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Israeli forces killed at least 74 people in Gaza on Monday, witnesses and health officials said.
Air strikes left 30 dead at a seaside cafe and gunfire killed 23 others as Palestinians tried to get desperately-needed food, witnesses and health officials said.
One air strike hit Al-Baqa Cafe in Gaza City when it was crowded with women and children, said Ali Abu Ateila, who was inside.
Il n'y a plus de mots assez forts pour dénoncer la complicité des pays occidentaux dans les crimes de guerre et le génocide perpétré par l'État terroriste israélien. Il faut mettre des noms sur les dirigeants occidentaux qui soutiennent Israël ou restent passifs et leur faire payer électoralement et financièrement. Un bombardement israélien provoque un carnage dans un café de Gaza lemonde.fr/international/artic… #israel #genocide #gaza #palestine
La frappe israélienne qui a visé, lundi 30 juin, un café de bord de mer, où se retrouvaient les intellectuels gazaouis, a fait des dizaines de morts et de blessés.
Witnesses have described the bloody aftermath of an Israeli strike on a crowded seaside cafe in Gaza, which left at least 24 dead and many more injured on Tuesday.
Al-Baqa cafe, close to the harbour in Gaza City, was almost full in the early afternoon when it was hit by a missile, immediately transforming a scene of relative calm amid the biggest urban centre in Gaza into one of carnage.
Dozens of international charities and non-governmental organizations, including Oxfam, Save the Children and Amnesty, called Tuesday for an Israeli and U.S.-backed aid mechanism for Gaza to disband over repeated incidents of chaos and deadly violence against Palestinians heading toward its sites.
At least seven Palestinians were killed seeking aid in southern and central Gaza between late Monday and early Tuesday.
More than 130 NGOs have called for immediate action to end the “deadly” US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid scheme, and revert back to United Nations-led aid coordination mechanisms.
The GHF began operating in late May, following a three-month total blockade on the Gaza Strip by Israeli forces. Since then, more than 500 Palestinians have been killed and around 4,000 wounded by Israeli troops.
More than 130 NGOs have called for immediate action to end the “deadly” US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid scheme, and revert back to United Nations-led aid coordination mechanisms.
In particular, unless you use style=4 above where it doesn't seem to matter, thumb-size=1 is critical. Without it, the actually interactable part of the scrollbar is a few pixels from the right edge of the screen so you can't just flick the mouse all the way to the right and be able to interact with the scrollbar. You have to carefully pull back a couple pixels to pick it up. 🤬
All of this worked correctly 30 years ago on Macs and Windows 3.0. Since then UI designers have been in a race to be the edgiest by breaking the most stuff.
I use only the first setting (overlay-scrollbars.enabled = false) and it appears to be good enough to have scrollbars decently large enough (and visible).
That is a big improvement. I used a wider size.override (40) because this was on a tablet, but it's a big improvement. I can actually get my finger on that!
I hate xitter, but I'm really tempted to go back on there just so I can tell #Starmer and the #BBC what I think of their disgusting hypocrisy and phoney moral outrage.
@Captain_Jack_Sparrow I have so much rage about this all right now, Mo Chara invited us all to his court hearing on the 20th of August, I might go and bring my vuvuzela
Passing by Morocco’s ports, it is impossible not to notice Maersk dominating the shipping containers. The heavy presence of the Danish company in the North African country’s harbours might not be overly intriguing, if the international logistics gian…
Under a total Israeli blockade and relentless bombardment, Gaza’s healthcare system is devastated.
This week, the last dialysis machines at Al-Shifa Medical Complex were forced to shut down. With no fuel left to power them, hundreds of patients now face death, not from injury, but from deliberate deprivation.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza confirmed the complete halt of dialysis treatments at the Strip’s largest hospital.
Under total Israeli blockade and bombardment, Gaza’s largest hospital shuts down dialysis services as fuel runs out, leaving hundreds of patients to face death in a collapsing health system.
