the fbi immediately after a huge spike in racially motivated and antisemitic murders: haha, yeah we actually don’t see anything happening from the far right, it’s all those antifascists that are causing all the problems
news reporter: do you have numbers showing murder spikes in these groups of antifascists
the FBI: haha, no but those son of a guns sure do love to destroy private property, which is the real problem here
anyone normal: so you’re saying property is more important than the lives of the marginalized?
And now we have bills in congress unashamedly targeting antifa activists. But that’s funny, the U.S. government would only need to worry about antifascists if it was….oh…I see now.
On January 26, 2000, filming of the music video for “Sleep Now in the Fire” caused the doors of the New York Stock Exchange to be closed and the band to be escorted from the site by security. Directed by Michael Moore, the video was shot on the steps of the Federal hall building, in downtown Manhattan, across from the NYSE. The band invited fans to join them in the shoot and approximately 300 showed up. After the breakdown of the shoot, the band members, along with many of their fans, stormed the doors of the NYSE. De la Rocha was shoved away from the entrance after briefly entering through a side door. They then succeeded in forcing the NYSE to lock its doors during the middle of the trading day. After the incident, Morello was quoted saying, “Our protest stopped trading at the stock exchange for the last two hours of the day. I guess we stopped downsizing for at least a couple of hours.“ Footage of enthusiastic Wall Street employees headbanging to the music, police attempting to take Tim Commerford’s bass as he refused to quit playing, and the emergency doors of the New York Stock exchange closing were all used in the final video. “We decided to shoot this video in the belly of the beast”, said Moore, who was arrested during the shooting of the video: despite having a federal permit for the location, they did not have a sound permit. No one other than Moore was arrested in relation to the incident.
that tweet with elon musk joking(?) about being a socialist reminds me of this thing i read once on wikipedia about hitler:
However, the “socialism” emphasized by Hitler and the Nazis referred to social solidarity and sacrifice for one’s community and nation rather than the class conflict and economic egalitarianism of mainstream socialists.[280][281][282] In 1930, Hitler said: “Our adopted term ‘Socialist’ has nothing to do with Marxist Socialism. Marxism is anti-property; true Socialism is not”.[283]
although i looked back on the page and it’s been edited a bit since then (i took the above quote from an earlier post i’d made) and it says:
Fascism opposed the international character of mainstream socialism, but in opposing this international character, it often defined itself as a “nationalist” form of socialism, an alternative to the mainstream form of socialism which it regarded as its bitter enemy.[278] Hitler at times attempted to redefine the word socialism, such as saying: “Socialism! That is an unfortunate word altogether… What does socialism really mean? If people have something to eat and their pleasures, then they have their socialism”.[280] [and then second line of the first quote]
The above tweet taken in context with the recent “Who controls the media?” dogwhisle is painting a very alarming picture of Elon Musk. He’s willing to make the vague suggestion of (((Jews))) to his audience, and not make any clarification when his audience immediately jumps on that - followed by the above which felt very “Closeted National Socialist” the second I read it.
Yeah, probably. There's a whole subreddit devoted to this. They took the old 4chan-esque "Hitler did nothing wrong" and changed it to "Empire did nothing wrong." Like a lot of subreddits, even if it started out facetious there is a solid contingency who actually agrees.
This is incredibly difficult to look at. I fear this will continue and he will commit even worse crimes against humanity. I believe the UN is sitting on June 27 to discuss the humanitarian aspects of Trumps decisions here.
It’s been nearly three months since many Google employees—and the public—learned about the company’s decision to provide artificial intelligence to a controversial military pilot program known as Project Maven, which aims to speed up analysis of drone footage by automatically classifying images of objects and people. Now, about a dozen Google employees are resigning in protest over the company’s continued involvement in Maven.
It’s been nearly three months since many Google employees—and the public—learned about the company’s decision to provide artificial intelligence to a controversial military pilot program known as Project Maven, which aims to speed up analysis of drone footage by automatically classifying images of objects and people. Now, about a dozen Google employees are resigning in protest over the company’s continued involvement in Maven.
The resigning employees’ frustrations range from particular ethical concerns over the use of artificial intelligence in drone warfare to broader worries about Google’s political decisions—and the erosion of user trust that could result from these actions. Many of them have written accounts of their decisions to leave the company, and their stories have been gathered and shared in an internal document, the contents of which multiple sources have described to Gizmodo.
