Notices by Peter (peter@thepit.social)

"AI is just like the early web!" ok but did Netscape ever do this https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/

you should cancel Duolingo, not out of solidarity or whatever, but because they have replaced their **linguists and writers** with AI. I was a linguist. machine translation is very good, but it makes **ridiculous** mistakes, and as a language learner, you will not be able to spot them. this is 🚩🚩🚩🚩 https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-jobs-crisis-is-here-now

seems like kind of a problem for the whole "AI changes everything" narrative!! https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/generative_ai_no_effect_jobs_wages/

ChatGPT was released in November 2022. two years later, all the amazing social transformations are still two years away. "just give us another trillion dollars bro, i promise bro, i will code God and he will work in your human resources department bro, please bro."

@inthehands lol I'm over here learning relational databases like some kind of dinosaur 😅 what am I thinking.

@inthehands job postings too, both the startups posting the jobs and the job descriptions. I don't like it.

as the Israeli regime prepares to starve millions of people to death, probably a good idea to take another look at the "not a genocide" takes and see if those people want to revise their opinions and maybe admit they were wrong.

at this point, I don't care what happened on October 7, Israel's subsequent actions have been so unbelievably monsterous that I don't think it matters and we can drop the caveats. every genocide is claimed to be an act of self defense.

they are desperate to put this thing back together. https://www.marketwatch.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-s-p-and-nasdaq-to-rally-after-trump-eases-powell-angst-and-tesla-shares-pop/card/scott-bessent-offers-a-gentler-message-again-saying-america-first-does-not-mean-america-alone--XOXbEHRyuacoGbkvKdy7

hooooooly shit lol

who could have seen this coming (everyone. literally everyone) https://bsky.app/profile/janelleshane.com/post/3lmnpkz53vc2e

this is the kind of thing that makes me think the US is not gonna make it. the US is fucked for the rest of my life, not because the Republicans suck, but because the Democrats are so extremely bad at being an opposition party. clueless, useless people.

four Democrats voted for the House bill to require **passports** to vote!! just utterly fucked. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-passes-bill-requiring-proof-citizenship-vote-federal-elections-rcna200586

I will never recover from this financially.

ok, so the courts won't stop the concentration camps. now what?

https://bsky.app/profile/judah-grunstein.bsky.social/post/3lmbxpitnzc2p

yeah, it's not actually that complicated.

all my love and support goes out to the people trying to bootstrap a new opposition movement. the Tesla Takedown, the pro-Palestine organizers, the people who shout obscenities at townhalls. these people are heroes, but the institutional Democratic Party is always working behind the scenes to undermine them.

there is no strong opposition movement in the United States because the mainstream Democrats **don't want one** and they have done everything possible to discourage the formation of one.

the people who typically lead protest movements--students, people of color, people with values--have been systematically maligned and marginalized by mainstream Democrats and their allies in the conservative media (New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, etc.). most of the national lawmakers who aligned with the protest movement were removed from office.