Trump is in office. There's a global pandemic spreading. There are protests in the streets.

What year is it?

People don't know this but the bag is actually for your after-meal defecation. The napkins are actually toilet paper.

It's innovations like these that have kept fast food relevant for decades.

Since Trump is about to wipe out the DoE with an executive order, remember that Biden could have forgiven all federal loans. The parliament smokers couldn't have stopped him. Congress couldn't have stopped him. He could have done it and it would have hurt nothing because Trump would have just closed it down anyways.

Biden didn't because he didn't want to. The people around him could have talked him into it, but they didn't want to. The representatives could have went with a different nominee who would be more personally amicable to debt relief, but those people aren't nominated on purpose. Nobody was stopped by procedure. The procedure worked as planned.

Moreover, Joe Biden owes us $2,000

answering every problem by starting with the premise that it's wrong to kill rich people and working backwards from that.

(actually way less succinct)

Since liberals are not going to be posting twitter screenshots anymore, the only people left still doing it are fascists and us. This presents a unique dialectical moment in history where we can take control of the narrative and directly combat nazis through screenshots.

I can tell you, from my personal experience, that after five-ish years of learning Brazilian Jui-Jitsu (definitely less consistently than a child growing up around it would); I'm more proficient than a blackbelt five year old.

Can't have shit.

First the obvious, NVIDIA is selling shovels in a gold rush. They are going to talk up AI and make it super important to everything. But I think the lede being buried is that AI will allow capital to multiply their extraction of surplus value.

They revealed multi-frame generation for video games. They take a normally generated frame, double it using AI. That's normal framegen. The new product uses more AI to generate several other frames from the one it generated before. You increase your frame rate using AI generated frames.

The reason they do that at all is because it's incredibly hard to generate extra frames through normal rendering techniques. Native 60fps at native 1080p is extremely expensive. Trying to push that to 120fps on commercial hardware would be expensive for everyone. So instead they just generate 20 480p frames and use AI to scale it up and to generate more frames.

It's a little shaky, but think about that in terms of production. They are able to take a frame honestly produced, apply AI, and get more out of it.

Food analogy/Imagine Burger: For every 1 hamburger a frycook produces, AI instantly makes it a double and makes 3 more of them. You've taken the $5 that the worker produced and making it into $20. Except you don't give the frycook any credit and pay a small fee for computing power.

I know it's computers and it's not analogous to markets. But the bad analogy got me thinking about what if they could apply AI to certain productive areas and extract more surplus. It's bionic workers, except they don't get the benefits. So it's not about replacing jobs with AI. That's a red herring. It's about taking the jobs that exist and using tech to get more out of it.

That's nothing new. But I think the new part is less of a reliance of workers and somehow even more of an ownership of production. These things can't exist without workers, people feeding them. But at the same time the math doesn't work out. You can't have one worker making a hamburger and 3 other people paying for copies. Because those other people are workers too and they need to get their money from somewhere. You're basically inflating demand using AI, not with real people.

Like Moore's law, maybe the space between horrible new configuration of capital and revolution will grow increasingly shorter. This may be the age of undead capital, dead capital that lives again because they use AI animate it.

hmmmmmmm.

It's pretty cute and dresses up class politics with Greek mythology. The world building is pretty good. It's modern day society if the Greek pantheon were real.