If you create enough fear in people, they eventually become violent. If those fear-filled people have access to guns, that violence becomes deadly. This is the #America that #Republicans apparently want.
"Some people are users of #ai but the majority of the population is the subject of AI... This is not a matter of individual choice. Most of the ways that AI interpolates our life makes determinations that shape our access to resources to opportunity are made behind the scenes in ways we probably don’t even know."
It's so common it's as if there were an underlying ideology behind it, driving such behavior and being supported by laws & norms.
>"Some people are users of #capitalism but the majority of the population is the subject of capital... This is not a matter of individual choice.
Most of the ways that "free market representative #democracy" interpolates our lives makes determinations that shape our access to resources to opportunity are made behind the scenes in ways we probably don’t even know."<
It's not hard to miss this when it's your first rodeo paying attention (aka younger quartiles). However, having been in several successive iterations of this cycle and heard the same specific, narrow complaint focus aimed at other #evolution-driven innovation that came & went, you can imagine that watching people bump around the perimeter of the problem again, while ignoring the causal upstream sources in the #system is a growing frustration.
The #media plays the same role, whether it's describing the Wall St narrative excuse for the latest boom & bust, or telling us what the latest economic, #political, or cultural #fear de jour we should be consumed by.
The same natural laws that make #disinformation impossible to contain & counter with corrections also work to ensure that any scheme for "redistribution" of #surplus in an organization will meet the same fate.
All complex adaptive systems will go through a phase change & irreversible structural #reorg when internal imbalances exceed the requirements for a pareto-optimal type harmony.
If the enemy brings tanks to your infantry battle, you had better change tactics -which will now include tanks, btw.
We don't have to live our lives in fear regarding Covid. Even if we are afraid, we can choose to have the courage to look at the reality, and show the courage needed to speak up and demand real Covid safety, like masking, for instance, from our friends, our workplaces, our communities. #CovidIsNotOver#COVIDisAirborne#covid#fear#maskup#BringBackMasks
Chief Justice John Roberts’ Mockery of Stalking Victims Points to a Deeper Problem
The justices’ message was clear: Stalking is not the problem; sensitivity is. To them, stalking is quite literally a state of mind If the stalker didn’t mean for his conduct to be frightening then it isn’t. All the target has to do is understand that
"Let their sons or daughters be stalked by an obsessive admirer or deviate and tell them to not be so sensitive"
just sayin