Was reading a post about the ways workers are resisting AI. It was going so well until I got to:
When we have games industry employees resorting to Soviet-era tactics just to share tips on dodging AI usage–avoiding an overseer that’s literally recording everything they type at their keyboards–what are we even doing here?
Amazing how the Soviet Union keeps on living rent free in the heads of people who are supposedly critical of capitalism, while analyzing capitalism doing capitalist things capitalistically.
This comes up so often that I’ve started to think it’s a sort of coping mechanism to reflect a Thing to an Other as to not admit that it has always been this way.
Anyway, it’s so tiring.
Sometimes I’ll be talking to a liberal (like an auntie or someone well-meaning, not someone who is very online or bluemaga) and they’ll bring up “Trump bad” or something (as they do).
Always a bit funny to me whrb I don’t really jump into the dog pile and instead try and steer things toward “well i think it’s important to gave a positive vision for the future and so [bring up some policy or vision that i would rather be talking about]”
Their eyes almost like bulge and twitch when I dont feel like rehashing “Trump bad” after over 10 years of Trump bad.