In possibly the stupidest sentence we’ve seen in the past week, California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared that he “seeks to harness the power of GenAI to address homelessness” and “…
What a blessed world we live in - 2014 a homeless person had to learn to code in order to deserve the things they need to live. Today, they just need to become a prompt engineer. The trajectory of the world bends towards justice, after all!
Yeah... He's very much a corpo neolib. He's actively sabotaged attempts to hold PG&E accountable for killing people and render the earned corporate death sentence. He's also vehemently against any wealth tax and keeps pulling the pied-piper strategy during elections to limit the influence of left-of-center politicians.
Is he better than the guys whose campaigns he aids? Yes. Is he a dumpster fire of a politician who is unable and unwilling to take on major issues and address root causes of problems facing his constituents? Also yes.
So why on earth was anyone calling him a good candidate to replace Biden? Sounds like one of the worst people you'd want in charge of anything, much less a country?
It may help to know about Californian neoliberalism. Newsom is running on a faulty ontology; the world is built out of different building blocks for him than for us. We often contrast it with the more dominant flavor of neoliberalism on the other coast:
"Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft." ~ Mary Schmich, Wear Sunscreen
According to my former left-libertarian roommate: also the scumbag scion of a political dynasty I think? I didn’t look into it because I had no reason to doubt
Nobody should be surprised that a politician in the west is proposing that we funnel more money into private companies rather than just fixing the root cause.
Actually this isn’t enough. It needs to be read by a monotone TTS or deepfaked voice with minecraft, subway surfer, or fortnite gameplay underlaid to penetrate brain rot
I admit to being conflicted. I try to keep more positive on Lemmy to avoid the psychological traps of social media outage. However, I do enjoy well-phrased and well-deserved insults.
oh how fortunate are we to have you, valorous AnomalousBit of programming dot motherfucking dev, to wander past our village and cast upon us the shining beacon of your intellect
truly, without your timely help we would have been at sea, unable to find veracity in the words of the yon governer gavin newsom, be they branded on the scriptures of office or no! oh woe betide us should your clear insight into this most nebulous matter not have come our way this fair day!
now please get back the fuck on the road where you came from and keep your idiotic opinions to yourself. or, y'know, learn to read. both work
Man, what a shit take this is. Spent two seconds on the press release. This is what they want to accomplish:
"Creating housing with more data and accountability by creating clearer insights into local permitting and development decisions and deploying tools to support every community in building enough homes for all its residents, including vulnerable populations. "
And two seconds on the "nonsense generator can't fix homelessness, how do we actually do it?" take:
"To improve housing affordability, California needs to streamline and accelerate housing production and reexamine the regulations that have hindered new housing development."
This is bullshit rage bait. I mean, can "GenAI" do this well? IMO no, but the idea of trying to solve the root problems isn't complete dog shit.
This is bullshit rage bait. I mean, can “GenAI” do this well? IMO no, but the idea of trying to solve the root problems isn’t complete dog shit.
the title of the press release:
Governor Newsom seeks to harness the power of GenAI to address homelessness, other challenges
the paragraph right before the bullet points you quoted out of context:
State agencies and departments began analyzing potential uses for GenAI and developed critical challenges within state government, particularly focusing on issues that impact vulnerable populations. Today, the Governor announces the first step in the process to potentially adopt GenAI to address the following issues identified by state agencies:
it’s literally a press release about supposedly using the nonsense generator to fix homelessness and you had to reach fucking hard to make it look like anything else — you quoted the only two fucking paragraphs that don’t mention GenAI, I fucking counted. and for what?
the included fucking summary of the press release!
What you need to know: Governor Gavin Newsom invites developers to help create Generative AI (GenAI) solutions for some of the most challenging issues facing California and its 39 million residents, including housing and homelessness.
they wrote this bit so you didn’t have to read! what the fuck is wrong with you