alexdrake.bsky.social
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No, you're right.
They have made one of the Basic Blunders: Never believe your own Hype.
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Who just screamed "I AM THE HYPE"?
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BREXIT was their MAGA Moment... and buyer's remorse ate their momentum.
I expect we'll see the same thing as soon as Social Security Checks stop going out, or Medicaid or Medicare get cut.
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I'm pretty sure that Copilot is just a nice face on top of some OpenAI API Calls... so... yeah. Even sadder.
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Musk is already shutting down swathes of the Government.
You literally can't cause more harm by playing hardball.
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The Medicare Cuts are unacceptable.
They will kill people.
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Art isn't onboard with this nonsense.
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The foremost Tea Connoisseur in Avatar...
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The leads of Lord of the Rings...
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More importantly: He is compromised.
The DOJ is holding the threat of prosecution over his head to coerce him to take official acts. He cannot be trusted to focus on what's best for New York City, because DOJ has him dead to rights and can get a conviction if they bring the sword down.
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Because you don't legitimize an illegal action after it's been done.
The Legislation they should be proposing (It'll not pass) is a mandate to rehire those fired in the last month, with full back pay at time and a half, and additional hurdles required to re-fire them for four years.
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On the plus side, it'll drive more traffic over here.
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Eh... he got to be Farmer George and sold off most of the Royal Family's remaining responsibilities to Parliament.
*Parliament*, on the other hand, got stuck into a Debt Spiral that eventually left their foreign policy in the hands of the East India Company.
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I called my Red Senators about this.
I emphasized that Trump is already creating a lot of uncertainty in the economy, and discouraging investment. Bringing in a FBI Head more interested in litigating old grievances won't help restore that lost confidence.
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Good job. Better messaging. Keep it up.
Please try to do this in front of a reporter, podcaster, or other person with more reach.
Again: Good improvement. Keep going.
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A big part of being ready for a defensive war is hyping yourself up to kill the enemy. Killing is hard for humans. Conditioning and Adrenaline only go so far. Unless you're a sociopath, you have to believe that you have no other choice to do it.
You'll still have trouble sleeping, afterwards.
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Canadians and Americans have the same response to being threatened: Responding in kind with extortionate interest.
Sane Americans don't have their hands on the wheel. We don't know how the Military would respond to an order to invade. The Threat feels real... so they're getting themselves ready.
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Martial Readiness was a part of his concept.. but eagerness for war isn't. That set off the whole mess in the SIlmarilion
"I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend." - Tolkien, The Two Towers
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The Hands of the King are the Hands of a Healer
Aragorn was not recognized for strength of arms, or for his valiant actions in the War of the Ring. He was recognized for being able to heal the wounds left by the Nazghul.
Tolkien understood that Nobility was about healing, Protecting, and building.
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1. It's definitely fraudulent by a common definition. Sadly, case law has broadened the definition of Puffery to the point that fraud can be covered with a fig leaf.
2. Weird. Last time I checked, Tableau still pumps queries through OpenAI for its most useless feature.
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Traffic Monitoring doesn't look at API Calls because its primary audience is Advertisers trying to figure out whether it's worth placing ads on a site.
API Calls don't open the site in a browser to display the ads... so they're kinda irrelevant to the target market.
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OpenAI may be rolling Copilot and Einstein users into that number.
It's not technically a lie, since those people are using ChatGPT. It is misleading, since those API Calls aren't as expensive as an Active User with a ChatGPT Subscription.
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There is a way this makes sense.
Website Traffic Monitoring usually doesn't track API Calls, and most of the other "AI Services" (including Microsoft's Copilot and Salesforce's Einstein) are actually ChatGPT API Calls with a few bells and whistles attached.
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Especially since Jesus's own words demand that people give of themselves to the less fortunate. It's the one thing about him that every gospel agrees on.
They need Apologetics to overcome Christ's Words and their own Empathy... and justify Hatred to themselves.
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This message is a balm for a conflicted conscience.
Empathy is wired into most people. It's a function of human neurology. Even our infants get upset when they recognize that people are hurting.
