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Walter Trumbull | AI Eating Its Tail | Hello? | Will Graeber’s ‘Bullshit Jobs’ Never Die?

Stowe Boyd
Jul 16, 2025
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Diplomacy consists in saying “nice doggie,” until you can pick up a rock.

| Walter Trumbull

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This quote was intended, I believe, for political diplomacy, but I am employing it relative to the rise of AI and the response of most working people to the threats it poses; a sort of numb fatalism, in general, ardent adopti…

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