I'm worried about AI psychosis. Specifically, I'm worried about the psychosis that makes "capital allocators" spend *$1.4T* on the money-losingest technology in human history, in pursuit of a bizarre fantasy that if we teach the word-guessing program enough words, it will take all the jobs.

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Multiple people “reported” me for this post showing a screenshot of Donald Trump literally comparing himself to Jesus Christ.

First off, that report ultimately goes to me—the owner of my instance. There is no higher authority on atomicpoet.org than me. Which is by design.

Supposedly, the issue is that you didn’t “consent” to seeing a post about Trump. But nobody “consents” prior to a post going public. That’s not how social media works. There’s no Fediverse Authority to decide which posts publicly hit the federated timeline.

Even so, I firmly believe there are things that need to be seen—whether people like it or not. And one of them is that Donald Trump literally put up an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus, in a white robe and red cloak, surrounded by worshippers. One of them is praying to him.

If this offends you, good. It should. It offends me too. Everyone should be offended. If you’re religious in any way—Christian or otherwise—you should react with profound distaste. And if you’re an atheist, yeah, you should also be offended. This should be a universally offensive thing.

I therefore refuse to hide that image behind a content warning because, yeah, everyone needs to know it exists.

RE: https://atomicpoet.org/objects/f3e63850-d50a-43af-81ac-cedd4861f9f1

13 April 1891 | A German Jewish woman, Minna Lesser, was born in Gniezno (Gnesen)

On 15 September 1942 she was transferred from #Berlin to #Theresienstadt Ghetto. On 18 December 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz.
She did not survive.
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The history of deportations of Jews from the Theresienstadt ghetto to Auschwitz: https://bit.ly/3MdIVUA

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France did something to shake off its Big Tech addiction.

https://itsfoss.com/news/france-government-linux-switch/

#france #linux