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Screenshot of a Mastodon post by
Kevin Beaumont: "Generative Al government lobbying."
Photo of AI/tech company CEO's, captioned:
We spent a Trillion on NVDA GPUs antide dont have any Al product you want.
Photo of a crying male, captioned:
Please like our Al bro This is the last time bro. So many possibilities bro. Its the future bro. Just need you to like it bro. We worked real hard bro. Our stockholders need this one bro.
So I went to a poetry performance tonight, and the poet (I've watched him for 20 years) says he has a SF poem for the first time.
The poem was about the year 2525, where the residents of the burned out husk of a planet that we left behind are decanting one billionaire a year. Billionaires started to cryogenically freeze themselves before the collapse of civilization, so there are plenty of frozen bros in dewar flasks powered by solar panels to dig up.
So they wake up a billionaire a year, and he wakes up tied to a post. He's asked why he didn't give a fuck about what happened to the world in the future, and of course his answers were shit. So they set him on fire, as one does with scapegoats. Guess they'll do it all again next year.
He called the poem "Burning Man".
I applauded, dropped a 20 in his hat, and drove home. Yes, I know.
In the year 2525, if man is still alive…
That kind of slaps though
I love it. They're the new witches.
Fair is foul and foul is fair.
I vote we all just start rioting and make it look like the collapse is happening now so they all go into their bunkers, let me just pile up rocks by the door or something, and then maybe we can get on with things without these idiots interfering.
Honestly you could do a lot by just charging a high rate of tax on people who own homes but don't live in them. Encourage them to drop those properties back onto the market.