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El Sayed made a great point when he clarified that capitalism isn’t the boogieman. Collusion of big business and government for profit which takes from the people is the problem.
CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME LIKE I’M 5 YEARS OLD
Why do unsubsidized consumer goods like TVs, appliances, clothes, all get cheaper and cheaper…while anything government puts its hands on, healthcare, housing, food, tuition, cars, utilities…just gets more and more unaffordable?
make it make sense
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This is what AI is for
Norway now has more than 2,000 underwater AI laser robots shooting lice off its salmon
they're made by a company called Stingray, and they already guard more than 50 million salmon and trout 24/7
the reason is sea lice, tiny parasites that latch onto salmon and feed on them
as few as 11 can kill a small fish, and one pen can hold 150,000 salmon
the usual fix is pumping the fish out and blasting them with warm water or water jets to knock the lice off
but the handling is so rough that Norway's fish health report ranks it the top cause of death in full-grown farmed salmon
so instead, Stingray puts a robot inside the pen that hunts lice one at a time, all day:
> two cameras watch every salmon that swims past
> AI checks two frames to make sure it's really a louse
> then a green laser fires from up to 2 meters away
> the salmon's scales reflect the beam, so the fish swims off fine and the louse is dead
we now live in a world where AI lasers do pest control on your dinner lmao
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We’re mystified that Orcas never eat a human in the wild and meanwhile they’re probably thinking “yuck, skinnyfish again”
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Medium Steve retweeted
If I upload a movie clip to YouTube, I get a copyright strike within hours.
If I burn a copy of an album for a friend, I'm a pirate.
But AI companies can feed millions of books, songs, articles, and photos into a model, and it's called "training."
The artists, writers, and photographers whose work went in weren't asked and weren't paid.
Courts are still sorting out whether that counts as fair use, and so far the rulings are mixed.
But watching it play out, I can't shake one question.
When an individual copies something, it's theft.
When a trillion-dollar company does it at scale, it's innovation.
Same material. Different size of bank account.
Medium Steve retweeted
You are brainwashed. That’s the first thing you must realize. Not your ancestors. You. They lived every day in contact with the full force of human nature. Birth and death, friends and foes, toils, triumphs, and tears. You get your life lessons from a screen.
Medium Steve retweeted
When I’m wrong, I’m wrong. I thought when unemployment was low, GDP was hi, household income rose, it meant everyone was winning.
Not true.
The American economy has decoupled the economic progress of asset owners from wage earners to such a degree that broad based measures of success are no longer reliable measures of progress.
This single issue of asset ownership vs progress of wage earners will be the defining issue in all future elections.
Other issues will get caught in the interpretation (price of eggs, Iran war, price of gas etc) but the candidate that realizes that those are downstream of asset vs wage earners and gets their messaging focused on it will win.
No amount of money spent in an election or gerrymandering will change this outcome.
That is what I learned on Nov3.
Medium Steve retweeted
I would love if we could channel the datacenter backlash into curbing the excesses of Big Tech in general. Get screens out of cars. Get computers out of refrigerators. Stop surveilling everything all the time, stop forcing me into the app, stop trying to steal my data.
Lesson: once the prices go up, they never come back down, even if an issue is “fixed”
Nobody talks about how we're all paying $15 for sandwiches now and just pretending that's normal. Five years ago that same sandwich was $8. The price doubled and the only explanation we got was "supply chain issues" which apparently means "forever."
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Medium Steve retweeted
Bowling alleys and arcades used to be affordable, local spots where a working family could spend $20 on a Friday night.
Then private equity and hospitality groups started buying them up to turn them into "gourmet entertainment lounges."
Now it’s $45 an hour to rent a lane, $8 for shoe rentals, $14 for a craft beer, and an arcade card loaded with microtransactions that drains $30 in ten minutes.
We systematically destroyed every cheap, unpretentious third space in America and replaced them with corporate revenue engines designed to extract $150 from you just for leaving your house.
Medium Steve retweeted
it’s crazy that the Right had two years to do literally whatever they wanted and they spent it enriching themselves, bombing iran, and protecting pedophiles
And if chinese models can emulate those, with almost none of the startup costs (so no return needed), they’ll just take over. Doesn’t seem like there’s any way for VC’s to actually get their money back
Claude / Chat will be $2,000+ per month to get the full capabilities.
In college Ubering home from the bar literally cost $2-3 and now that ride is $50-60.
The VC money ultimately demands a return.
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Medium Steve retweeted
This Haley Stevens 11th hour betrayal should be a wake up call for 2028 that anyone who takes AIPAC money is completely compromised
Medium Steve retweeted
yeah this is insane lmao
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