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California governor: Generative AI will fix homelessness — based on a 2023 sales pitch (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 15 points 1 week ago (14 children)

My trajectory of learning about this Newsom fellow was amazing.

First heard of him existing when some Very Serious People were floating him as a replacement for Biden like two months ago
- Infer from that that he's progressive maybe?
Like right after that a big story how he forcefully cleared homeless encampments like a fucking cartoon villain
- So he's actually a weird little conservative in disguise?
Now this fucking nonsense.

How do you keep producing people like this, America?

[–] corbin@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago

It may help to know about Californian neoliberalism. Newsom is running on a faulty ontology; the world is built out of different building blocks for him than for us. We often contrast it with the more dominant flavor of neoliberalism on the other coast:

"Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft." ~ Mary Schmich, Wear Sunscreen

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