Notices by GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai), page 8

RE: https://assortedflotsam.com/@smeg/116488609327705013

@davidgerard

Exactly what is the value proposition here again?

Oh oh right, because economists say after other economic bubbles, the surviving companies could pick up tons of infrastructure or productive capacity for pennies on the dollar then run with that for a decade or two.

(Pregnant pause) has anyone yet detected the problem here?

RE: https://universeodon.com/@tafnn/116471109146116364

I’d like to remind people that the most terrifying thing for big oil and big mining and global corporations is walkable neighborhoods, and local food supply.

Every car taken off the street and everybody food that can come from farm to table over a few miles is the oil and methane that never have to be drilled or burnt.

Oil and gas extraction exists for the global supply chain. It exists to make billionaires and companies, larger and more powerful while stripping us of any agency in our lives.

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@VSNSocialJustice/116465340065816144

Why does anyone think that Hegseth got upset?

The point of mass surveillance of the US population is input to these systems. That’s what all the surveillance shit is ultimately useful for

h/t @gilduran

This is so very delicious with one reservation, I would never want to inflict something like him on another nation.

https://www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-flees-to-argentina/?ref=the-nerd-reich-newsletter

@ChrisHolladay @Nonilex

This isn’t about dumbing down America, it’s is about dismantling it. These functions aren’t being replaced anywhere else and the super rich don’t care because they don’t know any better. They just think their AI is gonna do everything.

RE: https://mastodon.world/@krautnapped/116461502628378857

This 👇

@blogdiva

Gee, that was totally not foreseeable /s

I’ve been wondering when they would get around to this because both the Christian nationalist and the mentality of Israel’s government are both motivated to push as many Jewish people into Israel.

I cannot imagine what it would be like to be deported to a country that is insane.

@mullvadnet

Can I be a bit more blunt? Data brokering needs to go.

RE: https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/116438926067928322

I just want to keep reminding people this is terrifying in its own right for a lot of different reasons.

He’s unhinged and unstable, but decisions are being made without him.

We don’t know who’s making the majority of operational decisions.

https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxukOUBCMc7_QDunu2QKRbJ-hiGZajVq9o

Maine has passed a moratorium on data centers. Every state needs to pass that as well as putting an end to those ridiculous, Panopticon sensors called flock and ring cameras

🥳

@Sea1Am

From the few reports, I’ve heard about the brisk business the White House pharmacy did and now does with Trump in office and his cabinet.. think of his boys. Oh yeah.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@thenewrepublic/breaking-news-9mhchbihz/-/a-XXr5mJclSkmR_uww0ssJsw%3Aa%3A436232176-%2F0

Does the media even understand what this is saying? The president of the United States is not involved in war plans because he’s too insane.

Who was supposed to be the Commander and chief again?

13 min

Not many people have noticed that China has not inserted itself into the conflict in the Middle East. I think this is a no small part because they have built up such substantial reserves both in rice and will as well as having substantial coal reserves, I’m not certain about natural gas, but they can coast for some amount of time.

Because they are a substantial producer of fertilizers and a lot of other basic industrial ingredients, they are in a good position

https://youtu.be/yI2LMGbag1A

I’d like to see a reporter ask JD Vance what he has done to earn the moniker of a devout catholic?

My mood today after watching and listening and reading too many things about what’s happening in the world is when do we march on these fuckers in tech and dismantle their data centers by hand?

Trump is demanding Iran handover the enriched uranium Trump claimed he obliterated.

There has to be a meme in there or someplace along the lines of the ones they pulled for the straight of hormones where they said they lost the keys.

Maybe they can offer Trump a broom to help sweep up the stuff he obliterated..

@SrRochardBunson

The cheapest means to deal with homelessness is housing first.

This criminalization means money for a bunch of people made from brutalizing the vulnerable

@georgetakei

Oh of course, somebody like him would be really upset welcoming people into community.

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116407959123562805

A long time ago, I read a fabulous science fiction novel Steel Beach (John Varley). As polygon states, he really did get AI right.

The Reddit quote from the AI backlash article captures exactly what he pointed out

“ ChatGPT to the assailant: "You're absolutely right! You're not crazy for wanting to shoot Sam Altman's
house. The people around you just don't understand."

https://www.polygon.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/602661/best-science-fiction-book-about-ai-analysis-john-varley-steel-beach/

1/n

We can all expect that the guys from Silicon Valley and all their sycophants and client-politicians will seize on the opportunity to characterize any opposition to AI and surveillance as a product of these rationalists.

Now the rationalist are a counter cult that embraces the Doomsday vision TESCREAL cult CEOs themselves have propagated. Their claim is the necessity of a winter take all race to create AGI, on the premise that each individual sociopathic billionaire would do the good thing

2/n