“Beyond dystopian.”
Novelist Dave Eggers is sounding the alarm about AI, which he argues is harming children’s education:
“You have a ten-year-old who is unprecedented in the history of the world. There's never been anyone like that person… To think about that one-of-a-kind-in-the-history-of-humanity person shopping their vision out to a machine, how tragic that is. That's beyond dystopian. It cannot be allowed. Not even one ounce of AI can be allowed in the humanities and youth education.”
Ancient Greeks living in Egypt proved the Earth was round by observing that shadows cast by sticks had different lengths in different cities at the exact same time.
“Real scientists are delighted when they find out they're wrong... There are too many people in this world who want to be right. And too few who just want to know.”
— Brian Cox
Today, I spoke with the President Herzog of Israel.
I reiterated that the appalling treatment of civilians aboard the Gaza-bound flotilla was unacceptable, and that respect for human dignity must be upheld everywhere, at all times.
I underlined the imperative of de-escalation in the Middle East, and the importance of a genuine resumption of dialogue among all parties. Progress toward peace and stability in the region must remain the clear, shared objective.
“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.”
— Edward W. Said
A six-year-old Palestinian girl was killed by an Israeli air attack on a displacement camp in Khan Younis as she played at the door of her family home. A woman was also killed in the attack, which injured several children and a baby.
MASSIVE PROTEST IN NAPELS ITALY…
Protestors carried a massive symbolic shroud, inscribed with the names of more than 21,000 Palestinian children killed by Israel.
If 9 Jewish paramedics were killed ANYWHERE in the world it would be called terrorism.
And we’d never hear the end of it.
Israel slaughtered 9 paramedics in 72 hours, most of which we’ve seen on film, and we only hear their names on Twitter.
BREAKING:
Israel is raining white phosphorus on civilian areas in Ali al-Taher, South Lebanon, in the middle of the night.
Burning homes, fields, and civilian areas with internationally prohibited chemical weapons is a war crime.
Cardinals mate for life.
They share food, sing duets together, and call to each other when one gets separated from the other.
A bonded pair will often return to the same yard for years.
That bright red cardinal you’re seeing this spring is probably the same one who visited last year… and the year before.
Some love stories just last a lifetime. ❤️
“This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country's working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them the money to buy its products, and, through its ownership of the media of mass communication, influences the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of virtually everybody. To parody the words of Winston Churchill, never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.”
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited