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Science fiction is a fun and useful way to tell parables about our current technologies. But it's not a roadmap for the future. The fact that sf writers like me found AIs as useful measures to describe Earth's dominant artificial life form - the limited liability corporation - doesn't mean that superhuman AIs should - or *can* - be created.

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@realTuckFrumper
I'm going to stop boosting Raw Story articles because they use an adblocker detector blocking readership of people who use adblockers.

Covid wastewater for Palo Alto, California, has exceeded all its previous covid peaks (ever). Source: Stanford University covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-w

"My concern is of a complete collapse in public confidence in the system."

Criminals exploit court delays 'doom loop' to avoid justice, warns KC

standard.co.uk/news/uk/justice

Al Jazeera said they were their journalists; IDF said their drones were a threat; now they claim that the killed journalists were with Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Never said which journalist was with which group, so what is this--Hamas has merged with Islamic Jihad now but no new name for the new merger?

"...In the intervening years, Israel has built more walls, erected more checkpoints, unleashed more illegal settlers and launched far deadlier wars. Everything has gotten worse: the vitriol, the rage, the righteousness. Clearly, impunity – the sense of imperviousness and untouchability that underpins Israel’s treatment of Palestinians – is not a static force. It behaves more like an oil spill: once released, it seeps outwards, poisoning everything and everyone in its path. It spreads wide and sinks in deep...."

Naomi Klein talks BDS - boycott, divestment and sanctions.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

#Gaza #Palestine #BoycottIsrael

#Uspoli #Cdnpoli #UK #Gaza #Palestine #Apartheid #WarCrimes #Genocide #Gaslighting #BDS #UN #Ceasefire #Israel #Siege #BidensBombs #TerroristState

Pakistan, Maldives & Mamibia backed the lawsuit against US backed Israeli Genocide against Palestinians during a UNGA session.

Earlier, Bolivia, Jordan, Malaysia & Turkey had expressed their support for the lawsuit

youtube.com/watch?v=coxoUpDf-r

israel, gaza, united states politics 

People in the united states are still getting into trouble for calling Israel’s war in Gaza a genocide.

Not sure what else you can call bombing for months, cutting off power, water and food supplies and now killing 1% of the population … with Israeli political leaders making genocidal statements. Maybe the grim numbers will start pushing through the political bullshit and fascist fascination?

abcnews.go.com/International/g #EndGenocideInGaza #IsraelGenocide #Gaza

77 Groups Worldwide Back Genocide Lawsuit Against #Biden in U.S. Court.

Dozens of legal and civil society organizations from around the world have thrown their weight behind a U.S. lawsuit accusing President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony
#Blinken, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin for failing to “prevent an unfolding genocide” in #Gaza.

https://theintercept.com/2024/01/10/biden-israel-genocide-lawsuit/

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