omg i forgot about that but thank you

The cover of Rua M. Williams' book "Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We Are Wrong About AI". The cover image is a spiral of yellowish orange leaves set against a red background.

Come join @civicsoftech.bsky.social's May book club on Wed, May 20, at 7pm ET. I'll be leading a discussion of @fractalecho.bsky.social's Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We Are Wrong About AI - and Dr. Williams is joining too!

Register at: www.civicsoftechnology.org/book-clubs

yes! thank you!

if anyone's interested in sharing, i'm looking for fun stories of individuals & communities pushing back against AI in various forms. examples on my mind already:

- DeFlock
- anti-data center movements/successes
- blocking/neutralizing Waymos

stuff like that. suggestions welcome

kind of related thought

I'm sure I've said it before & others have but the only reason white people think America is suddenly fascist is that they have never learned to see the Black people who bore it before as actually human like them. Until they do, they will fix nothing about this situaion.

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like you can always say "yeah, that was shitty and small of me, and i'm sorry" without digging your heels in. apologize, turn off replies, go to sleep and try to wake up less grumpy lol

"i didn't tag anyone" is so funny, like he literally posted "Or you could get your takes from the Kirby avatar"

like let's be serious, we're not talking about a broad casual swipe at anonymous accounts on here or something.

you can tell iran has been quietly working up these quotes for years, because they've all been bangers.

Let's get #StupidSuez trending

personally beefing? absolutely, i live for that shit.

but in the course of your work? i don't know. don't you have better things to do?

if you're professionally beefing with and subtweeting a kirby account you could probably be spending your time differently.

fuck off with this

Video Captures Enormous Warehouse Fire Raging Near Los Angeles

nyt link from yesterday

Ontario warehouse arson suspect posted live video showing fire being ignited. Police investigating video Chamel Abdulkarim was arrested after an Ontario warehouse fire. He had posted what seemed to be a first-person video on Facebook of setting fire to paper products in a warehouse.

not 100% sure if the video is real, but it seems to be; LA Times and NYT (and a few other outlets) are reporting on the arson

the meme about firebombing a walmart, except i've sloppily edited the text so that "on twitter" is replaced with "in ontario california" and "then not firebomb" reads "then they literally firebomb". in full, the screenshot now reads: > People in ontario california will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a Walmart" and then they literally firebomb a Walmart

it's officially out! :)

I told someone that I wasn’t looking to buy a smart stove or washer.

They replied, “But it’s okay if people need accessibility technology!”

I just stopped talking and walked off. I already do the internet online. I cannot also do the internet in person.

based on the narratives of people employed to make you feel powerless, you sure do seem to be trapped between a rock and a hard place.

folks are already saying electricity rates are only doomed to go up because you're not pushing hard enough on growing energy production. it's ALREADY your fault that electricity rates are going to go up in the future. but simultaneously you should exercise no control over data center development 🥴

Bears mentioning that everything everyone on this site feared Trump would do to Iran yesterday, Israel is doing to Lebanon today.

omg

x-files scene, agent doggett asking a guest character "how do you know about this place?"; scully is looking off-screen

scully says "she was looking for something" and the camera is lingering on a folder cabinet that's open to the "FAFO" section

this one exchange and choice of shot aged really well. almost incredibly well

which is to say... it's a question what think tanks will come up with to respond to this retort.

i doubt zionists will ever abandon the refrain of "does (israel|a jewish state|...) have a right to exist???" because ceding that question would be kind of giving up a lot.

but as people like @abdulelsayed.bsky.social et al confront these people, and as they realize that they can't just look condescendingly at you and say you're antisemitic, they'll actually need to come up with an answer to "what do you mean by a jewish state?" that doesn't sound as bad as apartheid

said this elsewhere, and it's obv but maybe worth saying

what she means by a "jewish state" is an ethnostate guided by the principle of jewish supremacy at the cost of Palestinians. zionists *in the US* are not quite brazen enough to say it in polite company so they freeze when confronted (for now)

america siding w/israel, rather than saying "no we agree with iran on this, lebanon is part of the ceasefire; we'll talk with netanyahu's body double about it and get them to stop for 2 weeks", is probably going to reap whatever the opposite of dividends is for a while. similar to the assassinations

i'm sure iran is going to love the revelation that their good faith interpretation of the ceasefire was not shared. that'll definitely help grease the skids for negotiations