A furry web developer from Poland. He/him/his.
The situation of “government shutdown” baffles me. “Yeah, whoops, we didn’t allocate money for the government, guess it’s not running now, lol”. In Poland at least, not passing a budget means the parliament can be disbanded so there is an incentive to pass a budget, even if it’s not exactly to everyone’s liking.
The issue with AI art (and especially with AI code as well) is that it’s just spicy plagiarism. The AI just looks through millions of works of art (or trillions of lines of code) and spits out something based on that. There’ve been cases of GitHub Copilot spitting out someone else’s code verbatim. Fuck RIAA, fuck the copyright, but it’s not a clear cut case.
But maybe an anti-EU movement will be created by this crisis and that could grow over the next few years.
I doubt that it’ll be a genuine working class movement though, seeing how the primary anti-EU force in countries like Poland or Hungary is right-wing reactionary. And that’s what I’m afraid of as well, that it’ll be used to strip away the “leftie” (in the right-wing populist lens) elements of the EU, like eg. consumer protection or these meager fucking scraps of rights for minorities.
He can’t pay rent on the offices but will somehow come through with the company town?