“Fuck AI”

— Guillermo del Toro

🎥 Vanity Fair

Short-sighted Man and a Yurei - Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

I appreciated national media covering it, but the headlines with just the number missing/rescued didn't get at it - nearly 2,000 people have been displaced from their homes. With the cost to rebuild, only temporary shelter, and no clear commitments from the feds/state to find a long-term solution

Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

I agree with whoever said a rather under-appreciated dynamic is the extent to which Professional Politics Opinion Havers flat out just find the left interpersonally irritating in a way they do not find the right so, and I think a lot of the talk of a vibe shift was wish-casting their irritants away.

ChatGPT is not doing the subway system too well.