> “Terrible,” he says. “Geologists are just as cliquish as AI nerds, with their own set of ingroup tells and shibboleths. And they won’t stop using the word ‘lode-bearing’!”

I fear that humans will start to speak in Claudish. Perhaps it's happened and I'm thankfully not in the loop.

A positive spin would be "hey, we went to war about it and got rid of it" (mostly, except for prisoners, and we can discuss what counts as punishment/penance separately). But that sort of runs aground on how clear the record is about what the Confederacy was for, and therefore what all the current pride in it says.

I've had a hotel cancel me and lie to my face that I called in. I was on a plane at the time they claimed I cancelled. It totally happens.

Similar principle as "cash back" credit cards: make everyone else pay more for you to get your points, if everyone does it, you and they pay about 3-4% more than they would with cash but they happily do so.

Ain't going to happen and you know it.

It might happen but it certainly won’t be instant. It will take decades, and in the meantime what happens? Are those people just unbelievably fucked? Our current economic systems literally cannot handle this. The underpinning of all of capitalism is that you work, and you consume.

If even one of those assumptions is no longer true, nothing works. And when I mean nothing, I mean nothing. Money doesn’t work, rent doesn’t work, debt doesn’t work, labor doesn’t work, production doesn’t work. It would have to be a quick de-industrialization unless we have a plan. No more monkey-patching with social programs, this is an entire paradigm shift.

Not saying it will - just that that’s how they’re selling the shares and taking on the giant investments.

Blinding need. We don’t have time for each other like we used to.

“Not with that attitude!”

Fyi it's a video hosted at wsj.

Is there a haveibeenpwned.com for fake comment attributions?

Without reading the article (also paywall), it's helpful to be woke because that's basically now just "caring about others in general, not just selfish" but not required. You could be a selfish racist socialist, for example socialist with respect to white straight christians but at war with muslims and gays.

If you have entered Gemini to try to figure out how to turn it off, you're also part of the cohort. A blast of gmail messages from Google has announced how it's part of everything and given instructions on how to find out the little you can do about it. Really, nothing.