[FRIAM] authenticity

[Marcus Daniels]

Among the many billboards for AI and GPU services in SF, there’s this: 



Nothing special about SF regarding the homeless, but it is striking to me that the U.S. elected Trump about the time AI has started to become real. What I expect is an acceleration of not just inequality but really large differences in productivity – differences that temporary political power won’t change. 

Sure, I could become this homeless person, and there are people I have worked for/with that have basically become homeless. What I see is that people mostly walk by the homeless and it doesn’t impact them that much -- the collateral damage is on display, and people are ok with it. Parts of the city that are poor or dangerous, one just avoids. To the extent it is a stew and not a gas doesn’t impact the economy enough to force a change. And in a way, the more chaotic things get, the easier it is to hold on to money and power because there is no organized resistance.

Really, W or DJT didn’t hurt me that much. To some extent they probably helped me because I tuned out thinking the world was just hopeless and went about my work. 

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of glen <gepropella at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, December 11, 2024 at 8:35 AM
To: friam at redfish.com <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: [FRIAM] authenticity 


https://www.404media.co/i-went-to-the-premiere-of-tcls-first-commercially-streaming-ai-movies/ <https://www.404media.co/i-went-to-the-premiere-of-tcls-first-commercially-streaming-ai-movies/>

I can't help but hope that things like autotuned "live" performances and AI generated movies for Ad targeting will further boost things like punk and anarchism. Although most people seem to be talking a lot about the coming chaos from right wing reaction and populism:

https://pugetsoundanarchists.org/festivals-of-resistance-a-call-for-gatherings-the-weekend-before-trump-takes-office/ <https://pugetsoundanarchists.org/festivals-of-resistance-a-call-for-gatherings-the-weekend-before-trump-takes-office/>

I've claimed here that the deeper issue is that individualism is in its last throes. I've been reading a lot of [ahem] Libertarian Theory recently. It's been a blast from the past, a lot of fun, actually. But it reminds me how I felt when I "grew out of it", realizing that we're a thick and chunky stew, not an elastic gas. None of that is more poignant to me when I can appreciate the argument that of course, someone like Taylor Swift lip syncs some of her tunes on stage. You can't actually sing *and* dance for 3 straight hours and expect high quality assurance. And such reasoning makes it all that much more important to have small scale conversations with high order Markov meat bags, each and every day.

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