I’m not intimidated by AI. I’m repulsed by it. I’m not jealous of AI art. I know it’s predictive rather than creative, and built on stolen content. I’m not scared of new technology. What I'm scared of is a world without trees, bees, fresh air, and clean water.
Too many people do not understand that it fundamentally does not matter that a “progressive” politician in the US lacks the leverage against capital necessary to effect meaningful change. Anyone with a modicum of political judgment understands that this is the case.
In a violent and undemocratic empire like the US, there is very little that progressives can practically do to change the status quo. The room for political manoeuver is microscopic, and it is a sad reflection of the general inertia of US politics that people are so fired up by the very minor and temporary advances that capital allows officials like Mamdani to eke out for the working class.
Precisely because there is so little that can be durably won within the framework of electoralism, the great responsibility — the only responsibility — of elected office in the imperial heartlands is to use the position to expose the source of the asymmetry in power, raise the consciousness of the masses, and support the advancement of the people towards a revolutionary horizon.
This does not mean that you have to cosplay Lenin. It means that you have to have your finger on the pulse. It means you have to meet the people where they are, while working to expand the horizon of political possibility rather than canalising popular energies into the narrow realm of the ‘realistic’ — a euphemism for a politics that has suffocated and withered in the capitalist straightjacket. It means knowing you will fail, explaining why you are failing, revealing what can be unlocked by the working people’s victory, and organizing the next generation to struggle in ways that can succeed.
The criticism is not that this or that progressive is not doing the impossible. It is that they claim capacities they do not have, constrain the political horizon through repeated acts of accommodation, and fail that precious responsibility to “tell no lies and claim no easy victories.”
The fact that generative AI has created a fundamental doubt in reality. We now pause to check if an artwork, video, or design is even human-made before we can fully appreciate it. It has damaged the instinctive joy of it. It’s sickeningly tragic.
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.
This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.
Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.
Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.
Abolish ICE.
@stephenasmith fuck you sack of shit.
Can’t believe I’m defending a chud but your response to Lane’s retirement was unacceptable.
@espn is just barstool with a nicer set
In an age dominated by technology, in which efficiency and profit often take precedence, it is so important that we continue to cultivate a spirit of contemplation and allow time and space for beauty. Such an attitude will greatly help humanity, especially young people, to discover the ability of art to uplift and reveal the depths of the human spirit and our openness to the divine. Contemplation presents a marvelous opportunity to encounter the God who is Beauty.
@ckahn truly awful reporting on your end. Cannot stomach listening to another second of your propaganda - state approved of course.
You are not a journalist, you’re a mouth-piece
With Smart Jizz, I am able to leverage ai to track how well my boys are swimming
Through one simple procedure of putting a neuralink in my balls I can now map out my wanks - for the greater good of humanity
When I was born in 1993 our debt was 4 trillion. The boomers have increased it to 40 trillion in 33 years. There wasn’t a war they didn’t vote for or tax dollars they didn’t want to send to foreign countries. History will say boomers were the most corrosive generation in American history.
Wonder how many kids are going to dress up as Mamdani this year in New York for Halloween
Definitely a top 3 costume, up there with Brunson and Spider-Man
"there is an ontological difference even before an aesthetic one". This is key. It does not matter how good your machine is at regurgitating a simulacrum of human imagination, how skilled it is at fooling people, or how efficient it is at that subterfuge. It is a priori fucked up
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.