Elon Musk. Twitter. Babylon Bee.

[ken_sylvania]

I wonder if there would be a way to establish a "chicken tax" that would dis-incentivise the practice of hiring cheap foreign labor to "review and categorize thousands of graphic text passages obtained online and generated by AI itself. Many of the passages contained descriptions of violence, harassment, self-harm, rape, child sexual abuse and bestiality," as reported by the Wall Street Journal.
OpenAI claims to be shocked that the workers who are doing this work are making only a fraction of the $12.50/hr service fee that they are paying the company that employs them.

[Ken]

I wonder if there would be a way to establish a "chicken tax" that would dis-incentivise the practice of hiring cheap foreign labor to "review and categorize thousands of graphic text passages obtained online and generated by AI itself. Many of the passages contained descriptions of violence, harassment, self-harm, rape, child sexual abuse and bestiality," as reported by the Wall Street Journal.
OpenAI claims to be shocked that the workers who are doing this work are making only a fraction of the $12.50/hr service fee that they are paying the company that employs them.

No need for a tax.

Just establish a minimum wage by law for all employees of all tech companies operating in the US.

If you are Facebook or Google or Twitter and you want to operate in the US you pay those minimum salaries by law regardless of where the employee is located. Then sure, they can still offshore the jobs to Bangalore, but it won't save them any money.

[Josh]

Yes, stopping “offshoring” of labour would be a very good thing. But it makes a lot of money for big business.

[temporal1]

X
viewtopic.php?t=5928

Elon being Elon.

[temporal1]

[Threads discussion began on P.69.]

i’m a bystander, not signed up for any of this.
interesting, at about 5min, he describes how Threads is specially difficult to leave.

JP Reacts / “Meta’s Threads is Dying! LOL” / 9min


^^JP Sears is still referring to Twitter, not X.

[ken_sylvania]

[Threads discussion began on P.69.]

i’m a bystander, not signed up for any of this.

Not just a bystander if you are actively distributing the propoganda.

[temporal1]

[Threads discussion began on P.69.]

i’m a bystander, not signed up for any of this.

Not just a bystander if you are actively distributing the propoganda.

i accept your understanding.

not in defense, but with hope to explain, i’ve been thinking, i’m not signed up for any of these platforms, i don’t “follow” other than read what randomly appears in front of me, AND, mostly what i find on this forum, i don’t donate or subscribe .. example, i never heard of JP Sears outside this forum, i don’t agree with/like, or see everything he produces.

in this case, Threads was brought up on P.69, i posted this to add to that discussion, without comment for or against, i don’t have much of a view for or against. i’m surprised Threads seems to be on a big roller coaster .. i hoped for others’ views on Threads, while disclosing i’m not a participant in any of it. (especially hoping for others’ views in the context of Twitter/X.)

i don’t presume to know, if a member posts without comment, what their view is. mike often does this, as do some others, i enjoy this approach. that is, info is brought here for discussion.

i don’t consider JP Sears or others to be the last word on anything. lots of OPINIONS. i’m not sure opinions are always propaganda? certainly, opinions are subjective.

if i misused the word, bystander, it wasn’t intentional. i always appreciate your input.

Subjective relates to personal viewpoints, experiences, or perspectives, whereas objective refers to factual data that is not influenced by personal beliefs or biases.

Subjective statement: The cake is delicious.
Objective statement: The cake contains 250 calories per serving.

for general reference. not that you need a definition.

[temporal1]

More food for thought:

MATT TAIBBI /NICK GILLSPIE / Matt Taibbi: “How the Left lost its mind” / 57min

Description:
“The maverick journalist talks Twitter Files, the end of the anti-government left, Donald Trump, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.”

Found in Comments:

@molloarden8938 WROTE: 6 days ago
“Taibbi, superb thinker!
"If you drop 76 charges on a candidate and he goes up in polls,
you might want to consider that you might be part of the problem.

But they can’t take even that heavy a hint." --Matt Taibbi“

Nick Gillespie / ReasonTV
https://reason.com/people/nick-gillespie/

Matt Taibbi / Literary Hub
https://lithub.com/author/matttaibbi/

[Ken]

Well, this is an interesting development.

There is a metaphor somewhere in there about glass houses.

Apparently the richest man in the world had the Tesla corporation (which is a public company) build him his own private glass house in Austin. And that is something you simply cannot legally do with the funds held by a public company that, in principle, belong to all the shareholders. If he had $44 billion to buy Twitter, you think he would have had the resources to write a check for his own house.

[ken_sylvania]

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