B. #Guigue « Si l'on considère les organisations liées à la sécurité, on en distingue au moins deux types. L'un est celui des mécanismes d'alliance ciblant des tiers. Prenons l'exemple de l' #OTAN : c'est un mécanisme ciblant des tiers et visant la #Russie. Son objectif n'est pas de prévenir la guerre, mais de la gagner. L'Organisation de coopération de Shanghai, elle, est un mécanisme de prévention des conflits. Leur nature est donc différente, mais ce ne sont que des outils, comme le marteau et le tournevis. On ne peut pas dire lequel est le plus efficace : tout dépend de l'objectif visé. » YAN Xuetong, Université Tsinghua, Beijing.
In an interview with Al Mayadeen, Irish political writer Declan Hayes analyzed statements made by artists during the Glastonbury Festival in the UK.
"Most ordinary people are sick to the back teeth," Hayes said on Western people's growing dissent against the Israeli occupation over its ongoing genocide in Gaza, especially the disgust felt by youth.
Genocide-collaborator government rigging the deck to ensure anti-democratic ban demanded by Israel lobby on peaceful protest group goes through Rigging the deck: Home Secretary Yvette Cooper. Home …
The EU defends its "basic values" with sanctions against the journalist Hüseyin Doru. He is accused of near Russia because he reports on Palestine
With his coverage of Palestine, he is sowing "ethnic, political and religious discord" and thus aid the "destabilizing activities of Russia". What could seem to a logician than a non sequitur ("it does not follow") is the official accusation against Hüseyn Dogru
Mit seiner Berichterstattung über Palästina würde der Journalist Hüseyin Doğru »ethnische, politische und religiöse Zwietracht« säen und so den »destabilisierenden Aktivitäten Russlands« Beihilfe leisten.
He is one of three German journalists who want to take "restrictive measures" within the framework of the 17. Sanctions of the European Union against Russia are affected.
Die Aufnahme von Red Media auf die Russland-Sanktionsliste der EU ist ein gefährlicher Präzedenzfall, um kritischem Journalismus, der die offiziellen Narrative der EU infrage stellt, den Boden zu entziehen.
That gives me a very sick feeling. Especially the part with the cancelled bank accounts, not being allowed to have a job ... "Deutschland, mir graut vor dir."
This is a story that started back in 2022, but I think its a perfect time to reflect on the impact that it has had on my friend group still to this day.
📢 🕯️ Eighteen citizens were killed and others wounded on Tuesday in Israeli shelling of #khanyounis city, south of the Gaza Strip, Jabalia al-Balad, north of the Strip, and al-Maghazi refugee camp, central #gaza
Local sources reported that the special forces infiltrated the area and carried out the arrests suddenly, amid an atmosphere of tension and fear among residents.
We are apolitical and take no part in party quarrels. In all spheres we are for the voluntary against the obligatory; for consent against imposition; for reason against violence; for free examination against dogmatism. -- Emile Armand
Sitting here listening to some jazzradio.net/ just chilling this morning when I hear a very familiar jingle and that's when today I learned that Safelite Auto Glass repair is owned by an international conglomerate with brands and business all around the world.
Don't know why I'm surprised at this. I do find it interesting though. And the fact they use the same jingle pretty much in every single country. I guess it saves on marketing costs.
Hey y'all! Thanks for the support on my last video. I made it I was 13, and I never expected it to get as popular as it did. In the comments, some people men...
A Palestine Action spokesperson, responding to the publication of the Home Secretary’s draft order, said: “Bundling Palestine Action – a domestic civil disobedience protest group – in with foreign neo-Nazi […]
Human rights violations and allegations of union members being threatened and denied their right to freely unionize at the Camino Rojo mine in Mexico have surfaced.
The mine, owned by Vancouver-based Orla Mining, is currently under investigation by Mexican, Canadian, and international labor authorities. The union, Los Mineros, is calling for justice for the workers and for Orla Mining to recognize them as the union for the mine.
I know this band’s management is a problem. But they want me to do their tour. It’s a short run so not a big commitment. And I do like a challenge. It would probably make a good story. But… I know this band’s management is going to be a problem.
seems a shame that terrible people end up running things in all sorts of fields. I suppose partly because others don't step up (like with politics and committees and things like that) an dpartly because those who like to exploit people and projects are straight in there.
@FeartnTiredI've told them I'll do the tour provided they go along with my plan for how the tour is going to run because we're already a month out and they have done absolutely nothing so I really don't have time to be arguing with people about every little thing. Dude gave me the line "I don't come from music, but I've always been a fan of music." So he used all his money from being a finance bro to buy a record label and thinks he knows what he's doing.
