Tag: skill-estate
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“We’re the ones you’ll talk to”
More classic labor defense from Fran. Transcribing the best parts: Workers in the whole world are being displaced by robots. What happens here, everyone else is looking at. AI is going to put people out of work. It’s already putting our members out of work. And that is MANIACAL. What are you doing? Why do…
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Debs and Gompers would be proud
Franny the Nanny delivers a classic stemwinding labor speech. She knows how to sell. She doesn’t sidetrack into cultural crap or fine details. Pure labor vs capital, workers vs Wall Street. Gompers approved of women leading labor unions 100 years ago, so he wouldn’t be shocked at all. = = = = = The folks…
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MAGNIFICENT
MAGNIFICENT writing by Rushfield at the Ankler. Anything I try to add would spoil it. READ IT.
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More Emerson
Demons have locked themselves out of the house. Via DailyMail: The economic center of the US is now in Dixie. = = = = = START QUOTE: Two-thirds of all job growth in the country is now concentrated in the Southeast, and it is home to 10 of the 15 fastest-growing cities. The change in…
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Will he learn?
Nathanael Blake at TheFederalist has encountered a Learning Moment. He’s a total neocon who suddenly realizes that aggressive free trade gets in the way of aggressive militarism. = = = = = START QUOTE: Industrial policy is defense policy. The ability to build is essential to our national defense, but our leaders have spent decades…
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Cheapskates unite
Random thought, undoubtedly wrong because not based on experience. All US automakers of any size had a Canadian division at one time or another. We ‘carlonized’ other countries less regularly. Our Canadian products were different in two ways from our US cars. (1) More variety. (2) More practical and economical choices. I’ve discussed more variety…
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T Phlps cd
American Radio Library has started a section for Telegraph Age, a long-lasting magazine that ended up as Communications News. A 1903 issue includes several glowing praises for the Phillips Code, which I hadn’t heard of before. It was common among newsmen, and was apparently equal in speed to Pitman or Gregg shorthand. True shorthand is…
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Robber barons on strike
We have a nice clear contrast between two strikes currently underway. The Hollywood writers are striking for classic and understandable labor reasons. Too much unpaid work and AI threats to skill-estate. They may have picked the wrong TIME for a strike, since the directors and actors unions have already gained new contracts without striking. But…
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Vague observation on usefulness
My courseware work is sort of half-time by average. 1. I put in roughly one year of fulltime work on a new version. 2. Then I sit back and let the royalties roll in for one or sometimes two years. This provides a constants/variables observation for my feelings when actually working and completing stuff versus…
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AI as seen by execs
The Ankler interviews an anonymous exec at Apple’s streaming service. He gives the industry’s view on AI and outsourcing, which we don’t hear much. We hear from AI boosters, and we hear from the writers and artists who are losing their property. The actual USERS have a hardass attitude, tempered by knowing what works. Hardass…
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Motives vs motes
In response to the latest shift in UFO hemlines, smart people are speculating on the motives of aliens who send rockets a million light years through space and then crash repeatedly. We should first ask why WE wanted to play the space game in the ’50s and ’60s. It made no sense and had no…
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Bud Licht
Licht’s statements are remarkably candid and POWERFULLY TRUE. = = = = = START QUOTE: In the 15,000-word piece, he spoke disparagingly of the network’s staff and how they’d covered topics before he came on board. Mimicking their approach, he said: ‘COVID, COVID, COVID! Look at the case numbers! Look at this! Look at this!…
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Always missing the editor
Typical AI point-missing, neglecting the role of editors as usual. = = = = = START QUOTE: In the wake of artificial assistants, searching the “traditional” way will get thrown out as the internet totally transforms; nonetheless, it might take a while for AI to fully replace search engines like Google or Microsoft’s Bing. Until…
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Was Mabel traumatized?
Big Tech still relies on human judgment, but it CAN’T POSSIBLY TOLERATE hiring Americans and paying them decent money. So it hires cheap slaves in Africa. These slaves have a moral sense, unlike ChatGPT, and their moral sense is bombarded by constant contact with angry Americans. Why are the Americans angry? Because we’ve been kicked…
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Where are the guilds, part 435438543895
Art historians and teachers are noticing that AI is replacing real masterpieces in google searches. Forgery is extremely old. Galleries and museums have been fighting human copiers and forgers for hundreds of years, and they’ve usually won the fight. Why aren’t they even TRYING to fight against mechanical forgers? This is the key variable in…
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