Environment & Energy

I’ll look it up. You gave me some good suggestions -The Marching Morons (which seems to have predicted Elon Musk), and that cartoon with Porkypine whose name eludes me.
The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner. I am trying to improve my memory. So I will see if I can retain that long enough to look it up at night.
The lack of a memory seems to be our collective issue as a society. Which is why those nice billionaire men are kind enough to provide us with selectively edited ones. They are philanthropists.

One thing cool about DU is that so many people here are old enough to remember stuff so word of mouth narratives about stuff no people of my age lived through. Most people here are my parents’ age. That’s a lot of information that you can’t really get easily.

As for people my age or younger it’s not clear what garbled garbage will be left online with AI and “fixes for AI”. I cynically look at our not very bright tech billionaires and “generate” predictions about how these guys plan to rewrite all this where they are not quite stupid enough to think you can get away with everything. I have yet to see an idea from transparency, health, fighting disinformation that these guys cannot somehow pervert to produce: a) acceptably watered down, bland pap or b) outright bullshit and c) truly weaponized disinfo and misinfo and propaganda to divide and rule for ever.