Been on Mastodon for several years. Just now trying Lemmy.

The one thing "AI" truly excels at.

True, but that reeks of victim blaming. The spammers are to blame here, not the mathematical inevitability of antispammers being behind on the arms race. Also, fucking AI.

Someone asked me a couple of weeks ago why the New Zealand Green Party's answer to all of our problems seemed to be taxes on rich people and big corporations. I said that it was because 40 years of neoliberalism had given us an economy that balanced a rise for the 1% with a fall for the 99%, and we should start trying to address that gently and legally before the 99% remember that a guillotine is 18th Century technology and can be easily constructed in a garage.

The end of capitalism isn't too far off, the way things are going. And it's going to be messy as hell.