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"Democracy is dying of aesthetic starvation...
we’ve missed something fundamental that our opponents understand perfectly: #democracy doesn’t just need better arguments or stronger institutions. It needs #art that can hold human attention long enough for moral recognition to occur.
...liberals bring fact-checking to a mythology fight. We critique the stories dominating human consciousness rather than telling better ones."
-Mike Brock
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/democracy-needs-art
If you want an ebook of some public domain work, either:
1. Check standardebooks.org before Gutenberg. They clean up books from Gutenberg with sane typography and print design.
2. Consider buying a "Dover Thrift Editions" version of the ebook. Many fly-by-night ebook "publishers" are turning a quick buck on selling you a Gutenberg edition. Dover is a real publisher, even in print, and their well-formatted ebooks of public domain works are usually under $4, or even less.
Sounds about right:
As world powers rattle their sabres and play with their nuclear submarine toys, it's worth taking a moment to reflect on the message of #Hiroshima 80 years ago today. No more tragedies; no nuclear weapons.
why do we need to have a long conversation about the merits of AI? why do we need to take AI-generated bullshit in *presumed* good faith?
i would argue that we owe nothing to AI boosters, apologists, etc...
cut them off in conversations; don't let them finish their sentences; eject them from your communities.
destroying AI includes - among other things - making it socially costly to launder AI into spaces meant for people.
"Over the last six months, capital expenditures on AI—counting just information processing equipment and software, by the way—added more to the growth of the US economy than all consumer spending combined. You can just pull any of those quotes out—spending on IT for AI is so big it might be making up for economic losses from the tariffs, serving as a private sector stimulus program."
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-bubble-is-so-big-its-propping
Not only have Democrats alienated people who loathe Trumpism with their incessant, arrogant, and infuriating spamming, but they aren't even the major recipients of the loot.
Democrats would have to improve to be merely hapless.
If you're averse to govt agency detail, here's my principles class simple tutorial on the concepts of the definition/meaning of the various terms & categories. (let's hear it for open ed resources & retired profs too lazy to take their stuff down):
Adam Parkhomenko
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
Jay 🆘
Jonathan Rees
Eric Likness
Phil
Ali Alkhatib
It's Going Down
Dan Gillmor