Timnit Gebru

"Last May, ICE spent $5 million on a subscription with Thomson Reuters, which sells data to both the public and private sector, to provide what ICE describes as "license plate reader data to enhance investigations for potential arrest, seizure and forfeiture."

A nation under constant surveillance by a masked gestapo of secret police has NO freedom

A female agent wearing a gaiter-style mask rolled down the window, leaned out — and addressed Emily by name.

“She yelled, ‘Emily, Emily, we're going to take you home!’ Then she looked at her phone and she recited my home address,” she says.”

“And then someone leaned out of the passenger side of that SUV and took a picture of me and my car,” she says.

Emily says she decided to leave at that point, but the SUV made a sudden U-turn and barreled towards her, braking next to her driver's side window.

ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to...

This dystopian future is here now.

"Emily, who NPR is only identifying by her first name because she fears retribution from the federal government, says she followed an ICE vehicle at a safe distance into a parking lot.

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This. There is a shocking desensitization that is increasingly common around war. From the White House, and even from voices in the Horn, as the comment section in the YouTube video shows. Weaponizing nationalism and turning war into a partisan arena of winners or losers is just plain vile.

Ethiopia Is Sliding Fast Toward Major War You need to be paying attention to Ethiopia right now.

Was on the Global Dispatches podcast last week with Mark Leon Goldberg, to discuss the complexities of brewing conflict in the Horn, & the vested interest many Gulf powers have.

Recorded just before all hell broke loose in the Middle East.
Will have a follow up addressing more recent developments.

Best song of the year

Its always unnerving to see people talking about war like its sports game, supporting their respective teams, like its not something with extraordinary destruction that, under the BEST of circumstances, those who haven't been obliterated, will need to spend many decades attempting to rebuild from.

someone get this man a blacksky account lol

An AI manifesto that is self-claimed to be "pro-human", and also includes amingst its supporters... Steve Bannon.

The whole thread is a must read 👇

I read somewhere that the whole thing was orchestrated by the Future of Life Institute BTW, they weren't just a signatory. Which tracks, of course.

"Shared Prosperity: The benefits and economic prosperity created by AI should be shared broadly" hilarious coming from FLI which got its $700M from a crypto billionaire which is what has allowed them to do this shit more. Their last statement was with Muskrat Altman & such talking "shared property"😂

"Then there’s the Sci-Fi angle. Nobody is allowed to build a machine god and it needs an off-switch so we can kill it before [INSERT RANDOM SCI FI MOVIE REFERENCE]."

I'm so glad that @tante.cc did us the service of writing this because how many such things can we respond to?

"The claim that “humans” need control pretends that we are all one homogeneous mass but there are differences in power and access. Every monstrosity humanity did was under human control. Human control feels great because everyone reading it thinks it means them. It does not."

"there’s SAG-AFTRA leadership and a whole lot of religious organizations all sharing the stage with … well fascists."

Not surprised. Future of Life has been going into the labor space and elsewhere to further legitimize themselves. And they showed us all a masterclass in how its done.

There are some names in there that I was shocked to see as signatories. Why do you have to do this?

I kept on writing about the Future of Life Institute, who is behind it, for how many years, and now they've broadened their tents from TESCREAL eugenicists to the white nationalists that we don't have to do so much work exposing. Why is anyone legitimizing this?

If you're in a coalition with Steve Bannon, unless you've joined against your will--and you should blink twice to let us know if so--you should get a side eye.

Glenn Beck, another right wing talking head was also happy to put his name there."

Again, speaking of race scientists legitimizing themselves through the academy as Angela Saini outlined, I don't understand how people do this now with "AI".

"And boy is that tent big. It’s big enough to proudly list Steve Bannon, one of the architects of the new wave of fascism as its second individual supporter. So it’s a declaration white nationalists and fascists can get on board with. ...

Nothing to Declare Making big public statements is always fun and people who think themselves to be important love doing it as a way of trying to influence public opinion and/or politics. They are a way for institutions...

By @tante.cc who is on point as always.

"So there is a new declaration in town called the “The Pro-Human AI Declaration“...before we go into the details, let’s look at who is pushing this for a second because the declaration keeps talking about how broad their coalition is"
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I wouldn't get mixed up with these people.

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The Pro-Human AI Declaration The Pro-Human AI Declaration

Hey all, sorry to say this, as I think I have well-intentioned friends who signed, but this "declaration" means nothing. Because Steve Bannon signed it, and he wants my family dead. So if you can sign along side him? At best, you got played. He's the "humanity in control". humanstatement.org

Maybe @adambecker.bsky.social and @gilduran.com but @xriskology.bsky.social may have more recommendations.

The @timnitgebru.bsky.social site is probably pretty appropriate in this case. Vox has a deal with OpenAI.

openai.com/index/a-cont...

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Yes we touch on eschatology in the TESCREAL bundle a little here. I'm sure others have done a lot more on that angle firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

We went from making up reasons like "weapons of mass destruction" to you know what, fuck it we don't need to even lie, the president "had a feeling" that they pose a threat so we just bomb them so we can. A country doing this can't expect peace inside.

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