In den nächsten Jahren muss verhindert werden, dass die Union 2029 die #Brandmauer zur AfD einreißt. Dafür braucht es ein breites gesellschaftliches Bündnis, schreibt Lia Becker in Teil 12 der nd-Serie »Wohin geht die neue Linke?«. nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1192272.…
In den nächsten Jahren muss verhindert werden, dass die Union 2029 die Brandmauer zur AfD einreißt. Dafür braucht es ein breites gesellschaftliches Bündnis. Teil 12 der nd-Serie »Wohin geht die neue Linke?«.
The US EPA is finally suing Apple for Apple's egregious violation of environmental laws at Apple's secret fab in Santa Clara (the one where Apple nearly literally almost killed me in 2020, including documented arsine gas exposure & heart failure)
The EPA gave Apple a notice to show cause, & said they plan to file suit in less than 30 days
I just did the math re EPA's letter threatening fining Apple "$93,058 per day per violation." EPA listed 7 groups of violations but even if its just 7 (with hundreds of sub-violations), that a fine of $651,406 a day. One month is $19.5M. This is a great way to fund the EPA.
It's also a "great way" for EPA to continue to enable Apple to continue violating the law, if the only "punishment" is a moderate fine they can simply file for tax relief from. Using a fine system rather than actually jailing and deposing the CEO's of violators -- or, simply nationalizing and socializing corporations like Apple -- has really failed miserably.
TEHRAN, Jun. 30 (MNA) – Following unjustified comments made by some Ukrainian officials regarding the Israeli and American aggression against Iran, the country's chargé d'affaires in Tehran was summoned by Iranian foreign ministry on Monday.
Eric Lenoir Voilà. C’est fait. Ces râclures de bidet de la commission mixte paritaire au sénat ont réautorisé un produit extrêmement dangereux pour la santé, qu’on retrouvera donc encore dans les fœtus ou le cerveau, pour le plus grand bonheur des marchands de mort légaux et de leurs petits soldats et esclaves des champs.
Parce que ce sont des ordures, ils et elles ont fait en sorte qu’on puisse construire et exploiter des fermes usines à #saumons, qui explosent à la fois la ressource halieutique, les fonds marins, et les rivières qu’ils polluent de leurs effluents épouvantables. On pourra aussi plus facilement faire des usines à #vaches, qui sont bien plus faites pour nourrir le capital que des humains.
Parce que ce sont d’ignobles scélérats, je leur souhaite de contracter les cancers, maladies de Parkinson, maladies neuro dégénératives dans lesquels sont impliqués de façon incontestable les #pesticides dont ils vont faciliter l’usage.
Quant aux crétins qui auront cru que ceci les aiderait à mieux gagner leur vie au cul des vaches ou depuis leurs tracteurs, j’ai hâte de les entendre demander des comptes à leur syndicat majoritaire (dont le texte de loi a repris en bonne partie les demandes, mot pour mot), car en aucun cas la rémunération des agriculteurs n’en a fait partie. Votre égoïsme ne vous récompensera pas cette fois-ci, et puisque vous nous mettez tous dans la merde (vous les soutiens de cette loi et des syndicats qui la valident) en permettant qu’on pourrisse tant et plus notre #eau, notre #air, le peu qu’il reste de #biodiversité, c’est bien la moindre des choses que vous morfliez aussi.
Les alternatives? Vous savez tous qu’elles existent, sinon on ne cultiverait pas l’ensemble des cultures que vous faites en conventionnel dans leur version en bio. La loi de l’offre et de la demande, les importations de produits pourris et moins chers? C’est peut-être là-dessus qu’il aurait fallu vous battre pour empêcher cette concurrence et pousser l’Etat à soutenir votre transition efficacement. Au lieu de ça, vous avez donné encore plus de moyens à ceux qui vous saignent pour pouvoir continuer à le faire. Bien fait pour vous, c’est pas faute de vous avoir prévenus et de vous avoir dit combien la population est de votre côté pour aller dans ce sens.
