Notices by Puff the Magic Hater (mskellymhayes@spore.social)

My piece on why @pal_actionus is targeting Elbit Systems, to take direct action against the Israeli war machine in the US, was reprinted in Truthout today. https://truthout.org/articles/activist-group-targets-the-us-israeli-war-machine-in-massachusetts/

From a pediatrician in Gaza: "When the generators fall silent, we will be relegated to practicing medieval-level medicine. Without an urgent resupply of fuel, the lights will go out permanently, and our hospital could turn into a morgue." Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/29/opinion/pediatrician-gaza-hospitals-fuel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6Uw.hMZl.E64QwQ9OCemJ&smid=url-share

Most folks I know who are worried about AI aren’t worried about these programs becoming self aware and oppressing us. That’s not a thing. We’re worried about all the ways these systems will ramp up existing inequalities and further obliterate our shared reality as human beings. That’s already happening.

"AI doesn’t lead to a new dystopia ruled over by machines but an intensification of existing misery through speculative tendencies that echo those of finance capital. These tendencies are given a particular cutting edge by the way AI operates with and through race. AI is a form of computation that inherits concepts developed under colonialism and reproduces them as a form of race science." - Dan McQuillan, Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence