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Pinkerton Academy '81* V1/7 - '87-'92 - MOS 2841. I believe firmly in a representative government. Science geek. Human of planet earth. Post-Hippy, pre-Hipster.
"Artificial Idiot" That's what I'm calling it from now on, lol.
Elana Klein@elanaklein.bsky.social · 3w ago“everybody shames people for using AI” “it continuously is dumbing down just the whole community within school in general” “i think it should stand for artificial idiot” i had the pleasure of talking about AI with some particularly thoughtful, healthily cynical kids. here's what they had to say:
The petrodollar will kill us all. apnews.com/article/iran...
In 60 days or so, we’ll face an election we can’t successfully win without a landslide. Any low-percentage win and they’ll do what we know they already know exactly how to do, and more. We’ve all seen it happen. So we need that landslide victory. We all must vote.
“Consider this my call, Mr. President: instead of spending $100 billion bombing innocent children in your illegal wars, send $100 billion to cities across America to invest in healthcare, jobs, education, housing, transportation, & environmental justice.” Mayor Johnson
I don't care how dumb my legacy smart home devices start acting, I'm not enabling ai.
Sure, that State of the Union speech was long, but it was still forty minutes shorter than the amount of time Trump sat and watched the insurrection on January 6th.
Billionaires seek paradise in space all while despoiling the one they have.
We can't fall into right-wing populism’s lie that the most vulnerable in society are to blame for wealth inequality in our countries. We need to build movements that tell the truth: the story of wealth inequality is not a cultural one, but a class one.
The wealthy and powerful think the poor are disposal, while the law protects the wealthy and binds the poor. And to be clear, by poor I mean the other 99% of us.
"I will let no man soil my soul by making me hate him" Booker T. Washington
New favorite quote. "The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to be governed at all." G.K. Chesterton
"...and whose tongues are blackened by his shoe leather." www.wired.com/story/tim-wu...
Welcome to Big Tech's ‘Age of Extraction’
In his new book, antitrust scholar and former White House adviser Tim Wu argues that tech giants are bleeding you dry—and lays out a plan to stop them.
wired.com
Granite Staters deserve leaders who follow the facts and put regular people, not billionaires, first. That’s why I’m running for the U.S. Senate. #NewHampshire
"Someone is gonna lose a phenomenal amount of money" Wanna bet it'll be the tax payers and not the oligarchs?
Casey Newton@caseynewton.bsky.social · 12mo agoThis evening, I joined a small group of reporters for a wide-ranging, on-the-record dinner with Sam Altman and some of his top lieutenants. And yeah, Altman said — we're in an AI bubble www.platformer.news/sam-altman-g...
All this talk is getting us nowhere. Get up, stand up Stand up for your right Get up, stand up Stand up for your right Get up, stand up Stand up for your right Get up, stand up Don't give up the fight 😎✊
Protesters are not burning down the world, billionaire fossil fuel barons are.
Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · last yr.