I keep saying that humanity’s toys do evolve spectacularly while humans are still working on the same basic impulses they’ve been dealing with for millennia.

Trump is a petty conman who does everything in his power to consolidate as much power in himself as he possibly can so that he can funnel as much money to himself and his gang as he can. That’s not new. The environment he’s doing in may be more complex, or differently set up than in previous iterations, but the core is depressingly mundane.

Gaza is just people hating people and other people supporting different sides while all sides give each other more reasons to hate each other perpetually, some more war-crimey, some less so. Tragic, quagmired to hell and back, but not groundbreaking in and of itself.

As for AI, the framework is the usual capitalists trying to convince everybody that their new best revolutionary thing is a word sorting machine that can sort very, very many words now very fast. Trying to cash in on the hype is the eternal constant, the occasion this time is a very sophisticated chatbot/image generator based on all the materials the inventors could get away with stealing.

And climate stuff is just this generation of capitalists stripping the planet for parts while they can get away with it. The scale is bigger, but vulture capitalism is also not even remotely new.

Just like the principle of singular attributability of data via the blockchain is a fancy way of assigning stuff to one recipient. We’ve had approaches to this before. This time the blockchain’s ledger system is the big new anchor for the human element, which will invariably at first be either grifters or people who wanna bash in other people’s heads with it.

To be fair, us elders had grifts and money laundering too, so crypto is nothing functionally new.

My hot take is that zombies were invented so that American movie heroes finally have an enemy they can believably outsmart.

Which oune wold yo souggest?

Where do the rich rank on this?

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Because it’s too expensive to crunch up a whole iPhone just for one cone.

He’d have evicted himself out of his own houses and then run an ad campaign to have himself executed for a murder he didn’t commit long before he entered politics properly.

If Godzilla is moving in that direction in the OP picture, then Riker’s trajectory means he’s currently preparing for entry.

Gornzilla

Reverse human centipede.

You can’t do that! All the water’s gonna run out!.

Bit of a shock for me. Wish they’d announced that they were about to announce that the announcement was about to happen.

Should still be somewhere. Maybe in the carpet or the sofa…

Yeah, once you’ve given the app permission to snoop out all your data, they have what they came for and don’t need you to keep it any longer.

Aaand that’s enough internet for today.

You laugh now, but just you wait until you get doublefisted by Kirk from behind.

Pay more. Be good little consumer drones. Not be so selfish when a corporation thinks they should have all your money instead of you.

They just forgot that they could press Ctrl+V again.

lootnenenent worb pls