Aren't they plugged into all of Silicon Valley through PRISM, and 'logging into' high-risk targets' pc's through Intel ME? Is this some sort of glitzy distraction piece for that?
Last I heard, Snowden is still scapegoated, and nobody from the NSA has been held accountable, or anyone inside any of these other 3 letter government agencies...
Something that really blew my hair back is hREA (formerly Holo-REA) - which is a combination of the Resources Events Agents (REA) accounting method, together with the distributed application framework holochain. It can help us move from corporate Enterprise Resource Planning software to follow (material) resources, to Network Resource Planning software, where all resources are stewarded in the commons based on open access and mutually consenting agreements/protocols. And holochain makes it all easily evolvable and unenclosable. It's one of the most exciting projects I've come across.
hREA is aimed at creating a radically inclusive supply chain system. It is fully open source and being developed here: https://github.com/holo-rea/holo-rea
I don't think that's gonna happen. And if it did, it wouldn't be real, and those that think it is are fooling themselves. Only biological organisms feel. Why are you wishing for a cold lump of steel to feel something?
In my mind only someone who struggles severely with emotional intimacy with other humans would want to create a machine that tries to imitate human feelings, and thus ‘suffer’; likely done in an effort to try to feel close to 'it'. It sounds like that person might not be having their human needs for safety, connection and acceptance met, which is very painful. I think tackling this issue is the important and worthy cause. That would be better than spending money on some Hollywood-inspired notion of 'AI' - which itself seems more a story made up to keep the USA spending insane sums of taxpayer money on research, weapons and other tech at DARPA.
I do think society is super alienating to most humans in it's current form [1], so I can somewhat understand the science fiction.
> 4. By placing order with Lurebees, you agree to have library books picked up by Lurebees drivers and deliver to your house address.
So basically a (soon to be VC funded) Uber-like gig economy delivery app for renting books? For $7 it's a service only for the rich, while also putting gig workers at risk.
I'm not saying it's a terrible idea, I'm just tired of seeing another rentierist middleman app that dresses up a simple protocol and exploits the working class.
"Exploitation, now available from your local library!"
> let the films serve as a compelling aesthetic work and the reading as essentially a citation. Alternatively, maybe I should try to compile some for each of his films.
Yes, that would be awesome, and would add much more weight to the arguments he makes in his documentaries.
> Of course in the modern world, calories are too cheap to meter. Our instincts no longer make sense.
Maybe for intellectual laborers in the global north. Not for the starving billion who are barely surviving, yet are also producing all the commodities global north capitalists force them to make: often after having been forcefully bribed/expelled from their land, mostly by ruthless global north firms together with corrupt governments. [1]
Not sure if you misread it but your “yes” sounds like maybe you read this as a question: “Is it...”, and not the “It is...” that OP wrote.
I want to reiterate that for people with few spoons [1], they don’t need to get permission to be allowed to only do what works for them, or to feel shame for not being able to do what can seem easier for others: i.e. ‘powering through’.
I’ve seen this ugly thing where people make all sorts of assumptions about me, and perhaps unconsciously, yet verbally, speak out their train of thought, which means they often say something that ‘excuses me’ for not ‘powering through’, or that after reminding them of my background, that they now understand why I do not force myself to ‘power through’. It feels shit and it sucks because it’s a constant reminder of the ruthless productivity that is expected in many areas in modern life. A conversation like this can also slowly lure me back into taking on way too much, way too fast, and not properly looking after myself or others.
What a joke. Unfortunately capitalist firms privatizing tech, exploiting working class labor, and locking up/monopolizing humanity's shared inheritance, is nothing new. The original developers will shortly be completely replaced by Amazon developers, and Amazon's Elasticsearch fork will be repurposed for Amazon-specific use cases only. Goodbye any use cases beyond what Amazon approves.
Amazon say: "Thanks original developers, farewell! We will take over from here."
I think this can act as an important reminder to license your (group) project as GPLv3 or AGLPv3, it's a trojan horse and helps the open source/free software revolution.