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Vince Scafaria 🇺🇸☮️🌻mdon: @scafaria@toad.social Profile picture
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@jzikah re 0penAI...

0penAI was an open-source non-profit. Now it... ain't, lol. I follow @doctorow @xriskology @timnitGebru @emilymbender @danmcquillan
Douglas Rushkoff and #TESCREAL. Top links include...

davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/202…
cont'd re AI
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danmcquillan.org
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doctorow.medium.com/ayyyyyy-eyeeee…

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Vince Scafaria 🇺🇸☮️🌻mdon: @scafaria@toad.social Profile picture
Jun 2
“you could simply describe Trump as a never-ending poop cruise, guaranteed to create new content daily. And I don’t know how Licht can solve that systemic problem, with or without Trump.”
#CNN
I have ideas in the next post…

vox.com/2022/8/26/2332…
Imagine a network that filled those no-breaking-news hours with mind-blowing civic education and systems-level narratives. Examples: What @maddow did with #Ultra. @doctorow dissections of the #enshittification of big tech and media. @HC_Richardson-style historical parallels…
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Mar 13
Anyone else tired of this highway to dystopia? Here’s the deal:
Tech scales. Looking back, you know what we scaled? Advertising.
Synonym for advertising? Manipulation.
Thought it was sneaker companies and your benign democratic leaders that had your data? 1/🧵
Well, yeah, but also billionaires and Putin and MBS.
And now AI will push even more drivel and deep fakes and phishing and disinfo at us. Hmmm… 2/
How about if instead we move from a PUSH Internet (bombarding us with whatever garbage) to a PULL Internet (curating a safe and prosocial experience… that scales). 3/
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Vince Scafaria 🇺🇸☮️🌻mdon: @scafaria@toad.social Profile picture
Mar 13
I’m not done reading Resisting AI by Dan McQuillan but already must recommend it. Here’s just one passage:

“[Narxcare] trawls medical and other records to assign patients an Overdose Risk Score. One classic failing of the system has been misinterpreting medication…” 1/4
that people had obtained for sick pets; dogs with medical problems are often prescribed opioids and benzodiazepines, and these veterinary prescriptions are made out in the owner’s name. As a result, people with a well-founded need for opioid painkillers for…” 2/4
serious conditions like endometriosis have been denied medication by hospitals and by their own doctors. The problems with these systems go even deeper; past experience of sexual abuse has been used as a predictor of likelihood to become addicted to medication,” 3/4
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Vince Scafaria 🇺🇸☮️🌻mdon: @scafaria@toad.social Profile picture
Mar 13
Libertarians seeking bailouts are *not* hypocritical. A short 🧵
Libertarians advocate for “economic freedom.” Wealth should be allowed to beget more wealth, free of societal constraints. And of course wealth provides power 💥, which in turn then begets wealth and power, and on and on. 2/11
The 1971 “Powell Memo” provided ideological fuel for libertarians, encouraging business leaders to treat society and democracy as malleable. The powerful could and should bend society itself to allow the exponential compounding of power. Lobbying $ skyrocketed 📈
3/11
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Vince Scafaria 🇺🇸☮️🌻mdon: @scafaria@toad.social Profile picture
Feb 2
At the heart of society lies a paradox.

Total disorder and total order are not opposites.

By failing to understand this, we fight about the wrong things and repeat the cycles of history.

A 🧵 about power, institutions, and life itself…

(or on medium)
scafaria.com/the-paradox-at…
Imagine a society without any institutions. It’s not even a society at that point, really… no family structures, no schools, no police, no stores. It’s total disorder, breeding chaos, violence, and every man for himself.
Now imagine a system with absolute order. Everything is predictable with total conformity. This is an unnatural state, which can only be maintained by tyrants and their henchmen. North Korea comes to mind.
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Vince Scafaria 🇺🇸☮️🌻mdon: @scafaria@toad.social Profile picture
Jan 14
I’ll fix your headline:

“Republicans take United States AAA credit rating hostage, scheme up demands list so they can cut social security.”

First paragraph should read… washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2023…
Fortunately, as Koch-backed group Heritage have themselves written, the government is already precluded from allowing itself to default.

The article should continue:
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