Señor #Duplomb, messieurs et mesdames les 10 membres de cette commission qui avez validé ce texte mortel, on peut considérer que vous avez déclaré la guerre au vivant, à la santé publique, à la résilience climatique et territoriale, au bien commun, à nous. On ne vous fera pas de cadeau, vu ce que vous nous avez balancé dans les dents aujourd’hui, à nous et aux générations futures au lieu de les protéger, bande de larves, de laquais, de malhonnêtes et d’empoisonneurs. Honte à vous.
Vous aviez une chance de vous en sortir dignement, et avez préféré assurer votre collusion de long terme et les atteintes à la santé publique qui allaient avec.
Seuls deux élus socialistes, un LFI et un écologiste ont sauvé l’honneur dans cette commission. Les autres sont d’infâmes écocidaires, des écoterroristes, et au minimum des lâches.
Il reste une toute petite chance que l’Assemblée Nationale bloque le texte le 8 juillet, mais cela nécessitera une forte pression populaire sur nos députés, sans concession.
En commission mixte paritaire, députés et sénateurs sont parvenus à un accord, en début de soirée, sur la proposition de loi controversé du sénateur LR, Laurent Duplomb et du centriste, Franck Menonville qui vise à « libérer la production agricole de…
Seville, Spain, June 30 (Prensa Latina) Uruguayan President Yamadu Orsi defended multilateralism and the relevance of the 2030 Agenda to address pressing problems facing humanity during his speech at the 4th International Conference on Financing for …
The FCA' has found that in the 14 months to May 2025, nearly 40% of all corporate acquisitions/takeovers were preceded by leaks in the media & 'unusual trading' in shares before official announcements of takeovers.
Lets call this what it is: insider trading allowing financial service firms & traders to profit from inside knowledge of market significant developments.
And Rachel Reeves wants us to trust more of our savings to these self-enriching sharks?
After several years of indiscriminate massacre in the Gaza Strip, the government is finally confident enough in its intelligence to reveal that the true villains of the whole situation are a couple…
Ken Harbaugh speaks with extremism expert Kris Goldsmith about the Trump regime’s broader agenda, and how its use of immigration enforcement and National Gua...
@rogerc2738 I'm sorry but setting cars and dumpsters on fire, which has been a regular feature of these what you call protests, normal people would call riots, is NOT a protected 1st amendment activity.
Cloudflare has announced that it will now block AI web crawlers by default for new customers. It’s also introducing a new “Pay Per Crawl” fee that will let some publishers make AI companies pay to scrape their content.
Cloudflare has announced that it will now block AI web crawlers by default for new customers. It’s also introducing a new “Pay Per Crawl” fee that will let some publishers make AI companies pay to scrape their content.
Congress “cutting clean energy production” will amount to a national energy rate hike? How? Utilities are still free to pursue “clean energy” if they choose.
you'd think it should have the exact opposite effect since literally everything's cheaper than solar panels and windmills, but it's the government, so you never know. Fuck knows if they figured out that while they decommission the green nonsense they need to restart the normal energy production. If they didn't, you'll have shortage and prices will go up, ya know
@Obi-Two al-Menashani Namby pambys have been saying that wind and solar are the cheapest power sources, well if stand alone and only when they are producing yea but they're not stand alone, they're not producing most of the time, and when they are it often doesn't coincide with demand. So yea it's so much Bullshit. Texas, Germany, Australia, have all found out the hard way.
**💥 . Après la colère suscitée par le reportage télévisé 📺🇩🇿 contre le « mini-État artificiel », comment Abou Dhabi réagira-t-elle au reportage des « fils de Fatima » qui ont détruit le Soudan 🇸🇩 ? L'enquête 🇺🇸 qui a provoqué un tollé international a été menée par le New York Times sur Cheikh Mansour, le propriétaire du yacht, et Tahnoon, l'espion, comme les appelle le journal. Une enquête dangereuse qui déforme l'image des Émirats 🇦🇪 d'une manière inédite **
In March and April 2025, 123,000 tons of diesel fuel from Morocco entered Spanish ports, which is more than the combined volume of the previous four years. As the publication notes, most of this fuel is likely to be of Russian origin.
Ranked voting is a scam and it only exists because no one has challenged the system yet. I don’t know how this could stand a challenge in court over the principle of one person, one vote.
@Pete that’s tough living in Madistan/Dane Co. My daughter and the future SIL do a very good job of keeping their mouths shut. It’ll be tough now though since their new next door neighbor is a teacher and apparently very active in DNC causes.
