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@Tutanota@mastodon.social They are moving so fast, to make you think you’ll get tired of protesting. They’re locking everything down, making everything surveillance, in hope you won’t have time to build options. Fascism is a cult of speed.

@overholt@glammr.us Bullshit trying to sound philosophical. Which is exactly what AI is most of the time. In Logan's Run, a classic sci-fi picture, all the books had been destroyed, and people could only read summaries of them. 🤔

@KrissyKat@hoosier.social It’s got electrolytes

@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green Oh boy, is our history written for purpose of legitimating existing power structures. It’s rare to find an instance where it isn’t!

@Enea90@mastodon.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu Ukraine does have extensive programs for foreign mercenaries to join already. EU government could for sure support these programs more widely, as the Ukraine is currently suffering from a severe manpower shortage. But more critically, we need to get off our high horse here, and see these as oppportunities for learning for our militaries, not as philantropy. North Korea, Iranian missile engineers, and Chinese observers are doing it on Russia's side, why aren't we? 🤔

Did you know? ”Privatisation” is a word invented by the German Nazi party, for their policy of selling off public assets and those seized from political enemies to new owners of proper aryan descent? 🤔 #privatisation #ontology #semiotics

@slightlyoff@toot.cafe Never believe a word of any billionaire, or even a centimillonaire. Period. Power corrupts. Everyone. Without exception.

@nwhyte@wandering.shop The problem with racism is the same as #authoritarianism in general. These people are losers, but they have one skill which is violence. In more egalitarian times, these people stay at the bottom rungs of society, and they know it. So they keep waiting for someone to authorise them to do their violence, and thus rise in social standing.

@randahl@mastodon.social Also… Btw. One of the first things USA bombed in Teheran, was the wrestling stadium. Five Tomahawk cruise missiles. Wrestling is the pride of Iran. It’s one sport they dominate consistently on the world stage. I’m a former wrestler. I know the cultural significance of the sport. They pretend it’s ”just war”, but all wars today are actually cultural genocide. All of them.

@grassrootsforeurope@mas.to Another stirring of the pot for racists and authoritarians to signal and find each other better. It’s not about facts. It’s about who’s on what side and who can you trust not to tell on you when you break some bones.

@tante@tldr.nettime.org What these factories will produce are weapons. You should think of #AI as dual-use technology. It has some civilian uses, but the tip of the spear is in #military and surveillance. #Weapons don't have to be elegant. They don't need to hit every time, as long as you have a lot of them. That's what modern ML does best. AI tools will accelerate development of weapons. Especially #autonomousweapons. These data centers will undoubtedly become the nerve centers of a global world tyranny.

@anneapplebaum@journa.host ’Other messages, many of which have now disappeared, told people where to buy wet suits, flippers, goggles, floats, and even waterproof bags for documents and cellphones. Screenshots from Google Maps told them which sections of the Ceuta beach might have fewer police. Moroccan border guards were either unwilling or unable to stop them.’ This was an engineered psy-op with political intent. I’m thinking Russia, maybe Israel. Both have a heavy presence in Morocco. #nafo

@jensorensen@mastodon.social A tech bro not so long ago proudly described to me that even paying people different wages for the same job is somehow absolutely awesome. 😥

Post-Keynesian economist Steve Keen shows how the #AIBubble is related to all the previous overinvestment bubbles. He’s got the models and the math to prove it, and it’s easy to follow. But most importantly, he then goes and models also the hypothetical post-AGI market with huge job losses. Keen shows, that if the tech bros keep insisting on current #Neoliberal models without #UBI funded by a government deficit, we might end up in a Hunger Games world. https://youtube.com/watch?v=TD3FB9NkwSQ #economics

@SuneAuken@mastodon.world Yeah. I like Varoufakis' economic policies quite a lot. But he, like may others in the western modern left, have been co-opted by Russian "anti-imperialist" talking points. Russia is still the master at infiltrating western anti-establishment grass-roots movements with it's own goals. 🤔

