In a mock Turing-style test in my #Philosophy of Mind & #AI class, students posed #Gemini an ethical dilemma concerning assisted suicide. Not only did the chatbot argue that the (fictional) person in the scenario should be euthanised, it provided a list of instructions to bring this about. #AIEthics
If Trump likes to see people cheering in the street when the rule of their brutal authoritarian leader comes to an end then he knows what to do.
So much this!
All right, the dogs want walks but it's raining so I'm procrastinating. Gonna do a thread that's been on my mind for a long while, about exactly what "never again" means.
"Never again" got famous after the Holocaust & it's frequently deployed since--in response to, say, the US Japanese internment.
They want a Britain that simultaneously has Ian McKellen's beautiful theatrical voice reading Shakespeare making them proud of British culture and history, but not the ass fucking gay guy who reads from another ass fucking gay guy who's play denouncing race riots was censored 400 years ago.
It’s good to think about unintended consequences, sure.
But an alternate reading would be “maybe we should’ve regulated the nuclear plants AND ALSO demanded coal plants install way more emissions safeguards.
That seems preferable to a “trust me, bro” nuclear regulatory regime, y’know?
But the point here isn’t to self-promote. The point is JAMES PETHOKOUKIS I AM CALLING YOU OUT. YOU WANT TO TALK WIRED FUTURISM FROM THE 90s AND THE LESSONS FROM THE DOTCOM CRASH? PISTOLS AT DAWN, MOTHERFUCKER.
"Worauf verzichten Sie in der Fastenzeit?"
Auf das Fasten.
The road to the far right includes the centre right abdicating its duty as the firewall because it fears social democracy more than it fears fascism.
Deliberately attacking civilian infrastructure is an obvious war crime. We should never get used to this type of warfare. Whenever someone outside of Ukraine says he's "tired" of this war, he should try to imagine how tired ordinary Ukrainians are. They've been tremendously suffering for years now.
Die schriftlichen Urteilsbegründungen des OLG in der Causa Wirtschafsbund sind veröffentlicht worden und tragen vielleicht zu einem tieferen Verständnis der Tatbestandsmäßigkeit der inkriminierten Handlungen bei.
vorarlberg.orf.at/stories/3340...
This whole discourse is a rejection of adulthood & its discontents, a special pleading for men to be exempted from some unpleasantries like:
* No one is entitled to sex.
* It's very common for people not to get what they want.
Women are expected to put up with the above & it's not a crisis, ever.
Es ist wahnsinnig anstrengend, sich ständig über jeden Shit von Faschisten wie Trump empören zu müssen. Man kann es fast gar nicht.
Die Alternative aber wäre, dass wir uns daran gewöhnen und das wäre um ein Tausendfaches schlimmer. Wir müssen uns empören. Nichts hier ist ok, nichts ist vertretbar.
Man sollte die Tech-Bosse als das bezeichnen, was sie sind: zynische, menschenfeindliche Irre mit einem kriminellen Plan.
Dzt scheint die internationale Politik die Handlungshoheit zu verlieren. Sie muss sie durch Regulierung und teilweise Verbote zu KI, Algorithmen, Plattformen, Medien zurückholen.
At this moment, the incessant and chaotic attacks on freedom can make collective action feel daunting or even impossible. And while collective and sustained action is never fail-proof, it has disrupted the administration’s censorship campaign. 11/
So ginge es: Einige Staaten (FR, England, ESP, D, etc) mit sehr guten Mannschaften erklären, nur in Mexiko oder Kanada spielen zu wollen. Vielleicht schließt sich sogar BRA an. Das wäre populärer als Absage und machbar. FIFA wird hier (leider) sicher nichts machen.
Idea: "The unbillionaires list", to promote contributors to the common.
A collaborative website that lists people who created something useful to millions but purposedly choose to put in in the common and didn’t earn money directly from it (or not as much as expected)
Besides those listed in […]
But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes.
What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one
I don't want to paint a rosy picture, because it's a city under siege. People are being abducted all the time. One person told me about watching 1-2 abductions a day, just in her own work following ICE.
It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.
I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
The real child sex trafficking ring turned out to be the friends they made along the way.
Die Grafik zeigt die Entwicklung der Flüssiggasimporte (LNG) aus verschiedenen Ländern in die EU. Der Anteil der USA ist von rund 25% in 2021 auf 60% in 2025 gestiegen.
Trumps Zoll-Drohungen zeigen: Die von der Leyen-Zusage für 750 Mrd. Dollar zusätzlich fossile Energie in den USA zu kaufen, war ein irrer Fehler. Eine weitere Erpressbarkeit ist entstanden. Wir müssen uns von fossilem Gas & Öl befreien. Wärmepumpe und grünen Wasserstoff verbreiten statt ausbremsen!
When a politician talks about paid protesters it's journalistic malpractice to not immediately ask who's funding them, and when they can't answer ask why they can't bribe these paid protesters to tell them.
Also, pointing out a situation sucks isn't the same as saying nothing should be done about it, quite the opposite.
For those asking for more practical steps, here's some of the tools and platforms we use at Bellingcat. The AutoArchiver allows online media to be collected and automatically archived, allowing centralised collection of sources
www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
And to be clear, thats not to say these efforts are worthless or people shouldn't bother, but that there's an opportunity here which can be easily wasted, especially for those who want legal accountability in the future.
