Oh boy, 200,000 more people looking for work, surely this won’t negatively impact the job market. Or like, decrease consumer spending in an already unstable K shaped recovery.
Nah this goes way back, this is home grown New Labor security state ideas. Blair tried doing it 15 years ago and has been banging on about it from the side lines since then.
Louis Rossman did a video a while back basically suggesting it as a form of visible protest against the over reach of the tech industry.
Like “clippy wouldn’t try and harvest all your data or force you to make accounts you don’t want, sure he could be annoying, but you could turn him off.” Like the worst thing tech companies used to do was something like clippy, maybe annoying but trying to be helpful
Like, she’s the only viable option at this point, there literally isn’t any other national level politician on the Democratic ticket (under the age of 75) who can rally mass support, as supposed to mass indifference or mass gritted teeth reluctance.
The not-trump side of politics needs an actual win, like, enough of a public mandate to actually push through reforms, not just a barely limping across the line, thin majority. They need a filibuster busting win and a candidate willing to actually make significant reform, and that won’t come from a milquetoast careerist centrist that leans to the right.
This stinks of a compromise, like RFK needs to announce some “cause of autism” because that’s his entire base of political support, but he can’t say “vaccines” like his base wants, because doing so would be so beyond the pale for the public health professionals in the organization that they might just refuse to work with him, ruining his ability to use his position to grift.
RFK is between a rock and a hard place regarding vaccines, on the one hand, he has his base of support, who are obsessed with blaming vaccines for stuff, and on the other is… all the health professionals in the admin he now runs that he needs to maintain some kind of workable relationship with. Mass condemnation of vaccines from him might actually destroy his ability to run the organization.
Even waymo’s “good” numbers, which probably have been massaged a bit, from cars driving in carefully selected conditions, is nearly 2.5 times the rate of accidents per mile driven of fatal and non-fatal accidents in the US.
The technology isn’t ready yet and shouldn’t be on the roads. If it takes it being on the roads to improve it, then maybe it shouldn’t improve, maybe it should be abandoned and the money being wasted on it should go to extant, proven solutions.
The fact that Amtrak and local public transit authorities are struggling to secure funding to maintain and expand operations while self driving car companies burn cash for decades on nothing burgers drives me crazy.
More like continuing to try to will something in to existence that can replace smart phones because they want to be in charge of the hardware so they don’t have to go through Apple and Google.
People liked TikTok, and it got really big, not because of the format, but because its recommendation system was optimizing for “Show people things they like”. If you change that to “show people things I want them to believe” people who don’t already believe those things will stop engaging and move away.
it may take time, but they will migrate. The network effect can slow that down, but a platform like TikTok is distinctly not one built by networks. Like, people don’t go there to fallow creators or their friends, they go there to see random stuff from people they don’t know, and it actively makes it difficult to get a consistent feed from people you fallow.
i think the “party with in a party” strategy is much more promising than outright 3rd party runs. As in using the Democratic ticket to make their candidates relevant, but not using the democrats electoral and fundraising infrastructure, instead developing parallel party infrastructure to campaign and mobilize voters.
The DSA (and WFP to a lesser extent) have been much more electorally successful, particularly at the local level, than organizations that just run third party outright. I don’t think the DSA will have much luck in suburban areas, but I think other coalitions with a similar strategy could be successful.
It’s actually really funny, I think a lot of the anti Mamdani people were hoping that Adam’s and Coumo might hive away democratic voters and give someone else a chance, 3rd party or republican, but the republican’s didn’t even have a primary, they just picked the same dude who lost to Adams last time, and no 3rd party candidate has emerged from the wood work to rally the imaginary centrist voter base. So really they’ve just split the “the government should do nothing” voter base. Like Sliwa, Adam’s and Coumo are functionally indistinguishable on policy; just “bigger police budget, more tax breaks and deregulation, more cruelty to the minority target of the week”
I wouldn’t be surprised if we see this happen in other local and congressional races. Progressive or socialists candidates win primaries, establishment democrats tacitly endorse a 3rd party run by Their preferred looser of the primary, but instead of splitting their voter base to sabotage the nominee, they split the conservative/reactionary base.
Most professional actors who are decently well known and talented still make most of their income from ad work, and couldn’t afford to stay in the industry without it. Like, really, very very few actors get by just on work in creative production.
I suspect a lot of these layoffs are actually just cost cutting in response to these companies doing really poorly, the idea that the jobs are now being done by generative models is largely a smoke screen to save face and avoid admitting that companies are scaling back operations due to a lack of demand.
Those few cases where they actually are just replacing people are going to vanish the moment that the people hosting the models run out of money to burn and have to charge full price. Like the scale of operating losses is orders of magnitude greater than anything we’ve seen in the past.
Oh boy, 200,000 more people looking for work, surely this won’t negatively impact the job market. Or like, decrease consumer spending in an already unstable K shaped recovery.