Critiques from a nice Cat

fuck a job
get a life

[dom von der holy crusade on ai @dom_vom_gym]

Leo the call is yours

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

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

[Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy]

the Prairieland convictions mean: if your ideology puts you in opposition to the state, there’s now a framework for making said opposition a federal crime. quotidian protest stuff is evidence of terrorism is someone around you does something the government *decides* is violent.

[Jill Tucker @jilltucker]

And then you read that the US House of Representatives will vote a day before that game on an amendment to eliminate the Peace Corps, which costs 1/6 the price of the Tomahawk missiles the US used in the war on Iran.

[a convincing name @treelinefury]

@DFWSupCommittee more severe punishment than the child-raping epstein class, insane work as usual from ol' pedo texas.

[DFWSupportCommittee @DFWSupCommittee]

“Judge O’Connor stated from the bench that he is giving maximum sentences to the Prairieland sentences because “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.”

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

The sentences handed down today are a huge threat to the possibility of a democratic society. The prosecution is rife with constitutional violations, but 30 years in prison (more than anyone for January 6) for moving some magazines? 50 years in prison even for those not involved in planning the protest? The evidence of an illegal conspiracy is non-existent, but this is how the authoritarian dragnet targets those fighting against repression. Everyone should be learning about this case. https://t.co/XLki7OBuID

[Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy]

if you’ve ever worn black to a protest, used Signal, or carried a first aid kit, a federal jury just decided that can all be evidence of terrorism. a quick thread on the Prairielands convictions from last week, and what they mean for the right to protest in the US:

[nik ✌︎('ω')✌︎ @wastedlilac]

hey you wanna see something cool?

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Oh those people are terrorists, you say? What terrorist things are they doing? Oh, they're killing military forces who are invading their country? Okay.

Oh and those other people are terrorists, you say? What did they do? Oh, they broke into a weapons factory and destroyed military equipment intended for use in an active genocide? Okay.

Oh and those other people over there are terrorists also? What evil terrorist crimes are they guilty of? Oh, they held pieces of cardboard with the words "I Support Palestine Action" on them? Okay.

Maybe I just don't understand what terrorism is, then.

[Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC]

If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it.

[🚶🏾‍♀️ @chrskte]

europe spent 400 years using slave labour in colonies to build their wealth, rebranded this extraction model in the 20th century and somehow their citizens still believe their social conditions is a result of some superior intellect rather than inhuman violence

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

By the way, if you compared Ben-Gvir's text here to Nazism and you're at an American university as either a professor or student, you can be punished under the new IHRA hate speech codes for "anti-Semitism" that Trump imposed on US academic institutions. It bans that:

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Congats to the 22-year-old son of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) for raising $30 million on his new company with a $300m valuation.

His prior work -- as a Senate intern and then in the Congress Influence department at Andreessen, Horowitz -- is a testament to our meritocracy!🇺🇸

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Call me whatever you want, but I believe the goal of a society should be to secure the happiness and highest quality of life possible for its citizens and not to endlessly generate capital for the ownership class at the expense of everyone else.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

israel is the most entitled nazi goverment i have ever seen, 80+ yrs of unquestioned loyalty by the west and now when they're asked to stop murdering lebanese children, they treat it like its another holocaust! they literally believe its illegal for others to defend themselves

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Lebanese turtle conservationist killed by Israeli strike https://t.co/9aF4neqstO

[Wagie Capital @WagieCapital]

We’ve found the next grift, folks

I didn’t think AGI could be topped but antimatter is a game changer fake tech narrative for SpaceX $SPCX

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

craziest part about this is that the end result was a Community episode getting pulled off Netflix and police budgets going up by like 700%