"dumb" can also mean unable to speak we should stop and think about WHY being able to run your mouth is conflated with intelligence

I think it might explain the problems that LLMs are causing. We are confusing talking with thinking.

When the AI techbros are finally hauled up on charges and asked if they are guilty, their only options for reply should be "yes" or "maybe later".

Wait, so you're telling me the powerful elites got behind some nutjob that they thought they could control only to find out that they in fact can't? If only there were some kind of historical precedent that could have warned them of this possibility.

@Lana I have read out this post to dozens of people this week. Thank you for saying exactly what I wanted to say, better than I could. 😘

Here's my wish for MAGA:

I want everything that you just voted for to happen to you specifically. I want it to happen to your children. I want it to happen to your parents and your grandparents. I want it to happen to your job and your business. I want it to happen to your church. I want every single thing you chose to happen, happen specifically to you.

And the fact that you just heard that as a threat is exactly the point.

Europe followed the US into Afghanistan. Then US voters elected Trump and he pulled the plug.

Europe let the US lead the defence of Ukraine. And now US voters have voted for Trump, who wants Putin to win.

Europe has centered it's security politics around a US led NATO, and American voters have now voted for Trump, who wants to pull out of NATO.

It is time for a stronger, more capable, and fully independent Europe.

For our generation, this is our Churchill moment — it is time to lead.

Never forget: the foulest thing you could ever print about Donald Trump is the truth.

I've seen some posts about laying low and blending in, and /s or not, FUCK that!

If I'm being ushered into a fascist dictatorship, I'm swinging at Nazis until I get put down. I have a queer kid, a lovely trans girlfriend, and a shitload of friends worth fighting for.

Be loud, be visible, be ungovernable.

#LGBTQ #Pride #FuckTrump #FuckTheFash #PunchANazi #USPol

Rainn Wilson announces he is leaving Twitter/X

What is a common factor between the following lists?
* Traffic lights
* Parking meters
* Nuclear submarines
* Spacecrafts
* Smart appliances (refrigerators)
* Air traffic control systems
* Stock exchange
* Supercomputers
They all are powered by #Linux 🐧

Around 50 years ago, our rulers chose to begin a massive project, essentially conducting a unique scientific experiment, one with potentially foreseen but possibly unpredictable outcomes.

They decided to go all out in (1) extracting fuels buried deep in the Earth, energy from the sun stored via photosynthesis and animal metabolism over a span of 500 million years as coal, oil, and gas, and then (2) burning all of this they could find in the brief period of a few decades.

Our rulers were warned by scientists that their project involved serious risk, but they figured the power they could gain and the money they could make was worth any cost. They didn't care about the negative consequences, and/or foolishly believed that future technologies (still a fantasy in the year 2024) would somehow be able to fix whatever problems their actions caused.

And now, guess what — we're seeing signs that this experiment might be out of control. Feedback loops are kicking in, causing "natural" emissions which could trigger cascading effects, breaking down the ecosystem. It also appears that Earth's climate is more sensitive to greenhouse gases than first believed. Yet our rulers *still* continue to recklessly burn fossil fuels, always drilling and fracking for more, hungry for power and compelled by greed.

#History #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

If the scientists are "scared as hell," how should you and I be feeling?
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Peter Kalmus, a climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Rose Abramoff, a scientist fired [for protesting] from her job at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, are among more than 1,000 activists taking to the streets in nearly 30 countries across the globe under the slogan “1.5C is dead, climate revolution now!” – a campaign led by Scientist Rebellion, an activist group of scientists, academics, and students committed to disruptive, nonviolent action to raise alarm over the global climate emergency.

“It’s like a nightmare,” says Kalmus, that world leaders, corporate leaders, and people on the street “don’t understand that we’re in an emergency, that everyone’s still acting like things are normal.”

While burning fossil fuels is responsible for 90% of carbon dioxide emissions, the International Monetary Fund estimates that the fossil fuel industry received $7 trillion in subsidies in 2022, a rate of $13 million a minute.

Both Kalmus and Abramoff are incredulous that the Biden administration, despite its proclaimed commitment to tackling the climate crisis, approved more than 3,000 new oil-drilling permits on federal land last year – 50% more than Donald Trump did in a comparable period during his first three years in office.

For Abramoff, activism is “an expression of love, hope, and community”, she writes in an email. “It has been an effective and lasting solution to climate anxiety for me, and has also given me the perspective I needed to be more joyful, fearless, and inclusive when it comes to work, family, and living on Earth.”
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/6/16/what-grief-for-a-dying-planet-looks-like-climate-scientists-on-the-edge-2

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction

Relax! 😎

#GraphicDesign

On this International Workers Day I'd like to give a shout out to all the freelance workers! Enjoy your "day off" friends 😉

@fkamiah17 Reykjavik is also home to this, placed outside the Althing as a constant reminder...

You know it. 😋

#GraphicDesign #Typography #FreelanceDesigner

Check my portfolio here:
https://jane-axbey.myportfolio.com/work

On #InternationalWomensDay2024, I would like to remember that patriarchal societies are quite new in terms of human history, and that over the millennia humans have been around, we have created and lived in many different ways, structured our societies in different ways, and lived in societies that honoured women.
We could change it up again you know. Just saying.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/08/international-womens-day-barbie-change-patriarchy

I have trained an AI
on the art
that was on
the internet

and which
you were probably
sharing
for humans

Forgive me
it was my fiduciary
obligation
to create value for shareholders

Every single AI thing I've ever seen - images, GIFs, short videos, text transcripts - have a veneer of "real" that quickly falls away under any kind of scrutiny. There's nothing behind it that means anything, and if you look hard enough, you can start to see how the AI's output was essentially generated off of actual, valid, human data. It's just our words and thoughts and ideas washed through billions of dollars of tech and spat back at us with no thought behind any of it.