There are two bubbles. One is the bubble made by every company under the sun trying to shove AI into their product without any sense of why or how. And wallstreet is buying it up.

Then there is the second bubble. That is the big AI players trying to get AI ready to replace large parts of the workforce. It’s still unclear if that is possible with our current techniques or if we need a scientific breakthrough that might be years or decades away. Still, the tech companies spend money as if that is just around the corner.

Who knowes if these bubbles burst at the same time?

The Evil Ampire gets bought by an evil empire. Huh.

Ah yes! One step closer to servitors. Praise the Omnissiah!

How the fuck is there no fallback in case of an outage?

Passion, wanting more money, actually liking the job you do, being recognized for your work, helping people

The main one probably is still “wanting more money”. UBI doesn’t stop you from working and earning money: it just doesn’t force you to do it.

And who decides what “good” art is? That’s completely subjective!

Also basic income should be universal, instead of restricting it more.

If someone wants to live as a failed artist on basic income: let them. Perhaps they even find an art form that they like if they have enough time to figure it out.

I think Trump would love to start a war: distraction from the Epstein files, a nice scapegoat for economic hardship, the possibility to grab even more power under the guise of wartime emergencies, …

Hell, if it takes long enough he could postpone the next election.

Well, if he fails again he can just get another $40bn. I can see why that appeals to the voters…

The ‘S’ on IoT stands for security!

Well nearly all right wing parties roll back climate protection policies. We are so fucked.

It gets even more unfair: participants get selected by chance (if they fulfill the criteria)

BUT it’s just a pilot project. I hope it’s successful and gets implemented for everyone - I mean everyone has the potential to become an artist if money isn’t the deciding factor anymore.

Who knows how many great musicians, painter, etc. are stuck in a 9-5 job? I for example want to create a game… Not really “art” in the classical sense, but creative and prone to bring me next to no money unless I have a lot of luck.

Hell, even scientists might be more free in what they want to study if money is less of a problem…

UBI might be a great thing and I agree that art isn’t the only thing that could benefit from it.

It might be that bad. Most ‘damage’ (as publishers see it) comes from distribution, not the download itself. Depending on how they acquired the books, it might be not be much of a problem.

Just waiting for the first decision made because of AI hallucinations.

With this government? You might get disappeared to a black site because a LLM “decided” that you probably are a terrorist…

I hope everyone always calls ICE on them, whenever someone notices these rich immigrants.

Even if they don’t take them into custody, wasting both their time would be a good start.

Yes, I think a lot of Americans are not aware that there are official travel warnings against going to the United States and for good reasons.

It’s an elder scrolls game… It’s going to be modded into … Oblivion

And they bought Paintshop pro and destroyed it

How the hell are we supposed to install it without a Internet connection? I worked in a company that was so hard on security that only certified machines were allowed access to the net, so virtual machines were not allowed to access the LAN and therefore the Internet. Generally not a problem as we just used them to test software on different OS versions, so no Internet required.

This change disallows all offline installs. What is their gain? Are they that keen on our data or are they planning to use the connection to a Microsoft account for something even worse than just selling personal information? I could think of a few reasons and none are nice…

Tech could make our life easier, if only the fruits of increased efficiency would go towards us all instead of the few rich people at the top.

And after the dialogue: a extremely hard boss fight. No saving while in dialogue or in combat.

Of course mandatory to advance the story.