It’s being used to surveil and terrorize people at home and abroad. Google for example — and other large companies — has provided AI systems for the American and Israeli militaries. The DHS and ICE are using it to track and kidnap people.
The other ideas of what it can do is PR. This is what it is
In THEORY the point of jail is to make sure people show up to court - but since 2018 LASD has often failed to get them there
At one point >80% of buses were broken & 1/3 of inmates were missing court dates. My latest @latimes.com is a deep dive on how it came to this
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Assuming you're not intentionally a transphobe, please just ditch Harry Potter. There's plenty of much, MUCH better-written fantasy made by authors who aren't absolute shit.
And if you ARE intentionally a transphobe, kindly either fuck off or educate yourself, whichever you're capable of.
There's no new evil I'm suddenly writing in my fiction. It's all the same long thread of evil. Sorry, not sorry, if it's suddenly more pertinent to some people now?
Labour $200
Unity Fees $150
Rent $800
Executive bonuses $75,000,000
Pizza Friday $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my game company is dying
Really impossible to overstate the extent to which this is a movement fixated on the belief that they have an inviolable right to abuse their children
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I think the "necessity of exposing monstrous views" is a belief somberly held by people who haven't yet realized that fascists should be shot, not embarrassed (they can't be) or "defeated in the market place of ideas" (not a real thing that happens).
Congrats!
Future historians will look back on this era and weep at how much important work was forever lost to bitrot
If you think it's a false equivalence, that worse things would happen in the heathen Orient, then man just take a look at the headlines for all the artists, administrators and university professors whose careers have been immediately killed off for calling what the IDF is doing in Gaza a genocide
Incidentally, if you're a writer, artist, or arts-adjacent in some way and haven't heard about recent censorship crises involving these people (and this is a very incomplete list) I invite you to google the names and follow what's happening. Especially in genre, given the uh isolationist tendency
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The CDC dropping the five-day rule simply because some people aren't willing to do it makes me think we could all band together and stop paying our taxes.
Tweet from khpalestined This is worth reading lol: “Drug traffickers in Morocco refuse to sell cannabis to israelis because of the war on Gaza.” - An israeli cannabis dealer said: “Drug traffickers in Morocco do not want to sell us cannabis either directly or through intermediaries, they decided to boycott us because of the war. He added, “we have lost at least tens of millions of shekels".
These drug traffickers have more moral fiber than every single person currently in power in America, that’s for damn sure
Wow the AI industry lost 180 billion dollars what a shock after hundreds of thousands of critics warned everyone that it was a scam. This hasn’t happened since literally last year, when NFTs were revealed to be a scam. Or the year before that with crypto in general. Or the year BEFORE THAT with-
if nothing else to read and know their names and that they wrote and made and wanted more life that is now gone
Anyway I'm not on Substack so I don't need to move my newsletter for that reason, but also TinyLetter is being killed so I have to move for that. But INSTEAD I think what I will do is just stop sending newsletters, because I hate it, and crawl under a rock instead. :D
okay gang let's see who this really is meme unmasking "horror movie" and finding "allegory for grief"
screenwriters i got your number
There's a bevy of posts circulating of famous sculptures with the question of WHY DON'T WE SEE THIS KIND OF TALENT ANYMORE and the answer is you don't support the arts, assholes. Those artists had patrons. They could work all day to perfect their craft without worrying about food and housing.
A news article titled “Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk say human population not nearly big enough: ‘If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts’
We likely already have more than a 'thousands Mozarts,' but many lack the time or financial resources to express their talent, often working for minimum wage at disgusting companies like Amazon.
One of many reasons to not use AI image generators.
While you're posting your award eligible stories, feel free to drop me links to your SFF works between 3400 and 5200 words as I'm still looking for stories for S13 of LeVar Burton Reads! (There are additional requirements so don't get too excited!)
The same people who've been saying that all universities had to let nazis speak/call for genocide because of free speech are now saying the students at these schools are the "real" nazis and everybody is just going along with it like it makes sense. The fucking right do not operate in good faith!!!
I’m leaving the bookstore soon and becoming a full-time freelance editor. Both relieved to do so but also just speaking out into the universe that I would love to come back in-house in the new year and get back to acquiring
If you’re working you should be paid enough to live a normal life with food and shelter. That idea used to be a fundamental part of the social contract.