I put up a new blog essay, The Tedious Pained, a defense of the legitimacy of technical & social critiques of "AI" tech, even as positives are claimed. Positives don't cancel negatives, in other words.

Well, it's only new if you didn't see it as a comment on someone else's post a bit ago at LinkedIn. This is me just giving it a better placement and a name for later reference. And perhaps a wider audience.

https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-tedious-pained.html

#AI #LLM #LLMs #SocialCost #critique #ethics #AIEthics #tech #technology #harm #society #politics

Russia GDP Growth Too Low for Defense, Social Spend: Business Head

Russia’s economy has slowed to a pace that could jeopardize its ability to cover surging defense, security, and…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #alexandershokhin #businesshead #centralbank #Defense #EconomicGrowth #Economy #end #Russia #russiagdpgrowth #Security #socialcost #socialspending #tvchannel #Ukraine #World #year
https://www.newsbeep.com/162168/

The #SocialCost to being a Zionist, or associating with #Zionists, needs to be sharply higher than the social cost of actively rejecting and opposing Zionism.

For people who still want to keep their #respectability with Zionists in their lives more than they care about #Palestine, we have the carrot and the stick to flip them. The stick is, they should be forced to choose between those Zionists and everyone else in their lives. The carrot is their own #moral compass, if they even have one.

Cows - "Mine"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwfUuxGim2s&ab_channel=MatthewSwanson

#greed #selfishness #SocialCost #MentalHealth

How #RealEstate expansion into common lands (#commons) in #Telangana state of #India operates from a strong #nexus between local #power #elites and local #administration both belonging to the #UpperCastes, and how the #marginalized #LowerCastes in #villages bear the #SocialCost of #industrialization!

https://india.mongabay.com/2022/12/commentary-the-missing-caste-from-commons-a-reflection-from-a-telangana-village/

If #privatised infrastructure gets #hacked, #managment would need to be replaced and the #infrastructure should be returned to public hands, or get broken up.

Similar to how #banks collapsing or creating extreme instability should be dealt with.

What do you think?

#socialCost #cyberThreat #cyberSecurity #deleteCloudflare #deleteAmazon #aws #cloudflare #amazon #MITM #MitMaaS