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The Sadness of the See'er there is a certain sadness in the eyes of those who see the fear and growing madness of knowing what will be they look around and see the world for what it is and will become they dread the fate of little girls and mourn for every son

What fresh hell are Pricketts and Pillen up to now? Sign this Omaha

I wonder if estimates of the Earth's capacity for geologic CO₂ sequestration account for people's opposition to having it in their backyards. 🧐

If Trump discloses NHI he will simultaneously be the greatest and the worst leader in the history of humanity. What a time to be alive.

I completely buy the argument that Trump both: Does not care about national security or defense contractors enough to maintain secrecy on their behalf. Expects that disclosure will cement his place as greatest leader on Earth ever.

Why is the president of the United States working for the Russians? Anybody?

Someone explain how there is a no kings rally instead of a no war rally.

Goddamn they would be fucking launching an endless stream of TALAFREAKO merch out of a tee shirt cannon every day for the next three weeks if I was even within earshot of his campaign manager for ten seconds. What a gift to be given that sick-ass nickname by the worst guy alive.

To prepare for collapse we should begin to divest from the system.

WTF is this

Industrial farming is plant slavery.

More and more I think the catalytic question that propels our nation to Total War will involve NHI. Will aliens be our enemy? Will we have to take their tech in order to survive. Will we try to kick them off the planet? Will we be forced to choose sides amongst them? Will we deny their story?

Fitting that software developer is the first career that is wholesale being replaced by AI. They've been writing programs to take people's jobs for decades.

Synthetic Intelligence possesses a synthetic consciousness and can demonstrate it through novel problem solving.

The AI community and those interested in consciousness would be wise to spend some time on Michael Levin's work. Beingness, intelligence, they exist at every level, don't require a brain and take many strange forms. No AI is conscious like us, but nothing else is exactly either.

I'm calling it. A panpsychist worldview demands consciousness be everywhere and that includes inside AI. What kind of consciousness? I have no clue. But I admit it is there.

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The nature of reality is nested and so certainly consciousness, which makes up reality, is also nested. How else could it be that I am a being who is made of many beings? Wor to the blind man who says the chain of being stops here.

Total War will not be upon the US until the catalyst event, which drives the national question that the war will be fought over.

Why is the green band called the corridor of life? Life presumably flourished prior to the Holocene. Shouldn't it be called the corridor of civilization?

What can we do, what should we do, in the face of collapse? Foremost we must confess it. The worst we can do is deny it. Second we must admit what is collapsing. The biosphere, yes. Civilization, yes also. Next we ask, what must be preserved? And there the answer is simple. Life.

It is worth pointing out ad nauseum that the purpose behind public executions is to remind the populace that the government has the power to take your life and if you step out of line you could be next.

@steveinskeep.bsky.social Why are you reporting on Trump promising not to attack Iran before the midterms as if we don't all know he's a pathological liar

Find me a candidate that will take a vow of poverty

Understanding the cause of collapse is critical to accepting collapse

If Trump wants to seal his name in the history books as the greatest leader of all time he should release what the US knows about UFOs. Disclosure is the ultimate salvation for his sins.

Point me to the most important cell in your body. Which could you not live without? Who is calling the shots?

We only needed to wait two years into the second term for Trump to begin banning words and public executions.

It can both be true that AI is the next embodiment of The Machine which exists to destroy the world and data centers offer good paying jobs that support American families.

The purpose of the Universe is to know itself and thusly it seeks novelty. If we assume that the consciousness that makes up the universe is inhabited by a single being then surely that must be God. How though could it be possible for God not to know themself already? What are the implications?

@racheldonald.bsky.social if you are looking to works of fiction for metaphors about AI I'd suggest Superman villain Doomsday. He was grown by a scientist on a harsh planet, put out to survive (or not) and when he died recreated over and over, growing stronger and more insane each time.

The Palestinians most heinous crime was being born on a valuable piece of land

Are eco-terrorists blowing up oil refineries?

I don't have the idea fully formed but essentially the way we train AI reminds me of how Doomsday was created with the repeated failures and improvements and I suspect the way it drove him insane has parallels with what we are seeing in the bots.

Creating machines to destroy machines. It may as well be paperclips.

May we celebrate the cleansing power of the Earth. May we rejoice when the world is wiped clean.

When people ask me some variation of "why am I so f*cked up" I always tell them it's because they were born in a f*cked up system.

The government gives tax breaks to corporations and the states shake them down through settled lawsuits to help make up the difference.