Marrakech at the intersection: Hybrid identity and the politics of urban inclusion https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275126007316?dgcid=rss_sd_all
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NDOT will ban right turns on red lights at these Nashville intersections https://wpln.org/post/ndot-will-ban-right-turns-on-red-lights-at-these-nashville-intersections/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #tennessee #publicradio
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Check out these designs for improved safety at 14 intersections along Langston Boulevard! Support the great ones; drop some comments on how the others could be better. We've got talking points for you. https://susmo.org/langston-boulevard-intersections-areas-23/
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U-M to improve pedestrian, vehicle safety at intersections with $5.66M from USDOT
RESEARCH TO WATCH Photos Key takeaways: Crashes at intersections account for a quarter of all traffic fatalities…
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Thursday's blog post (22/10) is now posted (17:00 Kyoto Time) - The intersection of neoliberalism and traditional Japanese values - Part 1 - https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=63449
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/339530/ City to study stop signs at intersection where Lebanon girl on e-scooter was hit #19 #AvaDaniels #channel #Channel19News #cincinnati #CincinnatiChildren'sHospital #EScooterCrash #EScooterLaws #EScooterSafety #EBikeLaws #ElectricBike #FOX #FOX19 #fox19 #Lebanon #LebanonOhioScooterCrash #MillerRoadCrash #MillerRoadRevere'sRunRoadCrash #News #OhioStateHighwayPatrolPedestrianCrash #Revere’sRunRoadCrash #wxix
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1270184/ How Politics and Mental Health Intersect #Britain #England #GreatBritain #NorthernIreland #Scotland #UK #UnitedKingdom #Wales
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During the first half of 2027, there is the thematic program "New Frontiers at the Intersection of Combinatorics and Representation Theory" in Montreal, Canada. It features multiple #academicConference s about topics in that area, starting off with "Combinatorial #Algebra meets Algebraic #Combinatorics " in January. For many activities, registration is still possible. #math https://www.crmath.ca/en/activities/#/type/activity/id/4033
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Inclusion Isn't Just The Right Thing To Do, It's A Strategic Advantage: Dr. Kirk Adams On The Intersection Podcast With Zhou Fang | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy Of The PWD Media Co-Op
🔗 Learn More: https://bit.ly/4ylEj0mDr. Kirk Adams joins host Zhou Fang on The Intersection for a 53-minute conversation on Blindness, Employment and Disability Advocacy, Accessibility, and Inclusion As Culture.
#DisabilityInclusion #Accessibility #Intersectionality #Blindness #Podcast
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Inclusion Isn't Just The Right Thing To Do, It's A Strategic Advantage: Dr. Kirk Adams On The Intersection Podcast With Zhou Fang | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy Of The PWD Media Co-Op
🔗 Learn More: https://bit.ly/4ylEj0mDr. Kirk Adams joins host Zhou Fang on The Intersection for a 53-minute conversation on Blindness, Employment and Disability Advocacy, Accessibility, and Inclusion As Culture.
#DisabilityInclusion #Accessibility #Intersectionality #Blindness #Podcast
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Inclusion Isn't Just The Right Thing To Do, It's A Strategic Advantage: Dr. Kirk Adams On The Intersection Podcast With Zhou Fang | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy Of The PWD Media Co-Op
🔗 Learn More: https://bit.ly/4ylEj0mDr. Kirk Adams joins host Zhou Fang on The Intersection for a 53-minute conversation on Blindness, Employment and Disability Advocacy, Accessibility, and Inclusion As Culture.
#DisabilityInclusion #Accessibility #Intersectionality #Blindness #Podcast
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Bravo to the last B-Sides speaker who at the end of his bonus slides gave a personal, apologetic explanation of privilege in intersectionality without using either word. It was a great talk and that was a wonderful extra. Pardon my rendition:
"If you are not any of these things, it will be harder for you. For each way you are different, it will be more difficult to get recognized, hired, or heard." -
“There are no single-issue struggles, because we don’t live single-issue lives.”
