Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche on 🦋

Human rights advocate • Glob affairs+tech specialist • Assoc Dir @ieGovernance, deciphering how we the ppl should rule world in revolution • My views • 🇺🇦🇵🇸

[Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche on 🦋 @alejandro_roche]

…Algorithmic recommendation collapses taste onto a handful of safe attractors.”

“The result is an ecosystem in which the cost of failure has become unbearable just as the cost of production has collapsed: an economy of infinite remixes of finite ideas.” https://t.co/MthJSbK0f6

[Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche on 🦋 @alejandro_roche]

“The paradox of our cultural moment is that the means of producing novelty have never been so abundant…and yet the cultural industries have rarely been so timid.”

“Data-driven greenlighting rewards the legible past over the speculative future…

[Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche on 🦋 @alejandro_roche]

“The country that once gave sanctuary to Karl Marx should not be frightened of his modern social-media disciples.” https://t.co/KF7cHx1HAF

[El Periódico @elperiodico]

Uno de cada tres jóvenes y la mitad de los inmigrantes están en situación de pobreza tras pagar su vivienda https://t.co/5K5O2oTbmF

[Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche on 🦋 @alejandro_roche]

“If the human being is treated as something to be perfected or surpassed, it becomes easier to accept that some lives are less useful, less desirable or less worthy. In the name of progress, ‘necessary sacrifices’ may begin to be justified.” https://t.co/Pvhu813u8e

[Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche on 🦋 @alejandro_roche]

“Elon Musk’s role in catapulting humankind to the stars may make him, in retrospect, a hero of the age. What a shame that he is perpetuating some of humanity’s most primitive ideas, too.” https://t.co/sW5pyeCkxB

[Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche on 🦋 @alejandro_roche]

“Combat deaths in the past four years have been the highest since the end of the cold war.” https://t.co/FL4a8esKKj

[Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche on 🦋 @alejandro_roche]

“Jewish Bundists bitterly opposed Zionism, believing, as @mollycrabapple explains, that ‘the establishment of Israel would lead to perpetual war with its neighbours and the people it had dispossessed.’” https://t.co/DNE8dEf4q4

[Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche on 🦋 @alejandro_roche]

“Napoleon represented the end of History. The passage from France’s revolutionary and legal ideal to its universal realization by Napoleon is the passage from potentiality to actuality. That is why the Battle of Jena marks the end of History properly so-called.”
—Alexandre Kojève

[Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche on 🦋 @alejandro_roche]

“The human mind is no longer the only system capable of reasoning, insight or creativity.” https://t.co/K2jjNPi4bV

[Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche on 🦋 @alejandro_roche]

Pope Leo: “AI…demands to be disarmed – freed from logics that turn into an instrument of domination, exclusion and death…It must be at the service of all and of the common good.” https://t.co/Vls9u5LiqM

[Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche on 🦋 @alejandro_roche]

“Some in NATO worry not only that the U.S. might sit out a war with Russia, but that it could actively thwart other members’ responses.” https://t.co/vKRB4WUzFl

[Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche on 🦋 @alejandro_roche]

“The deeper task is to recover an older, more radical promise of genuine self-governance: not choosing one group of elites over another every few years, but taking on the shared responsibility of governing together.” https://t.co/XjhMOa62E2

[Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche on 🦋 @alejandro_roche]

“Europe could Europeanise NATO’s structures; it could form a new alliance; or it could build on embryonic ones, such as the ten-member Joint Expeditionary Force…Each would be risky—but less risky than doing nothing.” https://t.co/H0HP6cixZR

[Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche on 🦋 @alejandro_roche]

“Outside AI-related sectors, policy uncertainty has pushed U.S. business investment into a slump worse than the UK’s after the vote on Brexit. See-sawing tariffs and hostility to immigration, even for skilled workers, have also weighed on the economy.” https://t.co/Mi4Wd67VtC

[António Costa @eucopresident]

Appalled by the treatment of flotilla members by Israeli Minister Ben-Gvir. This behaviour is completely unacceptable. We call for their immediate release.

[Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche on 🦋 @alejandro_roche]

“Large-language models have speeded up the targeting process five-fold, allowing the U.S. to identify and hit 5,000 targets per day.” https://t.co/Tvcncuzwgc

[Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche on 🦋 @alejandro_roche]

“There are plenty of tools for sharing the prosperity that mass automation would create.” https://t.co/UZj5PtQRL0

[Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche on 🦋 @alejandro_roche]

“[I]t is worthwhile in this phase of history to entrust legislative power not only to elected citizens but to citizens chosen by lot as well. If we can rely on the principle of sortition in the criminal justice system, why not rely on it in the legislative system?”

[Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche on 🦋 @alejandro_roche]

“Our democracy is being wrecked by being limited to elections, even though elections weren’t invented as a democratic instrument.”

David Van Reybrouck makes “the case for the reintroduction of a far more democratic instrument historically, sortition.”

[Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche on 🦋 @alejandro_roche]

“Elections are the fossil fuel of politics. Whereas once they gave democracy a huge boost, much like the boost that oil gave the economy…now they cause colossal problems…If we don’t urgently reconsider the nature of our democratic fuel, a huge systemic crisis threatens.”