One of the most surprising Iraqi facts I can tell anyone here is that people know what Cincinnati Chili is and eat it. I think the list of places that do that are:
1. Ohio
2. Iraq
This is what I was tweeting about yesterday. We can no longer rely on the assumption ai will be visually distinct or bad looking. Yesterday I heard an ai song that was horrifyingly good to where I was shocked it was ai. You must be against ai on principle, not bc of aesthetic
โEach week, volunteers in a food delivery system fed thousands of families sheltering in place. Tenants with foresight and screwdrivers installed new locks on apartment buildings to keep out feds and landlords. Strippers refused dances to agents and bounced them out of the club. Soccer moms engaged in high speed chases on the freeway. Doctors made house calls to deliver babies. Teachers pooled rent money for their students. A nurse with a handgun kicked out brake lights. A cab driver patrolled sun-up to sun-down, searching for ICE. Youths in balaclavas made enemies of rental car tires. Children of the American Indian Movement distributed gas masks and wild rice soup. Grandmothers stood watch at elementary schools. Couches and spare rooms filled up when addresses needed to change. Immigrants dodged arrest by ducking into alleys and cutting through strangers' living rooms. Protesters did the same. En masse, people experienced themselves outside of, and against, the law.
Countersurveillance, high-speed chases, clandestine networks, encrypted communications, checkpoints, code names. When these things are normalized and taken up by masses of people, it is a qualitative leap forward for the insurgent struggle. This is the basis from which revolutionaries can advance.โ
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We will not be able to freely access the movies, books, and music that we have loved. I would be a have-not. That's what I'm afraid of. This is not greed.
Genuinely insane stuff. The law will require the pentagon to make itself dependent on Israel. Israeli tech, Israeli AI systems etc will be integrated into all the highest classification functions of the US military. They lost the public opinion war so now theyโre going to set it up so any future anti-Israel president will be deposed in a military coup
Public opinion turned against Israel so weโre seeing a full court institutional coup. ID requirements for internet usage, merger of U.S. and Israeli military. The committee to protect journalists declaring that Lebanese and Palestinians no longer count as journalists etc
We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas