The 1990s adoption of neoliberalism by the centre left really ought to be seen for what it is: the successful capture of liberal politics by what is straightforwardly a eugenicist, far-right ideology. It's just that almost no one did the reading.
Could it be that one thing these times are showing us is that the way to a flourishing future refuses to come through slight course corrections of systems that are founded on extraction, othering, and domination?
(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para6 graph (2), no State or political subdivision thereof 7 may enforce any law or regulation regulating artifi8 cial intelligence models, artificial intelligence sys9 tems, or automated decision systems during the 10- 10 year period beginning on the date of the enactment 11 of this Act.
This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years.
from @404media.co
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All of what @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com said.
Plus the devastating ecological impact of all this pointless computing power.
I hate it I hate it I hate AI too
The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform.
This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
Great job everyone
Let's do a roundup of all the letters from different professional sectors objecting to the supreme court ruling & the EHRC's bathroom ban, and promising to defend trans people in their spaces!
For anyone feeling alone in this, look at how many people will stand with us:
Leaders of scholarship, teaching, learning, and academic expertise in gender, feminist, women’s and sexuality studies across the UK.
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"Liberal parties have failed and we need a real democratic socialist alternative that can advance the interests of working-class communities, environmentalists and other progressive forces with a shared vision for a better world."
nowthenmagazine.com/articles/jas...
Nothing is over, that is the only certainty.
The other certainty is that everything ends, even this.
—Joshua Clover
Goodbye, friend. You made me want to do better
This new White House executive order says that the US Attorney General is going to prevent states from implementing democratically passed laws regarding climate change and clean energy. It scarcely needs stating at this point that this is wildly, unambiguously unconstitutional. Dictator shit.
Sometime ideas / lessons take a while to sink in.
I am hiring a part time postdoctoral research assistant for a six-months fixed-term contract. bathspa.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/...
Two extremely powerful executive branch officials—Vice President Vance and uhh idk Grand Vizier Musk—demanded that a reporter be fired over story about a member of Musk’s staff that no one disputes is entirely true. The guy resigned over it, it’s so true.
"This naturally entails a social extermination, which is already underway and which we will see worsen frighteningly in the coming years. But the social extermination underway within Western countries is only part of the global genocide that is taking place on the border...” Bifo
“The declared intention of the most aggressive Nazi Liberals, like Javier Milei, or like Steve Bannon and Elon Musk, is the definitive demolition of public structures (healthcare, education, transportation, etc.) that made social survival possible." Bifo
Digital futures of education are often defined by the edtech investment industry in terms of market value forecasts made with predictive technologies
Our new paper on edtech venture capital just out for a forthcoming special issue on assets and rents in education www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Everyone needs to know that these fires were made possible by global heating, which is caused by the fossil fuel industry, which has lied and blocked action for half a century. And that this will all get much, much, much worse until we end the fossil fuel industry
I had a great time collaborating with @moreperfectunion.bsky.social on this video looking at advertisers returning to Twitter/X to gain the favor of Musk because of his close ties to Trump.
Maus author Art Spiegelman’s next comic will be about Gaza, in collaboration with Joe Sacco. He thinks he will struggle to find a publisher in the United States.
“I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”
You can't clean the lake whilst it's still being polluted.
Similarly, individual behaviours aren't going to solve climate change whilst fossil fuel companies are allowed to pollute our planet.
There are good ideas here but remember who is primarily responsible
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
one of my favorite stories I did at Vox was about Jimmy Carter and his role in energy efficiency standards at the DOE. Truly underappreciated legacy that tangibly improved everyday life www.vox.com/climate/2023...
Several elderly veterans were arrested in Syracuse earlier this month for digging a grave in the lawn of the local federal building to symbolize the graves of children killed in Gaza with U.S. weapons
This would be a much stronger article if it did not contaminate Jimmy Carter’s legacy with an unnecessarily positive and frankly dishonest appraisal of Biden And Obama ‘s environmental legacy.
TECHNOLOGY Microsoft Is Forcing Its AI Assistant on People—and Making Them Pay The tech company has made Copilot part of its 365 subscription service in several markets and raised prices
“What about people who don’t want to pay for an AI assistant to spruce up their documents and summarize emails? They are out of luck.”
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/micr...
