Ex Nummis

Same across the world. A few weeks ago a former prime minister of Belgium was stopped going through a red light. In normal circumstances, this means you immediately lose your license for 15 days while you have to appear before a judge. Judge completely waived his liability, citing his “standing” as a former PM. Which to me translates to “this dude is above you plebs, he can do as he wants as long as he’s not too egregious about it”.

Feel this in my bones. When people started getting cut at my previous job, it was invariably the ones who brought joy to the workplace. The ones who made a difference between a job and a career. Apparently joy doesn’t bring in any revenue, so…

I was the only one cut from my team of about 10 for AI. I had been there the longest (10 years). It’s all very transparent, but there’s nothing we can do against it.

I already got cut. Lost my 10-year IT job to AI last year. Now I’m working in a factory, packaging waffles 8 hr/day. The irony of me doing drudgery that could be fairly easily done by a machine, while a machine is doing something that requires agency, decisions and creativity, is not lost on me.

I want to get off mr. Bones Wild Ride. Forever.

GTA5 was out for like three years on PC before I bothered with it. I found it to be… fairly mediocre. There’s nothing in GTA6 that would make me feel otherwise. I’ll eventually play it… at great discount, or not at all.

Remember: today it’s “just” the Palestinians and you may not be affected or care. But tomorrow, it could be you.