Posts by Marcducharme@mstdn.ca
(DIR) Post #AUFhEnhubPbudILdsu by Marcducharme@mstdn.ca
2023-04-02T20:10:44Z
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@tante this is simplistic and dangerous thinking. In my jurisdiction, if you’re a tax lawyer, a significant part of your job has already been automated by a company selling legal opinions to order for about five years now. Their opinions at launch had a 95% success rate. In my own area of law (family) I predicted that I’d have about thirty years before most of my job got automated. 11 years in and I still think I was right.
(DIR) Post #AUPLBAJFqwNrk8ATI0 by Marcducharme@mstdn.ca
2023-04-07T11:50:46Z
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@stux Fair, but the West is dying, and the iPhone is killing it.people feel that, and react. Some want the West and it’s capitalist, colonial bullshit to die already, and for the new civilization to die already. Some cling to the old ways, and spur the far-right to violence. But it’s a mess, because we don’t see that all the old civilizations are choking to death on cheap data and non-geographic community, and nobody is framing the problem in those terms.
(DIR) Post #AUPgph4oAFHlPJeREW by Marcducharme@mstdn.ca
2023-04-07T15:53:29Z
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@bananarama @stux Civilisation is about more than population support and economics. It’s about culture and moral values, how technology is used, and about the shared aims of the people. The values of pluralism that underpin support for immigration didn’t really exist in the West a hundred or so years ago. That’s new, and it’s far from universally accepted even now, but as the people change and the old ways of thinking die, it becomes more accepted every day.
(DIR) Post #AVNcmfWMdYdwQOsBsm by Marcducharme@mstdn.ca
2023-05-06T13:02:46Z
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Celebrating the #Coronation by reading a @cstross Laundry Files novel and idly wondering if Charles III will have the guts to end it all.