Morten Bay, Philosophiae Doctor.

Nope. She's teaching it to simulate moral capacity.

Incidentally, simulating moral capacity is a sociopathic trait.

Isn't he one of the original Russian oligarchs?

I hope I don't behave like that.

I also hope I never meet Prof. Gelernter in person.

Actually, he should be the one hoping we never meet in person.

Opinion | No, Billie Eilish, Americans are not thieves on stolen land Civilization depends on secure property titles, not sincere apologies.

Imagine taking to the opinion pages of large news org to demonstrate how good you are at completely missing the point.

An internal document shows the Vietnamese military preparing for a possible American war An internal document reveals Vietnam's military is preparing for a possible American war of aggression, viewing the U.S. as a "belligerent" power.

Time is a flatulent circle.

Cognitive deskilling in the wild. With almost no upside.

🤦

I like Rep. Moskowitz. But WTF is that jacket (other than just wrong)?

Trump rules out using military force to acquire Greenland in Davos speech President Donald Trump, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, said no other country is in a position to defend Greenland but the United States.

TACO!

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

It's from a few days ago, but this is extraordinarily clear-eyed about the current state of AI:

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

Once again, @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy explains the current AI moment with a clarity I can only admire as an educator.

This is going on my critical tech course syllabus.

Brief operational term of art 🧵 to help better define what we're experiencing. What we're experiencing is state terror. I've seen a lot of terms thrown around for what the Trump admin is doing w/ICE, CBP, & other federal law enforcement (LE). The now largely out of use term is state terror. 1/

"Watch what he does, not what he says", as Rachel Maddow often says.

But one social media rant, and people can't look away from what he says.

Sigh.

Interesting! With regard to the whole epistemic Trojan Horse thing: I assume you know about the CASA framework, Sundar's machine heuristic, and how that tradition now informs HAII?

It is quite paradoxical that AI is mostly an automation wave that lessens the need for labor, so there might not be a job loss argument for a bailout...

Exactly. Plus, people actually needed banks. People needed cars. I don't think voters feel they need AI yet. On the contrary, I think a substantiel amount of the population would be happy to see the tech bros fail.

I'm old enough to remember how WWW was infrastructure when the dot com bubble burst. That's not the issue.

It's about the size of investment, so I agree with the Marxian reading.

But what happens when it's a sector facing some popular resistance (i.e., no voter advantage in saving it), like AI?

Just think: This man could have been our VP instead of a baby who accused the leader of a democratic nation under invasion by a despotic world power of not saying "thank you" enough.

protestors have painted what appears to be a tunnel on the side of the mountain, causing ICE agents to run into the mountain at full speed.

disgusting.

I'm trying to find a good term for this. Temu Fascism? Retro-colonialism?

But I know there's a better term for it ...hmm... it's something to do with a color and some kind of word akin to "superiority."

It's right on the tip of my tongue. It will come to me in a second.

European military personnel arrive in Greenland as Trump says US needs island France says a small military contingent has arrived and more forces will be there in the coming days.

They sent 15 people.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

You know, I really like what you just wrote.

Der er stadig flere amerikanske tropper på Pituffik end der er tropper fra andre NATO-lande i Grønland.

Hele invasionsretorikken er noget ævl. Men en upopulær regering bør jo aldrig lade en god krise gå sin næse forbi, så Løkke og Frederiksen udnytte det alt de kan.

Is there such a thing as global neo-Keynesianism yet? Otherwises, someone should invent it.

Thinking a lot about the 2nd Amendment these days.

So the tax cuts for the wealthiest and the tariffs are really a national austerity campaign to get us out of the last administration's economic recovery? Got it.

I think we could at least start talking about it when a (National Guard) army from Texas invaded Illinois last year. But that just seemed to blow past.

Let's remember: Even with the extra NATO personnel, the permanent U.S. military base still has more people than the combined NATO exercise force.

You can't invade a place where you already have military superiority (Especially when the majority leaders in Congress from your own party dismiss it)

You can't invade a place where you already have a bigger military presence than anyone else, which is the case for the U.S. If you do, it's not an invasion, it's an expansion. And the U.S. can do that anytime they want under the rules of the 1951 agreement with Denmark.

According to Danish media, it is part of Operation Arctic Endurance, an exercise that was already ongoing. The total extra troop count from all countries is less than 50, which means that the U.S. military base at Pituffik is still the biggest military presence in Greenland.

People need to chill.

Correction: The amount of troops is around 35, but it does not change anything.