"The spiritually bereft rhetoric of AI, like so much tech rhetoric, insists that doing things is hard and we don't want to do hard things.

As the brilliant tech critic Sherry Turkle points out, AI as currently promoted and used threatens to "deskill" us both intellectually and emotionally, if we depend on it for a sycophantic pandering to our egos in place of the challenge of human relationships, if we make it do our mental labor for us.

Like physical strength, emotional and intellectual strength are achieved through efforts tech would like us to abandon in favor of outsourcing the work to their products.

A third new anti-AI organization, launched by longtime climate activist Phil Aroneanu, is called Irreplaceable.org, and while its main goal is to regulate AI, its premise is that we need to protect our incomes, our rights, our freedom, but also our humanity against the tech corporations pushing AI."

"So 2026 probably won't be a red-letter date in the history books. But 2028 could be one. If it is, it will be due in part to groundwork that was laid this year.

So if future historians write of a No Kings era beginning in 2028, those of us who are still around can quietly interject to say: Don't forget 2026."

Politics and strange bedfellows, eh?

#51

Basically, you're a very insipid (look it up) troll .

Do they have Zionist Settlers who bulldoze families in their homes in China? Were you one of them? Which minority did you commit genocide upon?

- But they fell under the spell of a violent Islamic extremist (oxymoron isn't it?)

No, they fell under the control of a few very wealthy men who live in Qatar who made their fortunes overcharging Palestinians for everything and making their children drink sewer water.

Didn't they teach you anything at home? Or were you too busy running away from China rather than staying and trying to change it?

"In response, the BBC's attorneys wrote, "None of [Trump]'s arguments for blocking the deposition of Mr. Smith can withstand scrutiny," pointing out that Smith himself doesn't object to testifying in the deposition and that Trump still has to prove that "he did not foment or incite the January 6 Capitol riot," as he claims the BBC's documentary falsely implied.

"No one forced Plaintiff to file this lawsuit and to dispute that his speech on January 6 incited the violence that followed at the Capitol.

But as long as he chooses to maintain the case, he cannot commit the fundamental injustice of preventing the BBC from obtaining the evidence it needs to robustly defend itself on every element of his claim, including Plaintiff's burden to prove falsity," the BBC's lawyers wrote."

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"Oh, what the tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive" people into thinking 'we' didn't try to steal the 2020 Election.

And won't try again in the Midterms and 2028.

One could just think of Palestinians as Future Native Americans on Reservations.

They'll be able to buy Gambling Licences though as franchisees of the Trump Gaza Casino and Pedo Palace Golf Club.

"It is well documented that there are very few cases of voter fraud. A database managed by the Heritage Foundation, for example, found about 100 instances of non-citizen voting over a quarter century.

But in the factfree world of the Trump White House, hundreds of thousands of
non-citizens cast ballots in 2020, securing Trump's defeat in what Trump

Chapter 4: Discrediting the system

calls, quote, "a crisis of election security".

There is a method to Trump's madness.

These spurious and unverified charges are being weaponized not only to impose sweeping voter restrictions, but to discredit the integrity of the election process.

If the elections go badly for Trump, as many polls indicate, all of these charges will be used in order to order the Department of Homeland Security, which asserts that 278,000 non-citizens are registered to vote across multiple states, to seize ballots and invalidate vote counts, especially in districts where Democrats appear to defeat Republicans.

This discrediting of the election process is accompanied by a slew of other even more fantastical conspiracy theories..."

more at the thread link

Power can be used for good or evil and many things inbetween, but 70 percent of people have come to recognize that what we have in the WH now is more than trending evil, it's force that needs to be retconned with... as peacefully as possible, but the People have to realize that their Gov is now, "of, by, and for" the Moneyed Interests, not the People.

Politicians are bought and sold as a Feature of this Money as Speech, Corporate Personhood System, not a Bug.

Want to know a secret? The far right and the far left both agree on that, in general, but the far right has been sold that there are worse things, like Democrats who are secretly Communists... S'trewth!

The amazing Mr. Hedges starts out

"Chapter 1: Threats to election integrity

"Thank you. Thank you, Scott.

The Trump White House is attempting to put into place a series of mechanisms to fix or invalidate the midterm elections.

Congress, if these mechanisms are enacted, will not save us. The courts will not save us. The Democratic Party will not save us. Our only hope, should the election be rigged or stolen, is nationwide strikes, our only hope is to the machinery of commerce and government.

Although this militancy will be met with severe state repression, otherwise we
are doomed. There will be no exit.

The Trump administration has not succeeded in implementing all its election demands, but it has not abandoned the possibility of declaring emergency powers or martial law to order federal agents to confiscate election materials and ballots.

The Trump administration has already seized ballots from previous elections.

Chapter 2: Data-driven disenfranchisement

(more at the thread link w/ Transcript (which I edited for your lazy asses!)

Thanks for posting this, Truthhurts.

Here's how this fine, suitably radical if the instigation of stolen elections by this, Gold Palace, er, I mean, WH is obvious.

You know if the Media and the political opposition has the balls to report the illegalities of a Pres who's own DoJ testified under Oath tried to steal the 2020 Election.

And the opposition is upwards of 70% of people/voters; centrists, liberals, rwing former MAGA, progressives, conservative Dems and Republicans... social democrats like myself, socialists, communists (mostly imaginary), yellow dogs, Libertarians (aka former GW voters) Obamites, (no Biden voters, they (we) are almost as an endangered species as former GW voters)...

... you name it, most of them are not now, and many never have been, supporters of the Orange Satan.