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   Mike Taylor 🦕 (mike@sauropods.win)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 08:51:33 JST Mike Taylor 🦕

   • Cory Doctorow

   "Silicon Valley is the place where you get rich without creating jobs. It’s run by investors who hate the idea of paying people. That’s why AI is so exciting for Silicon Valley types: it lets them fantasize about making humans obsolete."
   — @pluralistic at https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-05-30-posiwid-social-cost-of-carbon-ea59fe4ba150

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     Muro deGrizeco :toad: (murodegrizeco@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 10:14:24 JST Muro deGrizeco :toad:

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     • Cory Doctorow

     @mike @pluralistic

     Oof, that's worth a bookmark...

     So.

     I worked at a tech startup and heard a talk given by a venture capitalist.

     He was waxing poetic about the big future potential of self-driving vehicles, and was frank about why:

     He hoped that this would destroy the jobs of 30 million people employed driving things...

     To workers, the tech pitch to us, is that we will each get a cool robot servant.

     To oligarchs, their hope is that workers are *eliminated*.

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 13:09:07 JST Cory Doctorow

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     • Karthikeyan A K

     @mindaslab @mike no, it's not. It's cc licensed, open access, AND there's a link at the bottom to a mirror on my tracker free, ad free blog.

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     Karthikeyan A K (mindaslab@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 13:09:09 JST Karthikeyan A K

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     • Cory Doctorow

     @mike @pluralistic don't post medium articles please. It's laywalled.

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     Muro deGrizeco :toad: (murodegrizeco@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 01:44:11 JST Muro deGrizeco :toad:

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Bohni Bohninger

     @babbeltea @mike @pluralistic

     I agree about that.

     A century of pouring resources into a transportation infrastructure with no long term future, endless roads and uncountable cars, has been quite the mistake.

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     Bohni Bohninger (babbeltea@hessen.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 01:44:20 JST Bohni Bohninger

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Muro deGrizeco :toad:

     @murodegrizeco @mike @pluralistic Well, hypothetically I would still approve a future we’re no one needs to drive a car anymore (not that I think Silicon Valley will deliver on that promise).

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