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Two mantras for the 21st century: "Machines are not living beings" "Living beings are not machines"

Please take a moment to watch this video, and if you're between the ages of 17 and 55, sign up to DKMS UK, which is a global stem cell donor database. You could help to save Mike, or someone like him. Link: dkms.org.uk #SaveALife #HelpNeeded #donors

Regarding Elon Musk's America Party: Perhaps if Musk had never backed dictator-wannabe Trump, never supported the fascist authoritarian takeover of American democracy, never promoted far-right conspiracies and disinformation, never gave a Sieg Heil Nazi salute at Trump's

I trust the French justice system will uphold int'l law, including the ICJ recommendation not to transfer weapons to a state committing war crimes. My recent investigation found Elbit Systems to be directly implicated in Israel's ongoing int'l crimes including genocide.

Do u guys think the fall of the Roman Empire was also this incredibly stupid

How absurd is this? We read great novels for the pleasure of it!

A US spy-tech giant that is fueling the worst excesses of Trump’s regime, is poised to capitalise on Wes Streeting's 10 year health plan 🕵️ We say Palantir should be nowhere near our NHS. goodlawproject.org/palantir-poise…

Just started reading this. Y’all should join me. It’s 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 “This is an era where Capital’s traditional preference for the conveniently hidden exploitation of invisible workers extends to the denial of their very existence —a violence now enacted at unprecedented scale.”

“Inside these machines, past cultural forms, the products of past labour, are ground into a COARSE STATISTICAL PASTE, irreversibly detached from their origins, their provenance annihilated, attribution obliterated, & finally excreted as temporal anomaly.” 👀 Meredith Whittaker

New essay, out today in Eurozine: eurozine.com/seeds-of-anoth…

Netanyahu says Trump can help secure a Gaza ceasefire by pressuring Hamas, when in fact it is Netanyahu's refusal reasonably to countenance a permanent ceasefire (for fear of losing power and facing his corruption charges) that has been the main obstacle. reuters.com/world/middle-e…

OMG.

It's in the headline

"The opportunities offered are not pathways to genuine creation rooted in lived experience or skill, but simulations of creativity itself. The user, alienated from the authentic labour of making, engages instead with a frictionless interface that delivers simulacra on demand."

Sure, OpenAI appears to spend more money on compute than they earn, but did you know that they ALSO spend more money on employee comp than they earn? Per The Information “OpenAI stock compensation expense soared to 119% of revenue last year” — and that was pre Zucker-poaching.

pure fuckery

1/ Marx’s Taxes in India (1858) is a brutal exposure of how imperialism weaponizes taxation to extract value from the poor. On paper, Indians paid less. In reality, they were “crushed to the dust”. Here’s how. 🧵

I mentioned it earlier today, but everyone really owes it to themselves to read this brilliant essay by atomless creativeapplications.net/theory/predict…

“Google created a regurgitation machine that is destroying livelihoods.” —Gisele Navarro