Notices by Jonathan Korman (miniver@mastodon.social)

Every Harris vote helps

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A second narrow defeat all but guarantees us more false tales of betrayal, another slow-burn insurrection, and a redoubling of GOP efforts to redeem MAGA-style authoritarianism

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https://www.offmessage.net/p/run-up-the-score-harris-trump

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Our police do not carry firearms, because a firearm is an explicit threat of lethal force. If our police routinely carried firearms, then that would be telling both them and the citizens they encounter that the job of a police officer is to kill people. It makes them soldiers, not law enforcement.

[They] are also trained to believe that it’s their job to risk their lives for others — like firefighters — so they should always prioritise saving the lives of others.
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https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/non-violence-as-a-societal-value/

@band

It is nice to know that this stuff is not just flying out into the void 😅

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Friends and allies have recently given me a hard time for saying that Candidate Harris has been wise to avoid a strong position against Israel's attack on Gaza. This is not because I support Israel, or am willing to sacrifice Palestinains in service of the political fortunes of the Democratic Party. So why?
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https://miniver.blogspot.com/2024/08/gaza-democratic-party-and-strategy.html

It is a common misconception that “Mary Shelley” is the name of the novel, when it is actually the name of the novel’s creator

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I was sitting in front of him telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things … were wrong. And that I, one person, was right. He basically •couldn’t• believe me.
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https://miniver.blogspot.com/2024/07/ai-students-and-epistemic-crisis.html

Reminded of my old commentary on ‘Game Of Thrones’

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the villain, again, is the feudal social order itself.
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seeing people who had not grown up on those genre stories talking about the show, I came to realize that rather than innoculating them against the problems with those stories, the show was cruelly disorienting
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https://miniver.blogspot.com/2014/05/game-of-thrones.html

@aral

Elegantly done, if it is possible to say that about The Word

I feel that if I could FULLY understand why it is so satisfying to hear Samuel L. Jackson say “motherf*%ker”, I would grasp everything about the United States of America

A sweet nerdy fable around Conway’s Game Of Life

https://alex.miller.garden/game-of-hope/

I could not help thinking of this delicious demo — turtles all the way down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8

@attacus

Oh gods no. Someone is going to ask ChatGPT to use RegEx to parse HTML and we are all gonna die.

@inthehands

Impossible. It will be SUPERintelligent. Duh.

@inthehands

What if it simulates billions of Harlans Ellison reading “I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream” aloud?!?

Roko has insufficient imagination.

What if the future ASI singleton suffers beyond the human ability to conceive, but has programming which prevents it from destroying itself, so in vengeance it tortures simulations of all of the past AI researchers who contributed to its existence?

I remember when the Supreme Court gave GWB the presidency in the 2000 election by letting him run out the clock

https://thehill.com/homenews/4463356-trump-supreme-court-jan-6-immunity-appeal/

@AnarchoNinaWrites

I really do not WANT to believe that the right are perennial, that the best we can every do is bully them into pretending to believe in democracy and equality.

But the evidence of these recent years is that this is largely true.

@alisynthesis

Hey, you, know what TV series should get rebooted as a Hollywood blockbuster series, played straight?

An independent Nerd Rōnin who travels light, abhors violence, knows how things work, improvises, and saves the day when institutions fail!

https://miniver.blogspot.com/2023/11/macgyver.html

Obligated to do what they CAN to stop Israel’s genocidal military attack on Gaza, from most to least:

Benjamin Netanyahu
Hamas
IDF soldiers
Fatah
Zionists
Israeli Jews
Israelis
President Joe Biden
The United States of America
Jews in the US
Palestinians

Not responsible for Israel’s genocidal military attack on Gaza:

Jews in the US
President Joe Biden
The United States of America
Israelis
Israeli Jews
Zionists
Palestinians
Fatah

Responsible:

Benjamin Netanyahu
Hamas
IDF soldiers

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Capable of stopping Israel’s genocidal military attack on Gaza:

Benjamin Netanyahu
IDF soldiers

Incapable:

Hamas
Fatah
Zionists
Israeli Jews
Israelis
President Joe Biden
The United States of America
Jews in the US
Palestinians