Universal Basic Income - where everyone has enough income to afford basic needs like food and housing - is a moral imperative. (note I did not include healthcare or education because those should be free)

The argument "well if you pay people enough to live on they might not want to work" is puzzling to me... because food and shelter are human rights. The imperative to work... is not. If people don't want to do the crappy jobs if they can live without them, then we'll have to pay people more to do those jobs. As it should be!

Also, fyi, every single trial of ubi has found that people do not, in fact, work less, but they ARE more creative and entrepreneurial.

What's stopping us?

🇦🇷 DW: The Argentine government has uncovered a Russian spy network in the country, the purpose of which was to "conduct disinformation campaigns and operations against the Argentine state."

‼️Russian citizen Lev Andriashvili, who lives in Argentina, together with his wife Irina Yakovenko, established contacts with local structures and distributed money to spread disinformation.

'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?'

Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️

The Good Law Project are in the process of taking the EHRC to court on their stated position that employers are obliged to provide single-sex toilets.

It appears that the EHRC are starting to cave in on the issue and are rowing backwards on previous guidance with Olympic speed.

https://goodlawproject.org/ehrc-backs-down-on-single-sex-toilets/

#goodlawproject #ehrc #trans #toilets

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

Seeing usually smart folks getting rope-a-doped into arguing for LLM utility like there's a moral justice zero-sum trolley-problem slider between "useful" and "ethical" and we're just arguing about the best setting

But the real problem is even dumber

-is its mere use a climate disaster? Yes
-is its data provenance founded on theft? Also yes
-will it be used to ruin ordinary workers' lives? Yup
-will it ruin countless organizations who think they're buying their way to cheap labor? That too