Students see no issue using AI to complete their assignment because they have been conditioned to treat schooling as a means to a capitalist end and not a tool for acquiring knowledge. The proliferation of AI is just making this very explicit for those who didn’t already know.
He's not just defending AI energy use. He is smuggling in a whole anthropology where humans are basically inefficient meat computers that you have to pour food and years into before they become useful. And once you accept that, the next move is obvious. If people are just costly biological training runs, then burning mountains of electricity to build synthetic intelligence starts to feel not only equal, but superior, even if it negatively impacts actual humans.
That is the dystopian. It makes human development sound like a bug in the system, and it makes sacrificing human and creational flourishing for more computational power sound logical. To him, the grid gets strained, prices go up, ecosystems get hit, but hey, humans eat too, so what's the difference?
The difference is that humans aren't an inefficient line item. They're the point. If your worldview can look at a child growing into an adult and describe it as energy spent to train intelligence, you haven't said something profound. You've revealed a horrifically rotten worldview.
Elon Musk’s chatbot has been “undressing” women and children in public. Journalists are letting xAI off the hook by pretending the bot is responsible. (link in next tweet)
We need to make sure Mamdani ends NYPD–Israeli collaboration and shuts down their office in Israel.
He’ll have the power to fire the current Zionist NYPD commissioner and appoint his own. For everyone who said “wait until he wins” to criticize, start demanding this on day one.
Palestine wasn’t a risk in Mamdani’s campaign, it was the reason he won. This was a referendum on Zionism, and the victory we need to build on is the people’s rejection of it. The real win isn’t electoral, it’s ideological. We must capture, deepen, and organize on that rejection.
"I chose this song because I remember rocking my newborn on my chest, singing it to him and crying because he was all I wanted for so many years. After a painful miscarriage, I was so grateful that I was finally holding my precious rainbow baby. Life is such an astonishing miracle and should be treated that way."
"When I look at Rahaf, I see my children. I see the same precious miracle. When I look at her mom, Israa, I see myself. I see that all she wants is for her children to be ok. Nothing else matters. But unlike me, her daughter has no legs. Unlike me, her sons are starving in Gaza."
"Recently, my son wanted to hold my hand all night. He did. As I held his little hand, I thought about Israa’s face when she saw her sons in Gaza on video chat. I saw the pride of a mother showing me her sweet boys, but also a deep pain and tears falling down her cheeks because she isn’t able to hold their hands."
"I have seen something that I will never forget these past few years. I have seen people view children in Gaza as not the same as other children. As not fully human. It has been deeply disturbing, and it’s how these war crimes against children have been able to be committed."
"The sleeping world will wake up to the fact that they were the same. 17,000 children killed, the biggest group of child amputees in modern history, the orphans, the starved — They were our babies."
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@TVietor08 They didn't "change their mind", they're jumping off a sinking ship.
They spent the last two years facilitating the very thing they're now condemning.
If they were serious they would resign in shame and submit themselves to a human rights tribunal.
People like Mamdani because he seems to stand for something, even if it's just buses free at point of service, a modest, one per borough, public grocery store program, and pre-K for kids. No one knows has any idea what Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries or Kamala Harris stands for.
"If the Houthis continue to fire missiles toward the State of Israel, they will suffer painful blows...we will hunt down and eliminate Abdul-Malik al-Houthi in Yemen as we did with Deif, Sinwar and Nasrallah."
Houthis have no idea who they are messing with.
In the minds of right-wingers, the “global elite” are not the billionaire tech oligarchs who were trumps invited guests at the inauguration, but rather non-binary baristas and elementary school teachers with pride flags in their classrooms