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   Accidental Anxiety Influencer (drunkenmadman@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jul-2025 10:21:15 JST Accidental Anxiety Influencer

   Meetups ain’t what they used to be…

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     Accidental Anxiety Influencer (drunkenmadman@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jul-2025 10:21:11 JST Accidental Anxiety Influencer

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     "Oh but what can we do about it? AI is coming whether we like it or not"

     BUILD
     GUILLOTINES

     RamenCatholic 🐢 🌈 repeated this.
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     Accidental Anxiety Influencer (drunkenmadman@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jul-2025 10:21:11 JST Accidental Anxiety Influencer

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     Get good at woodworking. There are two major growth industries in our future

     1. Guillotines & Gibbets
     2. Kink furniture

     First, we deal with the billionaires. Then we fuck.

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     Accidental Anxiety Influencer (drunkenmadman@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jul-2025 10:21:12 JST Accidental Anxiety Influencer

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     The first 15 minutes of that AWS meetup was literally "AI AI AI", and nobody seemed annoyed that what's happening here is the ownership class consolidating "coding knowledge" into a bunch of giant data centers so they can disempower the uppity coding masses who they currently *need* to make their dystopian visions come true.

     And the junior coding masses are lapping it up, because it makes it look like they can do software wheelies.

     In fact, they're not doing software wheelies AT ALL.

     Biff Jeezus's big computer in the sky is doing the wheelies, and as soon as their bosses realise they're now replacable because their "expertise" lives in a cloud service that can be rented for pennies on the dollar, those "engineers" are fucking GONE.

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     Accidental Anxiety Influencer (drunkenmadman@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jul-2025 10:21:13 JST Accidental Anxiety Influencer

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     I don’t know if they’re just failing to recognise that this push to AI is *disempowering* or if they know it and they don’t care.

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     Accidental Anxiety Influencer (drunkenmadman@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jul-2025 10:21:13 JST Accidental Anxiety Influencer

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     7pm, failure to turn it round. There’s some sit-stand game bullshit which is VERY autism-incompatible. Back to the pub.

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     Accidental Anxiety Influencer (drunkenmadman@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jul-2025 10:21:14 JST Accidental Anxiety Influencer

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     Might go back to the pub actually.

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     Accidental Anxiety Influencer (drunkenmadman@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jul-2025 10:21:14 JST Accidental Anxiety Influencer

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     Fucking dystopian bullshit this. They have five minutes to turn it around then I’m the fuck out of here.

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     Accidental Anxiety Influencer (drunkenmadman@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jul-2025 10:21:15 JST Accidental Anxiety Influencer

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     Trying to slog through the inevitable GenAI marketing guff.

     No, don’t care. Fuck off. I’m not interested in a global project to consolidate knowledge under the control of a small cabal of fascist billionaires, thanks.