Don’t try to engage my enthusiasm, because I haven’t got one.

Uh–WE’RE NOT RATIONING TOKENS!!!

Top AI labs are conducting Pentagon-style war games

Don’t you clowns have any real work to do over there?

What am I saying, never mind.

Cops:

You have a good point, I’m just a little surprised on account of how many people were saying that GKCs were dead in the water, since people would just buy digital, since they wouldn’t get to own the games they were paying for either way. I really figured people would go out of their way to avoid buing GKCs.

“Automated propaganda operations–c’mon, that’s GOT to be worth a trillion dollars to someone!”

With the US government deep in Detroit’s pocket, we’ll never have anything close, here.

“We know what our customers want: huge, expensive, highly profitable hybrids that will line our pockets forever.”

that backlash is dangerous when it’s funded

That is largely my point, yes. The people trying to put datacenters in our neighborhoods are very, very rich. We ordinary people can stop this, but we need to be ready to continue the fight when they hit us back.

Not sure what you’re getting at, friend. Wealthy/conservative backlash is not a myth. One example is the rise of the Tea Party movement in terrified reaction to the election of Obama, largely funded by the conservative billionaire Koch brothers; and that led directly to the rise of Trump. Another is the backlash to Clinton’s election, which drove billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife so profoundly, droolingly mad as to fund “The Arkansas Project”, spending millions to find something, anything, that would destroy his presidency, thus feeding the rise of conservative media–which, god help us, remains a huge influence on national politics to this day.

There’s also the conservative movement’s collective pants-pissing at the rise of women’s liberation, legalized abortion, and the potential passing of the Equal Rights Amendment, which led to an enormous backlash against women from all corners of the political right that we are still dealing with today.

Backlash is real and it’s dangerous, especially on account of the innate, furious psychopathy of the rich, and the fear-addled, weak-willed minds of their conservative rank and file; there’s no telling what these nuts will do when they feel backed into a corner, but it’s always harmful to everyone else in the long run.

The clear sense of entitlement coming from these companies is appalling. And the history of American politics shows us that when the whims of the wealthy entitled are denied the go fucking nuts. These people are going to want revenge, it’s going to be brutal, and we need to be ready for it.