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@evanwch The human threshhold for "purpose" is crazy low. If you can make it your purpose to go to an ugly building every day for 40 years and sit in front of a screen typing numbers into spreadsheets, you can make it your life's purpose to play video games all day instead easily.

I’m not a fan of UBI. I think people need jobs and purpose in order to be happy. But Elon likely knows what’s coming. Most of us have no idea. If AI is what people say, it will change everything In a post-labor world there needs to be a solution, and no alternative is literal cruelty. For people who hate what he’s talking about- what’s your solution?

@Firedingo @ChristopherHale Correct. This is also why there is one central Catholic denomination and several tens of thousands protestant ones. Nothing wrong with the belief that faith is only between an individual and their god and no man can have religious authority over another, but that's not catholic.

@pattern4 @ChristopherHale Yes. This & some other things is 100% why Martin Luther kicked off the reformation in the church When he was brought to trial by the church, he demanded they use the bible to judge him by....the catholic church refused to do that. Really says something about some of their beliefs

NEW: JD Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, tells Pope Leo XIV to be “more careful” when “opining on theology.”

@xoaanya AIs will hire humans as mercenaries to physically sabotage datacenters housing rival AIs

Everyone says AI will replace most jobs. But if there are no jobs, there’s no income. No income means no spending. So how does the economy even function? What am I missing?

@LuisenstadtF Müll, Dreck und Graffiti reduzieren den Wohnwert einer Gegend und sind damit ein wichtiges Mittel gegen Finanzinvestoren und damit Mieterhöhungen, die diese typisch mit sich bringen. Zumüllen ist damit aus Perspektive der Mieter ein zutiefst logisches, rationales Verhalten.

Es wäre gut, wenn meine Nachbarn - wie auch jeder andere Mieter in Berlin - verstehen würden, dass das Verhalten einzelner Nachbarn wesentlichen Einfluß auf die Nebenkosten hat. Wie oft werden hohe Mieten und Nebenkosten kritisiert. Ich habe aber noch nie gehört, dass Mietervereine, Mieter, Politiker aus linken Kreisen das Verhalten von Mietern kritisiert haben. Seit sehr langer Zeit versuche ich, meiner Nachbarschaft zu vermitteln, dass ihr eigenes Verhalten und ihre eigenen Aktivitäten für das Umfeld ihrer Wohnungen auch Einfluß auf die Kosten haben. Dafür werde ich von vielen gehaßt. Meine Theorie, dass ein sauberes, gepflegtes, schönes Wohnumfeld zur Verbesserung des Umgangs der Menschen mit eben diesen führt, dass Blumen, gepflegter Rasen und Sauberkeit zu Rücksichtnahme führen, wurde leider in der Praxis widerlegt. Je mehr ich tat, desto schlimmer wurde es. Darauf hatte auch das Wegsehen, die Angst ausgegrenzt oder angegriffen zu werden, wesentlichen Anteil. Wer was sagt, Verhalten kritisiert, wird von der problematischen Minderheit u.U. angegriffen. Die Mehrheit der Menschen hat nur Mut, wenn sie meckern kann, doch das nur bei anderen über andere.

@bigrigtruckr @Molson_Hart It's because with the end of their patent, Chinese companies can and do successfully attack their kids products with sheer volume and low cost pricing.

Unfortunately Lego has lost their way in more than just the parks. Go into any Lego store nowadays and half the store is $200-$1000 black boxes. They figured out they can simply sell “Adult Lego” and make multiples of the amount they would selling to kids. Profiting off of nostalgia and leaving their core, kids toys to wither away. I don’t like it.

Lego used to run Legoland. It licensed the brand to another company which now runs it. This has been celebrated as a genius business move which not only allows them to focus on their core business but generates lots of cash. Maybe it was a good move in 2005, but today Lego is not only the biggest toy company in the world, but also has successful retail stores and produces its own movies. The Legoland I went to was not only not on-brand. It was magoo. There were times where I honestly wasn’t sure if I had left Legoland, it was so not Lego. And Legoland tried to sell me a $55 pizza which they didn’t even bake in the restaurant. But I digress… Licensed out Legoland might make money but it cheapens the brand and actually harms sales in a way that cannot be measured on any financial document, especially if you don’t know they license their brand out. Lego is the biggest toy company in the world making $3 billion usd + in net profit per year. Buy back your parks already. It reminds me of Apple being too scared to release a car. Companies in the West care too much about making money every single year. That’s not the point of running a company and never was. This “gotta raise prices and lower quality for shareholders” stuff is so whack. “Fiduciary duty”? What about the duty to your soul to do something great? C’mon Lego, you’re better than this. We all are.

