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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 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

So why on earth was anyone calling him a good candidate to replace Biden? Sounds like one of the worst people you'd want in charge of anything, much less a country?

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think it is a combination of:

  1. Governor of major state.
  2. Has nice hair. Real generic politician look.
  3. Polls showing "generic democrat" beating Trump.
  4. Not super old.
  5. Have I mentioned the hair?
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

It's the same symptoms among the pundits that convinced them that Ron DeSantis had a chance against Trump.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ya really think his hair is nice?

I've felt that it falls into that Generative AI/Thomas Kinkade uncanny valley zone because it looks kind of glazed -- as if embedded in a thin layer of ice -- while also inhabiting a strange dimension of omnipresent ambient lighting.

Please note: I am not in any way implying that Gavin Newsom isn't real.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

because the US sociopolitical system, just like many other of its social systems, is disastrously sick and dysfunctional

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Gavin was Pelosi's pick to replace Biden, they're both backed by the same regional California billionaires from SF to Sac. Harris is from Cali as well but her big backers are in LA.

My head canon is Biden chose Harris as a parting FU to Pelosi.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago

I think a lot of those seriously floating him were neolibs thinking that he'd make their stock prices go up.