It too is just software

Reads like nothing but historical context

The last of the firmly 1900s pre-information age mindset are exiting the mortal plane faster and faster

Millennials on down make up the majority and what else are they going to do? They don't have the work the land skills of prior generations

GenX candidates are failing at the voting booth; they're likely to continue to be skipped over: https://fortune.com/2025/08/07/gen-x-ceos-decreasing-baby-bo...

The AI backlash is largely a data center backlash (though not entirely).

So Millennials can just do what Boomers and GenX have done and want to do; loot their retirements and wealth and ignore them screaming about it from their hospice bed

When we were all younger it seemed the sky was the limit

But we've gotten wiser and realize the ceiling with tech like iPhones and PS5

Hedonic treadmill just goes in a loop of experience. Consumer tech is just attention seeking codependency on the part of corporate

The real cool stuff going on with tech is in domains like regenerative and longevity medicine; see Michael Levin at Tufts for truly sci fi Wolverine healing type mind blowing ideas

At first they were saying it's just Trump, they get it

As it has carried on and on conversations have veered into "the people of that country are not reliable and intelligent global partners or the American system truly is a dystopian mess"

Enumeration of syntax patterns when rules restrict legal syntax patterns can be done without LLMs

The data center cartel that sprang up over the last 20 years is desperate to not have their entire social moat go up in smoke