y’all are letting american individualism melt your fucking brains oh my god hearing a baby cry while you’re getting coffee is not going to end your life. it’s part of being outside. in public. where people are. babies are people btw
“they should teach media literacy in schools” english class “they should teach students how to spot misinformation” it's english class “they should teach kids critical thinking” its called engish class
i think peoples politics would become very different if they stopped seeing the global south as a collection of humanitarian crises and started seeing it as the majority of humanity
having an open-earth courtyard in the middle of the house is all fun and games until your rooms are crawling with the most ominous insects and half the floor space is painted with the insides of centipedes and earthworms
potentials of ai?? okay, ai can potentially make you ILLITERATE. it can potentially make you LAZY. it can potentially DRAIN OUR and DESTROY our ecosystem. ai won’t do us any good, it causes fake news, deepfakes, etc. let’s educate ourselves. #NoToPaxSilica
Y’all aren’t listening: data centers are killing bees. Every third thing you eat? Bees made that possible. They are way more important than any fancy AI or server room we keep prioritizing.
What really fucking boils my piss is that we had the opportunity to change the world after Covid. The pandemic produced a fascinating real-world experiment. It demonstrated that human activity can alter emissions and local environmental conditions extraordinarily quickly
one of the reasons Gen Z is so unafraid in protests is because they don’t have a future to be excited about. Housing is unaffordable, Currency converts to peanuts, education giving diminishing returns….
When people say, “crime is a social construct,” they mean this:
An individual can end up in jail for littering, while a corporation can contaminate the air, poison the soil, and pollute the water of an entire community and often, no one goes to jail.
"the human brain has yet to adapt to our world" is a weird way to say "the system we set up to make a handful of people extremely rich generally sucks for everyone else"
This the shit that’s gets me so juiced about this planet but also pisses me off bc there’s a group of shit ass people taking this away from me and future generations for money
Christopher Nolan says that “AI is a Trojan horse that everybody knows the Greeks are inside.”
“It’s a transparent horse, it’s made of glass. Everybody can see what’s going on inside of there… I’ve never seen a technology advancing so rapidly, so completely rejected by the public.
Everybody’s suspicion of it is so extreme, particularly young people.”
(Source: https://t.co/PeBgot8W1E)