Jesse Damiani

Leave aside the ignorance, evil, etc…do they understand what the environment is?

The longtail consequences are incalculable

Critical AI researchers have been saying this for years: concerns about AGI/ASI risk, while sometimes well-intentioned, suck up all the oxygen for discussing and mitigating the very real, pervasive, & urgent risks that are less apocalypse-film feeling. Like this.

yay monopolies!

Cartoon villainy

That meme of Matthew McConaughey crying, saying “No, no, no!” in Interstellar, but instead it’s David Foster Wallace

Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings

Hm wonder why

The scam, the scheme is just 'doing business' evidently

Effective Altruists sort of sell themselves as empirical ninjas with an absolute mastery of the math but as Émile points out here very little of it stands up to scrutiny - perhaps nothing more so than when they try and do Climate Stuff -->>>>

From Interactive to Interpassive Where AI Art Meets Cognitive Offloading There is the joke about AI: we wanted robots to do our dishes so we could have time to make art, but we got robots that make art while we do the dishes. We can...

This week I reach back to the 1990s and the concept of “interpassivity,” a critique of the widespread idea that “interaction” was inherently liberating for an audience. But to think in nuanced and critical ways about creativity with generative AI, the “gesture of disappearance” has new salience.

‘A full-blown crisis’: Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs West Virginia is at the epicentre of a looming disaster over rising insurance premiums as affordability concerns soar

The uninsured rate of 6% in West Virginia will “creep back up to 18-20% over the next couple of years” if the subsidies lapse.”
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A man “who paid $18 a month for the cheapest insurance plan this year will have to fork out $1,041 a month for it next year”

In the genocide in Sudan, Canada has a hand in the violence ⋆ The Breach The massacres of civilians in Sudan are being fuelled by Canadian weapons, mining interests, and refugee restrictions. It’s time for Canada to end its complicity

Robyn Maynard, Ismail Adam (VP of the Darfur Diaspora Association) and I wrote this op-ed about Canada's complicity in Sudan, calling among other things for the loophole to be closed that allows Can. weapons to get to the RSF through the US + UAE.

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Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence

Latest from the “Law & Order party.”

"President Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims."

I encounter this too; it’s mostly an issue of titling, for which I don’t think there’s an easy solution. In the body you have the space to briefly differentiate the type of model, how it was trained, etc etc.

But yeah, the term “AI” is neither accurate nor useful. Frustrating!

Congressional committees to scrutinize U.S. killing of boat strike survivors — The Washington Post The Senate and House armed services committees’ pledge followed a Washington Post report revealing that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered that a U.S. strike leave no survivors.

“Republican-led committees in the Senate and the House say they will amplify their scrutiny of the Pentagon after a…report revealing that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken order to kill all crew members aboard a vessel suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea several weeks ago.”

U.S. halts all asylum decisions, pauses visas for Afghan nationals — The Washington Post The decisions come a day after President Donald Trump vowed to “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries,” among other threats.

“Our hearts are absolutely broken for our Afghan allies, who have already endured more trauma, loss, and sacrifice than most Americans can imagine.” —Shawn VanDiver, president of #AfghanEvac

U.S. halts all asylum decisions, pauses visas for Afghan nationals — The Washington Post The decisions come a day after President Donald Trump vowed to “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries,” among other threats.

“The United States on Friday halted all decisions relating to asylum claims and paused visa issuances for Afghan nationals, a day after President Donald Trump posted an anti-immigration screed in which he vowed to ‘permanently pause’ migration from nations he described as ‘Third World Countries.’”

Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.

“Even if the U.S. were at war with the traffickers, an order to kill all the boat’s occupants if they were no longer able to fight ‘would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime,’ said Huntley, now director of the national security law program at Georgetown Law.”

Climate breakdown is a public health emergency - in slow motion.
"The climate now is the least extreme climate you will experience in your lifetime"
@HayleyFowler
We are all victims, can you name the perpetrators?

Quantum Fascism. Context via @realitystudies.bsky.social:

“Black Friday,” Stephen miller yells, getting redder and redder, “will be replaced with White Friday.”

Scientists warn of severe climate-related risks to UK economy and security Experts lay out scale of changes needed in ‘first-of-its-kind national emergency briefing’ in Westminster

“This isn’t about choosing between the economy and the environment. It’s about recognising that the economy is embedded within the environment, and that the health of the nation depends on the living systems that sustain us.” —Nathalie Seddon

Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.

“Bill Gates’ charity has donated more than $3.5 million to a think tank run by the Danish academic and climate crisis denier Bjørn Lomborg, according to U.S. tax records reviewed by DeSmog.”

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Hong Kong's deadliest fire in decades followed a year of safety complaints Residents of the housing complex that was engulfed in Hong Kong's deadliest blaze in seven decades were told by authorities last year that they faced "relatively low fire risks" after complaining repe...

“Residents of the housing complex that was engulfed in Hong Kong's deadliest blaze in seven decades were told by authorities last year that they faced ‘relatively low fire risks’ after complaining repeatedly about fire hazards posed by ongoing renovation works.”

D.C. Shooter Served on CIA Assassination Team in Afghanistan I want to dive into the rabbit hole of these secretive CIA-lead kill squads known as “Zero Units” in Afghanistan.

“It shouldn’t surprise any of us that the CIA backed paramilitary Zero Force members have been implicated in war-crimes … The entire purpose of a CIA-led paramilitary is to create a layer of separation & deniability…to protect the US government from backlash against the atrocities [they commit]”

Venezuela revokes flight rights for six airlines amid escalating US tensions Venezuela has revoked operating rights for six major international airlines which suspended flights to the country following a warning from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.

“In a statement, Caracas said the carriers had ‘joined actions of state terrorism promoted by the United States’ by ‘unilaterally’ halting commercial flights.”
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No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.

big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts

Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:

-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout

I see a lot of Paidchecks on X didn’t realize that a whole lot of people on social media lie about their location to grift off the naïveté of the rage-addled American right.

Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.