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I am reminded of Dr Frankenstein hoisting his dead bodies into the sky to catch a bolt of intense energy to make life happen. What are data centers but the same impulse.

TELEGRAPH: Trump & Musk conspired to throttle Starlink and make Ukraine more vulnerable to Russian attacks — then Musk tried to blame only Trump. Putin wins again, as usual. Russia was never a hoax. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

AI safety regs: Laughable, because the techbros don’t want safety. They are busy summoning demons. More accurately, they are feeding AI with destructive sources then standing back to see if the agents will act on them. Sure enough, they will. Move fast and break things, remember.

International lawyer: “Stop pretending silence is moral… Silence makes this possible… say the word: Genocide.” From @DiegoParrhesia 🧵

It should be obvious that the main reason most other rapist kids got off easy was not because of their potential future careers, but because their parents are wealthy and connected.

Two years after Helene, we are still two cities The second anniversary of the storm sees a deeply divided city, between struggling communities still surviving the crises and an elite that's made the aftermath far, far worse. @davidforbes.bsky.social, with our latest: ashevilleblade.com?p=5399

To add a little context to this story, both Cobb and Forsyth Counties are white flight suburbs of Atlanta. The story of continued racism from them could fill its own book. Cobb created its own bus service when Marta rail expanded into N. Atlanta to block Black Atlantans from going there.

Why snipers on the Arch? Aside from the ongoing stupidity with the whole idea, why snipers? In a tourist area? Who are they supposed to shoot? Besides us?

This reminds me of how the social sciences have longed for credibility as an actual science for so long, we all forget that they are not. The downfall of all of these whiz kids is believing statistics can explain everything and forgetting that bias (& ignorance) can warp stat methods and results.

Rest in Power, Saint Dolly. We will always love you.

Yes!! I keep saying this too, these are all Lex Luthor wannabes. Every utterance is monologing. Every idea has been scripted already and is inevitably overblown and ridiculous. 🧵

Re-posting this blog post because AI still has some folks mesmerized. Don’t buy in to it - AI is the natural end to the centuries-old corporate war on labor. toreupbuttrue.blogspot.com/2024/12/lino...

Yesterday, Tennessee voted under the new jim crow map for the first time. Here's what the ground said back.

I live, temporarily, in a red town blanketed with giant warehouses and data centers, more to come. The companies import their tech folks from HQ, if any, and the only jobs are security and janitor, and those are low-pay jobs with a vendor company. So no, you won’t get an Apple/Meta/etc entry job.

Great article. I was an early adopter of the Mac for graphic design and web coding. I still use Apple stuff but Steve’s baby grew up into a slimy techbro. Having other Luddite interests (weaving, spinning, sailing, farming) I love that my forebears were political, directed, and worker-centric.

Trump et al is what you get when you vote businessmen into government. The corruption, the self-dealing, the incompetence, the yes men, all are abundant in corporate VP floors and C suites. They hate employees, and citizens look like employees to them. Business is about (their) profit, so QED.

"And so perhaps they’re in the back seat with a toy steering wheel. AI is the promise of wiring that toy steering wheel directly into the drivetrain of the car. It’s products without product designers. Workplaces without workers.... This is the promise." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

These are the people who want to buy the country and put it on autopilot.

21st century America is a multiracial democracy whose commerce, culture and cuisine reflect the influence of immigrants from every country on earth. The only people seemingly unable to assimilate into this society are white Republicans.

More folks calling for this today. Yes!

people who work and invest in AI frequently ask me why their work polls so badly

Enlightening 🧵

The news today: “The beatings will continue til morale improves.” I need to get off this plague ship.

🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦. Slava Ukraini!!!

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