Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

These are murders, pure and simple. There is no other way to conceive of them morally or legally. It's no different than if he had 27 people brought into a room, handed a machine gun to a subordinate, and ordered that they be shot down in front of him.

I guess on a very basic level we need to tell people over and over that watching cable news is not something a smart person does it’s the opposite of that. You can feel free to watch Top Chef or baseball or Mario 64 speedruns, none of them, genuinely, will make you as ignorant as CNN shouty bullshit

Many Minneapolis progressives consider anything west of Lyndale to be too wealthy to merit any attention.

I'll take the 2005 version. Or the 1995 version. It's way worse now than it's been in a long, long time.