Personally I think the world has indeed gone quite mad from the top down.
Drumpf and his minions have turned the former bastion of Freedom into a Nazi bootcamp in less than a year.
Putin continues to massacre the Ukrainians to try to seize land that is not his to seize.
Neterenyahu does the same to the Palestinians, clearly throwing even the hint of a two state solution out the window so far it's past the moon's orbit.
Drumpf is in Putin's pocket. The US has long been in Israel's pocket, much to the profit of the American Military Industrial Complex that sells most of the arms to Israel.
We've got billionaires by the score in the US pulling the USG's strings. So clearly none of this, not even Drumpf's blatant sell-out of American interests to foreign nations, is going on without their approval. They're the ones who really make the decision about who has the funding for re-election and who is going to be on the chopping block for failing to "play ball."
Things like this noise about whether a statistical text generation engine is "aware" or "gendered" or a host of other nonsense that has come out of Anthropic et. al of late is meant to distract us from the fascist takeover of the planet going on in front of our eyes.
Meanwhile the potential for Big Brother style abuse of technology like Microsoft's "Recall" go pooh-pooh'ed by the industry, and washed over and whitewashed as being far less of a concern than it is to this recent Penguinista. I may have live in *nix systems for 30+ years in enterprise computing, but this is the first time I committed to Linux on the Desktop.
We've got the same problem in this world that the French had prior to the revolution: an elite class running everything to the detriment of the majority.
I posit that we have the same solutions before us.