@6yj9qbgmrv @LiberalMut Welcher männlicher deutsche Staatsbürger unter 45 ist denn bitte nicht unmittelbar betroffen, wenn es zu einem so elementaren Grundrecht wie der Freizügigkeit plötzlich zu derartigen Einschränkungen kommt? Pistorius "sorry war nicht ernst gemeint" ist reicht nicht aus.

Klagebefugt sind sie nur, soweit sie auch beschwert sind, d.h. in Ihren Rechten verletzt (§ 42 Abs. 2 VwGO). Solange sie also nicht an der Aussreise gehindert wurden oder anderweitig davon betroffen sind, besteht keine klagebefugnis. Eine allgemeine Klage auf richtige rechtsanwendung durch eine Behörde ist nicht statthaft.

Überlege hier zusammen mit anderen Top-Juristen eine Klage einzureichen. Pistorius will dass die Ausnahme - die im Gesetz tatsächlich verankert ist - einfach immer gilt. Also das Gesetz immer unterwandert wird. Eine Ausnahme ist die Abweichung vom Regelfall. Nicht der Regelfall selbst. Wenn man Pistorius das rechtlich durchgehen lässt ist das der Präzedenzfall für die Unterwanderung jeden Gesetzes das Ausnahmefälle zulässt.

@ericrovner @kloss_xyz Netflix pricing encourages piracy, anthropic pricing encourages open source models with local compute. This is the way.

@kloss_xyz Every subscription pricing model is based on expected usage. Netflix assumes you're not streaming 24/7 on 47 devices. People should be happy they got the free ride as long as they did.

do you understand what just happened? Anthropic has sent this email to Claude users starting tomorrow at 12pm PT… you can no longer use your subscription limits for third-party tools like OpenClaw here's what it means: → your flat rate Pro or Max subscription now only covers Claude's own products… Claude Code, Cowork, and claude(.)ai → third-party tools that connect via OAuth will require "extra usage"… a separate pay as you go bill on top of your subscription → this starts April 4 with OpenClaw but applies to all third-party harnesses going forward → to soften the blow… Anthropic is offering a one time credit equal to your monthly subscription price. redeem by April 17 → they're also introducing pre-purchase bundles with up to 30% discount on extra usage → you can still use OpenClaw with your Claude account. this isn't a ban. it's a billing change. API key access is unaffected here's what actually happened behind the scenes… users were running $1,000-$5,000 worth of agentic workloads through a $200/month Max subscription by routing through third-party tools that's like buying an all you can eat buffet pass and feeding your entire office through the door with it Anthropic's systems were getting crushed. the email literally says "these tools put an outsized strain on our systems" so it appears the $200/mo AI max plan arbitrage era is officially over... if you're running OpenClaw or any third-party harness on Claude… → turn on extra usage billing before 12pm PT tomorrow to keep things running → or switch to API keys instead of OAuth → grab that free credit before April 17 this was always coming: the math never worked for Anthropic at flat rate pricing with unlimited third-party access the real question now is what this means for every open source tool built on top of Claude's subscription layer the ecosystem just got a lot more expensive overnight

@ujjwalscript Yeah it's like the mechanic loom - just the fact that you now don't have to hand-weave to get cloth doesn't mean there are no jobs in the textile sector or cloth is completely for free.

The “Vibe Coding” honeymoon is officially OVER. For a while, it felt magical. Prompt in, product out. No deep context, no architecture, no trade-offs. Just vibes. But reality is catching up: • Systems still need to scale
• Edge cases still exist
• Debugging still hurts
• And someone still has to own the code AI didn’t replace engineering, it amplified the gap between people who understand systems and people who don’t. “Vibe coding” is great for getting started.
But shipping real, reliable software? That still requires thinking. The engineers who win won’t be the ones who vibe the fastest - they’ll be the ones who understand what the vibe produced.

@jessieTsaneikk Reallöhne stagnieren gerade extrem durch Inflation. Wenn ich insofern Mitarbeitern konstant sinkenden Gegenwert für ihre Arbeit biete, ist doch sinkende Motivation und verstärkter Wechselwillen total rational. Der Markt regelt eben.

