Majid Iqbal

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Very unsurprising to see yesterday's school shooting being instantly exploited by an Israeli "special ops veteran" to justify the imposition of "Israel-grade" AI mass surveillance of the internet. This is how 9/11 was exploited to implement NSA mass surveillance of Americans.

Availability as experienced by users, is the tip of the ice cube. The way some services fail, the incident is changing even as you're trying to resolve it. The problems are "open, complex, dynamic and networked" (Kees Dorst). Why need #systemsengineering for #servicedesign.

As a Democrat I'm finding it *extremely* hard to oppose the idea of the United States, Russia and China agreeing to cut their military budgets by half. Imagine just how much of our tax money we will save!

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Those of us who fiercely oppose Trump should also strongly support his move to end the tax break that has long benefited PE and Wall Street firms. Otherwise we lose all credibility!

We reject sober things, because they narrow hope. --- Francis Bacon in Novum Organum.

@nothervois programming, prejudice

the imperial bureaucratic aura is phenomenal, idk how to explain this

this pic is still so insane

@oncloud_e That feeling seems widespread.

i have never been more pro China than i currently am

@BarrettYouTube Trump dialing Meloni to help craft a false narrative. It's shameful what we've seen in the past few weeks and months. First TikTok which was a total sham, and now Deepseek. As if it's not enough that my government wages wars in the name of national security.

Why have Italy banned Deepseek...???

@eigenrobot David Sacks lol

supposing this were true, how would you even stop it?

@elonmusk Deportations on military aircraft may be good theatre but are as expensive as first class seats on commercial flights. Is @DOGE looking into that?

@RnaudBertrand I thought they believed in "free market" without government interference.

Absolutely mind-numbing contradictions in this article by Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic (the company behind Claude AI). He simultaneously argues that Deepseek doesn't matter much, yet begs the U.S. government to ramp up measures to prevent Chinese AI development because it's "existentially important". And he explains it all as a defense of "democracy vs authoritarianism" yet advocates for the most authoritarian vision of AI you can possibly imagine: using state power to crush open AI development and force global dependence on closed U.S. AI models like his. Which all goes to show just how threatened U.S. AI companies feel - when you're begging for government intervention to stop others from developing AI, you're effectively admitting defeat since it shows you don't think you can compete on your own merits.

Deepseek has tapped into something deep in so many. I haven't seen so much widespread excitement and relief in a long time, just when things appeared hopelessly conflicted. I'm glad that AI solutions can now be developed with much lower carbon footprints.

@TruthorConseq12 @Villgecrazylady Dude, where have you been? Trump got reelected and fired all our inspector generals and wants to deploy the Army inside the country. Elon Musk is now Dick Cheney and is asking Trump to invade Greenland!

@Villgecrazylady Why do you like authoritarianism?

“….but will it tell you about Tiananmen Square?” -every techbro in America rn

@MOTP42 @caitoz Yeah man, and in our country money is constitutionally protected speech and therefore corporations spend billions to buy our government. So cool.

@caitoz Your comparison of domestic policy is completely ridiculous. Despite many abuses of the Washington elites, the US is still considerable more free than China. Try going to China to criticize the government on social media there and see how quickly you get locked up.

Xiaohongshu and then DeepSeek have had an unusual volume of westerners speaking positively about China for the last couple of weeks, which of course means we're also seeing many westerners falling all over themselves to say "Well actually China is actually quite bad actually" in response. Western liberals who fancy themselves enlightened and critical of power tend to get very squirmy and uncomfortable in their skin when they hear people saying positive things about the PRC, and love nothing more than to tell you that China is just as evil and tyrannical as the western power alliance, if not worse. This is objectively, measurably false. China hasn't spent the 21st century killing people by the millions in wars of aggression. China isn't circling the planet with hundreds of military bases while working to destroy any nation or group anywhere in the world who disobeys it. China isn't strangling nations around the world with starvation sanctions for refusing to bow to its dictates. China didn't just spend 15 months lighting the middle east on fire and backing a live-streamed genocide. China hasn't spent the last three years endangering the world in frequently terrifying acts of nuclear brinkmanship with a rival nuclear superpower. Only the US-centralized empire has done this. Whenever I point this out I get empire apologists going "Well yeah, SO FAR! We haven't seen China doing all that evil foreign policy shit YET because they're still not powerful enough!" Which is just silly. China absolutely is powerful enough to be a whole lot more abusive and murderous abroad, and it simply isn't. Westerners love to claim that China has secret agendas to conquer the world someday (hilariously implying that these hypothetical future abuses make China morally comparable to the US empire's current known abuses), but if you actually dig into the evidence for these claims what you'll find every time is that all they provide evidence for is China's openly stated goal of a multi-polar world that isn't ruled by Washington. Our ancestors set sail to conquer the world; their ancestors built a wall. This notion that China has an interest in ruling over a bunch of white foreigners has as much rational basis as old racist superstitions that black and brown people wanted equal rights so that they could come and steal white men's wives and have sex with their daughters. They're just a better civilization than ours — not because theirs is miraculous or perfect, but because ours is just that murderous and dystopian. They simply do the normal thing while we do the freakish thing: they make the lives of their citizens better and better and avoid unnecessary wars, while western governments make the lives of their citizens worse and worse while plunging into new acts of mass military slaughter every few years. Any criticisms you could level at China — that their domestic policy is more authoritarian than ours, that their culture is more conservative, etc — are eclipsed in moral terms by the depravity of our own western governments by many orders of magnitude. And why would you even level such criticisms while living under the single most bloodthirsty and tyrannical power structure on earth? That would be like a German living under the Third Reich looking overseas and bitching about Brazil. I find nothing more pathetic than a westerner who lives under the shadow of the US empire spending their time and energy criticizing the abuses of nations who lie outside that power structure. It's an embarrassing, bootlicking way to live. Focus on criticizing the far greater abuses of the far greater evil that you actually live under, loser.

@Trojan_jo @clownworld She'll sue the court of course.

@clownworld Take it to court - she'll never fit through the metal detectors 😆

Female rapper has filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Lyft after being refused service because her size made it impossible for her to fit into the vehicle.

@JohannaKukka 😂😂😂😂

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Every state should be a swing state. Then we'll have the 'greatest democracy'. #Election2024