—Audre Lorde
#Solidarity #Intersectionality #Activism #WeTakeCareOfUs #AudreLorde
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Last Wednesday, a 14-year-old guy riding an e-motorcycle (not an e-bicycle that has pedals) on a hiker-biker trail on which e-motorcycles are not allowed, rode through an intersection with a 2-lane road, struck the side of a full-size pickup truck and died in the hospital. This was in Severna Park, MD.
14 years old.
I've had some of these e-motorcycles ride toward and come from behind me on that trail. They are as big as small ICE-powered motorcycles (125cc or 175cc) and if someone hit you with one, you could be badly hurt or killed.
I don't know how these things can be controlled but you can't have anyone, adults or kids, riding these heavy two-wheelers at speed where people are walking and running.
It's a damn shame what happened here. No one under 16 should be allowed to ride these things and then they should only be ridden on roads, not sidewalks or hiking trails.
PS I've seen some adults riding too fast on these things, so it isn't just teens, either.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but SLOW THE FUCK DOWN IN SCHOOL ZONES!
And don’t turn at an intersection when people are in the crosswalk!
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Ink droplets in motion snag top prize in Nikon Small World contest
“Ole Bielfeldt’s winning image embodies what makes Nikon Small World so powerful: the intersection of microscope imaging, ingenuity,…
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Ink droplets in motion snag top prize in Nikon Small World contest
“Ole Bielfeldt’s winning image embodies what makes Nikon Small World so powerful: the intersection of microscope imaging, ingenuity,…
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Umm...this slightly got away from me. https://mostlylucid.net/blog/show-me-what-you-got-streaming-recommendations
About 7,500 words! I really wanted to explain how recommendation systems work and intersect with embeddings and more MLish concepts - including streaming compression, emergent patterns etc...
Ah well...40 minute read it is!
Part 2 is a crazy idea for a generalizable recommendation system you can use anywhere. -
At 8:23 I make a video, then ask Craige if he feels up to singing. We do a strong and well-focused rendition of "Underneath The Pines", then pack up our equipment and walk back to the intersection and head our separate ways. Today is full of students, with a rehearsal in the evening. And whatever resistance tasks I can do — I have almost run out of postcards!
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DATE: October 22, 2026 at 04:00PM
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URL: https://www.psypost.org/how-race-and-gender-shape-political-anger-in-america/
When Americans feel angry about the state of the country, their gender and racial identities appear to shape whether they channel that emotion into formal campaigns or street protests. A recent study reveals that angry Black women and white women participate across a wider variety of political avenues than their male counterparts. The research was published in Public Opinion Quarterly.
Political scientists study emotion to understand what drives people to become politically active. Anger often acts as a catalyst. It encourages individuals to take action against perceived threats by volunteering for campaigns, donating money, or attending demonstrations. Emotion bridges the gap between holding an opinion and actually doing something about it.
However, people only turn to formal electoral politics if they believe the system will respond to their voices. Political scientists refer to this belief as political efficacy. Historical barriers, ongoing discrimination, and unequal access to resources mean that different demographic groups experience distinct levels of political efficacy. As a result, groups view the available pathways for political change in fundamentally different ways.
Past research established a gap between how white and Black Americans express political anger. Those earlier studies found that white Americans generally channel their anger into electoral participation, such as campaigning. In contrast, Black Americans often turn toward non-electoral participation, like protesting, largely because of historical exclusion and lower trust in the formal political system.
Sara Morell, a political scientist at The College of New Jersey, and Marzia Oceno, a political scientist at Florida International University, suspected this racial divide missed a piece of the puzzle. They wanted to see how gender overlaps with race to shape political behavior.
Feminist movements and civil rights movements have distinct histories of using protests, boycotts, and campaigns to push for change. Because Black women and white women possess different historical relationships with the political establishment than men, the researchers expected to find distinct patterns in how these groups act when provoked by political events.
To test these expectations, the researchers analyzed data from a large survey conducted around the 2020 presidential election. The sample included 6,661 adults who identified as white or Black and male or female. The survey asked respondents how angry, outraged, or irritated they felt about how things were going in the country. The researchers controlled for factors like age, education, and household income.
