"The people — the demos — don’t want this. AI is being unilaterally forced upon society by huge companies run by billionaires with an infinite appetite for wealth and power. There is nothing democratic about this process — it is, and should be recognized as, a form of authoritarianism".
"We’re entering a radically different, entirely unprecedented era of mass informational chaos and anarchy, in which anyone can generate an image of someone committing a crime, of women with their shirts removed".
New Realtime Techpocalypse article is out! I think you're going to find this one interesting -- it contains highlights from all the AI-related doomscrolling you've been doing since September 30. Check it out, and subscribe for more. www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/the-slopac...
“Primero se crea una atmósfera de 'ellos contra nosotros', después se ataca a los periodistas y a los jueces y al Estado de Derecho, para pasar directamente a la detención de los enemigos. Es la forma de socavar las democracias”. 👌entrevista de @urisole.bsky.socialwww.eldiario.es/catalunya/hi...
Most of us know about Silicon Valley pronatalism--people like Musk having as many kids as possible. But did you know that a peculiar kind of *antinatalism* is also becoming popular in the Valley? In this article, I name the phenomenon: replacement antinatalism. Read below:
Greta es autista, y como muchos otros neurodivergentes posee un “alto sentido de la justicia”: la necesidad imperiosa, sin matices ni excepciones, de vivir según un código interno de valores, porque lo contrario les resulta intolerable
"I have to say that if I was able to create tens of billions of dollars of stock market value just by announcing deals, and then capture a lot of that value for myself, I would do that, and to the exclusion of most other activities."
It's great that Trump's approval on stuff like immigration and crime is now underwater, but I also see a lot of over-optimism about this stuff that doesn't take the comparative polling into account.
El boletín Penínsulas 📩 se aproxima hoy al polo magnético de la politica española: la creciente singularidad y potencia de su capital. Madrid DF quiere decir varias cosas que se resumen en una: el estado autonómico se halla desfasado
Crear estados de opinión artificialmente en cada vez más facil, más rápido y más barato. Hoy hablo en @elpais.com del opaco y rentable negocio de las granjas de bots.
“Hay que acabar con todo eso”, dice un joven desde un mirador al que van decenas de israelíes a ver los bombardeos sobre Gaza. “Quiero que haya un hotel y un casino. Y vivir allí”. Dos años después del 7-O, cala la deshumanización de los palestinos
On Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America. If we can’t even agree to hold the line against Trumpism, democracy must perish.
"There has never been a consensus that the nation should exist as a pluralistic democracy. And right now, those who fundamentally reject that vision are in power. ...
"The insurrectionists were later convicted, but the overall event was legitimized by the Republican Party. What’s more, those who were convicted were pardoned by Trump when he returned to office, unavoidably marrying political violence to the political system".
"They distort not just words like terrorism, violence, and fascism, but also the law, how the federal government is organized, and what the Constitution establishes as the foundational principles of this country".
Hoy en VP, escribo sobre cómo los países atraen inmigrantes cualificados, la oportunidad que suponen los visados ultra-caros para inmigrar a USA para Europa...
"Toda una generación atrapada en un sistema en el que todos estarían mejor si se desconectaran, pero en el que quien lo hace en solitario acaba aislado".
"Si no reivindicamos nuestro espacio, si dejamos que lo digital, lo mercantil y lo superficial dicten las reglas, terminaremos viviendo en parques temáticos para las selfies, las despedidas de soltero y los eventos".
