Internet has been dead for a while. Mostly late adopters and late-stage toxic vortex, generations who have now maladapted to what they think are social pillars (Hello HN!). The cOnSenSuS keepers hold serious what used to be self-aware provocation. It is like second generation North Korean koolaid drinkers.
The amount of hand wringing about AI is exciting to me in a way that it should not be. I am watching a river of new ignorance entrench itself in various spaces. In particular, the reactions from OSS have been so wildly unpragmatic that I would require very little evidence to be coninced that a massive psyop is underway by the market incumbents to make OSS think that OSS is anti-technology.
The resulting unpreparedness and wildly misguided responses are creating a vast sub-ocean, an empty space where nobody will see what is coming, where there is almost nobody around because of the idiotic nature of the hostility. One does not need a submarine to evade an entire landscape of hiding ostriches. In 2015 if you thought some things were played out, in 2026 the world seems eager to create opportunity beyond imagination by willfully lobotomizing itself.
The optimism is to be in that empty space. Doing things that will not be acknowledged for some time, studying the blade and hoping to get your play together before the disease is corrected by forces external to the attracting manifolds of idiocy.