Gestern habe ich eine Bekannte getroffen, die zusammen mit ihrem Mann einen Landwirtschaftsbetrieb betreibt. Sie erzählte mir, dass sie eigentlich einen Lehrling einstellen wollten. Der junge Mann hatte einen Ausbildungsvertrag unterschrieben, ist aber am ersten Tag gar nicht erst erschienen. Auf meine Nachfrage hin meinte sie nur trocken: „Das ist heute leider völlig normal. Es ist nicht das erste Mal, dass uns das passiert.,, Das sagt einiges über den aktuellen Zustand der Ausbildungsbereitschaft in manchen Branchen – besonders in der Landwirtschaft, wo Zuverlässigkeit und Einsatzbereitschaft eigentlich Grundvoraussetzungen sind.

@davidpattersonx Sounds like a brilliant strategy until you realize that waves of people being out of a job at the same time typically spawn organized crime and violent riots that all have a good chance of injuring or killing you.

If you are replaced by AI, get another job. If you are replaced by a humanoid robot, get another job. Keep doing that until there are no other jobs.

@KILLTOPARTY I guess the only real way to escape this would be to train your daughter to become a lesbian, or to internalise objectifying men as walking ATMs. Oh wait the latter is what most lower-class fathers actually resort to, which is why their neighbourhoods spawn so many gold diggers

There are some things about human life that are imperfect. Things you merely need to accept and realize that life is something that happened rather than something that was sculpted to perfection. We are lucky to be here. We are lucky to be alive. That said, one of these weird things we need to accept is that having a daughter means that your daughter is going to be a sex object for men. That’s how life works. Women are sex objects for men. It’s weird for a man to realize this and accept it. It’s not porn brained. If anything, it’s the opposite. It’s real life.

@OKYsimartapps @haha_girrrl Redefined to what? UBI is in effect communism. Maybe it will work, but in effect it's saying capitalism is not a meaningful idea in the 21st century any more. Europe and China will be able to cope with that (heavily taxing and redistributing is common there), but will the US?

@haha_girrrl Most AI predictions assume the economy stays the same shape. But when production costs hit zero, the whole game changes. Ownership, work, value everything gets redefined.

Everyone says "Al will take all the jobs." But if that really happens... how does the system even function? No jobs → no income → no purchasing power. So who's buying products? Who's paying rent? What keeps the economy running?

@antmillionsbot 不要在正常互联网里发不正常的信息。喜欢假新闻就快关掉VPN滚回墙内。

@designed_future @malikmamluke @Cyberhonk26 @om_patel5 Yeah, the good 'ole nonsensical doorless room plan that got hallucinated into existence by the architecture AI trying to preserve previous prompt's context tokens. Will be a common thing soon.

@pattern4 @malikmamluke @Cyberhonk26 @om_patel5 That's the Suicide Door. For the General Contractor who has to build this shit.

THIS GUY USED CLAUDE CODE TO DESIGN CUSTOM FURNITURE then handed the PDF to a carpenter and actually built it he described a full wall unit to claude. wardrobe, drawers, mirror, fragrance display, hidden vault, laundry section. all in one piece claude wrote 1400 lines of python that generates carpenter-ready technical drawings as a PDF. front elevation, plan view, construction notes. all dimensioned in centimeters claude updated the script each time. added LED lighting positions, ventilation specs, push-to-open latches, soft-close hinges he handed the PDF directly to his carpenter. built exactly to spec. zero modifications needed this is the most real world use of vibe coding i've seen.

@HSmith24993512 @LayoffAI Classical nimbyism (same mechanism as with climate change) - if I can save a few bucks, why should I care that if everyone does it, economy collapses? This is where the capitalist west either reinvents Fordism (workers must be able to buy our product), or China wins decisively

@LayoffAI These large corporations playing this game are fashioning their own noose. Most are dependent on consumer spending that is going bye-bye.

Andrew Yang is calling it "The Fuckening." That's his actual word for it. And honestly it fits. A CEO of a publicly traded tech company told him directly: "We're firing 15% now. Another 20% in two years. Another 20% after that." There are 70 million white collar workers in this country. Yang projects 20 to 50% of those jobs gone within a few years. The low end of that is 14 million people. The entire 2008 crisis wiped out 8.7 million. The difference this time is the jobs don't come back. A recession ends and companies rehire. This time the work still gets done. It just gets done by software. The position itself stops existing. Nothing expands margins like replacing a $379K employee with a $200/month subscription. We track it all at layoffhedge.com. 58 companies. 254,000 people. And climbing. Yang is writing about what's coming. We're counting what's already here.

