A comment Doc Searls made on this Facebook post (by Dave Winer) on the topic of how the media talks about AI.: “A Clay Shirky student at NYU who was assigned to come up with a product idea said, “I have a good idea, but I can also think of so many bad things that can be done with it.” Continue Reading
James McCrery II resigned in October after warning that the president was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes. Everything is a part of his Executive Grift. Source: ‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety issues – The Washington Post
A vivid and entertaining polemnic on the economics of the tech revolution, filled with righteous ire An AI summary: ” It is not an anti-AI screed, but rather a look at how hype is driven by financial growth promises and how we can ensure AI serves humanity rather than exploiting workers.” From the article: “The technology of AI theoretically allows Continue Reading
Ahead of the midterm elections, activist and writer Bill McKibben says he has been traveling across the United States with Third Act, the environmental group he founded to harness the power of seniors who care about the climate and democracy. “These elections are also starting to set the groundwork for 2028,” says McKibben, who calls the next U.S. presidential vote “maybe the last election that happens in a timeframe when we still really have an opportunity to affect some of the outcomes of these things.”
So it’s not a “But”…”an analyst using a chatbot” is not “AI on it’s own” but “an analyst”, “using” it.
AI won't kill us on its own. But last spring an analyst using a chatbot almost got the U.S. in a war with China. Meanwhile, "Across the US military and the intelligence community, officials are pushing to weave AI into nearly every facet of their work…" https://t.co/xIDFBEK2fV
— Stanzupforit (@Stanzupforit) September 18, 2026
To append (and brighten) what I wrote about my reading of the intro to Naomi Klein’s (with Astra Taylor) book, End Times Fascism, about my lack of faith in insititutions**(see note below) , the rest of the intro (that I just finished ) has turned that state of intimidation and disappointment into the more liveable and energizing hope and energy Continue Reading
Absolutely. Directly. They are very bit as bad as Trump was on Jan. 6 when he incited a riot at the capitol. The GOP has enabled a fascist takeover by their oligarch benefactors. Traitors. On top of the far worse abandonment of ecological responsibility that has been ongoing for 40+ years
— Not Your Average Liberal (@NotAvgLiberal) September 19, 2026
Here is this frat boy, jerkoff, Fox News loudmouth tweets now. These “calls” come straight from hell.
10 years of this SHIT, seeing article after article and post after post that says , in effect: “This is it! This is what will finally bring Trump down!” It will NEVER bring him down until we are rid of this criminal betrayal of the American people by this Republican cesspool of evil. If this were 1776 they would all Continue Reading
Murderous thugs. Crimes aginst humanity. Evil people. And I’m referring to Netenyahu and his regime. Anti-Christ, Anti-Judaic, inhuman beasts that are the beasts depicted in their prophets. They incarnate the evil being depicted in the Apocalyptic literature. They are the exposed of “Apocalypse” (which means to “Unveil”)
Lots of people are passing this graphic around on Social Media, and the list is long and infuriating as it is, but what I think infuriates me just as much is how it does not include a single mention of any of the Ecological destruction and Deadly delay and further, totally unneccessary damage the Trump and GOP are doing to Continue Reading
Yes, when people of great power grab hold of these, literal hell breaks loose as a result of lieral interpretations (which is what makes them eager to fashion their own version of “The Book of Eli”). When people with immense power take these stories literally, however, as templates for how deep change occurs in the real world, the same storylines Continue Reading
