collapse of the old society

“One thing Myspace had going for it: it was exuberantly ugly. The decision to let users with no design training loose on a highly customizable user-interface led to a proliferation of Myspace pages that vibrated with personality.”

“The most febrile, deeply weird and authentic prompts of the most excluded outsiders produce images that feel the same as the corporate AI illustrations that project the illusion of personality from the immortal, transhuman colony organism that is the limited liability corporation.”

“I used to say that outcomes are gonna be worse,” Rogers said. “And that’s a nice, polite euphemism for babies are going to die and mothers are going to die in emergency rooms because of a lack of prenatal care and a lack of obstetrical care.”

Bangladesh, which faces a myriad of systemic issues, is now dealing with deadly riots and government backlash, neither of which are likely to make the rising seas and temperatures they face easier to adapt to.

The collapse if consensus reality has probably been the strangest side effect of recent decades, but we can see it accelerating here.

Cross posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/37308333

Cross posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17603589

Not a normal post here as it describes patients getting more and better treatment in spite of insurance companies, but it also details the start of an arms race of having language models to bicker at each other unceasingly wasting time and energy when people just need medial care.