LFG

#reading #history

@paninid This is a particularly obvious and egregious example of what ALL opinion polls do. Pollsters are scum and what they do should be illegal and prosecuted.

@paninid
Bonus corollary: the background claim the question is being asked about is also probably not true.

The total revenue of the AI companies is not in the trillions (their debt might be)

Nobody's out there spending trillions *as a customer* of the AI companies.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/news-i8koidj5z/-/a-5uFSLTHvSxuMnOZb9XqxrQ%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0

Apply Betteridge’s Law here and now…

@paninid Bad Thing has a dubious silver lining. Knowing this, how much do you love Bad Thing?

@paninid does this make me have a more favorable opinion? No. It makes me more suspicious because how is that supposed to work?

@paninid I think it would be more honest if they just Venmo’d you a fiver for clicking a button that says “I ❤️ data centers”

Just got a text message for survey that is pushing a very specific message about data centers.

This is how wildly wrong ideas become injected in the bloodstream of otherwise normal people.

#CriticalThinking

Totally normal.

@paninid #hottakesareinsightful

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#WordsMeanThings

@arrrg co-sign: to quote Killer Mike, “Now is the time to plot, plan, strategize, organize, and mobilize.”

I still truly believe that we don't need to resort to violence to stop these fascists. We just need to organize.

Luigi Mangione enters guilty plea in NYC federal court
https://gothamist.com/news/luigi-mangione-enters-guilty-plea-in-nyc-federal-court?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Gothamist @gothamist-Gothamist

@paninid Or headline: Massive AirBnB Data Breach, Customer PII Leaked

The world needs more science fiction of the social- variety.

Rather than imagining how life could be different because of advances in purely mechanistic technologies, why not imagine how life could be different because of advances in social technologies: new inventions of ways societies can be organized or groups of people can relate to each other.

Some concrete examples of existing social technologies: Amish barn-raising, dolphin surf-fishing, online crowd-funding, Capoeira, potlucks, punk rock concerts, etc.

Each of these things was invented at some point, spread (not inevitably) through social communication, allows groups to achieve a specific purpose (or facilitates several different outcomes) and may or may not require specific tools or mechanistic technologies. There will be new social technologies in the future, and they could radically change how human societies function and what human lives look like, just as mechanistic technologies can.

In the current sociopolitical climate, we see one vision of the future, heavily propagandized, which assures us that advances in mechanistic technology will make life ever easier for humans, leading into a golden age where human needs are met by robots. In this imagination, each individual can actualize the productive capacity to meet their own needs because an individual's productive capacity has been multiplied in every dimension by new mechanistic technologies. Humans can finally be rid of the messy complexity of community-dependence and be totally free because mechanistic technologies will replace the need for community connections to satisfy material desires.

But there's an ugly underside to this vision explored by cyberpunk, where advances in mechanistic technologies bring us to a point of total hierarchical domination and control. In this future, productivity-multipliers are recognized as force-multipliers, and the humans who gain control of them use them to subjugate everyone else.

Some of the best science fiction authors, like Le Guin or Asimov, look at not only mechanistic but also at social technologies, and often at the interaction between the two. Social technologies also have the capacity to radically change the human condition, but they don't lend themselves as well to the power fantasy or libertarian utopia of the self-sufficient individual. Social technologies involve people satisfying their needs through dependence on others, and in turn being obligated to take part in communities.

As an anarchist, I believe that the social technologies needed for human flourishing have not been invented yet. I also believe that with the right social technologies, even without significant advances in mechanistic technologies, it's possible for everyone to be able to meet their own needs through community, in a truly sustainable way.

I wish we had more authors using their craft to help explore the space of social technologies and inspire others to join in that exploration, so that the technologies we need can more quickly be invented and evangelized.

#anarchy #SciFi #technology

RE: https://masto.ai/@unusual_whales/117094689569060867

Headline in 2027: AirBnB stock declines after latent customer feedback that apps, website, and tools are hated because nobody trusts them and they keep breaking. It’s become a problem.

@briankrebs I love this... surveilling the surveillance

Our goal in the war we started

Having failed to achieve any goals we had at the start

Is now to undo some of the damage we caused to ourselves

Which we are also failing at

While swallowing other losses that are entirely our fault

And leaving ourselves weaker

While hoping you don’t notice

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/low-oil-prices-trump-goal-iran-war-vance-blockade-economic-pressure-rcna592504
#Iran

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Mood. As they say.