its success would further entrench fascists in Linux and the FOSS ecosystem.
is it because i am being forced to look at the opinions [of people] whose only experience with writing code is vibecoding the latest greatest b2b saas slop in the new flashy javascript framework and then deploying it on some platform that is literally just an aws wrapper with a 1000% upcharge, whose idea of a perfect operating system is one with an llm pre-installed and a billion flashy animations happening anytime you move a window???
Absolutely. Fascists are not known for their technical prowess.
Honestly, I don't see a way for grifters to wedge themselves into sneerspaces - not easily, at least.
Grifters require some degree of uncritical hype to get by in a space - given sneerspaces are built to make fun of such uncritical hype, building it up here would be very difficult, if not damn-nigh impossible.
Besides, there's much more lucrative spaces for grifters to venture into, like venture capital.
Who’s left to do actual work? Who would start a new project that depends on these institutions? Does ruby just die now?
Honestly, it probably will. The RubyGems takeover shattered any trust people had in the Ruby ecosystem - that's something which is damn-nigh impossible to recover from.
If the AI industry gets bailed out (and that's a multi-hundred billion dollar "if"), it will be because the technology they create makes shit like this possible.
To try and end this on a somewhat lighter note (source):