Yeah, and I’m sure there will still be human writers and artists. There just won’t be as many of them employed compared to today.

Art hasn’t been removed with AI. It is offering a lower quality substitution for a lower price. We aren’t smashing paintings to feed the electricity turbines to power AI. And I’ve provided examples of where people lost artistic work because of changes in technology.

And the joy is likely from being able to do more with less, which has been consistent when other technology was adopted. You don’t need to hire any one to make a drawing, you can do it on a computer. Sure, the drawing isn’t as good, just like how a photo isn’t as good as a portrait painting.

I mentioned painters as portrait artists and artists of historical record; their work has been replaced by photography.

Most animation today is done via a computer instead of being hand drawn. Some of the techniques to reuse sprites come from hand-drawn techniques from Hanna-Barbera.

Art Deco is filled with architectural elements that are mass produced with machines instead of created by skilled labor.

We’ve mechanized art to make its construction easier. AI is part of that.

Previous Cuban governments cashed the rent check; the current government hasn’t.

There isn’t an endgame.

We don’t mourn the loss of blacksmiths who put time and skill into creating a pan or pot. We don’t care about the glass blowers who are no longer hired to blow drinking glasses. We don’t miss the portrait artists who painted not just for art, but to create an historical record.

History is filled with jobs performed by skilled labor that were made redundant with technology. AI is just a point in a long line.

The issue here isn’t that the tracking link has been tampered with, but that it was done without the user’s informed consent.

Honey doesn’t advertise how it makes its money to consumers; it is just a fancy plug-in that could save you money.

Pendulum by Spanish Love Songs

Rodney Dangerfield sold aluminum siding in North New Jersey.

Most congestion pricing schemes rely only on tolling the boundary and generally target central business districts with little internal traffic. The technology is there to install more internal tracking of traffic, but you’d probably push up against privacy groups and the deployment of the tech would be a lot more expensive.

But can you draw me 7 perpendicular red lines?

I don’t think it is a gendered thing, but there are societal expectations regarding men versus women that can complicate the issue

Because a real leftist Batman would use his money to fix the systemic problems of Gotham

The last Batman movie makes explicit this contradiction in Batman. Batman acts in a vigilante manner to save individuals. Yet, the fund Bruce Wayne is custodian of is the source of the cancer at the core of Gotham.

Luigi was a wealthy crypto bro working though a mental crisis. Luigi is not lefty batman.

That sounds a lot like Batman.

but I’d wager that it was mostly because the really poor country got a bit better off.

That’s what happened. The bimodal world income distribution has become unimodal as the working class of East Asia has seen a lot of improvement. Inequality in the first world went up since a lot of working class jobs left their countries while the wealthy were able to get richer.

I feel like a Elon Musk backed Trump administration might do it.

Musk has already stepped in a lot of shit saying that Americans don’t want to work any more as a reason for increasing H1B visas. Trump has also said that inflation isn’t going to be something his administration is going to fix; a lot of his policies will make it worse.

Combine that with conservative media having a hard time demonizing Luigi is beginning to create a crack between the Republican leadership and its MAGA base.

Based on what I’ve seen on the public facing part of the developer side, I get the feeling this isn’t the kind of group that can build the kind of organization required to make this sustainable in the long run.

I’m just waiting for when Beehaw releases that they’ve given up on Lemmy and have created a new tech stack.

It is the reason why playwrights would never distribute full scripts. You would only get your lines and the line before your line. You also wouldn’t get a lot of time to study your lines. It was common for someone off stage with the only full script to help actors remember their lines.