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Martin Vermeer FCD

@martinvermeer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy

🇳🇱🇫🇮🇩🇰 🇪🇺 Retired geodesist. 'Elämäntapafinlandssvensk'. Born 315 ppmv. Star sign: Ursa. Helsinki/Bromarv, Finland #geodesy #geoid #SeaLevel #GPS […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://fediscience.org/@martinvermeer, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · 5h ago

I wrote last week that true journalism is the act of stopping powerful people from being able to blatantly lie unchallenged. This is what true journalism looks like: showing when the authorities are lying through their teeth.

Joshua Eaton@joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 8h ago

EXCLUSIVE: When elected officials and advocates in Danbury, Connecticut, said ICE arrested a parent at a school bus stop Aug. 26, federal officials denied their accounts. I got video that appears to show such an arrest. My latest at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

Chuck Darwin@cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 15h ago

Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large […]

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elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 15h ago

It’s not like Ed Sheeran would have suffered career-wise for taking a stance. He’s too famous. Many celebrities who are way less famous than him have taken way more risks. This is cowardly. This is complicity.

Heidi Li Feldman@heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15h ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/117270402839653485 As my question to Matt indicates, the Roberts Court is increasingly in a pickle. Every lower court that has ruled on the USPS Rule has now resoundingly decided it is likely unlawful and issued or upheld prelim injunctions against […]

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Heidi Li Feldman@heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15h ago

@mattblaze Do you think the Roberts Court will simply not act? That is the easiest way for the Roberts Six to duck opposing Trump but the longer the Roberts Court does not explicitly resolve the status of the prelim injunctions, the longer the confusion goes on.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 24h ago

And here's my theory: the reason the AI-bros are different is purely down to the fact there's a deep cultural fiction pretext for dangerous threats from robots that are people, whereas there is simply no cultural fictional pretext for climate change AT ALL, at least not as ingrained in gen x journos

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 24h ago

This is a great piece but man I really hope the carbon dioxide emissions are not pyroclastic random few other thoughts on this whole thing below in a thread

There is a strange idea out there that, if you don’t buy AI’s criti-hype, you must not take ‘the problems with AI’ seriously. Not so. False threats misdirect both opposition and regulation. A dash of Doctorow’s ‘applied countereschatology’ helps us see more clearly what the problems are. AI may not be able to do your job, for instance, but the threat of it can be used as a disciplinary mechanism to hold down wages: which is exactly what has happened. The data centres may not revolutionise production or open vast new seams of value, and many of their owners may not exist by the time they are scheduled to start operating, but that doesn’t mean they won’t waste enormous quantities of water, power, labour, time, effort, resources and opportunities, as well as spewing out pyroclastic clouds of CO2 and visiting desolation on the natural environment before the bubble bursts, leaving behind abandoned concrete hulks. And just because AI won’t eventuate in a god-device, even one that goes rogue and unleashes biological warfare on humanity, doesn’t mean that LLMs, particularly those with safety standards relaxed in order to compete, won’t behave in unpredictable and potentially ruinous ways. Nor does it mean they won’t be used by hackers, criminal gangs, dark-money-funded political campaigns, blackmailers and various others to sabotage public bodies and infrastructure. Just as there are many problems with the advertising industry that don’t involve subliminal mind control, so the problems with AI that don’t involve a god-device turning against humanity are legion.
Ali Rıza Taşkale@alirizataskale.bsky.social · yesterday

Superb piece by Richard Seymour on AI “criti-hype”: how warnings of extinction can reinforce the industry’s own mythology of technological power. The real dangers lie not in a god-machine but in labour discipline, ecological damage, and concentrated corporate power. www.patreon.com/richardseymo...

Visser One@rymdadel.bsky.social · yesterday

Över 1,2 miljoner vuxna väljare har alltså sett en genomkorrupt och inkompetent hitlerhobbit skapa skandal efter skandal i fyra år och tänkte att han kan minsann leda landet i fyra år till

Zentrum für Politische Schönheit@politicalbeauty.bsky.social · 3d ago

"Die CDU hat noch nicht verstanden, dass sie den Kampf gegen die AfD nicht gewinnen kann. Sie kommen mit Rentenplänen nicht gegen ethnische Säuberungen an. In Sachsen-Anhalt herrscht keine Wut, sondern Vorfreude: Wesentliche Teile des Volkes freuen sich auf das, was die AfD angekündigt hat."

"Davor hatte Hitler panische Angst": Philosoph über Aufstieg der Nazis

Radikal, brutal, gnadenlos: Zunächst wurden Adolf Hitler und seine Winzpartei NSDAP gefürchtet und verspottet, dann gelang den Nazis 1930 ein Wahltriumph. Wir müssen dringend herausfinden, wie das mög...

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