100% this. I feel like I haven’t discovered any new artist since what.cd went down
If businesses could pay women less to do the same job they would preferentially hire women and the pay gap would disappear.
Yes I think perfectly rational actors is a valid assumption to base my whole field of study on why do you ask?
I’m a 
But yea I saw people posting about it and that was the easiest reference to find on my phone
IRGC report that Haniyeh killed by short range missile. Maybe a shoulder launched missile? https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/8/3/haniyeh-killed-by-short-range-projectile-fired-from-outside-home-irgc
That certainly seems like the idea most techbros have, turn white-collar workers into quality checkers rather than producers. The thing is I'm not sure the output of a lot of white collar jobs can be treated the same as manufacturing output.
If you replace half your labour in manufacturing a TV, the value of a TV drops and with competition between firms prices & profits tend to drop too. But you can slow down this profit loss due to competition with anti-competitive behaviour: patents, cartels etc.
If you replace your graphic designers with AI, the value of graphic design drops but what you were really trying to "produce" with your fancy branding and packaging was a sense of perceived quality (value). Now that this is lower, consumers adjust their perceptions quickly and you have to demonstrate your product quality by spending money on things AI can't replicate yet e.g. in-person experiences, or even just video promotion (in the short term at least).
I quite like Ed's writing for a cathartic rant against the stupidity of AI.
Has anyone got any reading recommendations on the LLM insanity from a marxist perspective though? Assuming AI can replace labour in some industries, it immediately comes up against the LTV, with the value of the output immediately going to almost zero. Companies therefore have to maintain monopolistic false scarcity, which of course tech companies are already trying to do, but it seems to have wider implications for the economy - technofeudalism I guess.
Sorry to hear that 
So far in my tech bubble I haven't seen lay-offs explicitly due to AI, but there's been increasing usage of it to produce more content. So it's reducing the demand for contract writers and producers.
Tech does seem cooked at the moment, but I assume that's mostly due to no more free money.
I really wish Graeber was still here, I need the Bullshit Jobs vs AI synthesis.
I ended up renting a byd a few weeks ago, felt luxury as hell, for I assume much less than western brands. although I’m not a car guy.
I agree, I think this could work. Google already has featured snippets, this just feels like an extension to that. I'm pretty sure those snippets often screwed over the sites they were taken from too, because people read them but don't click through. But the AI summary ensures they get even less credit/ad revenue.
Any high-value search terms and Google hides the summary. So you either get ads or AI slop for every search.
Does boeing have a really-bad-pneumoniatm gun? Or so many whistleblowers that it's statistically likely that some will catch pneumonia?
Israel can have little a genocide as a treat
Channel 14 reporting that US called off an immediate strike: Hebrew Link
No idea what that really means
It's definitely not a trend here, but when it does come up it's very technocratic and always in the context of well-paid email workers. It feels more like the tech and finance PMC pushing for job benefits on an individual level, not connected to class consciousness. The argument also makes more sense for those jobs: "we all know we aren't actually doing anything productive anyway, can we have Friday off? We'll just cancel a few timewasting meetings."
"Israel" has done another aid massacre https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/3/3/israels-war-on-gaza-live-every-minute-counts-as-hunger-kills-in-gaza
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This seems like a decent bullet point history, but it doesn't cover the last two months:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/9/whats-the-israel-palestine-conflict-about-a-simple-guide
This is absolutely wild. I was wondering how they managed to mine the camp, but it looks like the IDF set up tents right on top of a tunnel?
I need to read up on my own country's history, to be honest. Palestine feels like it's held a mirror up to our own settle-colonial context and makes me realise how much I will have received my ideas about our history from the coloniser perspective.
This series from RNZ is pretty good for something easy to watch.
That was really just c. Māori used trench warfare to withstand the artillery, and baited the Brits into attacking pa (wooden structures usually on high ground)
