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AI job losses free up time for unemployed mobs to burn down tech CEO‘s houses (www.thebeaverton.com)
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[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 43 points 5 days ago

I'm constantly surprised and disappointed this hasn't happened.
In France, we take to the streets for the smallest issue (or so they say), and the world mocks us. Meanwhile the gun crazy crowd in the US only ever uses their god given arms to gun down their neighbours and schoolmates. Great job!

[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 23 points 5 days ago

I like to show my students the clip of French firefighters protesting and how they're making police pull back. There's a lesson in there about teamwork and being prepared.

In France, we take to the streets for the smallest issue (or so they say), and the world mocks us.

We don't mock you guys for that. There's plenty other things to use for mocking the French. We're secretly in awe of the liberal application of the guillotine in a class struggle.

[-] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

France is much smaller; USA is more comparable to the entirety of the EU.

Millions of people are protesting often, but the BBC isn't reporting about it on the front page.

We have "national" protests every few months, millions of people around the country.

There are big problems organizing here, USA is a surveillance state and if you are an organizing party (like let's say the Greens for one example), they are watching.

The USA so far has been "too big to fail", but that won't last forever

[-] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago

The world mocks you only as standard preset punchlines. Its more upholding tradition than actually funny or real.

For rioting over small shit, I assure you you have our utmost respect.

[-] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 4 points 4 days ago

the world mocks us

I don't. Go go frog eaters!

[-] toad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

the problem with france is that the nazis have all the guns

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Eh, that little shit who get his head bashed in didn't. But he had a minute of silence at the Assemblée Nationale. That is more worrying that hypothetical guns.

[-] toad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

As much as i hate nazis, he was a stupid kid tbh. I spent the whole week commenting about him being an inbred, but looking back, the real guilty ones are those TV cunts who turned his dead into a political shitshow. It was a sacrifice, plain and simple. He was a pawn. The whole thing is just sad.

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Sure sure he was manipulated, instrumentalized, whatever. Like Derek in American History X. But this ain't the US. He was in Lyon, who venerates Jean Moulin, who judged Klaus Barbie. He had every opportunity for an education that would tell him what a fucking idiot he was being. He was a pawn, sure. But at some point it's just natural selection. Fuck him. And fuck all who made him.

[-] toad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Trust me i know mate these idiots want to "remigrate" my wife. Islamists tried to kill her and they want her back to her country. They're not any better than the salafists they pretend to despise. I'm not french, i'm waloon, but it's my culture, my roots, my friends. I'm with the people and i'm with the "extrême left".

Still my anger goes mostly to the coke fueled parisians idiots on TV who turned that into a shitshow and lied

Stay safe copain ♥️

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[-] Whitebrow@lemmy.world 63 points 6 days ago

Place your bets how long before this is moved into the nottheonion sub

[-] Pistcow@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

X-fingers

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 45 points 5 days ago

🙁 Booooo for satire getting my hopes up!

[-] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 16 points 5 days ago

Only satire for now

[-] lastweakness@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

There are jobs popping up around me here in India where the "job" is to be a software engineer whose responsibility is to review AI-generated code as training data. It pays more than my job...

[-] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 3 points 5 days ago

The burn-out rate is high for being an AI error catcher so I guess they need to offer a high wage.

[-] lastweakness@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

True but it really makes me want to set aside my morals when it pays 8 times what I make right now... Would make life a lot easier

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

would they notice if you would give false reviews? if its text form maybe you could generate lengthy reviews so that it eats more money, and makes it less likely someone throughly checks your work

[-] lastweakness@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Huh... I wonder.. I'm not sure. I think I'll apply and see if I can pollute the well.

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

don't let them know your lemmy account if you do it

[-] lastweakness@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Lol, i don't think they'd know what lemmy is

[-] Zier@fedia.io 22 points 5 days ago

Just the houses? Don't forget the yachts, planes, cars.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 days ago

What if we all plan the end of the world next April 1st. We will all pretend to start race and religious riots until all the billionaires get nervous and go into their bunkers. Then we strip off our costumes and masks and start mixing concrete to pour over the bunker doors and air intake.

[-] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 27 points 5 days ago

That's why they are driving countries into fascism., there will be plenty of police state jobs.

[-] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 13 points 5 days ago

Eventually they won’t even need them. Your smart fridge reported you discussing seditious conspiracy and your smart washer has noted you own a black hoodie, aka terrorist attire. Your smart vehicle has been remotely disabled, and an Amazon delivery drone has been rerouted to terminate you after its final delivery. Don’t bother trying to turn off the tracking device in your pocket, it still pings even when powered down and between Ring and Flock we can see you at all times anyway.

[-] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

There still need to be people to go in and arrest them, and meat is cheaper than motors and hydraulics using resources that would otherwise remain unexploited.

[-] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 4 points 5 days ago

Police can rid themselves of the loathsome term “peace officer” and revert to their preferred name, “slave catcher”. The violent beatings of minorities and dissidents will continue because anonymously exploding them by remote isn’t as rewarding to the ruling class as watching them suffer.

[-] AlexLost@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

They aren't peace officers, they are police officers. That means no peace outside of the exclusion zones( read: Rich enclaves)

[-] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 4 points 5 days ago

“To serve and protect… ourselves and our masters from being held accountable by the the masses.”

[-] Tonava@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

All of that requires you have money. Which you don't have anymore, because you don't have a job that pays you. Unless the system changes radically, at some point enough people can't even buy food and have only time in their hands. So what are they going to do?

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[-] Emi@ani.social 14 points 5 days ago

"I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to join civil protection just to get a decent meal." -city 17 citizen

[-] Renorc@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. - Tyler Durden

[-] jaykrown@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

This may be a joke now, but it's actually what's going to happen.

[-] anticurrent@sh.itjust.works 20 points 5 days ago

AI has already torched my creative side project I have spent hundreds of hours on to hopefully one day it replaces my miserable income. now that AI has been able to generate acceptable videos by the public. my revenue went down by 80%. and people are expecting lower prices in times of inflation

People think there are wins to come, how I see it is that we have already lost the fight.

[-] msage@programming.dev 5 points 5 days ago

Please point me to those people expecting wins.

They must be very misinformed or super stupid.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

What was your creative side project about?

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

this was always part result for making people suddenly unemployed intentionally in large numbers. the oligarchs kept the "lowly plebs" in thier place by giving them enough(high income, shiny stuff) and culture war propaganda (includes copaganda/military propaganda media) to not to foment an uprising.

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[-] Danarchy@lemmy.nz 2 points 4 days ago

That pitchfork is not the right kind for rabble style mobbery. You want the pitchfork with the round tines for some proper stabbins

[-] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 days ago

Silicon Valley CEOs like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Peter Thiel have reported mild growth in AI-fuelled productivity, as well as massive leaps in jobless bourgeoisie rabble surrounding their estates and pounding at the gates with guillotines.

I misread "AI-fuelled productivity" as "AI-fucked productivity"

[-] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 4 points 5 days ago

It's a joke but that's sort of what happened in the US during the CoViD lockdowns. People weren't at work so they had free time to care about unions, racist policing, civil liberties, etc. Even if AI really could take over huge swathes of the work, there's a fair likelihood of the people who lost their jobs turning data centers into war zones and then autonomous zones.

[-] null@lemmy.org 8 points 5 days ago

Nice.

[-] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago

Beautiful and appropriate.

[-] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

truth

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