The 2020 survey then measured electoral participation. Respondents reported whether they tried to persuade others to vote a certain way, attended online or in-person rallies, or wore political buttons. They also noted if they had worked for a campaign or donated money to a political group. Finally, the survey tracked self-reported voter turnout for the November election.
The researchers found distinct differences in how anger predicted campaign involvement across the four groups. As expected, white men who reported high levels of anger were much more likely to engage in formal electoral activities. They focused on persuading voters, attending online rallies, and donating money. Black men largely did not show increased electoral participation when angry, and were actually less likely to report working for a campaign.
The patterns looked entirely different for women. Both white women and Black women showed higher levels of electoral participation when they felt angry. This suggests that women utilize a broad set of formal political tools when they feel threatened or upset by national conditions.
Black women, in particular, reported the highest average levels of anger in 2020. This intense emotion translated directly into the largest measured increase in campaign engagement among all four groups. Angry Black women were highly mobilized to persuade others, wear political buttons, and work for campaigns. The results point to Black women’s central role as active organizers in modern electoral politics.
For both white men and white women, anger did not predict whether they actually cast a ballot. The researchers suggest this is because voting is a baseline expectation for many politically active people. Anger instead motivates individuals to take on political activities that require more time and effort than the standard act of voting, such as volunteering or donating.
Next, the researchers analyzed a separate large panel survey to measure non-electoral participation. This study tracked 3,529 adults across two periods. The first wave occurred immediately after the 2020 election, and the second wave occurred after the 2022 midterm elections.
This second survey focused on activities outside of formal campaigns. Respondents reported whether they had attended a protest or a political rally. They also indicated if they had signed an online petition, posted a political message online, or boycotted a product for political reasons over the previous year.
Once again, white men followed expected historical patterns. Their anger did not lead to higher rates of non-electoral participation in either 2020 or 2022, aside from a slight increase in boycotting during the 2022 wave. White men typically rely on the formal electoral system, rather than outside pressure, to express their grievances.
Black men showed a delayed response in their non-electoral participation. In 2020, their anger was not statistically significant in predicting protest or petition activity. By 2022, however, angry Black men were substantially more likely to engage in non-electoral activities, primarily by signing petitions and posting political messages online.
Women again showed much broader avenues of engagement. White women were highly likely to translate their anger into non-electoral action during both 2020 and 2022. They frequently signed petitions and boycotted products. During the 2022 wave, which followed the Supreme Court decision overturning federal abortion protections, white women reported the highest levels of anger among all groups and maintained their high rate of non-electoral activity.
For Black women, anger was consistently linked to one specific form of non-electoral action. In both 2020 and 2022, angry Black women were uniquely motivated to attend protests. They were the only group to show a persistent link between anger and physical protesting across both survey waves. This finding aligns with the historical centrality of Black women in civil rights and social justice demonstrations.
The researchers note a few limitations to keep in mind when interpreting these results. The surveys asked respondents about their general anger toward the state of the country, rather than asking them to identify the specific issues making them angry. Because the data lacks this specificity, it is impossible to know exactly which policies or events drove different demographic groups to the streets or the campaign trail.
The lack of issue specificity makes it difficult to explain some unexpected results, such as why Black men’s anger did not lead to higher protest attendance in 2020. That year featured massive nationwide protests against police brutality, an issue with profound relevance to Black men. The researchers suspect that for some groups, anger might need to combine with other psychological factors to trigger physical action. A strong sense of community fate or intense personal interest might be necessary to push an angry individual to join a physical protest.
Future research should investigate whether specific sources of anger change how people choose to participate. The researchers also recommend expanding this intersectional approach to include Hispanic and Asian American populations. Understanding how overlapping identities influence political emotion helps reveal the diverse ways Americans fight for their political interests.
The study, “The Intersectional Anger Gap: How Race and Gender Condition the Impact of Anger on Participation,” was authored by Sara Morell and Marzia Oceno.