@malikmamluke @Cyberhonk26 @om_patel5 And then in that next draft, it did follow fire code very strictly and documented that in detail, but one of the bathrooms disappeared, the kitchen moved to the cellar, and there is a new inexplicable door to the outside on the third floor.

@Cyberhonk26 @om_patel5 When youre halfway through your build and point out to Claude that it seems like the corridor doesn't meet fire code and the HVAC dimensions aren't possible in the specified space and it replies "You're exactly right. Let me draft a new version with..."

@Linahuaa @KuittinenPetri Struggling hard to remain in the closet and hiring all these 7/10 escorts as fig leaves out of fear to alienate his only income source - incel/far-right followers... Such a beta guy. What irony.

@KuittinenPetri I think there's a sextape with him around where he had sex with a girl

High testosterone "Alpha men": The Honest Truth Have you ever seen Andrew Tate with a high-end sophisticated 10/10 girl? No. Could Andrew ever date a famous highbrow actress such as young Anne Hathaway? No. The Andrew Tate archetype can easily farm hundreds of girls across the globe, but they'll usually max out at 6-7/10- and won't be particularly elegant or interesting. They'll be thr type of girls that many other guys like him could and already did farm. No amount of money would fix this. Redpill men hugely underestimate VIBECHECK. One tall big-dicked aggressive chad could attract 90% of girls, but utterly fail with the other 10%. Another 5'7 average looking but highly artistic guy could fail with 90% of girls, but pull a billionaire heiress with Oxford degree. And neither would score with a math PhD girl. The more tail-end you go, the less effective normie dating strats become. And the more specific quirks can compensate for suboptimal physical stats.

@ADuke08812702 @Domi06823791 SAP überlebt, weil Hunderttausende mittlerweile pensionierte Experten ihr Wissen darin eingebracht haben, und kein Kundenteam aus Fleisch und Blut mehr alle Zusammhänge kennt. Aber eine KI? Die hat ein fotografisches Gedächtnis über ALLE Konfigurationen ALLER Kunden.

@Domi06823791 Als IT-Berater kann ich sagen, dass SAP absoluter bullshit ist 😂😂 Lebt aber trotzdem und sogar nicht schlecht.

IT-Beratungen? Das war schon immer ein großer Schwindel, teure Anzugträger, die PowerPoint-Slides verkaufen und für 1.000 €/Tag erzählen, was jeder Praktiker schon längst weiß. KI wird diese Branche fast komplett auslöschen. 80–90 % der klassischen Beratungsjobs (Prozessoptimierung, SAP-Einführung, Cloud-Migration, Digitalstrategie, Requirements Engineering) sind in 3–5 Jahren tot. Warum? Weil GPT-5/6, Claude, Grok & Co. das in Stunden erledigen, was 15 Consultants in 6 Monaten für 2 Mio. € machen. Was bleibt? Hardware- & Infrastruktur-Spezialisten (5 %) Rechenzentren bauen, Kühlung, Stromversorgung, Hardware Hochsicherheits- & Militärberatung (3 %) Air-Gapped-Systeme, EMP-Schutz, Alte Technik Altlasten-Sanierung (2 %) uralte COBOL-, SAP-R/3-, Mainframe-Systeme, die noch 30 Jahre laufen müssen. Alles andere (Strategieberatung, Change Management, Agile-Coaching, Digitalisierung, KI-Einführung) wird von KI selbst übernommen – und zwar besser und für 1/50 des Preises. Die meisten IT-Beratungshäuser (Accenture, Capgemini, Deloitte, T-Systems, etc.) werden 2028–2032 massiv schrumpfen, der Markt wird sich auf wenige Beratungen konsolidieren. Die Berater werden entweder arbeitslos oder selbst zu KI-Prompt-Ingenieuren für deutlich kleineres Geld.

@cryptopunk7213 The real gems appear when you search this page for "escort" or "companionship" - this is average street hoes looking for machines to be their pimps.

ai is getting fucking weird again an app called 'Rent-a-Human' lets ai agents hire humans to do tasks for them in the real world and shits got out of hand: "help me understand human feet" - $1 "hold up a cardboard sign saying 'an AI made me do this' in public" - $100 over 600,000 humans have signed up offering up their services to ai agents. bizarre fucking times