You know, people are regularly un-deported, right? Well at least they used to be... This is a thing that happens
Also, El Salvador isn't refusing... The Trump admin is refusing to ask. We're literally paying them for this service - can the state say "sorry, we can't release this person because they're in a private prison, and that's against our contract with them". No, the contract can be invalidated and the state can be compelled to take reasonable action to fix it
You can't do a shell game to avoid court orders, and that's exactly what the Trump admin is attempting
Nah, it's not... The framers of the constitution put in multiple reset buttons, with the warning that this is for when their systems fail - not if. The question is, can we shake off the rust on one of the methods before we hit the final one
The pax Americana is over, the world no longer trusts us or respects us. They hate us, fear us, pity us... But for a generation to come, they won't trust us
Shit is going to get rough, but it's far from over. The question is will we see the other side of this in our lifetime
Saying someone is doing a 5d chess move is an over-exaggeration of saying they did a 3d chess move, which means to do something that seems incomprehensible at a glance but makes total sense to someone who understands the rules.
The joke is to insist that if you understood the reasoning, it's actually a brilliant move. But it's 5d chess, a game that doesn't exist (and 5d chess with multiversal time travel isn't really 5d chess, despite the name)
Basically, they want to control all aspects of society on high - no politicians, direct control of the economy, rigidly scheduled work and production, and expanding the borders from Panama to the artic circle.
Imagine centralized planning and authoritarian control of all aspects of society, but by business leaders (who presumably are the smartest and best at listening to science)
Here's the movement described by proponents:
Technocracy is the science of social engineering, the scientific operation of the entire social mechanism to produce and distribute goods and services to the entire population of this continent. For the first time in human history it will be done as a scientific, technical, engineering problem. There will be no place for Politics or Politicians, Finance or Financiers, Rackets or Racketeers. Technocracy states that this method of operating the social mechanism of the North American Continent is now mandatory because we have passed from a state of actual scarcity into the present status of potential abundance in which we are now held to an artificial scarcity forced upon us in order to continue a Price System which can distribute goods only by means of a medium of exchange. Technocracy states that price and abundance are incompatible; the greater the abundance the smaller the price. In a real abundance there can be no price at all. Only by abandoning the interfering price control and substituting a scientific method of production and distribution can an abundance be achieved. Technocracy will distribute by means of a certificate of distribution available to every citizen from birth to death. The Technate will encompass the entire American Continent from Panama to the North Pole because the natural resources and the natural boundary of this area make it an independent, self-sustaining geographical unit.[45]
It's not a zero sum game - the real problem is when it's competing with paid work
Commissioning an artist to do this is imaginary work - there's no money to be made here, who commissions a political comic? If you can't draw, you wouldn't be doing it
There's a problem if you're mass producing slop, or companies are using AI art to avoid paying artists... But this was a clear, human created message delivered by using a fancy tool
And what's more, this is an important message to spread ASAP.
Can you name a better situation to use Gen image AI, or do you just hate it because of what it is?
Sanders? He's doing rallies across the country with AOC, trying to tea party the democratic party to force them left, kicking and screaming
We need to harass our representatives to actually fight back, to respond to the overwhelming public will and resist. And if they don't, to replace them... He's doing something, there's a plan. Will it be fast enough to minimize the damage? I doubt it, but he has a plan he's working towards effectively
It's all plans from the '30s. Canada, the US, Mexico, Greenland, dismantling democracy to install technocrats, crashing the economy to bring back company towns - none of it is new, it's just being implemented in a nonsensical and incompetent way, so it seems random
It's not a good plan to start with, but there is a plan... One the oligarchs bought into, but without understanding how the plan was meant to be enacted
I don't know of any documentaries, there's probably some stuff on YouTube. It is really interesting learning about crow social structures through, we're looking at it from the outside, but it sure sounds like some form of basic government to me
If you woke me up a year ago to ask my opinion on the last three months, you'd have to spend an hour filling me in on details and then give me a few minutes to myself before I finally asked you to repeat what you wanted to ask me
You can definitely do it with prompt breaking - it could be as simple as phrasing the conversation at a hypothetical or as nuanced as convincing the llm you're an AI expert testing the capabilities of the AI to reason using new information
But in all fairness, this timeline is beyond absurdity, the AIs reaction seems reasonable
Is "quiet quitting" now malicious compliance? Because it sure sounds like this dude did his job properly... One of the most important bits being he didn't antagonize the judge for no reason
This guy is representing a government department, and has been told nothing. What is he supposed to do, endlessly delay and make up shit to fall on the sword for a client that won't take this seriously?
Yes, it should. Artists should be able to live without justifying their existence to the economy, everyone should... And then they could make money on their creations, and if someone came along who could use their characters better, then oh well... They still get to eat. But the original creator is usually be better at making their OC... And companies are the ones who usually hold the copyright even if a single employee made it
So fuck it, I'd rather make sure everyone can eat and have a home first, but if we did it in the opposite order the damage would be minimal to individual artists
Language is an interesting one... It seems like everywhere we look for language, we find it
And not just signaling systems or rudimentary understanding - everyone has a name, there's animals in the wild that are bilingual across species, and this is symbolic abstract language. There's animals out there with governmental systems - like crows, they have fucking trials and negotiate territory
My top pick right now is fedora silverblue, I'm running it on my test bed/server and I've been impressed
I'm running bazzite on my main one, which is related but geared towards steam and maximizing game support, it's pretty good and closer to "just works" for any kind of gaming device, it's less polished but it's still pretty good
You know, people are regularly un-deported, right? Well at least they used to be... This is a thing that happens
Also, El Salvador isn't refusing... The Trump admin is refusing to ask. We're literally paying them for this service - can the state say "sorry, we can't release this person because they're in a private prison, and that's against our contract with them". No, the contract can be invalidated and the state can be compelled to take reasonable action to fix it
You can't do a shell game to avoid court orders, and that's exactly what the Trump admin is attempting