Dr Joanna Boehnert

AI slop steals from human artists and writers to enrich the billionaires that fund fascism. You will not defeat fascism by posting pictures made on the fascist billionaires' energy and water guzzling plagiarism extruder.

“energy and water guzzling plagiarism extruder” I like that definition a lot.

Just think - if one million people turned off their wifi for one hour it would save enough electricity to run one ChatGPT data center for ten seconds

YouTube video by Nate Pommer MONKEY VS. ROBOT!!

Monkey vs Robot youtu.be/k1Csif5l_6c?...

Simulacra and Simulation - Wikipedia

Perhaps this theory helps en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulac...

Kamala Harris should absolutely not be allowed to talk about broken political systems as if she was not recently one of the most powerful ppl win the world.

American fascism emerges from a context where the most powerful people in America don’t care enough about democracy to fight for it.

Yes ok she acknowledges the obvious - but now is not the time to sit out and wait for someone else to sort this out. Tragically, she will go down in history as a facilitator of the end of democracy in the USA and an enabler of fascism. She could be accountable, take responsibility, and fight back.

This is what happens when a coup succeeds. They didn’t need to win on the day itself.

The leaders knew that the system was fragile & cowardly enough to never truly hold them all accountable. All they needed was to fight from within the system itself.

Just like a famous past failed coup leader.

21st Century Fascism is Democratic A deep dive into the evolution of fascism. And how understanding that evolution is the key to defeating it.

Part of the reason that so many of us are spinning our wheels trying to figure out how to beat fascism and coming up empty is that the nature of fascism has evolved drastically.

To beat it, we need to keep up.

My latest. It is very long. Because this is the most important piece I've ever written.

"But besides that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?"

Chemical pollution a threat comparable to climate change, scientists warn More than 100 million ‘novel entity’ chemicals are in circulation, with health impact not widely recognised

It's easy to assume that anything you can buy in a shop, find in your house or apply to your body must be safe

Because they wouldn't be allowed to sell it if it wasn't, right?

I mean, someone must have tested it, right?

Wrong

I support Palestine Action in its judicial review of the government's ban.

Former magistrate, 81, faces six months in jail for Pales... Cornish pensioner arrested at Truro cathedral falls foul of government’s labelling of direct action group as a terrorist organisation

This remarkable woman has very successfully shown what a mockery our steadfastly and quite far right wing Labour government has become. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Palestinian statehood is not a bargaining chip.

It is not a threat.

It is an inalienable right of the Palestinian people.

Our demands on this shameful government remain the same: end all arms sales to Israel, impose widespread sanctions, and stop the genocide, now.

UK ban on Palestine Action at odds with international law, says UN rights chief Volker Türk says the Home Office proscription restricts right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly The UK government’s ban on Palestine Action limits the rights and freedoms of people in the UK and is at odds with international law, the UN human rights chief has said. Volker Türk, the UN human rights commissioner, said ministers’ decision to designate the group a terrorist organisation was “disproportionate and unnecessary” and called on them to rescind it. Continue reading...

UK ban on Palestine Action at odds with international law, says UN rights chief

Britain has saddled itself - or more accurately, UK govt has saddled Britain's consumers - with paying for the most expensive nuclear plant ever

And I'm bored of saying it, but that means other more cost-effective & faster action on climate change will not happen

www.ft.com/content/e1e1...

That the incredible cognitive power of the human brain and body takes only 2000 calories a day to fuel, and occupies quite considerably less than the space of Manhattan, suggests there is something catastrophically wrong with the design of AI.

No one.

Sandy Hook parent says tragedies are inherently political: “You may not believe in climate change, but insurance companies absolutely do.”

How’s the UK attempt to reach net zero going? There’s good news and bad news The UK’s latest climate change progress report highlights serious gaps.

💯 “A truly credible response to the climate crisis demands a whole-system approach. That means aligning climate goals with economic and social policy, and recognising the broader benefits — from improved health to reduced inequality — that come with reducing energy demand.”

Data set included in the first post

There are now several here is a different one www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

A new app details where your food comes from — and just how fragile the global food system really is A “first of its kind" tool could help untangle the complex global web of food supply chains and make it more resilient to climate shocks.

A new app details where your food comes from — and just how fragile the global food system really is

A new report at Harvard Dataverse citing Israeli military data suggests that in addition to the nearly 60,000 Gaza health ministry counts (morgue data) another 377,000 people are possibly missing and presumed dead dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

Trump & Enrique Tarrio launch app for nabbing immigrants

Posted a little while ago that ICE is forming bounty hunter squads.

$1000 for every person they nab.

Don't think it's true?

They made an app for it called ICERAID.

Jan 6 thug, Enrique Tarrio, is running it for Trump.

en.cibercuba.com/noticias/202...

tweet from elon musk: We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors. Then retrain on that. Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data.

hold on honey im rewriting the corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors

what worries me about takes like this is not that he might go ahead and order his engineers to do it, but the number of people that'd believe this bs as legitimate