You too can buy a Tesla, and support the main share holder Elon Musk, who abuses his social media platform to convince his 185 million followers, that the US justice system is corrupt, because his favorite criminal is brought to justice.
Beware of politicians who blame vulnerable groups for your problems - they’re the ones not talking about making your life better but about making someone else’s life worse.
Their target may be refugees or a religious group or an ethnic group or trans folks. But whoever the vulnerable minority is, the message is basically the same: you’re supposed to believe that denying these people their rights will somehow help you and your family. It won’t, of course. Don’t buy it.
The thing is Ai is a tool of capitalism as much as guns are a tool of war. Sure they can exist outside those roles, but the reality they make both war and capitalism deadlier and more costly.
@AlexanderKingsbury@shiri@mmby@Daojoan “Could” is not a substitute for “Will.” NFT could have revolutionized a lot of things but the most common use case for them became to scam people and launder money. Given the implementations I see now, I have no reason to be even slightly optimistic about what we call Ai.
Also, no artist has ever asked for this, and most have had their livelihoods jepardized by how it. But sure, let’s keep pretending we’re doing them a favor.
I'm starting to think there will be business opportunities that are branded as "AI-free" much like food is branded Organic.
I'm already starting to look for products like that.
It's the same rationale for why my refrigerator doesn't need to be connected to the internet. Or why my hammer doesn't need to ask me about my day when I take ot out of the toolbox.
Society: You must cover your genitals at all times but wear clothes that represent your genitals because while you’re not supposed to think about other people’s genitals I get very uncomfortable when I can’t tell what genitals other people have.
@renegadejade Society: everyone cover your genitals. But you, cover half your body, and possibly your shoulders, legs or any part that we may have a problem with, oh and no red.
I used to be involved in political demonstrations a lot more when I was younger. I still see their value.
People would tell me, I shouldn't expect the demonstration to 'work', ie I shouldn't expect it to change the thing I'm protesting. I don't.
My take has always been that we demonstrate mostly to change ourselves, to give each other courage and resolve to do the small day-to-day small things and work that create real change.
That's still why I get up each morning. The work still needs doing
When Trump wins, people will silently march in the street, Proud Boys will attack them, brutalize them, some will be unalived, and the cops stand by and will do nothing.
Being told the #economy is great while everyone around me is struggling to keep a roof over their heads or fucking eat is probably the biggest gaslight I have ever witnessed.
Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results may not be the correct definition of insanity, but it is the definition of American #protest culture. You can’t defend someone if you refuse to actually defend. Fighting for what’s right is just that; a fight.
If there’s one lesson we should have learned over the past two decades, it’s no amount of playing by the rules will protect you from being portrayed and punished as a #anarchist.
It’s amazing the things some people will say to you if you are not 100% aboard with #ai.
Do these people really believe in Roko’s Basilisk? Is there a quota of tiny twitter/mastodon accounts to bully in order to not get tortured for eternity?
