A Centrist Democrat yet again leaps on the sword of refusing to read the room to a disastrous degree.

lol

Edwards said that the sheer volume of torture and abuse allegations documented in the report cannot be written off as the work of rogue actors.

“It is my view that the number and cruelty of allegations compiled portray gross disregard by Israel of its duty to treat all detainees humanely and without discrimination,” she said, “and this has encouraged, tolerated, and condoned torture and ill-treatment, at times with support at ministerial and functional levels.”

I would argue that the purpose of AI is to convince us that technology can actually give the wealthy access to the benefits of the talented. So long as everyone believes it does, it doesn’t matter if it isn’t actually true… until of course the bubble pops but if AI bullshit imprints into people a diffuse sense that technology makes humans inherently less valuable (which I think it has) it has done its job for the ruling class no matter the temporary loss of money or that it isn’t profitable.

Tech companies can go back to “temporarily” hiring tech workers back (until AI improves enough, which is JUST around the corner effusive Wired articles will claim) under worse pay and conditions in exchange for higher productivity expectations and everyone in the ruling class wins in the end.

AI will not pay off as a bet.

They own infinite shovels and are too incompetent to figure out what use digging holes is to people.

Utah might as well be a case study done to prove christian extremism is as batshit crazy and obsessed with destroying itself and bringing about a self-fulfilling prophecy of apocalypse as any other extremist endtimes cult.

https://www.nps.gov/glca/learn/news/20240809.htm

^ an Omen for the future of Utah

hell yeah

Poor little boy, every time Elon wins it must not feel that good because even though he has won he is still Elon Musk and thus has ultimately still lost.

Elon Musk is one of the most powerful people on earth and yet he vigorously vents a loser energy out of him that only extremophiles who have never seen the sun can tolerate, like a Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vent but lame as hell.

To culturally associate tech workers as low skilled and low paid so that worker leverage can be reduced.

The strategy has succeeded spectacularly even though AI is mostly a scam and will never replace skilled human tech workers, just help rationalize dehumanizing them…

It also corrects the original sin of Search Engines which was to cleanly differentiate search results from ads, AI corrects that by demolishing any sense of barriers between ads and search results. Now it is a big black box and you just have to hope the ads are obvious enough you can detect they were hamfistedly jammed into the training.

The prime minister is facing political pressure to tackle grooming gangs, which has become a key campaigning issue for Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in Labour’s heartlands.

I am always surprised when the UK shows it is even more full of and controlled by authoritarian rightwing fascists than the US, it hardly seems possible and yet here we are.

Conservatives are in the process of killing science in the US, why are people acting like NASA has a future?

I am so tired of this empty vessel taking up headline space that could be focused on actual people of substance.

Microsoft is a Genocide Profiteering company.

Useless company

The point of AI is to justify doing this to all tech work, it really doesn’t matter if the AI works so long as people believe it does out of fear.

What makes this mix so compelling is that Navarrette is able to play countless conflicting emotions all at the same time, a woman only occasionally in charge of her own body and agency. When her actions get frightening, it’s always compounded by her haunting expressions: frozen in a smile as she waits all day for Bear, maniacal as she’s running around at night or frenzied while attacking a romantic rival. Each moment feels organic and fresh, holding on to different levels of herself as she’s infiltrated by the cosmic hell she’s trapped in. It’s the movement of something inhuman trying on her skin, struggling to remain poised during every challenge posed along the way.

AI chatbots are measurably toxic in a way social media generally isn’t however.

The way I would frame it is people are nowhere near as motivated to survive as we commonly assert, rather people are primarily motivated to live.

It will not work to build power with the promise to provide people a marginally better way to survive, even if is completely true.

You must put forth a vision for how people can actually live a decent life to get them to invest hope and energy into a movement or campaign.

The only other alternative is motivating people with violence, and this is why centrist neoliberals are often incapable of winning against fascists who are aesthetically obsessed with violence as a display of social status. Fascism is an evil motivator, but it is a motivator and it derives its power from masses of people who have lost the ability to believe anyone will help them actually be able to live a decent life, not just survive, which is the inevitable endstate of neoliberal austerity politics.

The hardest part about air defense is making sure EVERYONE involved is trained, aware of the context and not bullshitting.

This is why you can’t bullshit air defense.