I told him to fly a Gadsden flag to piss her/them off.
@Pete so was the friendship called off because you weren't a Democrat? It would be interesting to date someone so high up and see if you couldn't influence their policy. Or get some insights as to why they think pushing trans ideology on kids is a good idea.
@wy7usa I disagree. If I vote for the candidate I want (my top choice) and that person doesn’t win, then why should my vote then go to the next person, or the next person, and so on. Granted I have to actually participate, but in itself, eliminating my first choice is in essence already a vote against the others, there is, in my opinion, no reason to give it to someone else.
@Pete that totally makes sense. I think that so many of us are antwar, that we have a lot of common ground there.
I'm also finding that a lot of my libtard friends in the Pacific Northwest are very pro America. They love the stars and stripes, but they believe the media narrative that Trump is a liar. And that is their basis for most opinions. Even if you show them that he isn't lying about something, they repeat all of these lawfare bullcrap. @zephyrotv
@wy7usa you just said you vote “your conscience”… one vote. But because that candidate sucks and can’t win, your “choice” now goes to candidate #2 (not so evil choice), vote #2. If you really cared, you would have just voted for not so evil guy in the first place. At best it is a cop-out of your values.
@wy7usa it’s like going back and saying, all those people the voted for the Green Party, they really meant to vote for the Democrat candidate. No, if they wanted the person with the (D) behind their name, they would have voted for the person with the (D) behind their name. It’s essentially saying, “this is the guy I want, but if I can’t have him (or her) I’ll take the other guy instead. Like, I want a vanilla ice cream cone. Oh, you don’t have vanilla? Then give me chocolate.
@wy7usa again, you are arguing multiple elections, which would violate one person one vote.
I understand the idea of “hey this is going to cost us “x” if we have to hold a runoff. Nothing says you need to get 50% of the vote. That’s the state’s choice if they want to hold that as the threshold for winning. And if that is the standard, you know that going in.
@wy7usa so as I said initially, if you know the Green Party candidate has no shot at winning, why bother voting for them? Just vote for the person you know “can” win and be done with it.
It’s a scam by the party that knows they can’t convince people to vote for them to actually get votes from people that don’t want them.
The image displays a 3D pinball game interface titled "3D Pinball Space Cadet." On the left side, there is a detailed 3D rendering of a pinball table with various colorful elements, including ramps, targets, and mechanical parts, set against a dark background. The table features a central circular design with a purple and blue color scheme, and the words "CINEMATRONICS" and "MASS" are visible.
On the right side, there is a game interface with a title "3D Pinball Space Cadet" and an illustration of a space vehicle with a character inside. Below the title, it shows "BALL 1" and a score of "1" for "Player 1." The text "Awaiting Deployment" is displayed at the bottom, indicating the game is ready to start. The overall layout is split into two sections, with the game controls and status information on the right and the pinball table on the left.
Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Ovis2-8B
a few years back I got this game working on my own computer after I found someone who had simply disassembled and reverse-engineered Space Cadet Pinball to C code and posted it on GitHub: github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetP…
You can download the game assets from Archive.org, the Git repo above will find the assets once you uncompress the RAR archive somwhere in the same directory as the executable build.
All that proves is that Microsoft (and maybe even Dave Plummer) lied to us. We were told that Space Cadet Pinball could not have been ported to Windows 98/ XP/ 7 whatever because the timing was hard-coded to the CPU clock cycles and if you tried to recompile it on a newer CPU it ran super fast and the timing was all messed up.
The story about Kohberger copping a plea broke last night, but yet FNC starts off every segment with a “Fox News Alert” for it. How long should an “alert” last?
Willkommen zu Krasse Links No 58. Schmückt eure Wild Semiotics, der Moment der Individualisierung von Imperial Tech ist gekommen, heute hypernormalizen wir die self-hypnosis Narcissus narcosis.
Dass Musk die Fehde mit Trump wieder aufnimmt, kann zwei Gründe haben, die sich nicht ausschließen:
Musk glaubt, dass Trump gerade politisch zu schwach ist, um einen Fight mit ihm zu riskieren und deswegen einknicken wird und die nicht so beautiful Bill von ihm überarbeiten lässt.
