Notices by Extinction Studies (aka_quant_noir@hcommons.social)

@d2718 @pluralistic The industry i work in is aggressively getting bezzled into AI and pitching it to employees as an opportunity to learn new skills. AI to insurance employees is however a black box still; we don't have any windows into what they're implementing and what skills they'll care enough to help us learn, let alone how we'll be able to comply with laws or how our customers will be impacted.

@cstross

Balkanization, with 3-4 nuclear armed regional superstates. Which isn't better, but maybe the most likely. Have you read Christopher Brown's novels? Could be something like that too.

@film_girl @phaedral
Our work was not sufficiently helpful for the voters we knew needed to vote, and wasn't even relevant to the folks watching corporate media.

And the Dems didn't reach the pain that corporate America and it's subsidies continues to inflict.

The WSJ is owned by Murdoch.

The WaPo by Bezos.

The NYT, by Carlos Slim (30%).

The LA Times by Patrick Soon-Shiong.

These are some of our most prominent newspapers owned by billionaires. And if you think this is bad, you shouldn't look into television. No you should not.

@jeffowski

I'm opposed to poly- anything but not for religious reasons.

#3goodthings
1. I don't see ads on social media, except on YT and Tumblr, because I jumped out of Meta a few years back. Even Instagram. YT I mostly download.
2. I don't see ads on TV because I don't watch it unless I visit someone who leaves it on. At home I only watch #physicalmedia.
3. Actions still have consequences, but being slightly out of touch commercially is a feature not a bug. People who force feed themselves live ads are not like me. Never were.

So if you're looking for somewhere to distribute your Milton and Helene debris, may I suggest a Trump golf course?

It's not about me.
It's not about you either
So get over us.

#haiku

So in the news today, 40 trillion gallons of water fell, a Ukrainian river was killed, an Atlanta chemical plant burned, and a plastic plant's employees were killed among 128 known dead due to Helene.

War, accident, and natural disaster, all due to human negligence over 200 years of greed in the form of capitalism. And nowhere except in the Ukraine story are the deaths of nonhumans, of nature, discussed except obliquely.

Species and habitat loss is more important than we realize.

The Living Landscape has been wiped out to a large extent, eroding the region's ecological value to us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHV73ZLR_8

@tristansnell

America should brick each and every weapon Israel has been given.

@hacks4pancakes Nobody is listening to consumers anymore.

I'm for radical approaches to save innocent and well meaning people, animals, and ecosystems.

There are people I follow here because they make me uncomfortable and challenged.

There are people I follow despite same, because I want to be an ally, and learn new things.

There are people I follow because I trust their opinions and positions although we don't agree on everything.

If you're not in one of those buckets, don't worry, I have more buckets.

But if you're offensive, on a bunch of issues, I will cover the bucket and may dump it in the trash bin.

If you can grill it, you should have had to kill it.

#HonestFoodSlogans
#HashTagGames

@judeswae

I presume the author believes in an apocalypse caused by AI and the tech/finance industry broadly, and not a physical apocalypse?

@WarnerCrocker This is not a comment about you, Warner, but when someone is called a leftist I presume the speaker is a capitalist since they obviously have no idea who could be reading their propaganda without believing it hook line and sinker. It's as if they hadn't polluted every well with straw men and racist tropes for a hundred years. Ordinary people object to being literally polluted or killed and suddenly they're leftists. Nope, they're just at the end of their rope, or they've surprisingly demonstrated critical thinking skills the capitalists have been trying to suppress all this time. How could that have happened?

@thomasfuchs

Cyberpunk had it right. AI is corporations (self-propagating business algorithms) run amok.

@dancinyogi

Medicare for all, and don't punish anyone who wants to retire early or needs to. Social Security when you need it and want it.

The question isn't "how much we have to suffer" it's "when will we wake up and turn the system right side up, and not take no for an answer?"

@luckytran

The legislating coalition has always been in favor of both, plus killing journalists.

And journalists, those few left, are having trouble getting the word out about how deeply unpopular that coalition's opinions are because their editors are part of the coalition.

An excellent article over at ArsTechnica about the sway Google is trying to flex to keep public evidence out of the public's hands in the antitrust effort the DOJ is prosecuting.

They insist on their privacy while depriving us of ours. Is this what a "legal person" does? Or a monopolist? And what's the difference between monopoly power and billionaire power?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/google-fights-to-hide-embarrassing-but-not-confidential-doj-trial-exhibit/