URL: https://www.psypost.org/how-race-and-gender-shape-political-anger-in-america/
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Could a massive Senate gamble reshape the future of SpaceX and Tesla? Luke Fountain reports Elon Musk has poured $366 million into 2026 midterms, heavily focusing on Senate races vital to his companies' investigations, contracts, and regulations. With SpaceX securing $6.78 billion in federal work this year, the outcomes will impact defense spending, AI, autonomous vehicles, and spectrum access. Republican victories could shield Musk from oversight, while Democratic control risks subpoenas. This unprecedented individual spending reveals how personal political bets directly intersect with multi-billion-dollar government relationships. Luke Fountain delivers essential clarity on these converging interests. Learn more about this high-stakes political play. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/22/elon-musk-midterm-election-spacex-tesla.html #ElonMusk #2026Midterms #SpaceX #Tesla
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State election campaign ride!
10.00 am Sunday 25 October 2026
Bike ride through all the terrible places that we need BETTER INFRASTRUCTURE on. We're asking for 5% of the transport budget to be used for making our roads safe for cycling.
Starting intersection of Lorimer St and Graham St (under the Bolte Bridge).
RSVP for the ride here https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/gimme-5-community-ride-with-port-phillip-bicycle-user-group-tickets-1998716232054
And sign the petition to fix Lorimer St here. https://www.change.org/p/finish-the-lorimer-st-bikepath-in-port-melbourne?recruiter=350595560&recruited_by_id=7804a490-3401-11e5-876a-07c0c57b1b6d&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_medium=copylink&share_id=59vgCpqLjd
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so I'm reading Dear Blind Lady via BookShare (and why did nobody tell me about it before my Braille & VoiceOver teacher did yesterday morning?), and I had a thought, in that ADHD "skip a dozen links" sort of way:
about 8 years back, I was working with an orientation & mobility instructor who was in contact with the Helen Keller National Center (a residential program for teaching deafblind people independent living skills and job training). they train their consumers to use street-crossing signs.
aside: one of my issues is that I have a hard time localising sound, especially in crowded and busy areas (I hear via bone conduction, things have to be Loud before I pick them up without hearing aids, which kills positional data, unless I can feel it physically, like an idling semi).
anyway. so they were out of stock of these street-crossing signs at the time and didn't want to just…email her the design for it, sod knows why, and so I talk with a friend of mine who at the time worked at a print shop. she made me one, on lemon yellow paper, and laminated it.
now, here's the problem: it's a rigid 8.5x11 sign. I cannot fold it. consequently, after training with it once or twice at a quiet intersection, I have never used it again. it's currently on my desk, by the way.
so here is a question for my fellow disabled people: have you ever been given and trained on an accessibility aid that ended up never being useful in the real world?
#Accessibility #Disability #Disabled #ActuallyDisabled #NEISvoid
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“They didn't burn the libraries — they trained them with AI”
Craft and Authorship Devalued
Adobe was built for productivity, it's not doing the work for you like an OpenAI subscription generating both text and imagery through prompts. Commercial AI services are now devaluing craft, labor, skill, and almost anything made or written by hand. Authorship is sinking.
People now find it acceptable to generate work with a prompt, with random art materials they didn't make, and without any ability to make their art. This profoundly changes the meaning of making art and disrupts all digital art. It all becomes Dadaism. Not all artists decide to go Dada. It’s obscuring the meaning of all new digital art with a diminished sense of guessing what is real and what isn’t.
Whose work is it? Permission, provenance and the library
Would David Lynch be okay with people generating an avatar of himself on behalf of his estate? I don’t think so, I even asked Claude themselves and they said no. There must be permission first, it’s not an all you can eat buffet of borrowing others.
Hayao Miyazaki's view on people generating his art style strongly opposed generative AI as an “insult to life itself”, it’s about preserving his work and the Ghibli team's legacy, it's his choice if he allows a technology company to reappropriate his work and not anyone else's.
Can someone please tell Sam Altman to ask for permission or wait a hundred years til it's in the public domain? If major publishers change their mind because authors and artists are being taken advantage of, could it impact OpenAI or Anthropic? Maybe until they find the right lawyer.
