The strange intolerance of the academy from Thiel-adjacent folks in Silicon Valley has had folk game theory, folk evolution, folk behavioral sciences, folk philosophy etc come to define conversations around tech policy with AI and it truly sucks.
Frank Vehafric
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Retired union rep, at home in Oregon, which I love. I travel when I can afford it, interests in human origins, photography, fly fishing and restoring our US public lands. Blazer fan, because it's still ok to have fun.
Just gonna light this bag of dogshit on fire and walk away from the doorstep, but the people in media I hear saying AI has made them "more productive" appear to be producing less than ever, and worse things than ever. I wonder if they can even tell.
People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.
awkword@awkword.bsky.social · 8mo agoICYMI: The US is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939 — six years into the Third Reich, and just before the start of World War II.
If they went after actual power then they might accomplish something and they can't have that!
💥LazarTagWolf💥@lazartagwolf.bsky.social · 17h agoLeftists are more pissed off at Robert Kraft than Robert F Kennedy Jr. www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...
End-times prophecy, pro-war prayer circles, Democrats as demons: Christian dominionism’s influence is everywhere in the second Trump administration—and increasingly, within America itself. Can democracy survive the assault? trib.al/pbgAjpH
We Need to Talk About the Apocalypse
End-times prophecy, pro-war prayer circles, Democrats as demons: Christian dominionism’s influence is everywhere in the second Trump administration—and increasingly, within America itself. Can democracy survive the assault?
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A billionaire dictator who'll lose everything if the opposition replaces him on Jan. 20, 2029 is stockpiling killer drones and high-powered rifles on towering monuments and ballroom roofs I'm sure it's nothing to worry about
Nick Kodama@nickkodama.bsky.social · 7h agolol what
Mr. Hegseth's critics point to an ongoing military defeat in Iran, hiding the number of dead soldiers, running out of missiles, and an alarming pattern of racism and misogyny. Mr. Hegseth's defenders point to successes like not getting blackout drunk in public and not raping any of his colleagues.
Ancient dust didn't just darken our skies; it chemically scrubbed the atmosphere, drastically shortening methane's life during the Last Glacial Maximum. #ClimateHistory sugataai.com/blog/atmosph...
Atmospheric methane lifetime during the Last Glacial Maximum was reduced owing to dust-mediated chlorine chemistry
We often look to the oceans and the deep biosphere for the secrets of our planet
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Look man. At this point, if a Republican gets caught up in a sex scandal involving consenting adults, I want to congratulate them on being the moral leaders of the movement.
she’s got that dog in her, she’s clearly FBI material
We don’t have to put up with this. Not these policies or these politicians or even this system of politics. It's time for us to chase out corruption and build a politics that actually responds to the people.
Pope Leo XIV said the warmongers whose “hands are full of blood” blaspheme God by using him to justify war: “God does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.”
“Your Hands Are Full of Blood” — Pope Leo XIV’s Palm Sunday Message to Warmakers
On the first day of Holy Week, the pope invoked Isaiah to declare that God rejects the prayers of those who wage war — with the U.S.-Israeli bombing of Iran entering its second month.
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i think the lens you need to view this from is that -- among many other things -- that of a sad and desperate old man that has been blocked in virtually every other arena he steps in
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 5h agoPresident Trump said his proposed 250-foot triumphal arch will now be a “top grade” military complex that will house drones, snipers and ammunition “for National Security purposes.” https://wapo.st/4deuPN5
they didn’t let America have a pope because they knew he’d be too powerful
Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · 3h ago“Jesus doesn’t hear the prayers of those who wage war.” — Pope Leo XIV
Wildlife populations have declined 69% on average since 1970. Forests cover 31% of Earth but house 80% of terrestrial species. When we cut forests, we cut life itself. Source: WWF Living Planet Report + UN
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
This isn’t development. It’s extraction. Land taken. Forests erased. Mountains ripped open. Indigenous Papuans pushed off ancestral land. Follow the money. West Papua gets the poisoned rivers, gutted mountains and destroyed forests. The powerful get richer. That’s the fucking deal!
We don't have a "climate problem". We have a greed problem. The planet isn't dying, it's being killed. And those killing it have names and boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide
Oh jfc. Put this energy towards something that matters and will actually work. Guess what? Patriots are going to sell out every game this season, and next season and each season after that. Volunteer for a campaign, help the homeless, work at a food bank, do something that makes a difference.
Woody Harrelson Wtf
ALT: Woody Harrelson Wtf
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leftylady.bsky.social@leftylady.bsky.social · yesterdayTime to boycott Robert Kraft, his football team, and his stadium. Massachusetts, you know the assignment. Let's do this.
You can approach modernity also by reading about colonialism. That takes very much effort, but it covers most of what I've seen in Finnish society, including what was done in Karelia and in the north. That's the frame. It explains a lot. It is revolutionary. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Nutmeg’s Curse
In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and...
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Letting any single group of people have too much money and influence is a catastrophic mistake. Learn about the history of civilizations.
Zach Rabiroff@zachrabiroff.com · 3d agoI'm sorry to have to conclude this, but giving money and influence to nerds was a catastrophic mistake.
Innocent civilians are being murdered with dirt-cheap and essentially impossible to ban tiny flying robots at shocking numbers globally (read our piece below). We have REAL, CURRENT cyberpunk horrors to deal with right now, and we don’t need to waste our time on hypothetical AI basilisks.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · yesterdayIt’s people - not AI systems - who are choosing to murder civilians with small drones at ever escalating rates around the world, as I recently wrote about with Yale’s Nathaniel Raymond for @foreignpolicy.com:
The list that would actually help protect trans rights in the upcoming election would be “red-state Republican state legislators who could plausibly get picked off by Democrats to either get a majority or break a supermajority”