There is no “pro-human” version of AI. There is only the knot of machining enslavement. AI is almost the perfect machine for it not only holds out the promise of slavery without the human slave, it simultaneously captures and abstracts all human capacity into capital.
What the genocide in Gaza reinforced is that there are no "civilians" when it comes to Israel and the United States. The rest of the world learned the same lesson and the consequences are going to be felt across the world.
AI seems like an anti-technology to me not only bc it seems fundamentally flawed but also bc it actively undermines technological literacy. it is being leveraged in my workplace to devalue and deskill my labor and i am organizing against that. i don't mind being called a "luddite" in that context
still have flashbacks to when i cited Agamben in passing in a seminar with a Famous Professor who would subsequently look at me and refer to him as "my guy" every time they referred to some theory of his they disagreed with. i learned in a new way that i needed to have a Position before speaking
for me at least some part of that reflex is def grad school bc my first year of my phd felt like a hazing ritual where i had to learn that literary studies wasn't all close reading and vibes and that if i cited a theorist who said something cool-sounding i would quickly get branded with their name
their focus is on "parents' rights," false biologism, and, most importantly, the denial of children's ability to consent or exercise self-determination. it makes almost too much sense that the lib trans parent activists and doctors would be making this a fight about "access" instead
in every single scene of debate over trans youth the right does in fact support both "social" and "medical" transition for youth if they are intersex. all of this hysteria is over stuff they actually do support, provided it is explicitly done to children without their consent
ducks on the edge of a melting ice sheet in a docking harbor in lake michigan
pingüinos
no, you do not have the right to sex; luckily, you are also under no obligation to want it
these new glasses are so cute on you
