@Bix

Karma after reading this:

“Hold my beer.”

@thedisasterautist

I’m not questioning whether it’s a word or not, my point it seems like a word whose for sustained usage has become crucial.

This google trends graph, unfortunately only goes back to 2004, but it clearly shows a steady increase in usage with most sustained usage between 2022 and 2023, and I have zero doubt that record will be broken moving forward as the need to unravel the ever more egregious techno-oligarchic noose becomes more acute.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F05kls&hl=en

/nosanitize

@thedisasterautist

Hmm… that actual word? I mean oligarchy and monopoly of course.

I just like how it shows how those two things feed each other. It’s like a two headed monster word!

It’s time has come, like never ever before. :)

@th3j35t3r

Every OCD person here (Hello fellow OCD-ers!) is getting really REALLY antsy about now.

I’m just going to pretend I didn’t see that and back away from my iPhone…

TIL an awesome new word:

OLIGOPOLY

(And I have a feeling we’re going to be hearing it a lot…)

@corlin One of my favorite lines from that article:

"...what is really being squeezed out is the value of reflection. "

@InvaderGzim @Ruthat

@corlin

Thank you, I got mine! 🙏

A look at TIME's AI 100 list

Via Blood in the Machine:

Surprise, the most influential people in AI are also the richest.

"At the risk of overthinking a magazine feature, what it reflects to me is how the conceptual enterprise of AI is already shedding incisive and creative voices, and is ossifying into the oligopoly-dominated automation enterprise it always seemed destined to be. And that those critical voices are in the process of getting crushed."

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/surprise-the-most-influential-people

@northernbassist

I could see that. :) The amount of history and symbolism of a B-52 is amazing. It makes me want to see one for real and go inside..

Happy Saturday Caturday people!

#StuffOnMyRefrigeratorDay.

😹

@cassandra17lina

This is disturbing. I can’t believe I’m politically aligned w Dick Cheney on this.

Thing now is, does fuckface dare to insult Dick Cheney??

Does W also do the right thing?

@NorthernInvader

Truth here. Capitalism is anti-future and anti-progress. It has failed in its promise.

@Coctaanatis

Only voted to see the result. I think the GOP will splinter with Trump still demanding to own it and declaring himself Red State monarch and someone like Liz Cheney/Hailey/looking to pull it towards the center. It will be a Godawful Schadenfreuden clusterfuck.

@NorthernInvader

Okay… so…

I have read this and digested it and find it mildly interesting… also forgive me here Northern…but mmm…

Whoop dee do…

😂😘