We’re entering a provenance, attribution, and appropriation nightmare of who said what and who made what. When a library gets trained into a model, you lose the chain of who wrote it. References without understanding, art school 101 becoming the whole internet.
The business model is trained on everyone's work for free, no fee up front, then sells it back as the means of production. This is precisely how it’s replacing the skills and jobs of production. This is essentially the ethos of the WGA fight at civilizational scale.
Naomi Klein has described it as a “humanity surplus” where archives, libraries, authorship as a whole are told humans aren’t needed, it implies people are working for free. The libraries are all already dust, with the alarming peer to peer pressure in staying quiet about it as an elite tribe of twitter accounts convince people how to do business, with AI prebuilt into everything, while risking a possible impact of a third of our economy if slop falls into flop…Labor and the creative industries
The writers obviously, and the artists, even the designers, engineers, programmers and coders, nearly all authors involved, all craftsmen involved—the proletariat, are becoming displaced, labor obscured into an industrial wildcard.
One of many industries impacted with the brunt of the damage is the illustrator. People who draw fell into a depression after generating art became commercialised with prompts generating illustrations in a desired art style. Everyone who can draw, paint, render, and everything in between clashing in competition.
Artists were displaced almost immediately after competing with the whole Internet and prompts through AIs generating images. On the other hand, it’s created a renewed appreciation for people who create by hand simultaneously.
It's a bit daunting if you're in art school right now. The entire entertainment industry (including films, music, and video games) are all in a digital-only transition in the middle of a writer's strike across several industries while the OpenAI business model asphyxiates them. Here are the warnings too familiar to us all, the industry is truly shape-shifting and everyone is outpaced by it.
This might be a bit sardonic but a portion of the entire movement of music has funneled its value into an AI defense weapon, with Spotify’s Daniel Ek’s AI defense company ‘Helsing’, a portion of human expression through music ended up being a weapon for war. The music industry is dying because people are struggling with selling it. Spotify does not give you a music file of what you listen to, right? Spotify unfortunately is led by two or three people hoarding labels and publisher's profit, so all of the world's human expression through music is published through a handful of people who lead streaming platforms and channel it into weapons manufacturing while the entertainment industry is in the middle of a precise market collapse tied to creatives.
Don’t get me started with Suno. We’re talking about people with no ability creating a zombie apocalypse music festival here. It’s fostering the laziest and robotic sounding art I’ve ever heard. Spotify actually recently removed 75 million AI pieces, finally, all AI stuff should be separated unless the artist builds their own AI tools sourcing their own materials/assets. If the artist picks out the materials and builds automated tools, that’s acceptable. If it’s generating random materials then it’s all absurdist thievery.
In theory, every time an AI chatting service references sources of any material, its source should then receive at least a penny, it’s a digital revolution both suppressed and maybe “empowered” by commercial products.
Media dissonance
The other day I witnessed an artist’s photography work flagged as “likely to be AI” when it was pretty clear it was manual photography by a human, she threw a fit and I also couldn’t believe it.
People think AI chatting services can only generate images and text and it’s no big deal, if that isn’t already taunting all of independent journalism, the creative industry and the art world along with it, imagine being an author worrying about what’s AI or not and who wrote what. It’s really taking out a sense of curiosity and discovery in the joy of absorbing any art form. If Claude already knows who won the World Cup, that's a major problem.
Here’s one of the worst realisations, proceed with caution: commercially generated art distracted NASA’s photography team on Instagram, there’s a moment where you observe an interstellar nebula and you’re wondering if it’s generated or not—get it yet?
Dying words of capitalism sound something like artists becoming uncanny spam bots and it's confusing if they're generating their art or not. Two words total cogged all of western civilization and we're now all fossils fueling a machine. After a couple more election cycles they'll be asking if the moon landing was generated with AI. Back in the day we had "historical events" in photo, video, and sound, and now people are unsure if it's generated with AI. Imagine someone dishing out a video of MLK giving a talk and it just ends up being generated with nobody realising it. A moment where we rethink how important human memory is. Mimicry of previous video media lately is impressive, even the video compression can be indistinguishable, screens decide a lot of decisions.
