“Migrants are the wretched of the earth; in the world of the rulers, we are all foreigners.” Seen in Rome, Italy
Angelos Arnis 🏴
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Designing for the last earth • Opinions are my own, I think... (he/him/hän) 📌 Helsinki • 🇫🇮 (from 🇬🇷) Portfolio: https://arn.is/ Cofounder: @jointfrontiers.com Practice: https://mesa.fi Thoughts: https://collectivefutures.blog
I do remember the trashy full-of-bullshit manifesto he published about this and hyping AI. Worked like a charm
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 6d ago24-year-old ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner built a $20B AI hedge fund called Situational Awareness. He bet heavily on AI related stocks until this week’s selloff led to a margin call and he had to liquidate his public portfolio. Actually sounds like a lack of situational awareness.
On the Northern Line from ctl London while both Piccadilly & Central lines are down & could not support this more.
Friendly reminder that these things aren't impacted by closing the Strait of Hormuz so maybe, just maybe, we should implement them to avoid being impacted by future conflicts: -Solar panels -Wind turbines -Battery storage -Electric vehicles -Bicycles -Natural fertilizers -Electric heat pumps
show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic
DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.com
DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is_way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.
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Freedom is a complex concept and not even close when it comes to promises of emancipation through technology that billionaire techbros are trying to sell to us. Read my latest on freedom and the tech industry. If you like it, do share - it helps a ton! collectivefutures.blog/whose-freedo...
Whose freedom is it anyway?
Artificial Intelligence and the old promise of the emancipatory machine, from the washing machine, the personal computer, the internet, and social media.
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This is a great read.
Angelos Arnis 🏴@arn.is · 2w agoFreedom is a complex concept and not even close when it comes to promises of emancipation through technology that billionaire techbros are trying to sell to us. Read my latest on freedom and the tech industry. If you like it, do share - it helps a ton! collectivefutures.blog/whose-freedo...
Reading this essay was a great way to start the day, recommended… “None of this would matter much if words were ornaments. But they are not, because words often become verdicts a priori. They settle quietly, before any argument has been made about ownership, accountability and liability.”
Angelos Arnis 🏴@arn.is · 2w agoFreedom is a complex concept and not even close when it comes to promises of emancipation through technology that billionaire techbros are trying to sell to us. Read my latest on freedom and the tech industry. If you like it, do share - it helps a ton! collectivefutures.blog/whose-freedo...
"A great deal of what reaches us as technical inevitability turns out... to be a sequence of decisions about people: who is exempted from which law, whose property may be taken without payment, which tier of government is permitted to ask a question" some banger stuff from @arn.is
Angelos Arnis 🏴@arn.is · 2w agoFreedom is a complex concept and not even close when it comes to promises of emancipation through technology that billionaire techbros are trying to sell to us. Read my latest on freedom and the tech industry. If you like it, do share - it helps a ton! collectivefutures.blog/whose-freedo...
Freedom is a complex concept and not even close when it comes to promises of emancipation through technology that billionaire techbros are trying to sell to us. Read my latest on freedom and the tech industry. If you like it, do share - it helps a ton! collectivefutures.blog/whose-freedo...
Whose freedom is it anyway?
Artificial Intelligence and the old promise of the emancipatory machine, from the washing machine, the personal computer, the internet, and social media.
collectivefutures.blog
Thessaloniki - you are a blessing and a curse and I can’t not love you.
The type of person Ketan describes here is the typical case of "cyberlibertarianism" as David Golumbia sets it. They may hold firm egalitarian views on housing, healthcare, labor etc, but the moment the subject turns to software, they begin reciting the same gospel as billionaires.
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last mo.A fun preview of a bad-faith misrepresentations that'll be in Andy Masley's upcoming 'data centre climate concerns are fake' post that Sam Altman will be surely repeating within days Adding EVs, for instance, is a net reduction in GHGs. So they're completely different to data centres
I was in two intensive week-long workshops this year with neuroscientists, philosophers and computer scientists and not *one* thought LLMs are conscious, or that anything is ‘mysterious’ in a model trained on scifi and Internet chat doing woo-woo musing about self-consciousness. And do you know why?
Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · last mo.Claude's ‘spiritual bliss’ attractor state features a lot of woo woo talk and blue spiral 🌀 emojis @nitasha.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
A lot of people ask us: "What's the #1 climate solution?" 🌍 Our answer is always the same: there isn't one. Our reasoning is simple: meaningful climate action requires nearly all of them, working together, across every sector. Dig into the full dataset → drawdown.org/explorer #ProjectDrawdown
When Google strips all this away by harvesting an "answer" and displaying it at the top of the page, the bargain between Google and the open web breaks down. Google is extracting 100% of the value from the websites it summarizes, and giving nothing back in return. 7/
No, we do not wish to live in the sterilised world of AI and LLMs. We choose human messiness. Lived-experience. We refuse to be statistically robust models. You can’t convince us this planet-killing, thieving nonsense is the way forward. We are humans and we know bullshit when we see it.
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This, not polar bears, is what climate crisis means. Cascading infrastructure breakdowns. Can't get around coz roads have buckled; power plants shut down coz rivers are too hot & shallow Never forget that the "economy" is a wholly owned subsidiary of nature phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo...
#OtD 27 Jun 1869 Emma Goldman, the legendary Jewish writer, feminist, birth control advocate, and anarchist was born in what is now Lithuania. Some of her works, and items celebrating her life available here to help fund our work: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
In case you are living through a heatwave without an AC, take consolation in knowing that at least your local data center is cooled with AC. So not all things are bad.
