An Account in #Gaza describe the current state of #Hunger Under Israeli Siege

This morning, we ground lentils & mixed them with some flour to make bread for my family. Each of my 7 family members receives only 1 loaf of bread, for the whole day. This is the bitter reality we face, the price of flour has reached 150 shekels (about $42)

#starvation #FoodAsWeapon #Famine
#SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #BDS
#palestine #Israel #Politics #Genocide #PeaceNow @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel @palestine@lemmy.ml

A highlight of the garden this week: monarchs make an appearance, along with enormous bumblebees!!

#Summer
#Bees
#Bloomscrolling
#Butterflies

“We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.

It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. [...]

The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller (March 1970, _New York_ magazine)

When "ownership" does not mean you own it. When "lifetime" is limited to a year or two. When "privacy" is their right to track you. When "agreement" is being given no options at all. When "user experience" no longer factors in the user.

"We are no longer the user, we are the thing that is getting used." – Campbell Walker

"Data is the crack cocaine of Silicon Valley." – Carole Cadwalladr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctM2TIXDFQs

Over a year ago, I posited that AI coding stuff isn't about coding or productivity. It's about some % of people who feel a stimulus-reward thing from using it, similar to how some people feel when gambling. It feels so overwhelmingly good to some % of people they don't even bother to measure if their AI stuff is actually doing anything useful, because of course it must be, because the feeling is so strong.

It seems more & more people are also finding this idea lately.

But I've also realized that it seems to apply to any of the prompt-style AI things, not just coding. There is some kind of slot machine playing mania (sorta, not exactly) thing it triggers in some % of people. I'm certain of it now.

If anything, it makes me feel a bit less angry and more sad towards the people with this AI prompt-query compulsion. It feels closer to when you see someone with a gambling addiction stuck at a gambling machine.

Do you know any #arabic , #spanish or #mandarin #translator who might be interested in translating https://storyseedlibrary.org/ , a #solarpunk #art and #writing site with lots of #Copyleft materials?

Sadly, there's no funding for the project, only bringing more human-made, intentional, optimistic #climate #futurism materials to new audiences!

#translation #translating