“The machines answer not to the common good, to reason, or to humanity. They answer only to the wills of their masters. … We are sleep-walking into a future of global machine totalitarianism, oohing and aahing over their toys as their dreams play out on the lids of our own serenely closed eyes.”

Sarah's out, I'm out.

Really, I won't see it but @delight-in-peace.bsky.social might

The disconnect between climate reality and climate discourse has never been greater.

Ironically, it wouldn’t be a problem if we all read Sanskrit, ’cos it’s written phonetically.

noooooo! @jay.bsky.team @moderation.bsky.app

I wrote an essay on AI “therapy” some time ago. In Reinhart’s essay I see examples of what I talked about there, where people choose to colonize their minds with machine unthought.

The night shone forth as a blessing, as if raised up by safe and loving hands in a gesture of redemption unlooked-for.”

The fallen snow drifted thickly on the crumbledown walls of the old Town Hall, piled lazy in middens on the banks of the fishless river, and beyond, folded the razed remnants of the once-proud city of Sydney in a doona of pure white light and softest down. 4/x

Pearls veiled the bruises of the city, lovely as a bride before the altar. The ruins of St Johns dusted soft with silver, and it seemed as if it might in truth be a mansion of the gods, or a hallow, perhaps, for the churchyard dead whose snow-laden crosses marked their ancient bones. 3/x

Now those flags were all that remained, while the nations lay in ruins and the last humans gazed upwards in awe, silent before her grace. 2/x

I’ll be there!

Morality fables are read with the exact opposite meaning by people whose moral compass is inverted.