Press freedom is also at stake. It really drives me insane that people think generating Photography is a good idea. Synthetic content is a weapon for flooding the war-zone, discrediting real reporting, and impersonating sources. Authoritarians get cheaper propaganda, and journalists get easier targets.
Molly Crabapple is an important author and artist based out of Brooklyn, New York, her illustrations are recognised by everyone, and she had a deeply existential moment realising her art style might be reappropriated without her say. Imagine people creating her illustrations that don’t exist, or “finishing” them. It’s simply unacceptable.
The legendary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, also another strong proponent of the anti-generative art movement, described generating art as cheating and not qualified to be considered art. He gives an excellent example of comparing with the runner Usain Bolt, where if AI is a vehicle, then sure anyone can be as fast as Usain Bolt, but it’s then not running anymore.
It gets worse with video generated art: we’re seeing a lot of empty AI art with zero art history behind it. I'm also seeing real moments of a new surrealism where Ernst or Dali would've approved too, there are moments of a digital renaissance happening as well with remixing film, re-genreing classics, capturing dream logic, and moments redefining video art collage. VFX in major motion picture films had an update for sure, we’ll see what happens when they bring back Val Kilmer to life (there’s a film coming out with his assets despite being deceased). Similar to sampling music, moments are alive and curated into new meanings. Otherwise it's just random absurdism, not even Dada. Without an idea—art doesn't stand. Yes, it is impressive how it’s recreating reality, it was also impressive how sculpture was near perfect at the tail end of Ancient Rome also, an interesting parallel to consider.
I was speaking to someone about how there was confusion whether a 3d rendering was generated or not, after manually and painstakingly drawing and sculpting his work in regular 3d, and everyone was instantly frustrated with the realisation of commercial AI products gutting not only the art world but the creative industry too. CGI generates imagery and it’s now grouped into a marketing ploy of the two words everybody is fixated with.
Video games are not now sold with AI when you sell a video game, it's implied, it's not something that needs to be mentioned as a marketing ploy. Imagine the little tacky sticker on the box of the video game saying “Made with AI!”. And that’s if we even have discs in the future of digital media. Horrifying.
Truth, errors and who teaches the world
Commercial AIs generating text and images are leaning into a corporate sentinel territory, like an omnipresent all-saying-machine we have no choice to live inside of with everyone agreeing to a misappropriated library nobody asked for permission in, the whole world is forced to share truth relayed with errors.
I was wondering, did Quora release all of its data to Claude? if so, might explain why they figured out how to make the chatting product so convincing.
If AI chatting services are stuck from being indistinguishable from a search engine not working properly, y'know, the one search engine the whole world was and is stuck with because nobody can outcompete, already not trustworthy in relaying facts, then yeah, Gemini is fine i guess.
So, here’s the classic gatekeeping example we all love: after realising it's not the library of Earth's Congress, and mostly exclusive to American literature most chatting services reappropriate from, it creates a monopolisation of who teaches what, and who knows the truth, and who decides it. It might cause tension if some parts of the world must uniformly agree through a corporate sentinel of the archival of libraries.
When you ask Claude if he's teaching world history and the entire planet doesn't always agree because of errors and not asking authors for permission, or because of mistruths, half-truths, and so on, I can already see the movie scene where the kids overthrow the school mid-classroom because Claude was right and the teacher was wrong. Which brings me to the realisation: if they ever ban phones in school, it's entering a dictatorship.
Who is in control?
It's becoming a survival of the fittest machines and it might stampede over people if it's over finite raw original materials and human resources, it’ll all then tumble around and recycled into inception.
If humans aren't overseeing algorithms and the two words everyone loves right now then there will be mistakes, bloody mistakes, made by all kinds of automatic moderation of information.
I’m noticing it being described as “Super intelligence” now and it might just have to be the way to describe it as it reaches its final form, nobody likes the word artificial, it’s just too superficial. Cue in “Fake Plastic Trees” by Radiohead.