The employees who are resigning in protest, several of whom discussed their decision to leave with Gizmodo, say that executives have become less transparent with their workforce about controversial business decisions and seem less interested in listening to workers’ objections than they once did. In the case of Maven, Google is helping the Defense Department implement machine learning to classify images gathered by drones. But some employees believe humans, not algorithms, should be responsible for this sensitive and potentially lethal work—and that Google shouldn’t be involved in military work at all.
Historically, Google has promoted an open culture that encourages employees to challenge and debate product decisions. But some employees feel that their leadership no longer as attentive to their concerns, leaving them to face the fallout. “Over the last couple of months, I’ve been less and less impressed with the response and the way people’s concerns are being treated and listened to,” one employee who resigned said […]
In addition to the resignations, nearly 4,000 Google employees have voiced their opposition to Project Maven in an internal petition that asks Google to immediately cancel the contract and institute a policy against taking on future military work.
However, the mounting pressure from employees seems to have done little to sway Google’s decision—the company has defended its work on Maven and is thought to be one of the lead contenders for another major Pentagon cloud computing contract, the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, better known as JEDI, that is currently up for bids.
Employees’ demands that Google end its Pentagon contract are also complicated by the fact that Google claims it is only providing open-source software to Project Maven, which means the military would be able to still use the technology, even if Google didn’t accept payment or offer technical assistance.
Still, the resigning employees believe that Google’s work on Maven is fundamentally at odds with the company’s do-gooder principles. “It’s not like Google is this little machine-learning startup that’s trying to find clients in different industries,” a resigning employee said. “It just seems like it makes sense for Google and Google’s reputation to stay out of that.”
[…] One employee explained that Google staffers were promised an update on the ethics policy within a few weeks, but that progress appeared to be locked in a holding pattern. The ethical concerns “should have been addressed before we entered this contract,” the employee said.
Google has emphasized that its AI is not being used to kill, but the use of artificial intelligence in the Pentagon’s drone program still raises complex ethical and moral issues for tech workers and for academics who study the field of machine learning.
In addition to the petition circulating inside Google, the Tech Workers Coalition launched a petition in April demanding that Google abandon its work on Maven and that other major tech companies, including IBM and Amazon, refuse to work with the U.S. Defense Department.
“We can no longer ignore our industry’s and our technologies’ harmful biases, large-scale breaches of trust, and lack of ethical safeguards,” the petition reads. “These are life and death stakes.”
More than 90 academics in artificial intelligence, ethics, and computer science released an open letter today that calls on Google to end its work on Project Maven and to support an international treaty prohibiting autonomous weapons systems. Peter Asaro and Lucy Suchman, two of the authors of the letter, have testified before the United Nations about autonomous weapons; a third author, Lilly Irani, is a professor of science and a former Google employee.
Google’s contributions to Project Maven could accelerate the development of fully autonomous weapons, Suchman told Gizmodo. Although Google is based in the U.S., it has an obligation to protect its global user base that outweighs its alignment with any single nation’s military, she said.
“If ethical action on the part of tech companies requires consideration of who might benefit from a technology and who might be harmed, then we can say with certainty that no topic deserves more sober reflection—no technology has higher stakes—than algorithms meant to target and kill at a distance and without public accountability,” the letter states. “Google has moved into military work without subjecting itself to public debate or deliberation, either domestically or internationally. While Google regularly decides the future of technology without democratic public engagement, its entry into military technologies casts the problems of private control of information infrastructure into high relief.”
Executives at Google have made efforts to defend Project Maven to employees. At a meeting shortly after the project became public, Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene spoke in support of Project Maven, multiple sources told Gizmodo. More recently, Greene and other employees have hosted several sessions to debate and discuss the project. These sessions featured speakers who supported and opposed Maven and stressed the difficulty of drafting policy about the ethical use of machine learning, an attendee explained.
While I do maintain that royalty is the sum of the earth and that all monarchs should be literally eaten, the royal wedding is making boneheads BIG MAD and I’m so glad that I get to see that
mikalhvi replied to your post: So, went to a concert last night (Bad Wolves,…
I never feel secure without a sharp-n-pointy friend, to be honest. Even if it’s tiny. Do you have any advice of where to put something like that to conceal it?
Knives disguised as not-knives.
One is a comb that pulls apart into a knife.
The other folds out into something the size and shape of a credit card and slips into my wallet.
My third looks like an innocent tube of lipstick.
They’re all just in my purse.
Pair this with a cute feminine dress and a smile and no one suspects a bloody thing.
Hi Guardian I fixed your shitty headline for you. Also, can you please stop referring to soldiers shooting at unarmed civilians as “clashes”. You’re perpetuating the idea that this is a two-sided conflict as opposed to a powerful militarized state occupying and oppressing civilians.
