Jackscarab

Trying to have a civilization here.

Writer, teacher, D&Der, somehow Oklahoman.


mcc
@mcc

So there was this established scene of personally crafted, artistic bots. This scene is being forcibly terminated by capital. (Or shuffled to Mastodon, at least, which is fine from my perspective but definitely reduces their reach.)

and at the exact same time, ChatGPT et al are bringing a new generation of corporate-sponsored, vaguely oppressive bot interactions into our lives (strictly-controlled by the model-"owning" corporation, often passed off as the work of actual humans, built on a mix of exploitation of low-paid labor & unpaid commercial expropriation of other people's copyrighted work).

So there was a human-scale version of the thing that brought joy, and an impersonal-scale version of the thing that brings misery, and the first is being shut down at the same time the second is being introduced into our lives borderline by force, and these two things aren't being done by the same wing of capital or for linked reasons but they're both being done by capital and somehow it lined up that they're happening simultaneously


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The Republican President has been charged in the New York State Supreme Court with 34 felonies, 34 counts of Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree, each dealing with hush-money payments to two women who allegedly had sex with him as well as one man who allegedly had information about another child Donald had with a third woman.

The payments were made specifically to keep the three people from damaging his already damaged chances at the Presidency. The transactions came from his businesses and were written down as something other than what they were, which is very illegal.

He has pled Not Guilty, as he has done for his entire alleged life.

Look how small he looks. How unimportant, how pushed-aside. How needy for attention that he finds the camera and looks at it, begging for attention.



" The unprecedented case against Trump will have wide-ranging implications.

A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Donald J. Trump on Thursday for his role in paying hush money to a porn star, according to four people with knowledge of the matter, a historic development that will shake up the 2024 presidential race and forever mark him as the nation’s first former president to face criminal charges.

The felony indictment, filed under seal by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, will likely be announced in the coming days. By then, prosecutors working for the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, will have asked Mr. Trump to surrender and to face arraignment on charges that remain unknown for now.

Mr. Trump has for decades avoided criminal charges despite persistent scrutiny and repeated investigations, creating an aura of legal invincibility that the vote to indict now threatens to puncture. "