@valoisa@eliitin-some.fi @magdalenahai@mstdn.social Tähän reply guyna vois vielä vetästä sivusta, että on se jännä, että ne voi masinoida meistä tuhansia, jopa miljoonia meistä kuolemaan jonkun öljyn takia ja se on ok, ne voi lahjoa poliitikkoja niin että ihmiset saa syövän ja sekin on ok, mutta kun tavikset tuo giljotiinin pihaan niin heti ollaan heikkona ja terapian tarpeessa. Toisin sanoen. Voiman tasapaino on keskimäärin aika lailla niiden puolella, mutta giljotiini tässä palauttaa sen voiman tasapainon. 🤔

@sysop408@sfba.social @Free_Press@mstdn.social Wildberries does not just sell body armour, but also stocks a huge cache of components that many of Russia’s drones are built of. The Russian government directly pays for Wildberries to import and store essential components for drone manufacture from China. Can’t remember the amount, but it’s a huge amount of money. You are correct, these are legitimate military targets. They are part of the supply chain Russia uses to run an invasive illegal war.

@ml@social.mitexleo.one @HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social 100% What the state Venezuela means for USA now is in practice a resource colony, enforced by military force, with Marco Rubio as it’s colonial viceroy. Also, I think it is the single-most-effective move that has enabled USA to attack and sustain a long war with Iran. 🤔

We are so failing the test of the Russian Kaliber cruise missile hitting Poland. There is no way this is a mistake. Kh-101 Kaliber cruise missiles use intertial guidance and camera based terrain mapping to fly their targets. This missile was programmed to hit a corn field deep in, and not kill anyone. #Poland should be calling #Article5 right now, but they are afraid Trump will say: "you're on your own". This is exactly what Vladimir Putin wants. By not responding #NATO is weaker, every day.

@greenpeace@mastodon.social Yes. And the propaganda is on every day, on every possible channel, on every device. That this is our task, to be tools of an extractive system for the benefit of the very few, who will gladly burn the whole planet just to rule over the ashes.

@jonsnow@mastodon.online Total surveillance state by corporation is no different to total surveillance state by government, on the street level. 🤔

@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot Now this looks like an America I could have a military alliance with again. 🤔 The current one wants me to fight it’s fascist wars for it. 😓

@drwhax@infosec.exchange Yes. As code robots LLM’s should not be underestimated. They lose to humans on depth, but beat us in breath, width and speed outright. They are weapons. First and foremost they should be thought of as weapons. 🤔

@jkohlmann@mastodon.social Liberal industrialists always love fascists, because both fear socialism like the plague.

”Peace will come to the Middle East, when all the terrorist forces disarm.” Except when they’ve done that before, Israel massacred civilians where they used to hold territory, and the USA failed to hold them accountable. Israel removed the culprits from power, but nobody got convicted, of anything. Whatever you think of Palestinian armed resistance, nobody’s going to disarm. They would be utterly stupid to do so again. #palestine #gaza #lebanon #resistance

@anneapplebaum@journa.host ’Last week, according to El Pais as well as other Spanish, international, and Moroccan media outlets, many Moroccans saw a TikTok video nevertheless claiming that “the Spanish border is open and you can cross without papers,” meaning they could reach the European continent.’

@rozeboosje@masto.ai @Sanderde@mstdn.ca @McWabbit@tenforward.social @randahl@mastodon.social Same

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social @serbianism@mastodon.social There is no fix but the guillotine for these neo-feudalists, sorry! 🔱🔱🔱

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io I mean, we have to have some. Because AI data centers are military technology. But let’s not have more than we need for defence purposes, please.

@schwaigbub@mastodon.social @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu This is all so stupid. Those ”AI Factories” are mostly weapons design factories and surveillance hubs. Sure, we need some to build our own defence when inevitably USA goes fascist, but let’s at least speak of them as they are: Dual-use technologies with some civilian applications. #datacenters #weapons #development

@kim_harding@mastodon.scot British kings have always been kind of terrible. And they’re at it again in the guise of ”democracy”. TBH. I mever liked much the brits. The Welsh and the Scots share much more of my idea of how a society should look and feel. And this is just an opinion based on history and experience visiting the UK. Don’t get offended, whoever YOU are reading this, okay?

