we should not be letting any company get away with blaming AI for their failures. I'm not even sure how we got to this point. people are like "it's just a tool" okay so is a forklift and we still hold somebody responsible when it goes wrong and hurts someone. this is YOUR AI!

You're not being accused of being a bad person. You're being told you're inadvertently engaging an antisemitic canard. Your *behavior* is being criticized, not your moral purity.

If you don't give a shit about engaging in antisemitic behavior, intentional or not, then yeah, you are a bad person.

The AI girlfriend is not a replacement for the girlfriend they can't have; the AI girlfriend is PREFERABLE to a human girlfriend, because they can control it. Mary Shelley wrote a whole novel about this kind of thing, I'm told it's popular

My money's still on a seed pod, since everything else seems to be seeds, too. I'm pretty sure there's a pumpkin seed, a horse chestnut, and a hazelnut in the ring of decorations.

They're seed pods! One of the feet is a tiny lotus pod, the handle is a water caltrop, and the spout is...well, there's a lot of trees and vines that have segmented pods like that, so it could be anything.

I talked to librarians, authors who have had their books banned, and groups that support them for this article. The glee with which schools, libraries, governments, and companies are replacing human workers and nuance with AI would not be possible w/o the successful war on schools and libraries