Notices by Jonathan Korman (miniver@mastodon.social)

All this.

Will it surprise anyone to hear how much a PITA it was to GIVE Arizona “Public Service” money to switch the power back on to make it possible for my brother & me to go through her things after the heat killed her?

https://sfba.social/@mulegirl/114387981884388743

Will it surprise you that there is dirty money and dirty politics behind the policy which let Arizona “Public Service” kill my mother?

I bet it will not

https://campaignlegal.org/update/arizona-corporation-commission-agency-captured-dark-money

I thought at the time that it was some weird fluke that Arizona “Public Service” cut off my mother when it was too hot for her to survive without air conditioning, but of course it turns out that it is policy which a local activist has been fighting for years.

http://StopTheAPSgreed.com/

I also have an aversion to begging for re-shares, but I hope folks will do me a solid this time.

Embarrassing APS is the only thing I can do for my mother now.

I have a deep aversion to local TV news, but now I am ON it because last year, the power company Arizona Public Service cut off electricity to my mother’s house outside of Phoenix, killing her.

https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/heatbeat/arizona-heat-deaths-2024-power-shut-off-82-year-old-woman-dies/75-5436dd19-03fd-4c84-b0b9-68a4f3ab4df6

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/