Dylan

It can’t be a good sign that almost no brands have put up Pride branding this year. Clearly they have assessed that supporting the LGBTQ+ community is a bad business decision at the moment.

This really resonates. My confidence is shot since the pandemic and it’s been a real struggle to connect back to the world as a result. Throwing myself into forced social situations like Tostmasters has helped a bit but still don’t feel like my old self.

Incredibly sad. What a loss for South Africa.

@Noahpinion You keep referring back to this cheese thing, which has nothing to do with Degrowth. Ann Widdecombe is many things but a Degrowth advocate she is not so it’s a really weird thing to get hung up on.

Fantasy degrowth is you and your friends and everyone in Bangladesh getting a comfy life because somehow that’s what happens when we take away rich people’s private jets; actual degrowth is some old conservative British lady telling you you don’t deserve a cheese sandwich.

Indeed. But since the degrowth people realized that no one was going to vote for actual impoverishment, they started promising people that degrowth would actually (somehow) give us an abundance of housing, energy, and other material goods! noahpinion.blog/p/degrowth-we-…

@babochenko @DionizijeF @TariqMK_ @amasad Because growth requires extraction and infinite extraction on a planet of finite resources is unsustainable.

@DylanRichts @DionizijeF @TariqMK_ @amasad Why would we collapse?

Not a joke: EU Parliament held a “degrowth” event where they brainstorm ways to become poorer.

@AlecStapp This is disingenuous nonsense. This is failing infrastructure and ineptitude. Making a false equivalence to degrowth is just lazy.

This is what “degrowth” actually looks like in practice: Economic immiseration amid an energy crisis.

You would really think the country with chronic power shortages would lean hard into green energy.

@benedictevans @stevehaneyjr No, that’s not my point. There have been unprecedented improvements in quality of life but at every point where technological improvements mean there is an opportunity for human labour to lessen, the market finds somewhere else to allocate this labour. The growth must go on.

@stevehaneyjr @benedictevans This same prediction has failed to materialise at every leap in technological advancement in the past 100 years. Capitalism demands that this labour be more productive forcing people to work ever harder to maintain the same standard of living.

@benedictevans Of course it will: our work weeks will go from 40 hours to 10 hours. Humankind are tool makers. This is simply the progression of what we’ve been doing for millennia: we automate work so we can get closer to living Aristotle’s “examined life”.

Is it just me or is ChatGPT getting dumber? Is it because it is speaking to people?

@moze @drewhouston It didn’t have to be done. They just don’t give a f@$k

@drewhouston Sorry this had to be done. We are with you.

Shared the difficult decision to reduce our workforce with the Dropbox team today. We’re committed to supporting those affected, and I’m deeply grateful for their contributions. blog.dropbox.com/topics/company…

Come on @sarstax. You offer an option to set up video chats with a tax consultant and then when the time for the meeting arrives 3 weeks later you still haven’t shared the video call link. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. Why not just get it right?

@michellevisage Honestly Michelle Visage deserves a Drag Race crown.

The clearest signal to me that Generative AI is genuinely impactful is that it doesn’t exist in the realm of the tech bro. Even my tech averse parents are using it.

Anyone pretending Generative AI is just the next craze after Blockchain/Crypto is kidding themselves. The latter spent a decade searching for a problem for their solution. The number of crypto bro events I sat through where a thousand words were used to say nothing 😮‍💨

@sdsdriller @davidmackau @billybragg No one owes you a debate open or otherwise about their body or their lives Jackie.

@davidmackau @billybragg Just the usual open debate.

@RiotPlatforms @nytimes These comments are a hot mess. Half the crypto bros are claiming this is a joke and the other half that crypto is actually GOOD for CO2 emissions because it uses excess electricity. Absolute scenes.

@nytimes Bitcoin mining has zero carbon emissions.

The New York Times has identified 34 operations known as Bitcoin mines in the U.S., all of which are putting immense pressure on the power grid and creating costs for everyone around them, most of whom have nothing to do with Bitcoin. nyti.ms/3mfvvdL

@graveyworld @giangyhai @PopBase Not a burn. A joke. We know it can be difficult

Donald Trump is officially under arrest.

Yaaasss Julius