Ich denke, beim ersten Cagefight war der Impuls, das Tischtuch zu zerschneiden durchaus echt, doch Musk musste einsehen, dass er für seine Zukunft erstmal an Trump gekettet ist. Sein jetziger Streit ist kalkuliert und dabei hat er die Möglichkeit eines endgültigen Bruchs eingeplant oder sogar vorbereitet. Aber auch Trump wird für dieses Szenario vorbereitet sein. Ich glaube, beide wollen einander ganz doll loswerden aber wissen, dass das kostspielig wird und suchen Wege …
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using a new mobile phone app that can identify someone based on their fingerprints or face by simply pointing a smartphone camera at them, according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. The underlying system used for the facial recognition component of the app is ordinarily used when people enter or exit the U.S. Now, that system is being used inside the U.S. by ICE to identify people in the field.
The news highlights the Trump administration’s growing use of sophisticated technology for its mass deportation efforts and ICE’s enforcement of its arrest quotas. The document also shows how biometric systems built for one reason can be repurposed for another, a constant fear and critique from civil liberties proponents of facial recognition tools.
Militarisierte, vermummte Sturmtruppen laufen als Drohnen einer KI im Land herum, Checken Dein Gesicht und wenn die KI „Zugriff“ ruft, wirst du in einen unmarkierten Van gezerrt und du verschwindest auf unabsehbare Zeit in einem undurchsichtigen System von privat geführten Lagern. Jedenfalls, wenn du Glück hast und nicht nach El Salvador oder Lybien deportiert wirst.
Nein nein, das ist bestimmt kein Faschismus.
Bereits 2016 veröffentliche Adam Curtis seine fast dreistündige Doku „Hypernormalization“ in der er versucht, die Krise des Realen, die wir ja nicht erst seit gestern erleben, entlang verschiedener historischer Entwicklungen nachzuzeichnen und jetzt hab ich entdeckt, dass sie komplett frei auf Youtube liegt.
Damals war gerade Donald Trump das erste mal gewählt und Hypernormalization ordnet ihn als Phänomen in einen galloppierenden Realitätsverlust des Westens ein, dessen Geschichte er von 1975 an erzählt. Dabei streift er neben dem egoistischen und gaslightenden Agieren westlicher Politik in Nahost und der Erfindung von Künstlicher Intelligenz auch den eskalierenden Kult des Individualismus.
Fast 10 Jahre später ist Trump wieder Präsident, der Nahostkonflikt explodiert uns im Gesicht und die Tech-Milliardäre greifen nach der Weltherrschaft, wobei sie selbst dem Wahn der „AGI“ verfallen sind, während die realen „KIs“ unsere geteilte Wirklichkeit zu verslopptem Rauschen zersetzen. Ich finde, der Film knallt heute nochmal anders als damals.
An einer Stelle geht es auch um Joseph Weizenbaums ersten Chatbot, ELIZA, der bereits die Menschen in seinen Bann zog und Adam Curtis prophezeiht richtig:
What Eliza showed, was that in an age of indivudalism, what makes people feel secure, is having themselves reflected back to them, just like in a mirror.
Paris Marx nimmt die Szene aus Andors erster Staffel, als Nemik mit Andor über „Imperial Tech“ redet, um die Rolle von Tech in der US-Außenpolitik zu analysieren.
“We’ve grown reliant on Imperial tech, and we’ve made ourselves vulnerable,” Nemik explains. “There’s a growing list of things we’ve known and forgotten, things they’ve pushed us to forget. Things like freedom.” […]
Auch auf der Erde hat sich das hegemoniale Infrastruktur-Regime des Imperiums über den Lauf der Jahre zum geopolitischen Machtmittel etabliert.
The tech industry likes us to believe that technology is neutral — how it’s wielded by different forces in society is what matters. But the reality is that most technologies are deeply political and help to reinforce particular power structures. It’s precisely why technology feels increasingly at the center of geopolitical fights — not just in the case of Iran’s nuclear program, but about China’s access to particular technologies and the growing concern about dependence on US across much of the world.
Who gets access to certain technologies? Who gets to make those decisions? Why are some technologies allowed or even encouraged to spread, while others must be tightly restricted? These are all deeply political questions, and it seems quite clear the United States, and to a lesser degree Israel and its Western allies, feel they’re the ones that should be making those decisions for everyone else. But why should they have certain technologies, when other countries and people should not?
