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This is what Weizenbaum wrote about the dawn of the computer age: it was used as an excuse to not even try to make society better. The same thing is happening with “AI” now.
We know what would make society better.
One example is UBI (which Weizenbaum mentions in the same book in passing as “negative income tax”).
But of course we don’t have universal healthcare or UBI nor really any other advances (perhaps the ADA was a rare win); instead trillions of dollars are invested into software that tells us to bomb schools; for the sole reason to say it was the computers’ fault, not ours.
This book* was written 50 years ago.
*Computer Power and Human Reason
#AI #society

Battle for History: How Putin turned the past into a weapon of mass destruction | Episode 2: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/22/battle-for-history-how-putin.html

Well, that was… large!
Not really sure how large. I couldn’t see the other end of it. If you’re looking at video online, you probably have a better sense of the size than I do from being there in person. But damn, that was a lot of people. Probably because the temperature got up to a balmy -8°F.
#Minneapolis #MinneapolisProtests #ICEout

I’d easily believe 20k–30k, but…I’m pulling numbers out of thin air there. Curious to see some good aerial video once I’ve warmed up a bit.
The tone was notable. Still plenty of witty signs: “Stay salty, melt ICE,” Noem’s head on Cruella de Ville’s body, that sort of thing. But lots of people just had “Fuck ICE.” Nobody was really laughing.
One sign said “ICE will melt in hell.” That kind of captures the mood.
#MInneapolis #MinneapolisProtests #ICEout

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Never The Same Callus

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115940215827544579
I definitely have a High tension Anxiety Accumulator

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(There things with "science" in the name that are actual sciences, e.g. planetary science.)

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Also, yes you can connect to WiFi in Mac OS 9.2 with AirPort in a 27 year old iBook from 1999 and yes, iTunes can still query Gracenote for CD track titles.

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“Joy—real joy, the kind of joy that you want to surround yourself with and bask in its transformative glow—is one of the most radical things there is.”