Below is one approach. (It is decontextualised and so not a fair example of the aufhor's position.
But still it is worth looking at IMO.
"Anyone who is excessively optimsitic or excessively pessimistic about AI is someone who hasn't engaged with AI critically."
Let's consider this appraich by replacing "AI" first with "government under Stalin", then "clean water and sanitation", and finally "a second term for DJT".
Wondering if Kerry Stokes was looking at or already had this investment back when John Howard re-jigged the Australian aged care system into something that could produce serious profits for private operators who could stomach mistreating the elderly?
And if Kerry conferred with Ol' Brown-nose Johny about the details of the second rate system that Johny set upon the frail aged?
Anyone know the death and injury toll of the rockets that #Hamas has fired into #Israel since #October7?
I ask as that toll seems to be used as a major justification for the slaughter of +15,000 civilians, so I'm wondering just how it compares to +15,000 deaths and thousands of wounded caused by the violence of the #IsraeliDefenseForce.
@skua
What it also sounds like is that you've never been walking down the street and suddenly hear a siren, giving you moments to find cover.
Limited rocket attacks have been 'tolerable' in the recent past in terms of the cost of operating Iron Dome, the psychological toll on the population, the property damage, and the relatively few injuries and deaths.
There are so few injuries and deaths because Israel cares about its citizens and we have bomb shelters and active defenses.
Israel shields its own, and Hamas uses its population as a shield: comparing casualties like a sports score is absurd and disingenuous. @lizstl13
Hard words for Democrats from Marcy Wheeler, lead writer at Emptywheel.
Add this to certainty that Democrats are being #RageFarmed on #SocialMedia and consider what real world actions available to you might help save American democracy?
Here is #TimDunlop writing about the Australian ethos that may yet lie under all the hype, celebrity and bullshit that our TVs tell us is so very important.
@skua "Enter John Howard in 1996...[h]is version of nationalism had to be louder and brasher and pushier—and unforgiving of dissent—because it was nine-parts fake, the imposition of a tradition we had previously rejected. He had to prescribe social solidarity as his own economic policies were undermining it."
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I'm a bit askew after work.
Wanting to write and "all over the place", discombobulated to use that ? Scientologist-prefered word that seems to have very recently got a new life.
This'll take months - you'll want to keep an eye on the investment/pay-off ratio and watch you don't get stranded in a billabong (ox-bow lake) as the waters rise and fall.
Let me think on that ... You're welcome to use me or anything I have posted if you think it would be good ... I also have that documentary about one bit of my life you could use, it's a bit dark ... Hugz
Been wondering how to respond to climate change locally and as a human who is affected by it.
I'm listening for a practice or activity that could confirm to other locals that they're part of a group who support robust action to prevent large human-activity-caused climate change.
Looking for something that will help in the tiniest discernable way to shift me, and maybe others, away from #FeelingOverwhelmed by climate change.
This sort of thing is AIUI absent from #AgedCare facilities, doctor's waiting rooms, classrooms, government department and corporate offices.
Looks clear that it was absolutely necessary with the annual influenza before 2020.
That there are no #IndoorAirQuality regulations now at the end of 2023 is ... concerning? a betrayal? a gauge on corporate power?