Evangelical Christianity calls upon its people to hate a lot of others... and that doesn't sit well.
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The Best Games are AA and Indie, now.
AA has the budget of the PS2 Classics, and doesn't have remotely the same amount of executive meddling.
Indie Games have no budget, and are their own game to lose.
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So, is my Kazoo a dealbreaker?
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Little bit of the Sonic the Hedgehog (Game) Soundtracks, and the Dragon Ball soundtrack, when I need to get my blood flowing.
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Poor Man's Poison and Brothers of Metal.
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She's the only Democratic Rep that figured out what Social Media is, and how to run a campaign in this era.
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Debate is limited to 30 hours.
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We actually are locking down the Senate through the Filibuster... the problem is that Appointments aren't subject to Filibuster.
We removed that rule for appointments so that Obama could appoint *anyone*.
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Germany's present stance, actively working to educate their children in what the Nazis did and why it was wrong... is something they came to on their own without any real pressure from the occupiers.
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To be fair, that's mostly because actually doing that would have involved killing most adult males, a big chunk of the children, and most women. Returning Genocide with Genocide wasn't something anyone wanted to do.
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Yeah... but here's the funny part.
Germany corrected itself when the environment changed. The Allies that occupied Germany didn't actually do a propaganda push to clear the air. They got distracted by the Soviet Union, and chose not to prosecute literally everyone remotely involved in war crimes.
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I think I can explain it.
The Nazis rode into power on a successful Ad Campaign. They did a lot of propaganda work to get people to either invite them in, or be okay with them coming in.
The Algorithmically Enforced Media Bubbles have recreated those conditions... for only a part of the country.
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It scaled pretty well in Germany, post-war.
Reality will assert itself when things go to shit thoroughly enough.
We just have to hope that there's enough America left to reconstruct... and I see a little bit of light in that tunnel. The Data Hoarders are preserving a ton of how-to guides for that.
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Then you've got to support them while they rebuild their worldview, because a shock could send them retreating back onto comfortable ground.
It's hard work that takes a long time.
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It's possible... but you need to wait for an opportunity.
You have to be someone they already like, then wait for reality to smack them hard enough to incite a moment of doubt. Be there to catch them when they're looking for answers... and let them step away from bad conclusions.
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The Courts are currently propping up the economy by stalling the actual damage from hitting at once.
Once that fails... that number's dropping to single-digits.
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You'd be shocked how much being willing to just stand on a soapbox and scream moves that needle.
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I love the comic, but that wasn't my intent.
We are the market. We don't have to buy things. If you piss off the market, your shit stops selling.
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You can help by calling your Blue Electeds. Give them a reason to doubt the Polling and Consultants telling them to try and reach across.
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The Dems are terminally Consultant and Polling brained. They refuse to move a toe without focus-testing, because of how bad they got hurt by Regan.
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They have a plan... based on Polling.
Bipartisanship got 96% approval in those polls, so they're trying to act Bipartisan.
As you might guess... that Polling was poorly phrased. People *GENERALLY* approve of Bipartisan efforts. They also disapprove of everything the Pubs are doing.
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The Market rules.
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From there... the transition will likely happen by accident.
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Expanded Unionization will create a space where people who want to build things can meet. This will create a breeding ground for Employee-Owned Enterprises to pop up and fill market niches vacated by corporations strip-mined by Corporate Raiders.
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I'm of the opinion that if Communism is ever going to arise, it's going to arise as a result of Class Consciousness converging with Market Forces.
Unionization is the cure to Enshittification and Welchism, since the Union has an interest in businesses continuing to exist.
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For the record: No Communist State has ever managed to make it through the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
EVERY attempt has ended in one of the violent revolution's leaders managing to consolidate power, and pivot to a Red Dictatorship. History has shown that Revolution will not work.
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It's pretty common for Fascists to cosplay as Communists, since the Dictatorship of the Proletariat is a part of the original concept for the transitional process.
Get the people with Class Consciousness aimed in the right direction, get the dictatorship going, and then purge them once you have it.