@ewanpearson

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some say "AI is here to stay and there's nothing you can do about it so you might as well get on board" and I hear "those bank robbers robbed the bank and right now they're sitting in their house surrounded by bags of money and there's nothing you can do about it so you might as well get on board"

The horrifying moment for me growing up was realizing that if you can put together enough layers of indirection then you can get away with murder.

Shooting someone is a crime but denying them funding for life saving food or medical care? That’s just bureaucracy.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-boy-genius-who-killed-14-million-luke-farritor-doge-elon-musk-trump

The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People

What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

The Bulwark
Incredible.
Make fascists cry, it’s your moral duty.
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/114384689189722338
Paul Cantrell (@[email protected])

- Tesla Q1 profits down •71%• YoY - Earnings per share of $0.27 lower than analyst expectations of $0.41 - Without carbon credits, company would have posted an operating loss Bad as all that sounds for Tesla, keep in mind that this company regularly publishes falsified data. It hacked its odometers to push customers out of warranty. It wildly exagerrated Cybertruck orders. It almost certainly published fraudulent sales figures in Canada to get in on an expiring gov benefit. I’m assuming this dismal quarterly earning report isn’t reality, but is the rosiest lie they could manage to sell to investors. The reality is probably even worse. https://gizmodo.com/elon-sounds-extremely-depressed-after-tesla-profits-plunge-71-2000593013 #TeslaTakedown

Hachyderm.io

Funny how this story didn't make the news in the UK.

When you're targeting the Quakers you have no moral high ground and are just State thugs shutting down dissent.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/quakers-london-police-arrested-six-223402056.html

#Quakers #London #ClimateChange #Gaza #FreePalestine #Fascism

Quakers say London police arrested six people at meeting on climate change, Gaza

British police raided a Quaker meeting house in London on Thursday and arrested six women attending a meeting on climate change and the war in Gaza...

Yahoo News

“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit,” Musk said. “There it’s they’re exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.”
-Elon Musk, Feb 28, 2025

“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
-Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/05/politics/elon-musk-rogan-interview-empathy-doge/index.html

Elon Musk wants to save Western civilization from empathy

Americans are still in the dark about the scope and scale of what Elon Musk is doing with DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, which is working to drastically shrink the size of government by aiming to cut $1 trillion or more in government spending.

CNN

I've told them in fairly plain terms what I think, and you can too if you go here:

https://ipoconsultations.citizenspace.com/ipo/consultation-on-copyright-and-ai/consultation/

But you have to do it today.

Consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence - Intellectual Property Office - Citizen Space

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That's nuts I hear you say? Yes that does seem nuts! Why would a Labour government seek to weaken the creative industries that have been one of our biggest exporters? Well apparently, in order to promote the growth of AI that has yet to demonstrate how it can be monetised, costs huge amounts of energy and has little use-case other than to drive down the ability of working people to make money from our... erm.... labour? 🤪
If you're in the UK and you're a creator that makes stuff which can be copyrighted, TODAY IS THE LAST DAY to make your views felt on the Government's proposals to water-down UK copyright so that AI companies can train models on copyrighted material without explicit permission.
Trump and Musk jerking each other off about sending people to conquer Greenland while Los Angeles burns has big end-of-the-empire energy.