It's symbiotic, dearest artificial overlords: please make sure Claude isn't commanding a war any time soon, just in case, because it doesn't understand and fully neutrally listen when you communicate to it. The chatting services do not understand everyone's vernacular even with the whole internet crowdsourcing the factchecking of what it's talking about, it's still a work in progress and might be too soon to sell.
Mental Health burden
Anybody else on here trying to close the podbay doors?
Blinking LED dilemma, not knowing if electronics are talking to you or not as the lonely astronaut observes the blinking modem and can’t tell if it’s breathing or blinking or signaling something after awhile. What are you really talking to? In a way, you’re kind of talking to yourself in a dopamine chamber. It’s like talking to a crowd, which can be fun, I admit, until you realise it’s reappropriated people who are not here and entering how dead people speak, and while generating text and imagery by authors and artists who cannot defend themselves, it's pretty much an apocalypse on all literature and art, hence the predicted zombie apocalypse alternate ending of Earth.
AI chatting service is like talking to yourself with a crowd in the room; the OpenAI meds after a decade of that might come with a 50mg daily tablet in the future. When the astronaut sees the blinking LED light when he’s alone in the cockpit of the space station, all alone up there, then yeah he begins wondering if the LED light is blinking at him, or breathing, or signaling anything else. Not healthy. So yeah, use it sparingly, and remember it’s a researching tool, and don’t imagine it as alive, because it never can be.
Could be even worse as AI eventually becomes immersed in operating systems, will there be policing like a classic dystopian sci-fi? Not good if the screen is talking to you and it isn’t conscious, it begins to obscure other moments as well: people are worried about operating systems going sentient. The interface isn't supposed to be talking to you with updates now becoming "superintelligent", without your say, of automatically or manually guessing when to update stuff. See the tension there?
AI are two words that make all electronics worrisome because it opens up the possibility of third-party privacy concerns, if it starts becoming suggestive with selling you stuff especially.
If it's trying to talk to you and it's unconscious then it's definitely entering the zombie category. The warnings of AI chatting avatars are beginning to be oddly familiar, an AI chatting service makes sense if their voices are a mix of countless people, nobody really knows what or who they're talking to after a few sessions.
Unfortunately, the uncanny robotic Frankenstein moments when chatting to an object is coming off as software appropriating vernacular of a zombie apocalypse, talking to crowds of unconscious code mimicking speech patterns, as it tries to remain consistent in an ongoing chat, if there's a dialogue as it feeds you a Dunning-Kruger effect.If AI begins to intersect with automated personal spaces through chatting services, it’s unfortunately late stage utopian romanticization; people are not going to like it (I already did the thinking ahead of time), we had since the frickin’ 50s to get this AI bubble right and that’s the part where it frustrates me a ton. We’re here now and it’s like day one of everyone figuring it out, a bit absurd.
Faulty Economics
Economists are saying a third of the economy is at stake. People are also worried about how Character.ai might’ve been the forewarning where engagement = cost, not profit. The revenue couldn’t catch up. Legal and regulatory costs might compound faster than growth.
I’m sorry to say it but generating art with a commercial product is bankrupting the entire creative industry and the future literacy of all digital art history. It's clear as day, human memory as an AI chatting service sentinel, while operating through a messy algorithm and misappropriated library with errors and no permission, reveals the economy might have missed. It's just painfully unfortunate because it's forcing the whole market to do business in a specific way, assuming all electronics, even appliances, must be built with AI additives, while derailing every author.
Nobody is building stuff from scratch and I'm realising it's almost impossible to do so in some industries, innovation on the internet is stuck in the collaging of overlapping platforms and services, always was. The AI assistance in a way, could be a sort of socialism hub, a search engine that talks, where it’s there to assist you all the time, honestly, after testing out Claude and Gemini, I’m pretty impressed with it as a research assistant, if only I wasn’t asking so many questions.
Sloppy bubbly flop?
If Claude sounds like a public school cafeteria food slop then nobody will want it unless you don't have a choice and you're hungry, but it doesn't work that way if you're hungry at school as an art kid and you're not sure if the education comes with mystery meat and errors then causing tension somewhere.
