When USSR was crumbling, factories were also paying workers in products they manufactured.
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RE: https://mas.to/@trendsbot/116211553284922724
When USSR was crumbling, factories were also paying workers in products they manufactured.
This is AI bubble companies trying to print own money. Printing your own money only works if you find a way to make it necessary. That's what taxes do, for example (recommended reading: David Graeber's "Debt").
Here:
👉 "printing money" part is paying employees in tokens
👉 "taxes" part is requiring employees to use AI in their day to day work (thus making tokens necessary)
@rysiek Can we just burn Silicon Valley down? It's clear that they've gone mad with wealth and power. You're not going to reform guys like Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Thiel. Read how the billionaires talk about the rest of us in the Epstein emails. They really want to bring back 19th century style wage slavery, complete with company script. These psychos own the governments of the world in one way or another. When is enough going to be enough?
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If employees are paid in tokens that means employees are *paying* for tokens out of their own pockets.
No different than mining company town folks having to buy (or rent!) boots and work clothing from the company that employs them. At "special" rates, no doubt.
By the way this should tell you all you need to know what class "white collar" vibe coders and broader IT folks are.
Hint: no, you're not running the company town, you're renting your tools from your factory owner.
For those unfamiliar with the evils of company towns, here's an illustrated explainer:
You’re Lucky You Have a House, Peasant!
https://thenib.com/company-towns-history/ -
RE: https://mas.to/@trendsbot/116211553284922724
When USSR was crumbling, factories were also paying workers in products they manufactured.
This is AI bubble companies trying to print own money. Printing your own money only works if you find a way to make it necessary. That's what taxes do, for example (recommended reading: David Graeber's "Debt").
Here:
👉 "printing money" part is paying employees in tokens
👉 "taxes" part is requiring employees to use AI in their day to day work (thus making tokens necessary)
@rysiek *sigh* another week of posting this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOf1BC3ygJY
(clipped from The Fine Print by The Stupendium)
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For those unfamiliar with the evils of company towns, here's an illustrated explainer:
You’re Lucky You Have a House, Peasant!
https://thenib.com/company-towns-history/ -
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RE: https://mas.to/@trendsbot/116211553284922724
When USSR was crumbling, factories were also paying workers in products they manufactured.
This is AI bubble companies trying to print own money. Printing your own money only works if you find a way to make it necessary. That's what taxes do, for example (recommended reading: David Graeber's "Debt").
Here:
👉 "printing money" part is paying employees in tokens
👉 "taxes" part is requiring employees to use AI in their day to day work (thus making tokens necessary)
@rysiek basically you are then forgoing part of your salary to pay the AI that is making you supposedly more efficient instead of getting a day off?
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RE: https://mas.to/@trendsbot/116211553284922724
When USSR was crumbling, factories were also paying workers in products they manufactured.
This is AI bubble companies trying to print own money. Printing your own money only works if you find a way to make it necessary. That's what taxes do, for example (recommended reading: David Graeber's "Debt").
Here:
👉 "printing money" part is paying employees in tokens
👉 "taxes" part is requiring employees to use AI in their day to day work (thus making tokens necessary)
@rysiek "Circus started to pay their workers in products they manufacture. Manager gathered all clowns together and laughed in their faces"
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@rysiek That sounds similar to ye olde miners having to spend most of their salary to buy their equipment at the company store.
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Mapping The Sound Field Of An Acoustic Levitator
Sound! It’s a thing you hear, moreso than something you see with your eyes. And yet, it is possible to visualize sound with various techniques. [PlasmatronX] demonstrates this well, using a special scanning technique to visually capture the sound field inside an acoustic levitation device.
If you’re unfamiliar, acoustic levitation devices like this use ultrasound to create standing waves that can hold small, lightweight particles in mid-air. The various nodes of the standing wave are where particles will end up hovering. [PlasmatronX] was trying to calibrate such a device, but it proved difficult without being able to see what was going on with the sound field. Hence, the desire to image it!
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My youngest dog always walks around the house and back yard like he's ancient. Like, wobbling along like he's in pain, kinda limping. But, when we're on a walk or he's off-lead in the forest, he's like a rocket, absolutely full-tilt 100% of the time, not a care in the world, no think just run. No trace of a limp, seemingly no problems.
I think he's just really lazy when he's somewhere boring? Like a sullen teenager ambling through the halls at school.
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Al posto di Gassman per interpretare l'avvocato Guerrieri sarebbe stato meglio
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Point of order.
CAMH in Houston is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_Arts_Museum_Houston
CAMH in Toronto is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Addiction_and_Mental_Health
You were possibly thinking of this other Toronto institution?
