What is an AI employee gonna do with beer, pizza, or airline tickets? Sure, little freaks like Musk and Altman would love a world where its them and n billion chatbots and not a single other loving soul, but our economy is tooled for making things people need. You might be able to retool it into a paperclip machine that only makes compute and energy but it would bother a lot of very deep pockets in the process.

Yeah my client doesn’t show top level posting accounts on my feed but I saw this and instantly knew who posted it. I actually kind of like the boomer memes in moderation. I appreciate the variety. Most of the rest of my feed is “we’re fucked,” “we’re super fucked,” or “ungentle reminder the civil religion you were brought up in is fundamentally flawed and evil and you’re flawed and evil for having participated in it also we’re fucked.”

The plot point from the deus ex series that sticks out to me was in Human Revolution where they started converting warehouses into concentration camps, but what do I know?

I could see donating to your favorite terminal emulator. cool-retro-term is, well, pretty cool.