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“Pope Leo points out that the creators and users of AI are already allowing the technology to make moral decisions—such as by using algorithms to figure out who to hire, whether to fund surgeries, or where to target bombs. This withers people’s capacity to think through these problems on their own, and perhaps more worryingly places the ability to broadly influence these choices in the hands of those who train and control AI technologies. This means that the moral philosophies of tech gurus will steadily guide the moral decisions of ever more people as these technologies gain wider purchase in society.”

— The Pope’s Defense of Human Imperfection

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

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new reblog button has me fucked up, but Fossil Capital, Malm Techno-Negative, Dekeyser

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Translating his theory of degeneration into a series of proposition on human affairs, [Ray] Lankester asks whether, for all its celebration of convenience and artificial tools, should modern civilization not fear that it too, like the parasite, may be in the process of decay, shedding its organic functions, and slowly drifting 'to the condition of intellectual Barnacles or Ascidians'?

Thomas Dekeyser, Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine, p. 71

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[W]orkers no longer in need of protection, the defiant laborers were now, as the Regent of the York Special Commission set up to quell machine-breaking would write, 'ill-designing and wicked Men' who are not just engaged in the 'Destruction of the various Kinds of Machinery now most beneficially employed in the Manufactures of this Kingdom," but are in fact 'destructive of the good Order and Happiness of Society.'

Thomas Dekeyser, Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine, p. 67

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This whips Ramleh >> "HYPER VIGILANCE"

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Buying Rilo Kiley records and black jeans, I think I'm turning 14 again

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"His revolt against death and the deadly passivity with which society deals with this phenomenon [AIDS] give a deeply emotional character to his life work, which literally transcends the style of passivity and abandon of the entropic slope of fate which characterizes this present period." -Felix Guattari on David Wojnarowicz

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Prompt: Can't cynicism be vulnerable?

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@ Pissed Jeans

Me: "Hey man, cool shirt...I didn't even know Whitehouse made T-shirts" Zoomer: Oh yeah. They're definitely a uh...product of their time, but they're still cool...I mean...you get it. Do you wanna start a band?

[jacobwren]

"Fascism? It begins with madmen, is made real thanks to bastards, and carries on because of morons." - Hugues Jallon, Comment le fascisme devient reel "Le fascisme ? Ça commence avec les fous, ça se réalise grâce aux salauds et ça continue à cause des cons" - Hugues Jallon, Comment le fascisme devient reel

[gallowhill]

Ceremonial and Vacuflex 3, 1971 by Jordi Gómez

[nyancrimew]

normalize being really mean and evil and straight up just a bad person

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The [French] Republic is no longer glorious. It finally accepts a destiny better suited to its means -- those of a 'democratic' subprefecture of the New World Order which knows that it must prostrate itself before an opinion over which it has less and less control; and that it must abandon the 'Jacobin' idea that democracy is worthy only in virtue of the excellence of the destinies it envisions ideally for all and cannot just keep its eyes fixed on the the common average of egoism and cowardice.

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[E]ven a summary acquaintance with countries such as Germany, England, and France shows that the most brilliant periods in their histories invariably resulted from an ability to accommodate spaces sheltered from the pressures of immediate social demand and from established hierarchies, and thus able to welcome new talents without any class distinction; in short, to harbour a cultural aristocracy that is not coopted by birthright or money.

Gilles Chatelet, To Live and Think Like Pigs: The Incitement of Envy and Boredom in Market Democracies

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[The average man] [h]aving advanced from cannon fodder to consensus fodder, dough ready for moulding is indeed 'progress'. But this fodder spoils quickly: consensual raw material is liable to rot, transforming into a populist unanimity of silent majorities that is anything but harmless. Onto this classic populism now seems to be grafted a yuppie populism -- a techno-populism -- which happily advertises its carnivorous post-modernity, ready to seek out and digest a best-of selection of the planet's goods and services. The techno-populist point of view now parades itself shamelessly, and seeks to reconcile two spiritualities: that of the corner grocer and accountant -- 'every penny counts' -- and the administrative spirituality (which used to be a little more ambitious) of the Inspector of Finances.

Gilles Chatelet, To Live and Think Like Pigs: The Incitement of Envy and Boredom in Market Democracies

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To live is to invent unknown dimensions of existing and thus, as Rimbaud says, to 'define vertigos'. This, after all, is what we ought to retain from the life and death of Gilles Chatelet: we need vertigo, but we also need form -- that is to say, its definition."

Alain Badiou, foreword to To Live and Think Like Pigs: The Incitement of Envy and Boredom in Market Democracies

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"[W]e might well imagine that a few 'fluctuations' provoked by the 'youths with walkmans and sneakers' might trouble the peace of the great goldfish bowl of market-democracy! Such are the famous 'hot nights', 'riots' even, in the banlieues. But you can bet that these 'riots' trouble the Overclass no more than they trouble Judge Richard Ponzer [sic], for whom the city of New York illustrates the possibility for communities situated between two extremes of the spectrum of income to 'cohabit and to cooperate in conditions which are not perfectly harmonious and certainly not placid (!). On the contrary, in these riots it will see the experimental proof -- already illustrated by the nursery rhyme of Goats and Dogs Island -- of the systemic stability of a social Jurassic Park. Every revolt will only be a 'backwash' -- inaudible by the markets -- as inoffensive and pathetic as the settling of accounts between the young males of a bovine herd." Gilles Chatelet, To Live and Think Like Pigs: The Incitement of Envy and Boredom in Market Democracies, p. 73