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Cat Finnie retweeted
The final goal of AI companies is to end personal computing which in simple terms means to remove all access to digital devices from genral public. You can already see how prices of laptops, phones and PCs are being artificially inflated so no one can afford them anymore.
This is the largest endeavour to move digital assets from people to the technocrats. They recognise the monetary value which internet affords to common people and want to take it away. After they've taken away all your phones & PCs they will sell you a rectangle box which would run on a cloud and would require a constant subscription, this is their long game.
Cat Finnie retweeted
I'm so glad that we have LLMs to make computers more expensive for the first time since they were invented while also taking my job and making everyone illiterate
Cat Finnie retweeted
My entire adult life has been defined by the fallout of the financial crash and the nearly 20 years of austerity that followed, and you're telling me THOSE were the salad days???
"Painful" years ahead, think tanks warn, as living standards set to fall
bbc.in/4k5Vgsz
Cat Finnie retweeted
New Work!
Hide Nor Hair - #2 variant cover for DC Vertigo
(I also did the typography/layout)
Cat Finnie retweeted
Is the end of the small-time English landlord nigh? Quite possibly, and it might be a good thing...not just for renters but for our economy.
My @theipaper column on the tax changes for landlords announced in yesterday's Budget (plus a reminder that it all actually started under George Osborne)
inews.co.uk/opinion/slow-dea…
Cat Finnie retweeted
Léa Seydoux seeing a victoria sponge cake and without missing a beat saying “i don’t see the purpose” is so profound
Cat Finnie retweeted
These forecasts are hilarious. Another half year of misery, and then household disposable income just takes off like a rocket for... reasons?
Cat Finnie retweeted
Corporate greed is Microsoft making $134 billion in profits last year, receiving $19 billion in tax breaks under Trump, paying a lower federal income tax rate than a nurse and getting rid of 60,000 workers.
“Corporations will create jobs if they get tax breaks” is a total scam.
Cat Finnie retweeted
Laika’s ‘Wildwood’ opened to $12.2 million domestically, nearly matching ‘Kubo’ and more than doubling ‘Missing Link.’
Strong audience scores offer encouragement, but the next test is whether word of mouth can give this one legs.
cartoonbrew.com/feature-film…
Cat Finnie retweeted
The art I created for the beautiful movies of @LAIKAStudios including #Wildwood #Coraline and #kubo 🤍
Cat Finnie retweeted
I heard Palmer Luckey and Alexis Ohanian speak about RETRO earlier this year- Palmer was talking about products and how they used to be- nostalgia, etc...
“It’s not because they’re remembering their childhood. It’s not because it harkens back to some earlier time. They’re just literally recognizing it is literally better, some of this old stuff.”
Good on Bose!
Cat Finnie retweeted
"The Art of Over the Garden Wall" (Expanded edition) : Cover illustration by Nick Cross @ncrossanimation
Pre-orders >> catsuka.com/shopping/index.p…
"The Art of Over the Garden Wall" is being reissued in an expanded edition ❤️
Regular edition >> catsuka.com/shopping/index.p…
Deluxe edition >> catsuka.com/shopping/index.p…
Cat Finnie retweeted
“Effective Altruism’s overwhelming maleness, its professional incestuousness, its subculture of polyamory and its overlap with tech-bro dominated ‘rationalist’ groups have combined to create an environment in which sexual misconduct is tolerated, excused, or rationalized away. Several described EA as having a ‘cult-like’ dynamic.”
time.com/6252617/effective-a…
Cat Finnie retweeted
A year ago yesterday, I wrote: “AI didn’t take your job. Offshoring did.”
A year later, I have even less patience for the corporate explanations.
In 2022, it was overhiring. Then restructuring. Now it’s AI and efficiency. 🙄
Companies are still eliminating positions in the US while building out similar capabilities offshore…
Of course AI is changing the workforce. But it’s also become a remarkably convenient explanation for decisions that were being made long before generative AI entered the conversation.
I’d pay considerably more attention to the workforce data than the corporate narratives.
