batsforpeace

batsforpeace, 1 month ago

It’s kind of funny how the techbro philanthropic ideologies also keep evolving so fast, like seasonal fads, and people sometimes put them in their social media profiles as a virtue signal.

I think one aspect for why they exist is to provide an excuse for skipping over real on the ground issues like nukes, climate change, sustainability, geopolitical tensions and so on. It’s very convenient to say one is worried about ‘the digital AI god just around the corner’ and therefore all other worries don’t matter anymore, you still paint yourself as this farseeing defender of humanity while doing nothing to really help it. A legitimacy booster for elites, kind of like how medieval rulers would get these (probably all fake) religious relics, like the nails from the crucifixion, to buy themselves extra legitimacy with people.

batsforpeace, 2 months ago

BBC - Czech Republic struggles to contain surge of whooping cough [18/03/2024]

In the first week of January, say the Czech authorities, there were 28 registered cases of whooping cough. That figure now stands at 3,084 – a number not seen since 1963. Sufferers include the 80-year-old mayor of Prague, Bohuslav Svoboda, who is an MP as well as an eminent gynaecologist.

Health Minister Vlastimil Válek told Czech Television the current rise in cases is down to a combination of two things: a resurgence in respiratory diseases as society abandons strict Covid measures; and incomplete immunisation in children. The whooping cough vaccine is applied in five stages, the first three in the first 12 months of life. Almost all children receive these initial doses. However, only 90% end up receiving the final two, administered around the ages of six and ten. This, said Mr Válek, would explain why the greatest rise is among Czech teenagers.

Reuters - Poland’s capital Warsaw earmarks $30 million for bomb shelters and other security [13/03/2024]

Poland’s capital Warsaw will spend 117 million zlotys ($30 million) in the next two to three years on bomb shelters and other security measures, with war in neighbouring Ukraine in its third year, the city’s mayor said on Wednesday. “On our own initiative we undertook an inventory of places for sheltering,” Rafal Trzaskowski told a news conference after the publication of a report by Poland’s Supreme Audit Office into the provision of bomb shelters in the country.

According to the fire service, less than 4% of the population can count on a place where they could shelter, the audit said. The report also found there was a lack of basic regulations for shelters, including the necessary equipment and technical features required of protective structures. Underground car parks and metro stations were among around 7 million square metres of space in Warsaw that could serve as shelters, the mayor said.

batsforpeace, 4 months ago

it’s always funny how tech bros will be very opinionated about geopolitics (or anything really), used to being pampered I guess so they think their brainworms are like some rare nectar to be poured into their community with delight

if yud-rational can convince them AI driven paperclip production is mankind’s biggest threat then pushing atlanticist imperialism apologia shouldn’t be hard either

batsforpeace, 5 months ago

RFK Jr. even has a little left-adjacent fan club for some reason, consisting of Aaron Good, Dan Kovalik and probably others I’m not aware of, then again Tulsi Gabbard also convinced some people last election

batsforpeace, 6 months ago

‘anything culturally progressive must be a secret plot by western NGOs so lets discard all of it’