mastodon 4.6.8“If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner."
-R B Fuller
5 years ago, I was subscribing to and closely following This Week in Virology.
I recently subscribed to This Week in Shipping for similar reasons (smh)
Agentic #ai writing publishable #research papers, apparently solving outstanding problems in #mathematics
I work in Big Tech. This news hurts my pocketbook today.
But I am so, **so** grateful for this ruling.
I am surprised and relieved that average people sitting on juries understand that allowing corporate algorithms to shape growing minds is insanely dangerous.
Especially in the middle of a worldwide information war.
"'Sentience' is knowing how screwed you are."
-Dr. Vincent Racaniello, PhD, #TWiV 1305
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1. Iran had been a monarchy since antiquity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monarchs_of_Iran
2. And then the last Shah of Iran was at minimum deeply divisive : secret police, repression, unpopular economic & social changes rapid-fired from the top (sound familiar)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi
3. He tried to nationalize Iran's oil infrastructure, which led to the CIA giving the theocratic, brutally repressive Islamic Revolution its victory in 1979
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution
My kids are Atheists.
Hopefully soon this will make them ineligible for service in the US military
Harlan Ellison, Jewish author of _I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream_ on the Middle East
I feel like he would have been a good antidote to MAGA
@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz Wrong. You are not a blob of spirit energy driving a meat suit. YOU ARE THE MEAT. THE MEAT DOES THE THINKING