Ms. April Daniels

Maaaaybe Mamdani’s government. 😏

what if your doppelganger loved being you more than you ever loved being yourself. they're better at being you and everyone loves them and it feels almost selfish to want your life back. i want clone horror but the horror is that the thing trying to replace you is also the person you always wanted to be.

You could sort of imagine a Jane Austen-y early-19th-century economy, with AI as the farm workers doing the economic activity and humans as the aristocratic rentiers who own land and earn 5% in perpetuity.

I mean, you can imagine it, but it's never gonna happen, because the people who own the computer systems these machine learning tools run on will never consent to public ownership of their property. So what's actually going to happen if the tech gets good enough to displace anyone who isn't a property owner is that everyone who doesn't own a data center will starve or become a servant.

Dahling you simply must read this book! It’s all about this devious little caterpillar who simply gorges himself on all manner of divine things

I work cybersecurity, this is like half my job.

the whole vaccine deal tbh

antidepressants

Yes these are all the work of wizards

@gigi-orosco @wildwood-faun

Rich people are literally just lying about being good at money btw

Things like overdraft fees, late fees, parking tickets, fines, subscription renewals, legal fees, penalty fees, sales and discounts, lawsuits - these are things that all cease to matter in any material way once you have enough money

To Jeff Bezos, a parking meter, a plane ticket, and a private jet all effectively cost the same amount of money: none