The cost of a "free" AI request:

* you unlearn how to research
* you unlearn critical thinking
* you unlearn cooperation
* your brain deteriorates
* you get partial misinformation in the best case
* propaganda in every other case
* scientists and artists don't get compensated or credited
* the server farm uses extreme amounts of energy
* autocratic regimes get rich from selling fossil fuels
* tons of atomic waste is produced
* the server farm also uses extreme amounts of water to cool the servers and cooling agent is added making the waste water useless for a long time
* droughts lead to decreased food production
* your energy bill, water bill and grocery bill increase, because prices go up
* lots of greenhouse gas is emitted for energy production
* global heating, rising sealevels, wildfires, famine, extreme weather events all lead to climate refugees
* people influenced by AI propaganda and scared of climate refugees vote for fascist autocrats
* your chatbot will deny the existence of gas chambers while your friends are being burned
* everybody loses

The benefits of "free" AI requests:
* you get to make fun of bad results as long as you still know that humans shouldn't have extra fingers growing out of their ears (which might be the new normal soon due to all the atomic waste)

#NoAI #StopUsingAI

Every time Israel is being bombed or facing significant violence at home, friends from all over the Arab world check in on me and my family in Tel Aviv. It happened on Oct 7th, and it's happening now.

These dreadful times continue to show that it truly, truly has nothing to do with Jews vs Arabs, or even Israelis vs Palestinians. It's about who is standing for justice for all and who persists in seeing the other as human.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza

Meanwhile in Gaza...

Palestinians rush for cover as debris flies around them after an Israeli strike on the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees.

Photograph: Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images

@palestine
#Gaza

Watch: “Flags of Palestine were raised and chants for Palestine echoed during the Irish band KNEECAP’s festival in the Netherlands.”

via Eye On Palestine on Telegram

@palestine
@israel

https://t.me/Eyeonpalestine2/14827

#Press #Israel #Gaza #Genocide #Palestine #Kneecap #Netherland

Why capitalism is fundamentally undemocratic

https://europe.pub/post/1490299

A new long-term animal study of the widely used weed killer glyphosate find fresh evidence that the herbicide, introduced by Monsanto in the 1970s, causes multiple types of cancer, and may do so at doses considered safe by regulators. #ClimateChange

https://www.thenewlede.org/2025/06/new-study-adds-to-evidence-that-glyphosate-weed-killer-can-cause-cancer/

If you must describe property destruction as "violence", in a ranking of "what is more violent", I would still rank forcibly separating a child from their family orders of magnitude above burning an empty Waymo.

I'll always be opposed to vandalism (it's pointless and just gives the state an excuse), but if you're opposed to that and _not_ speaking out against the far greater violence ICE unleashes upon families, I know that it's never been about violence at all.