After the Slop Bubble
The weather is getting milder, the world has gotten wilder, buzzwords are everywhere (people got indoctrinated into this baseless lie that "AI" - whatever that is (just worthless slop in large quantities) - will replace jobs), and the economy - as measured in real terms like employment or salary stagnation - wanes due to too much debt, nothing to do with slop. Imagine what it'll look like after this bubble (based on accounting fraud [1, 2] bursts. I've stopped reading the Bruce Schneier book for now. I want to resume after the bubble clearly bursts; then it'll be easier to be dismissive of its core assumptions.
At the end, looking back, we'll all generally understand that the net effort of slop was environmental destruction, overconsumption of hardware, and price surges that hurt everybody (RAM, electricity costs, and so on). Those who stand to gain the most are also sponsors of this bubble. █
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