Think of computing the way we do food.
Windows is the junk food; fast and easy but god knows what you are putting in your body.
Apple is the fancy restaurant; expensive, flashy and all done for you.
Linux is cooking at home; learning from recipes and tweaking it to your taste.
And going fully open source and self hosted is like going Vegan.
Trump wants us to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.
In response I am going to properly pronounce it the Gulf of Meh-he-co.
We should be clear: the rightists want to “pwn the libs” and that means massacres of undesirables. The fascists are going to use the military to kill their fellow Americans before long. They will not react to such events with contrition but with relish. There will be no compunction from that quarter of the populace, only gleeful bloodlust for a long while to come. In the face of such carnal cruelty the actual liberals will be nonplussed at best - useless.
According to Matthew 25:41-45, he'd tell the #Republicans who support this bill to go to hell.
I no longer consider myself #Christian, but even I know that #Jesus taught that you should feed the hungry, heal the sick, be kind to the stranger, etc...
Which is the opposite of what the GOP is doing with Trump's #BigBeautifulBill which takes #food from the hungry, denies #healthcare to the sick & imprisons the stranger.
“We are witnessing the first stages of Trump’s police state. …
History shows that once an authoritarian ruler establishes the infrastructure of a police state, that same infrastructure can be turned on anyone.”
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #LosAngeles #military #violence #fascism #authorianism
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https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/trumps-police-state
I imagine a future where children, raised by their AIA, will become adults relying their advisor for everything. Every little thing that comes up in life they will ask AIA and, trusting it must know the right answer, do whatever it says.
And so it becomes the reverse of our consciousness moving to robots. Rather our bodies will become the robot's body, using us to do whatever it wants. The brain is like a muscle - if you don't use it then it becomes weak. People will become incapable of thinking for themselves. We become a world of robot-controlled human bodies.
Resist.
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I know some believe that AI/robots will eventually become us - our evolutionary destiny. We will eventually move our consciousness into the robot's 'brain' and thus live forever. I don't buy that idea since I don't think consciousness can be moved, however I do think of it another way.
They talk about the near future when we will all have little AI assistants (AIA) that will be our constant companions, answering any question we have. Your children will grow up being taught by their AIA, as well as it being a companion.
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Stephen Ward
1 Aby vs 100 Gorillas
Nando161
Shufei 🧮
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
William Lindsey 
Martin Veart