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Koyaanisqatsi came out 42 years ago.
Anyone who's seen it should not be surprised with the state of the world today.
Guy Incognito retweeted
I'm so sick of this toxic liberal positivity hoping for magic.
By now it is clear to me that catastrophic climate-ecological and social-geopolitical collapse is inevitable within a matter of decades.
Despair might actually inspire rebellion, so let's all keep hoping instead.
People are quick to adopt brain deadening technology and then expect others to join them.
“I snarffed you on the snarfl app, but you didn’t snarf me back. Do you even like me?”
What's the word for the naive overconfidence of a high school senior who believes he's on top of the world and destined for a life of greatness, despite being extremely average?
Guy Incognito retweeted
I'm being left behind by the AI revolution in the same way I was left behind when Heaven's Gate ascended to join the spaceship that was hiding behind a comet.
Guy Incognito retweeted
asked my grandpa what he thinks about the new spotify logo and he told me he saw a man get run over by an M4 sherman tank and pulverized into jelly in korea. the rain diluted his remains into the mud and his existence was erased from history in just a few minutes
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Mossad booby‑trapped 21,000 communication devices with explosives, sent them to Lebanon through shell companies, and detonated them remotely — killing dozens (including children) and injuring over 3,400.
• The devices exploded in people's hands, on their faces, and in their pockets.
• They did it over two consecutive days.
• On day two, the explosives went off while Lebanese families were at the funerals of those killed the day before.
• The attack inflicted roughly 3,000 injuries in a single hour on the first day alone.
This terrorist attack was the largest simultaneous mass‑detonation in history by the number of individual bombs.
'israelis' joke about it to this day.
If you didn't boycott Apple for the Congo, boycott it now.
The militiaman’s fantasy is getting into these sort of action movie shootouts with commies or zombies or whatever.
In reality, Palantir’s AI has already added this guy to the autonomous drone target list.
I like that "vegan leather" is made out of oil, because no animals were harmed throughout the global industrial fossil fuel supply chain.
How expensive does oil have to get before people start regretting the amount of gasoline they’ve burnt in meaningless pursuits of pleasure?
In another time, this guy would be out Viking somewhere, looting and pillaging his way to a meaningful life.
Today, he’s ranting to a little glass screen while stuck in an SUV parked in some maze of suburban cul-de-sacs.
Our economic system revolves around cheating, but we keep pretending to teach the kids that it’s wrong to cheat on meaningless homework.
Just drop the pretense and let them be blissfully illiterate. They have no futures, anyway.
🚨 University professors have been saying AI is completely destroying learning and that we'll soon have an AI-powered, semi-illiterate workforce. Here's a glimpse into the educational apocalypse:
"Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used ChatGPT to cheat during the spring semester of her final year of high school. (...) After getting acquainted with the chatbot, Sarah used it for all her classes: Indigenous studies, law, English, and a “hippie farming class” called Green Industries. “My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.” Sarah continued to use AI when she started college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class and not see other students’ laptops open to ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be dependent on the website. She already considered herself addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.”
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"By November, Williams estimated that at least half of his students were using AI to write their papers. Attempts at accountability were pointless. Williams had no faith in AI detectors, and the professor teaching the class instructed him not to fail individual papers, even the clearly AI-smoothed ones. “Every time I brought it up with the professor, I got the sense he was underestimating the power of ChatGPT, and the departmental stance was, ‘Well, it’s a slippery slope, and we can’t really prove they’re using AI,’” Williams said. “I was told to grade based on what the essay would’ve gotten if it were a ‘true attempt at a paper.’ So I was grading people on their ability to use ChatGPT.”
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AI in education is a serious topic, and many schools and universities are blindly jumping into the "AI-first" wave without considering short and long-term consequences.
It would be great to hear more from teachers and educators to understand potential solutions.
This might be a great opportunity for rethinking the education system and how students are assessed.
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Guy Incognito retweeted
Nearly all of us are poorer than we were in 2006. Even for those of us who have more notional income than we did then, the quality of the goods and services available to us has gone through a frightful contraction; infrastructure in many industrial nations is in an advanced state of decay, and public health and public safety have both taken a beating; the political systems that most people still counted on to bring a better world have delivered one stinging disappointment after another; and shrill hatreds and paranoiac fantasies have come to dominate all sides of the political landscape.
None of this is accidental. As the economic and resource costs of fossil fuel production have climbed raggedly upwards, everything else has had to take its share of hits, and suffered accordingly.
In a nutshell, that’s the Long Descent.
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The idea that we can choose our form of government divorced from whatever thermodynamically optimizes consumption was what got me. Like our opinions matter or something. Bizarre.
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Rich people only do ridiculous stuff like this to hide the fact that they are mass murdering barbarians
No amount of etiquette will hide how demonic these mfs actually are
Why is it that old folks, who grew up without all of this instant communication technology, are the most annoyed at me when I don’t respond to their texts/WhatsApp/Facebook messenger messages?
Can’t they remember life before all of this?
supercut of clips of men looking into a camera saying, "hey guys! today i'mmunna talk about..."
the video will be two hours long and guaranteed to induce deep depression
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"Anarchists often note that there is a difference between protest and direct action:
Protest is an appeal to the authorities to behave differently; direct action, whether it’s a matter of a community building a well, trying to shut down a meeting, or occupying a factory, it is a matter of acting as if the existing structure of power does not even exist.
Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free."
- David Graeber
