Arianna

~Don't accept crumbs when they're hiding cake.
Feminist, .Progressive, Social Justice Advocate. Legal Observer. #FergusonFrontliner, #Don't Panic, Plan.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“If we wish to diminish the love of money which, we are told, is the root of all evil, the first step must be the creation of a system in which everyone has enough and no one has too much.”

— Bertrand Russell

[Arianna @AriannaEditrix]

@AgathaChocolats How to can a cat

[Arianna @AriannaEditrix]

@elonmusk https://t.co/2HFO5HNxwC

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

This one hits hard.

[Brendan M. Jones 🇺🇸 @brendanmjones]

If anyone reading this is an attorney in Arizona or knows one, this is for you.

Snuggles' family needs a lawyer. Lucy and I will be doing everything we can to help @LoneStarChica bring national media attention to this case. This would be a great chance for you to make a name for yourself. Don't shy away from the moment. If you want to go down in history as a hero, this is your chance.

I know the right person will see this. Step up. Seize the moment.

#SaveLucy
#SaveSnuggles

@jenniferevn22

[Kelley Petrie Dameo @KDameo]

@WallStreetApes Nobody! Nobody should be recognizable at a @McDonalds unless of course you’re looking to shorten your lifespan & “live” in physical misery. 🤮

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

McDonald’s is testing new drive thru AI technology that has facial recognition that can recognize you when you pull up

They are also equipped with license plate readers

The demo shows future capabilities like facial and license plate recognition to greet repeat customers by name and recall “usual” orders

This isn’t just a concept, it’s live and being used right now

It’s testing at 5 U.S. locations right now and has already processed over 1 million transactions, with 90% handled completely without human intervention

I don’t want McDonald’s to have my biometric and license plate data

[Arianna @AriannaEditrix]

Not a chance in hell would I use this McDonald's thing

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

Don't forget to ask for Big-Ass Fries! Since we're living in Idiocracy now...

[Nordstream Rack @IrateMaxwell]

I've visited Big Bend 3x in the last year, and it is dozens of miles in the baking desert to the nearest settlement. No one is choosing here to jump the border. They're destroying one of the most beautiful places in Texas for no reason.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: HELL YES! The European Union strikes a CRUSHING blow against Jared Kushner's corrupt resort development by warning Albania that it could endanger their efforts to join the EU.

This scandal just shot through the stratosphere...

“Albania should refrain from actions that could undermine the fulfillment of the closing benchmarks and [we] expect the Albanian authorities to act without delay,” stated a spokesperson for the European Commission.

Kushner's multi-billion dollar project has caused nationwide protests in Albania, with massive crowds taking to the streets to demand that their government block the development. As it turns out, the President's crooked son-in-law is reviled all around the world.

The plutocratic project — which includes a $1.4 billion development on an island and a $4.7 billion deal for a stretch of protected coastline — threatens crucial wildlife habitat for flamingos, turtles, and other animals. The protests have been affectionately nicknamed the "Flamingo Revolution." Because of the risk to wildlife, the EU is warning Albania that they may be in violation of the Union's environmental rules if they allow the project to proceed.

“In the EU accession process, as part of the closing benchmarks for negotiating Chapter 27 on environment and climate change, Albania is expected to align fully with EU legislation in this area, including the Birds and the Habitats Directives,” said the EU spokesperson. They called on Albania to rescind its changes to the Law on Protected Areas and "terminate" a law regarding strategic investments.

Most exciting of all, the spokesperson informed POLITICO that Albania's Minister of Environment Sofjan Jaupaj has informed the European Commission that the construction project has been suspended. A full environmental impact assessment will now be conducted.

“We have already expressed our concerns to the minister of the environment about the potential shortcomings of this project,” the spokesperson added.

The wisest path forward here for Albania is self-evident. Kushner's development is deeply unpopular, designed to create another twisted playground for global oligarchs, sex predators, and war criminals. It does nothing for the Albanian people. And on the other hand, admission to the EU will create a brighter economic future for everyone in the country.

If they must choose between the two, Albania has no choice but to reject Kushner.

Please ❤️ and share if you stand with the Albanian people!

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

“AI” seems like super advanced technology, but it is also the END of technology if we don’t stop poisoning ourselves with it.

There is a whole generation of coders who currently don’t know how to code anymore. Chatbots do it for them.

But chatbots only work on human data…

If everyone is using chatbots, software development is frozen in time. Everyone is just remixing old ideas, just breathing their own exhaust.

Every LLM is a very lossy codec. It compresses the entire history of human knowledge through training into a giant file. To decompress the parts you want, you query it with natural language.

But if you aren’t putting anything new in the file, you’re just getting the same stuff back, maybe remixed in a different way, but there are no novel ideas being added. And if no one uses their brain anymore, because their “agent” has replaced cognition, there never will be new ideas.

Chatbots are not just a dead-end technology. In the limit, they are the end of ALL technology.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

If you want to push back against tech’s encroachment into every corner of our lives, you need to be reading books. They’re keen to create a world in which most people are illiterate & addicted to slop, a world without poetry, imagination or knowledge. Reading is resistance.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Billions of years from now our sun, then a distended red giant star, will have reduced Earth to a charred cinder. But the Voyager record will still be largely intact, in some other remote region of the Milky Way galaxy, preserving a murmur of an ancient civilization that once flourished — perhaps before moving on to greater deeds and other worlds — on the distant planet Earth.”

― Carl Sagan

[Arianna @AriannaEditrix]

I wonder where everyone has gone

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel dropped a bomb on Mona’s home in Mansouri, South Lebanon, today.

Mona is not a fighter.

She is an environmental activist who dedicated her life to protecting endangered sea turtles.

Because of Israel, Mona is now fighting for her life in a hospital bed.

[Arianna @AriannaEditrix]

He was so prescient. I wish with all my heart that he were still here. However I think that seeing America in this state would have killed him. I miss him so much

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

[Arianna @AriannaEditrix]

@ChrisMurphyCT If only my County were not controlled by a bunch of corrupt Democrats. So we have a choice here between MAGA and people who don't give a s*** about us at all. #Cahokia in fact the entire metro East area has been left to rot and they want to redevelop in a floodplain

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

What a woman does with her body is none of your fucking business.