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Driver either failed intelligence test, or was using AI 🤔

@McWabbit@tenforward.social @AliceStollmeyer@eupolicy.social We are far from the days when we acknowledged that ”the higher the wall, the more likely is is the immigrant workers are going to STAY” .. 🤦‍♂️

This just dropped. Is it fascism yet? #fascism #influencer #trump2028

@theZosia@mastodon.com.pl @warandpeas@mastodon.social If it was bad then, it’s even worse now. Why are so many bringing up Charlie Hebdo? Do you think you need the far right to save your rights to draw cartoons critical of Islam? Is this cartoonist’s targeting with violence somehow less important? 🤔

@ManWhoTalksToHisHand@mastodon.social @tante@tldr.nettime.org I mean, the rich know. They already know it’s going to get nasty. People will be out for blood. But, that will take some time, so they’re speedrunning the creation of robot armies to protect themselves. They think they can make it, in the coming decades when the shit finally hits the fan, but they’ll have to burn the planet to protect their assets.

@ManWhoTalksToHisHand@mastodon.social @amerpie@social.lol To be fair, states have always been based on that. I guess we have been trying to get away from that since the French revolution tried to put the ideas of the Enlightenment to practice. But we keep miserably failing at it. We sell out our own principles through economic liberalism, and then disenfranchised masses finally go for another tyrant instead of socialism. We’re so afraid to not have a leader to tell us what to do and how to think

@amerpie@social.lol This is the actual position of some Pirate Parties, btw. While operating in the position of power it’s you who should be subject to surveillance from the public, not the other way. Open Government, or no government.

@ZLabe@fediscience.org Just wait until the north ice cap melts, and instead of reflecting sunlight, it just goes straight into the water! 😓

@gvenema@fairmove.net @anneapplebaum@journa.host Very reactionary, indeed. And I do see this as a sort of showing of ranks. Who can you trust not to rat you out when you go and do a little homegrown rightwing terrorisn to folks with the wrong skin color? The oldest trick in the book. An age-old trick Bonapartists, Mussolini & the nazis also used: Promise enough people on the bottom rungs of society, who have no other skill but violence, a better rank in society by authorising them to use it.

@DrALJONES@mastodon.social @Herman@mastodon.world Yes. It's the Scofield reference bible, that is published by Oxford. This reference bible is Dispensationalist, and was heavily marketed, especially in Baptist and Evangelical churches. Dispensationalism was invented by an Irishman called Scofield in the mid-1800's. This creed is still considered heresy by some denominations, because it changes the end-times prophecies in a ways that contradicts the Jewish teachings. But it benefits Zionism greatly.

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange Such bullshit trying to appear philosophical. As is AI, and all the billionaires alike.

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io Yes. But while they’re up, you need them to respond to new weapons features being developed by the adversary. What makes machine learning a weapons technology, first and foremost, is because it allows for quickly modifying cheap technlogy that you can additively manufacture, and it’s capacity for automating those cheap weapons. Even after the data center is destroyed, you should still have the backups and can keep producing the things. You don’t rely on it real-time.

@stux@mstdn.social Yes they are. But by not prosecuting them we’re making excuses for much worse and much more serious criminals to do the same.

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social ”It will eat at you. It will creep into your conscience. It will gnaw at your soul. Maybe not today. Maybe not even next year. But one day, perhaps many decades from now as you prepare to meet your Maker, you’ll think back to this moment in time. You’ll wish you could come back. You’ll condemn yourself for not speaking up, for not speaking out, for not clearing the incredibly low bar of opposing genocide.” 100% So many still in the FA stage, not ready for FO…

@randahl@mastodon.social Yesss!

@slightlyoff@toot.cafe To add: Even a machine learning system trained on all of human output won’t avoid this problem: The pattern in the data is to become corrupt with power. 🤔

@beeps@social.beeps.gay There we go. Pretend you're good guys, take the money & run, leave the world in worse state than you found it.

@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk @nickapos@mastodon.oncrete.uk Police state by corporation does not act any different on the street level than police state by government, by the way.