Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
Spraying one dandelion with Roundup can kill over 100 bees.
The flower doesn't die instantly. Bees will keep visiting it for days, taking the poison back to their nests and hives.
Never spray dandelions in spring and summer.
They're one of the first major food sources for emerging pollinators.
Let them bloom or remove them by hand.
“My childhood home is being taken by @GeorgiaPower to supply power to a new data center…” 🤔
They are now seizing people’s homes in Georgia via eminent domain to build power lines for a $17 billion data center.
One has been forced into Utah. And xAI in Memphis. And on and on.
Sound up.
This video is from my bedroom this morning, side by side with a live map of all armed surveillance drones circling over Lebanon. The one I zoom in on is the one you can hear in the video.
They are loud and they are low, and we never know when or who they will strike next.
We are living in a hell created by billionaires profiting from the defense industry.
Drones are already being tested out by some American police departments.
In 1947, a 57-year-old Miami journalist published a book that saved the Everglades from destruction.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas spent five years researching The Everglades: River of Grass.
Before she wrote it, the conventional view held that the Everglades were a worthless swamp to be drained for development.
After she wrote it, the conventional view was that the Everglades were a one-of-a-kind ecosystem worth protecting. The book was published the same year Everglades National Park was established.
She didn't stop there.
She founded Friends of the Everglades at 79 and lobbied for protection laws into her nineties. She was still fighting development projects when she turned 100.
She was functionally blind in her last decade and still giving speeches, still writing, still driving the Florida legislature insane.
She lived to 108, outlasting most of the developers she fought.
Her book's opening line became the foundational sentence of American wetland conservation: "There are no other Everglades in the world."
She wasn't a scientist. She was a reporter who looked at something and realized nobody was telling the truth about it.
Some of the most beautiful architecture in the US was built by the Works Progress Administration in the late 1930s and early ‘40s
We need a bold return to ambitious public projects
⚪️According to the @CNRSL , Israel has destroyed approximately 37,836 homes in Lebanon since March 2nd. 1.2 million Lebanese are currently displaced.
Forced displacement of civilian populations and destruction of civilian homes and infrastructure are war crimes.
This clown. Witherspoon sold a majority stake in her production company, Hello Sunshine, to the Blackstone-backed Candle Media for $900 million in 2021. Blackstone is currently a massive investor in AI infrastructure, including a $25 billion project for AI data centers.
A 90-year-old woman emailed me this week. She told me she was raped by her doctor 60 years ago.
"A woman lawyer told me not to prosecute him because I would be dragged through the mud," she explained.
I get emails like this almost every day. These women aren't asking me for anything, except to acknowledge them and their pain.
They want the world to understand that they have been silenced by a system in which men say "eight years ago?" as if there is a deadline that expired for their trauma.