After exposing the US’s war crimes and Israel’s genocide at Coachella the lead singer of The Strokes, Julian Casablancas, isn’t done speaking truth to power:
“American Zionists get the benefits of white privilege, but act like they are Black people during slavery. You are not oppressed. You are going to a wedding in Tel-Aviv when there are 80,000 dead Palestinians half a mile away.”
@Youkhna@kylephillipsau@MinimalCompany How about you stop giving directions to contact you on tweets, and actually take action on the request ie refunding
@imranye It’s never been a 1 size fits all with this. But it’s annoying when people act as their take is somehow superior, especially when it can sound smart, viz renting
Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network.
In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome.
AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement.
We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only.
We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements.
We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.
Why did some Muslim scholars living in the United States, home to perhaps the wealthiest Muslim communities in the world, and at the same time one of the societies with the most extreme wealth inequality in modern history, choose zakat for this particular purpose? And what is the significance of making this position public as a form of "Fatwa" ?
This is only my own conjecture, but it seems unlikely that this statement was primarily intended for the Muslim community itself. Rather, it appears to have been directed elsewhere. At the same time, toward Muslims, it may function not so much as a legal ruling as a form of "psychological" pressure, encouraging them to act in a certain way.
What is probably required in response to this fatwa is not so much a debate over its content itself, but rather an examination of the context behind it, especially a understanding of American Muslim society over the past twenty or thirty years, along with its political dynamics and business models.
@AlexDuncanTX Lmao. What a slimeball you’re @AlexDuncanTX . Last thing American needs is another snake calling himself a patriot in our govt. God forbid!