RRB @rrb@social.cleverlibre.org

"Third of UK librarians asked to censor or remove books, research reveals"

argh.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/20/third-of-uk-librarians-asked-to-censor-or-remove-books-research-reveals

Nothing encapsulates the Democrats' fundamental -- and self-imposed -- weakness better than this headline from Politico: "Senate Dems weighing a Clarence Thomas invite to future Supreme Court ethics hearing"

@bronakins Did anyone say Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic yet? He's a must follow.

When a uterus is more heavily regulated than an assault weapon, that’s when you know it’s a war on women.

The FBI has arrested the 21 year old National Guardsman for the unauthorized taking of classified info. Trump stole hundreds of docs and remains free. @TheJusticeDept has two systems of justice.

Systemic racism, Exhibit 54,956,334: https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2023/04/08/jerry-craft-new-kid-school-trip-book-ban/

@freemo @rrb @pj just looked up comparative gun death rates: USA is 51 times more than UK. That is a lot.

@freemo @rrb @pj An interesting discussion. As someone who works in policing in canada I have been exposed to a lot of information about gun use in crime and the pros/cons of gun ownership and use in general. One of the aspects I think that you overlook when arguing that people would be safer if everyone carried around guns is that the vast majority of altercations, whether physical or otherwise, come about when otherwise reasonable individuals become emotionally disturbed or incensed (drugs and alcohol often contribute to this), then they make decisions they otherwise would not. A huge percentage of assaults/suicides by guns occur in residences where they are not safely stored, because individuals in the midst of an emotional episode can grab them and use them without a chance for a second thought. Suicide is also a huge one, you are *far* more likely to successfully commit suicide if there is a gun in your home and seeing as how the rate of suicidality in most developed countries keeps on increasing, probably the best reason to not own a gun is to protect you from yourself! And I think the argument for America being a naturally more violent country than other developed nations is not adequately supported by evidence, people in canada get into altercations all the time, but so few of them involve firearms that they are less likely to turn deadly, in fact, the communities within Canada that have the most fatal altercations are the very ones with the highest prevalence of gun ownership! Not having easy access to guns is certainly helping to prevent a ton of needless gun deaths. While it is true that a dedicated individual can acquire the necessary firepower to commit an atrocity, like what happened a few years ago in Nova Scotia, that event took years of planning and preparation; what gun control helps to prevent are the deaths that occur from more temporary insanities.

@spaf I've reviewed the recipe. I think if you stick to organic cat food and mayonnaise I don't think there's any need to invoke either the word "artificial" or the word "intelligence". I'll concede that it's within the most tolerant bounds of the word "dessert".

@cypnk

#ButlerianJihad #Dune

“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.”

#ButlerianJihad

The Butlerian Jihad may or may not be named after Samuel Butler, author of "Darwin among the Machines" (1868) on the dangers of mechanized life, which ends with:

> War to the death should be instantly proclaimed against them. Every machine of every sort should be destroyed by the well-wisher of his species. Let there be no exceptions made, no quarter shown; let us at once go back to the primeval condition of the race.

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#Dune #ButlerianJihad #SamuelButler

Fedi Nota Bene:

I opt out of favourites & boost notifications in the conviction that the internet needs to be “degamed”.

I am intentionally blind to follower counts and metrics of all kinds.

I strongly support #OfflineFirst and #Smolnet above Web 2.0 parasocial media like fediverse.

I support an ethical and compassionate #ButlerianJihad.

Toodloo!

#AI #ChatGPT #ButlerianJihad