Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

It's so weird that there is a group of people that think getting rid of guns won't prevent any murders, but writing "Thou Shalt Not Kill" on the wall of a kindergarten class will.

V Guardian:
Shutting #Afghan women out of key UN conference to appease #Taliban ‘a betrayal’

Group allegedly demanding Afghan participation in Doha meeting this month be limited to men and that women’s rights be excluded from the agenda

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/jun/21/shutting-afghan-women-out-of-key-un-conference-to-appease-taliban-a-betrayal?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

My God there are some Dunning-Kruger ass motherfuckers on this site.

#Stanford’s top #disinformation #research collapses under #RightWing efforts

Stanford #Internet Observatory, which published some of the most influential analysis on the spread of false info on #socialmedia during #elections, has shed most of its staff & may shut down amid #political & #legal attacks that have cast a pall on efforts to study #online #misinformation.

#law #Policy #CyberSecurity #Congress #propaganda
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/14/stanford-internet-observatory-disinformation-research-lawsuits-politics/

@w7voa "Prominently displayed" on Twitter/X just means you're paying $8/mo and therefore whatever shite you come out with floats to the top.

Brexit Silence: The Elephant in the Room
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5p-0VqreK0k&si=BMVA_gTl7AGoXVj2

#China #AliExpress stopped processing #Russia rouble and shipping to Russia.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/alibaba-halts-ruble-transactions-and-shipping-services-to-russia-reports-russian-press/ar-BB1nfmnS

idk why people say funding OSS is difficult

None of this inevitable and none of it has to stay this way.

Humans designed the "AI"/LLM/GPT systems, trained them, designed their interfaces, and then packaged them into everything they could get their grubby little human appendages on with no fucking opt-out (let alone opt-In) recourse all because those humans got the money-money-money FOMO brainworms and literally could not be arsed to envision a different, better way forward.

None of this inevitable; none of it has to stay this way.

@timolaine @baldur

Basically the tech equivalent of the guy I see every week across the street with a gasoline-powered leaf-blower doing things like spending the better part of a minute chasing a single leaf into the gutter.

BBC Cut Most Of My Comments Criticising Rishi Sunak & Brexit So I’ve Added Them Back In!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ETmRTU7IWb8&si=Ydj2s9nC_rZJC3rf

Soviet actor Georgi Burkov in his memoirs first released in 1998 (found by Maxim Mirovich):

> The Bolsheviks need the atomic bomb to stay in power, i.e. against their own people. It won't be long before they start blackmailing the whole world, so that the whole world begs us, the people, not to make a revolution and to tolerate these ghouls and support them

Very much to the point both then and now.

*I blame realistic utopias, in a public lecture with 35 slides

https://medium.com/@bruces/utopian-realism-a-speech-by-bruce-sterling-c315be2b0f44

My latest, in The Atlantic: “In MAGA World, Everything Happens for a Reason.” From earthquakes and eclipses to QAnon, here’s why Christian nationalists and people like Marjorie Taylor Greene are allergic to explanations rooted in science or randomness: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/04/maga-conspiracy-bridge-eclipse/678017/

I love those videos where a guy cooks a big meal -- bread, steak, veggies, tea -- in the wilderness, with nothing but a knife, tea kettle, and a big flat rock.

... And the $50,000 vehicle that brought him to the wilderness, and ten grand of video editing equipment, and an entire global trade system that brought him his spices and oils and meats and veggies...

People watching that thing thinking, I'll be ok when civilization fails, I know where there's a flat rock.