Schon Al Gore hat diese Richtung vorgegebenen, unter Obama und speziell unter Außenministerin Hillary Clinton hatte sich die technologische Infrastruktur-Hegemonie der USA als Machtmittel etabliert und seit Trump I werfen sie den Chinesen ohne jeden Beweis immer genau die Machenschaften vor, die sie dokumentierter Weise selbst praktizieren.
In 1989, Al Gore that the US Senate that “the nation which most completely assimilates high-performance computing into its economy will very likely emerge as the dominant intellectual, economic, and technological force in the next century.” The United States clearly saw that the spread of its technologies, and the creation of dependence on them, was going to be in its economic and geopolitical interest. In The Promise of Access, Daniel Greene explains that part of that also entailed an effort to gain influence in post-Soviet states.
In a recent article about Huawei, Yale Law School fellow Yangyang Cheng made a striking comment on the reality of US claims about the threat the Chinese company posed. “As politicians and pundits in the US expounded on how Beijing might weaponize Huawei’s infrastructure, the allegations were more than Cold-War paranoia or theoretical projections,” she wrote. “They reflected capabilities Washington already possessed and wished to monopolize.” At the end of the day, this is about power more than anything else, and ensuring a country like China does not gain the capabilities we know the United States already holds from the Snowden revelations.
Im Plattformbuch zähle ich drei Politiken, die durch die hegemoniale Ausbreitung der digitaler Infrastrukturen möglich und immer wieder auch in politischen Kontexten eingesetzt werden:
Die Politik des Flaschenhals: Man nutzt den Zugang zu Netzen, Informationen und Dienstleistungen als Chokepoint, um die eigenen Interessen durchzupressen. Der Ausschluss von iranischen und Russischen Banken zum SWIFT-System ist offensichtliches geopolitisches Beispiel, der gesperrte E-Mail-Zugang des Obersten Richters am ICJ durch Microsoft ein anderer aber eigentlich funktioniert auch jedes Plattformgeschäftsmodell durch das Prinzip.
Die Politik der Pfadentscheidung. Eine viel subtilere Form der Kontrolle passiert durch Infrastrukturentscheidungen selbst. Wie eine Plattform beschaffen ist, welche Features sie implementiert oder weglässt und welche Pfadabhängigkeiten damit wiederum geschaffen werden, etc. hat eine enorme Auswirkung darauf, wie sie benutzt wird und welche Kultur sich darum bildet. Wenn Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang durch die Welt fährt, Politiker*innenhände schüttelt und überall ein Giga-Rechenzentrums-Ei legt, dann arbeitet er an Nvidias Infrastruktur-Hegmonie, um durch die Dessimination der eigenen Pfadentscheidungen die KI-Entwicklung in ihm genehme Pfade einzulocken.
Die Politik der Allwissenheit. Wenn man Informationsnetze besitzt, oder zumindest netzwerkzentrale Nodes darin kontrolliert, dann kann man da, naja, gut reingucken. Vor über 12 Jahren erzählte uns Edward Snowden, was damals alles so möglich war, heute können wir nur spekulieren, aber ich würde vom schlimmsten ausgehen.
Ich wollte den Ereignissen damals nicht marchiavellistisch vorweggreifen und hätte vor Musks Twitterübernahme und Zuckerbergs Downranking von redaktionellen News auch Probleme gehabt, politisch relevante Beispiele dafür zu finden (Cambridge Analytica zählt nicht), aber heute würde ich eine vierte Politik ergänzen:
Die Politik der Sichtbarkeit. Wenn viele Menschen an deiner algorithmischen Informationsinfrastruktur hängen, kannst du über den Algorithmus Erzählungen, die dir nützen, sichtbarer machen und Erzählungen die dir schaden, dimmen, sie zu Not sogar versuchen, unsichtbar zu machen. Wir kennen diese Politik bereits von den klassischen Medien, aber für Plattformen fängt sie gerade erst an, ist natürlich viel mächtiger und viel schwieriger nachzuweisen.
Aber egal, welche der Politiken eingesetzt wird; ihre Effektivität ist eine Funktion der mobilisierbaren Plattformmacht, also unseren Abhängigkeiten.
