I also like “if the DSA is the face of the Democratic Party, we’re going to lose,” as if what we’ve been seeing is actually a strange species of mainstream dem winning streak that we just fail to recognize
People keep using the "can't put a genie back in the bottle" metaphor for "AI", even though in the stories they always get back in and current "AI" is more of a "we're spending trillions of dollars and the energy output of a continent trying to keep this bastard out of the bottle" situation
♾️Ten reasons why I like being autistic♾️ Maybe surprisingly to some, being autistic isn't all bad. Here are some things that may get missed when autism is defined *only* through our difficulties & struggles. #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AuDHD A thread 🧵 1/11
@rweingarten.bsky.social please read
Lois Weiner@drloisweiner.bsky.social · 2mo agoBrava! This rebuts the "untenable" positions of our national teachers unions to push AI. If we value democracy, as our unions say we should, to fight fascism, then it's our responsibility to demand the unions repudiate their invite to tech behemoths to "train" teachers to use AI ethically.
Nobody is making profits. It is going to burst and it is going to take all those data centers with it. Keep your skills. Practice your crafts. Hold on to your books. Stay sharp.
opposite of what techbros & big capital & AI boosters want. They want no friction. They want us not thinking about the consequences of our actions. This is part of why I fully refuse to use Gen AI tools. I want critical reflection as much as possible as often as possible. But maybe that's just me.
if youre not on the race riot app you are living in a bubble, you have to contribute financially and provide free labor to the race riot generator or else you are in a bubble
One day I'm going to have to read books by liberal historians about how we all naively sleepwalked into fascism and they might even be written by the same people who spent a decade calling us melodramatic alarmists for saying it was coming.
For-profit companies have irreconcilable conflicts of interest when providing care to vulnerable people.
Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹) RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
If God wanted me to concentrate They wouldn't have made the world so fucking interesting
One of my most deeply held beliefs is that refusing to name truth makes you stupid--literally degrades your intellect.
If you’re just figuring out now that yes, it really is fascism, that’s fantastic & I think you’re great & I’m glad we’re on the same side. I don’t need to scold you. My desire for “told-ya-so” is as useless as your denial was. Let’s move on together to the fight at hand, each as we feel called. 1/2
All the anti-war and anti-occupation protestors were right. All the far leftists were right. All the “woke scolds” and your friend who’s “too woke” were right. They were somehow even more right than they may have realized at the time. But really, it was always obvious they were right.
The Democratic Party is not only not opposition they are in fact a core pillar of MAGAs legitimacy, perhaps the most consistent force (outside of the literally billionaire-purchased media) in normalizing Trumps regime. Schumer and Jeffries aren't "inept", they're collaborators, our Vichy
America has deindustrialized so much they can't even manufacture consent
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9mo agoI still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war -- that's been a slippery slope for decades -- but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.
'I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived... all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child... one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination’ Ursula le Guin
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
"Not everyone is rising to the occasion because the times you live in do not immediately shape who you are and what you do... you rise to the level of your training and practice, not to the level of your imagined self." @prisonculture.bsky.social prisonculture.substack.com/p/we-dont-kn...
We Don’t Know Where We Will End Up…
A Year Since the 2024 Election
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This video is so overwhelming I had to sit down & stare at the wall awhile. I was physically shaking. I had heard some of these anecdotes before - Proctorio & Tubman bot - but Tanksley synthesizes them (with much much more), revealing undeniable regime of EdTech racialized surveillance & policing…
Ruha Benjamin@ruha9.bsky.social · 9mo agoI need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
I haven't seen people here mention this letter from the mayor of Illinois' 2nd-largest city (Aurora, 40+% Latino) to the Aurora Police following egregious attacks by immigration in Aurora and related protests So here it is!
It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends
the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12mo agoHegseth: "Maximum lethality -- not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. We're gonna raise up warriors. Not just defenders."
people will ask you how they can make hell equitable before the begin to dream of heaven