https://x.com/VickieforNYC/status/2059433761167569129

https://endtimeheadlines.org/2026/05/pastor-who-attended-secret-ufo-disclosure-meeting-saw-images-of-translucent-beings-that-chilled-him-to-the-bone/

They don't care now what happens to workers who lose their career due to AI, but they will one day soon when they discover AI doesn't meet their expectations. It happened to Starbucks after only nine months.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/05/22/ai-fail-starbucks-abandons-ai-powered-inventory-tool-after-only-9-months/

Remember H1Bs destroying IT for years if you weren't Indian.

It's not capital's problem, you were wrong and bad for not making your living correctly.

Who wants a job fixing AI slop all day, every day?

What if it was possible to have an AI that didn't generate slop? That probably can't be accomplished with LLMs, but there may be another breakthrough that allows it.

That criticism seems to be "the current AIs have lots of flaws" rather than "AI is an inherently evil idea."

A better question is "What happens to workers who lose their career due to AI? What happens to the recent grad who spent $200k+ and 4 years for a degree that's now worthless? Is it fair to make someone 40+ or 50+ years old try to start over in a new career?"

I guess the Georgia Guide Stones were right. The elites want to keep the human population under 500M. They managed to kill a lot of people with the MRNA Covid shots, but its far off from their goal of 500M. I'm sure there is more in store for us and its not good.

The reason you "need" public sector pensions is those jobs already pay below-market.

That made me laugh. Our public sector is now paid much more than the private sector. It used to be the other way around: public sector gets perks and job security in return for lower pay, private sector gets higher pay and no perks.

But then about 40 years ago the commonwealth government introduced an independent remuneration tribunal. The pollies fought this because they thought their payrises would be less than before. The old system was that they voted themselves payrises, which for obvious political reasons they were reluctant to do too often or too much. The new tribunal would determine their pay for them.

But what happened?! The tribunal has been giving generous payrises to all public sector employees ever since. As a result, private sector serfs have fallen far behind. Needless to say, the state governments have remuneration tribunals too.

Looking back now, I suspect the public wailing by the pollies in the lead up to the introduction of the tribunal was kabuki theatre.

I grew up in the post WWII years, the 1950s. It was a very family-oriented time. People were not rich, but were able to afford to buy a house thanks to the GI bill. Most women did not work. They raised big families. The church and traditions were very important back then. I would describe that time as the Norman Rockwell era where you could enjoy the simple things in life. Life was more fulfilling without technology.

We'll never get back to that time as a society. We live in an AI world now, so we have to always be mindful that AI could decide one day to destroy us all. I don't like that possibility, but here we are.

It was pretty crappy. Pretty vague even though I told it the tax jurisdiction. I don't recall whether it told me anything I didn't already know about the problem domain. Certainly I didn't use any of the code. I wrote the entire thing from scratch.

. I can't believe the government thought some of this footage warranted keeping it from the public for so long.

They obviously blatantly didn't. I would not even pose the question rhetorically. This disclosure is 100% empty placeholder.

I assume that the US government has active diplomacy and relationships with some kind of non Earth human government(s) and will never, ever disclose a crumb of it. All that Trump is prepared to do is dispense cover stories that have been covered endlessly in UFO fan circles.

Allegedly one of the production team of Stargate SG-1 was approached by the CIA and was told that they (the TV producers) got it mostly right (the gates, wormholes, alliances with alien civilizations) and was then invited to directly request technical support by the USAF whenever needed.

Maybe there are "aliens" living here all along? But why and where do they hide? I find the probability of that to be negligible.

So there are no aliens of any type. Every incident has its own explanation. Why the US government is releasing these documents I couldn't even guess sorry.

It can't decode cause and effect so it creates Alice in Wonderland fantasyscapes of PVC tubing and elbows.

Something that needs constant human oversight and can't really be trusted to the last mile is fucking useless.

blue collar labor

Allegedly, they are close to having human-equivalent robots, maybe 5-10 more years tops. Manual labor won't be safe either once that happens.

I'm still skeptical about the capabilities of the AI. They still can't do tasks that aren't in their training data.

What they're doing is firing lots of workers, and having humans "review" the AI work. But if your workload is 5x-10x and you're reviewing AI work, all you can actually do is rubberstamp the AI output. There isn't time to carefully review everything. But, the human reviewer is still there to take the blame when the AI fails. They call this "accountability sink".

In software at many places, all the code is written by AI. Some places even forbid "manual coding". The AI will generate many more lines of code than a human would for the same task. A lot of the code looks good, but has subtle errors when merged. The remaining software engineers are spending all day reviewing AI slop instead of writing code. You also have a lot more volume of code, because everyone is now fixing tickets at 2x-5x the rate before. A lot of them are getting disgusted, because reviewing AI output is boring after awhile and frustrating because the AI code is good enough but with subtle flaws.

Firing half the workers and doubling everyone's workload also means salaries will crash. If you don't want to review AI slop all day, there's someone who was just fired who's desperate for a job.

This might be a ticking time bomb, where businesses have code that is 100% AI written. The humans are screwed the first time there's a bug the AI can't fix. With enough technical debt, the AI eventually starts introducing new bug regressions every time it fixes something.

The US started out agrarian. The found fathers' dream was every citizen a citizen-farmer living in the country or small communities. Capital (money) was important but nothing special.

The key concept of the US constitution was that the government served the people.

The industrial revolution in the US overwhelmed that vision. Also it meant that capital (money) became hugely important because it funded the "means of production" as Marxists say (factories and infrastructure.)

The US became hopelessly corrupt in the Victorian period, then we had a period of progressivism that was based on Christian morality, we had prohibition, we had lots of anti worker abuse laws that were enacted, unions became really powerful. (early 1900s.) But capital was still key to industrial power.

What's happened since WWII is that capital and business influence really run the country. Citizens are so poorly informed that all capital has to do these days to throw an election is pump enough money into an election.

In the scheme today the concept of serving the people is now completely absent. Today things are more like - the system will do X, you adapt or you suffer the consequences, peon. Nobody owes you a job. You don't deserve a living. Whatever stake you think you have in the system is an illusion.

Brains have been important all along but now brains may be redundant with AI.

The overall arc of our system is that individual rights have become suppressed in favor of capital's interests. In other words we all serve capital, capital does not serve humans. But that was before AI.

AI is just like that. An inhuman force that does not have a defined reason to serve man. Just like money.

I've seen scifi like predictions from AI experts that AI could independently decide that humans were option, and essentially find ways to erase humanity (IE, through engineered plagues) because we have no essential function in the system.

AI will function exactly like the past except more so. The post WWII years of freedom and prosperity were a fluke of history.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/19/ai-hiring-slowdown-skilled-trade-workers.html

This is disappointing news for college grads starting out. It looks like the future for white-collar workers is managing AI in whatever profession you choose. That takes the satisfaction out of doing the job yourself and benefitting from the experience. The job is done before you walk in the door. You're just there to supervise AI.

Its almost like training your replacement. How long will it be before the company decides AI doesn't need you anymore?

You could always go for a blue-collar career. Maybe for men thats more of an option, but if you're interested in working in IT and just spent a bundle on college for a white-collar job you might not want to do that kind of work.