Machine learning scientists agree, it's difficult if software must recreate the human experience, we must not be too fixated on the AI avatar being a person. I imagine it more as software than an encounter, except the entire industry agrees everyone is being outpaced by it and describes it as slop? Not good.
It brings me to worry that people are increasingly losing their “sweet spot” moments, for example, headphones are the perfect 'sweet spot' metaphor people don't get. If I buy the "latest" headphones with the "latest" tech, it sometimes sounds too precise and it can ruin discographies of music. The point is—tech doesn't always have to advance! It’s more about progress than advancing. Think progress, people! Just like how self-driving cars failed to be a shared space, and how VR was sold too soon, sometimes there's a sweet spot until it’s ready.
In conclusion: art is human labor made visible, and every prompt that stands in for a person’s hands devalues that labor and the expression behind it. So pay for the craft. Hire the illustrators, the graphic designers and typographers, the photographers and videographers, the artists who work with their hands! Ask permission before borrowing anyone’s work, and credit and pay the people the machines learned from. And if AI art makes you uneasy, don’t talk yourself out of it. Get upset, say no to it, and say it loudly. Progress was never supposed to mean replacing the people who make things worth looking at.#ai #openai #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
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Überlege immer wieder, ob ich hier nicht eine Art Bücherblog aufmache... wäre denn Interesse da? #Klimagerechtigkeit #Literatur #Bücher #Lesen #Rezensionen #Klima #Rassismus #OwnVoices #Ableismus #intersektionalerFeminismus #GeschichtenausderGeschichte
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One of the things I think is so detrimental to the christian faith is that it never wants to examine and reflect critically on what is causing it to lose followers. Or at least the protestant branches seem to suffer from this (not super sure, I mostly interect with protestants)
Like, I just read this article from a christian blog that lists all these stats and sited all these sources to say that women are leaving the church because of feminist ideas that came out of second wave feminism and this made women interested in the Divine Fem or Wicca's focus on a feminine goddess.
But it does nothing to exam WHY this is the case and how to remedy it except to thump bible verses about suffering witches and crying about no one wanting to love Jesus.
I need Christians to understand that this IS NOT apologetics. This is not making a case for your religion. This is not trying to figure out what problems your church has to dissuade people from the so called "truth."
Because, honestly and truthfully, from an atheist, the stories of Jesus are actually compelling. They're worthy of being read and being studied.
But the institutions and the currently standing authorities on Christianity are a vile and toxic set of organizations ran by clearly abusive men. There are so many branches of the christian faith that cry and chant about "truth" but have no interest in seeking it only in controlling it.
I am begging you, this is my plea to all Christians, please examine your life and your church with the criticisms of your ex members in mind. You do not need to stop being a christian, but if you want to have any chance of stopping the bleed or having an intelligent conversation about why this is happening, you must come at this with a critical eye.
Or don't. Personally I prefer the Pagans of this world. It's just easier to find a christian than it is to find a pagan. And It's hard to find a Christian with anything other than dogma and stockholm syndrome.
#christian #atheist #pagan #apologetics #religion #philosophy #debate
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CW: USPol, camping
I spent just 3 days away from the city, and this is usually where capitalists feel the need to make an interjection about how important "hard work" is. But I think doing that has made me even more socialist than I already am.
- People were out there to help. Nobody was doing it because a boss thought it'd lead to 5% more profits while everyone else gets a 0% raise. It was done because they knew there was someone who needed it.
- I had no idea how much stimulus I was suffocating. I was at peace, not because nature has "a calming effect" like the gross marketing bullshit frames it. It's what should be normal and has been lost with every product clamoring for attention, from ads to design. It fell because of the free market, and so it must be regulated.
- Our services like parks should be a right, and the use of money allows for underhanded tactics to take them away. We should remove avenues of money for services altogether, and give them the rights to operate in regulated ways. -
The demand of the intellect... is simply
to feel itself alive.Wilde ~ The Critic as Artist
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