I missed this sad news from last night: the incomparable Steve Cropper, guitarist for Stax house band the M.G.'s (and later the Blues Brothers), has passed away at 84.
Here's the Colonel playing with Sam & Dave on Soul Man (in the white suit with the long hair and beard)
Friends, we're all here on fedi, so many of us have no fondness for AI and its nonsense, nor for the very rich who are using the bubble to get richer, nor for the buffoons who are devoted to it. I understand that.
But please remember, when the bubble bursts, it won't be those billionaires who suffer. It won't really be the buffoons. It'll be ordinary working class folk who happen to be employed by an organisation that will be hit. Doesn't even have to be an employer that works directly with AI. Could be a caterer whose biggest client is involved with the business. Could be a cleaning company that cleans offices for a business that supplies components that are used in data centres that host AI stuff. And so on.
Remember 2008, 2009. We all know whose fault that crash was, and we all know who suffered most as a result, and those two groups were quite separate.
