On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org
Words are Not Things
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#psychologist #appliedbehavioranlayst #schoolpsychologist. Husband. Dad. #Greek descent. Hamlet, Act III, Scene II, Line 87
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down. - BF Skinner
Curtis Silwa was asked if he felt okay with losing and contributing to Zohran Mamdani’s victory and he responded by laying into Bill Ackman and Andrew Cuomo.
.@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social is be interested in your thoughts on the series “Severance”.
@hozier.bsky.social covering “Fairytale in New York” on @saturdaynightlive.bsky.social is the greatest Christmas carol ever
We are so thankful for all the #SchoolPsychologists in our lives 💙 Treat yo’ self today using code PSYBERMONDAY for 15% off your NYASP Store purchase! #weareNYASPstrong nyasp.wildapricot.org/NYASP-Store
πάθει μάθος (Wisdom emerges from suffering) #ancientgreek #quotes #wisdom
All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory —- Viet Thanh Nguyen
“The world constantly finds novel ways to make you depressed” - @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
To be free from convention is not to spurn it, but not to be deceived by it. It is to be able to use it as an instrument instead of being used by it. —Alan watts
In a democracy, there is no check against despotism, because the principle of democracy is supposed to be itself a check. But it guarantees only that the majority will not be despotically ruled. - BF Skinner
Evolution forged the entirety of sentient life on this planet using only one tool…the mistake - Westworld.
Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behavior, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist-Yuval Noah Harari
When you’re on shuffle, any song can play at ANY moment, and it's through that randomness that we can totally receive meaning in our lives.
The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man [sic] something to be a genius about. - BF Skinner
Words are not things. They are combinations of sounds that refer to things. And some words do not refer to things. They are the worst sound combinations of all.