Ran across an impressively strong sneer whilst looking through Baldur Bjarnason's link list for the week:
A JUST TRANSITION MEANS RESISTING A.I. (from Scottish Left Review)
Gonna copy-paste the quote Baldur used because god damn:
AI isn’t simply a problematic technology but an apparatus that is shaped by the injustices of our existing social relations and which, in turn, reshapes and intensifies them.
Also got an interesting Tweet from Ed Zitron:
This is entirely my gut instinct, but there is boiling resentment against big tech. Something is shifting, and it's shifting violently, both in the general public and the media. Blood in the water. People are ready for a change.
I've had that same gut instinct before - I've kinda had it since Baldur noted tech's disconnect from the public a month ago. Feels like we're entering an era where working in tech is treated as a red flag, a sign you're a money-hungry asshole willing to hurt innocent people to make a quick buck.