Paris MarxIn the final roundup of the year, I introduce readers to a new podcast and recommend some great stories on the politics of AI, GM’s decision to shut down Cruise, and how David Sacks rose to be AI/crypto czar.
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BFA refugee. Between distractions, I write & make art and music ... Gaymer wannabe, logovore, sonophile. Cozily homed in the completely burned out ruins of Portland, Oregon. Someday I hope to be a real boy.
@Brendan I as well, though there be other alternatives, matey.
"Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn@kityates So, lemme get this straight:
1) The Pogues wrote & recorded an iconic Christmas song in which the singer's highly vernacular lyrics compare her lover to a "cheap lousy [homophobic slur]."
2) The Pogues later realized that the slur was both hurtful & harmful, and recorded a new version of the song in which the singer remark is changed to "you're cheap and you're haggard."
3) The man whose portrait lives in the dictionary under "poo-faced," aka Laurence Fox, tweets a demand for the BBC to be defunded unless the slur-bearing version of the song hits the top of charts for Xmas 2020.
4) The authors of both versions of the song respond in the truest High Pogues fashion , by tweeting:
"Fuck off you little herrenvolk shite."
David GerardMeet the underpaid workers in Nairobi, Kenya, who power OpenAI
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/30/meet-the-underpaid-workers-in-nairobi-kenya-who-power-openai/
Thomas ZimmerSunday reading: Meet the Ideologue of the “Post-Constitutional” Right
I wrote about Russell Vought, one of the architects behind Project 2025, who believes there is nothing left to conserve. He desires revolution – and to burn down the system.
This week’s piece:
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https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/meet-the-ideologue-of-the-post-constitutional
Bread and CircusesCory Doctorow (@pluralistic) says we need to spend the next three-plus years reforming our labor unions and building toward a general strike in 2028.
I like it.
✊ https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/11/rip-jane-mcalevey/#organize
#Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateAction
Department Of 'Goddammit Elon...'
myrmepropagandistLast year I insisted my CS students stop using replit & learn to run their projects in python, java on their computers. They HATED it. I felt old fashioned, didactic. "This is just a company trying to get you hooked on their service, you all know how they throttle your virtual machines just to get you to sign up? That's a bad sign."
This year a couple of them thanked me for doing this in the hall the other day. "You were right, Mrs. Futurebird*"
I coud cry for joy.
*no they don't call me that
Timnit Gebru (she/her).Funny how the analyses are discussing every voting block except for white people. How could X group vote for a man who did Y?
Very committed to avoiding discussion of the deep commitment to white supremacy.
charvakaIf you are listening to cable news pundits today, watch this first. The pundits talking about the election tonight are more clueless than you and me.
I am going to go to sleep now and see where PA, MI and WI stand in the morning.
#Election2024 #Harris2024 #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=Lyi-k8IPeWPoDxck&v=XLiagIdA84c
Jon Stewart’s Election Night Takeaway | The Daily Show
Jon Stewart shares his takeaways from Election Night 2024: A glimpse into the fate of the presidency and the mistakes that'll be made all over again. #DailyS...