In chapter seven, "The Religion of Technology: The Myth of a Masculine Millennium," Noble may have identified the roots of techbro misogyny: a history of boys clubs chasing the millenarian goal of godhead.
#TheAIGrift
Run on bank?
Access journalism is the folly of the modern American press. If you're not adversarial with your subject then you're just a public relations agent.
#BrownJournalism
Get that girl a 🍔!
Great line!
"The prospect of another epoch-making historical leap thus generates simple-minded delight... among those man-child technical enthusiasts who are encouraged to indulge their socially irresponsible fantasies at public expense...." (chapter three)
#TheAIGrift
They oppose universal rights, an idea originating in the Enlightenment. This is what they mean when they excoriate "globalization"--by which they mean "watering down" their revanchist notions of race and culture. Destroying global trade is a necessary step in achieving their blood and soil aims.
Are you talking about Harlequin romance novels where authors are paid for each written page?
#PieceWork 😁
That's the Second Gunning Jesus speaking.
We should call this "milporn"--the only way some overcompensating men get their rocks off.
#MilPorn
The chief conceit of LLM boosters--until recently--was that scaling would lead directly to AGI, analogous to arguing that if your communications instructor could master medical jargon they would somehow develop the skills of a neurosurgeon and also have a witty bedside manner.
Isn't Copilot based on OpenAI?
So, we should quit that too, right? 🤔
Is that German toilet humor? 😁
Just picked up this 30-year old book, Progress Without People, that takes our struggle back to the Luddites.
I'd also recommend @bcmerchant.bsky.social Blood in the Machine, a more modern telling.
"Eaten by worms"? 😈
Maybe Trump is the exit dose this whole fucked-up system needed? It’s like chemotherapy — the poison ALMOST kills the system but out of that chaos comes the death of the cancer? If this tears apart MAGA *and* neoliberalism then go man go.
Which one was Gog and which Magog, again?
If it's true that Bibi told Trump last year at Mar-A-Lago about Israeli intentions to attack #Iran in the first half of this year, then who was the bad faith negotiator on nukes: Iran or Trump?
What did Trump know and when did he know it?
Exhibit B in my case. 🙄
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Rubio says here that Trump decided to "preemptively" attack #Iran because Israel was going to attack--assumption: with or without us--ergo, Trump chose to attack first in hopes of lowering cost of Iranian retaliatory action for an Israeli attack that was imminent.
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George R.R. Martin has nothing on the O.T. 😁
Encouraging people to read The Bible is the surest way to destroy their faith.
Most modern minds simply cannot maintain the cognitive dissonance required to keep faith.
The cherry-picked Jesus of love is also no longer safe. 😈
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Who could have predicted that a bronze-age war god would make a terrible unifying force for a modern, secular society? 🤔
"War is good for business."
--Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #34
"Peace is good for business."
--Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #35
#Iran
True, and market action will speed up his desire for short-lived action. However, will the situation allow him to exit so easily from the shitstorm he has created in the Middle East?
#ItHasHappenedHere
Also required, presentation of certificate that one has completed a tour of Ken Ham's Ark Encounter.
White Christian nationalism is a terrible "mind virus." 😔
Look at all those gas tanks in need of sand. 😍
😂 Real Science versus topics for the cerebrally challenged - lol
Can I get some of what he's smoking?
