If we had some sort of new Nuremberg trial he might die in front of a crowd.

I had a similar thought. A nice HUD for navigation would be nice. But we live in the bad place, so it’s all privacy invading enshittifying trash.

There’s a thing in our culture where we simultaneously tell people to work hard, and to become the guy at the top who doesn’t work.

CEOs and managers and such often don’t really do much work. They’re not in the weeds making the thing go. They don’t spot that O(n^2) algorithm and fix it so the site doesn’t go down under load. They send a message that says “site seems slow”, and someone actually fixes it.

This is a problem all over. The people we let make decisions aren’t the people doing the work. They don’t know how things work.

AI creates a smaller version of this. It turns you into an idiot leader, but without the benefit of taking all the profits from labor.

I get most of my music from Bandcamp, on bandcamp friday’s. It sucks they sold out and are probably circling the drain, but for a long time they were a solid independent source.

Buying directly from the band at a show or through their label is also cool.

It’s more of an up-front cost, but after years of doing this I have a large drm-free library.

Where does “I did a web search and found an answer on an AI generated source” land? I feel like the Internet is increasingly infected, and finding actual answers to stuff is hard.

Sometimes my cat will whine and try to get in my lap, but if I pick him up and put him there he leaps off. It’s only good if he climbs up himself.

True, true, an individual can do little. But I hope that every so often someone will read a post about how the owners keep all the profits without doing all the work, and move leftwards.

Anyway. Good chat. Let’s all continue doing the best we can.

That kind of capitalism is not the only way for a society to be.

In actual small business I’ve found it’s common for the employees to earn the same or more than the owner.

Ehh. It still has a structural problem where the non-owners get a wage, and the owner gets a wage plus indefinite profits. The people who built the thing will eventually leave or be fired and stop profiting, but the owner can cruise or sell. Like how a baby tiger is cute, but it’s going to grow into something dangerous.

felt nice to support the team

I think most places are capitalist orgs, so your money is just going to shareholders. The developers got paid a wage, and maybe some stock options.

Really small teams, purchases probably go to people doing the work. But for a larger company, especially something like Microsoft (who own overwatch), buying stuff only kind of sort of through several layers of indirection helps the team.

It’s kind of a bad system, honestly, because people who don’t work on a thing keep profits from that thing

I don’t do microtransactions. Fuck 'em. They made the game shittier so they can try to annoy me into paying money. They know that once you spend any money, you’re more likely to spend more.

This month management started quietly asking us to “write more of it ourselves” again.

I think… I think there’s a chance that if I was in-person, and this happened, there would be violence.

And the people who run this shit need to go to jail. I’m sure a lot of them would rat out their corrupt buddies for a reduced sentence.

There’s that political cartoon that’s like two people on bikes through a beautiful downtown, and one says to the other “If anyone tried to add bike lanes like this back home, I’d murder them”

Good. I look forward to a future where people who fought transit have their lives improved by it, even if they’re too small minded and foolish to recognize it.

They’re not smart or visionary. They’re just rich. They sell us a myth that they’re titans but it’s a lie.

As the spokesperson put it, the robot’s actions may legally constitute fleeing the scene of a traffic incident, meaning Starship Technologies could very well be on the hook for the incident.

Good. Nail them to the wall.

Yes, because they are incompetent. They are not fit to be decision makers. Fucking get rid of them.

I’m so tired of work being a fucking nightmare because the people in charge are high on their own farts.

This is a hard hitting point. We could have a better world, but a few rich people and their enablers don’t want it.

I called my reps today to tell them I do want impeachments and criminal investigations.

One of them I got a live person who said she’d fielded similar calls this week.