RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/116708457056507627

“New AI driven flight route optimization software working well so far,” declares airline

No mater how famous or wealthy, this is what every Black person, and especially Black women and children, can expect from the healthcare system anywhere in the US.

A New Mexico jury awarded the family of Star Trek icon Nichelle Nichols $13 million in a wrongful death lawsuit against the Gila Regional Medical Center in Silver City, New Mexico.

An expert informed jury ruled the hospital provided substandard care, failed to properly diagnose a treatable heart condition, and then discharging her hours before her death in 2022.

News media are already attempting to softpedal the story. Don't let them!
#BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #Afrofuturism #SciFi #STEM #Women #BlackWomen #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS #Uhura #NyotaUhura

RE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/116697233926805705

It now occurs to me that the enormous diversion of resources to the construction of AI #datacenters reflects not triumphalism but desperation. If the #LLMs and generative #AI of today worked half as well as their proponents claim they do, would it be necessary to go to these lengths to make them work a little bit better yet?

These people and companies have bet the farm, not on #AI as such, but on a particular resource-heavy approach to #AI. And they're acting like out-of-control "steamers" in a casino — compulsive gamblers betting more and yet more every turn, in a frenzied attempt to win enough to cover their losses.

They're past worrying about whether they can afford it. And most of them (Peter #Thiel, who recently fled to Argentina, may be an exception) are past worrying about how it looks to the rest of us.

But we're still free to observe, and draw our own conclusions. And I suggest that we conclude, not only that these massive AI #datacenters must not be allowed to exist, but also that the kind of massive concentrations of private wealth that built them must not be allowed to exist — not if we value our lives and our freedom. Liquidation of all large accumulations of private capital is not primarily a matter of implementing some philosophical principle of equality. It's a matter of basic self-preservation.

#Luddite

I'm not saying it's getting bad in America

But I've noticed that in addition to her torch, the Statue of Liberty is now carrying a pitchfork

Accept reality for what it is.

#Billionaires #IncomeInequality

Remember 100 years ago when radiation was new and exciting and poorly understood, and companies were putting radiation into everything?

Thankfully we learned our lesson and will never make that mistake again.