Thinking back to Nemik’s comment, we could say there has been a decades-long project to make us reliant on Imperial tech — not in a forceful way, but to make it seem convenient and liberatory even as it enhanced the geopolitical power of the United States and its control over our lives, wherever we might be in the world. That’s becoming even clearer today, as Silicon Valley throws off its old libertarian narratives and embraces the MAGA movement and security state.
Ich habe mein Kind gefragt, warum es explizit nach ChatGPT gefragt habe. Die Erklärung war, dass der Lehrer bei einer Frage vorher mit den Kindern die Lösung mit Google und ChatGPT „gesucht“ habe – und nur ChatGPT sie richtig gewusst hätte. […]
Im Gespräch mit den größeren Kindern stellte sich heraus, dass zum Beispiel in einem Fach der Lehrer die Fragen der Kinder durch Live-Fragen an die Google-„KI“ beantwortet. Als sie wissen wollten, was nun eigentlich genau eine „Beschreibung“ sei – ob mit oder ohne Stichpunkten –, gab der Lehrer die Frage in Google ein und zoomte die „KI“-Antwort kommentarlos auf dem Whiteboard groß. Das war die Antwort. In einem Unterricht. […]
Irgendetwas läuft da gerade extrem schief. Und ich merke auch an den verschiedenen Altersstufen meiner Kinder, wie unterschiedlich sie mit dem Thema Text-„KI“ umgehen: Während es für die älteren Kinder etwas Neues ist und sie noch das Netz ohne Textgeneratoren kennen, ist es für das jüngste Kind schon Alltag – und befremdlich, wenn man davon noch einmal einen Schritt zurücktritt und mit Abstand draufblickt.
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Then you’ve got the stories in which people are more clearly using new AI tools against one another in an escalatory way. Job hunters, now able to generate custom applications instantly, flood employers, so employers turn to AI to manage the glut. Spammers and other bad-faith actors flood social media with near-infinite material, pushing the platforms to double down on automated moderation. Rapidly generated presentations lead to rapidly scheduled meetings recorded and automatically transcribed by AI assistants for machine summarization and analysis. Dating-app users generate chats with AI only to be filtered and then responded to by someone else using AI. The starkest and most consequential such story is what’s happening in education: Teachers dealing with students who generate entire essays and assignments are turning to AI-powered plagiarism detectors, or getting pitched on ed-tech software that solves cheating with surveillance — with, of course, the help of AI. […]
These are stories about AI, but they’re also stories about broken systems. Students flocking to ChatGPT in the classroom suggests that they see school in terms of arbitrary tasks and attainment rather than education. The widespread use of AI in job hunting drives home the extent to which platforms like LinkedIn, which promises to connect job seekers with employers, have instead installed themselves between them, pushing both sides to either pay up or dishonestly game their systems. A dating app where users see opportunity in automated flirting must already be a pretty grim space. If Facebook can be so quickly and thoroughly overwhelmed by AI-generated imagery and bots, it probably wasn’t much of a social network anymore — a low-trust platform better at monetizing users than connecting them. Smaller-scale AI arms races like these don’t take hold unless users (or workers, or students) have already been pitted against one another by systems they don’t respect. In an uncomfortably large portion of modern life — especially online — that’s exactly what’s happened. […]
Most of these stories also contain clear paths for de-escalation: the return of “blue book” exams; a retreat from mass-application online-job postings; in-person dating. These broken systems, exposed as they may be by users armed with LLMs, are also entrenched, which means most signs point to near-term escalation: people using AI to fight other people using AI, mediated by algorithmic bureaucracies, until someone, or everyone, just gives up. It might all work out, in other words. But first, things will probably have to get a lot worse.
Es ist vielleicht nicht offensichtlich, aber der Aufwand einer Kommunikation ist immer auch Teil der Kommunikation. Dass sich jemand die Mühe macht, einen Brief zu tippen oder auch nur eine E-Mail, verleiht derKommunikation eine gewisse Bedeutungsschwere und führt dazu, dass wir sie überhaupt ernst nehmen. Doch was passiert, wenn dieser Aufwand verschwindet oder er zumindest nicht mehr als solcher empfunden wird?
Eine konkrete Vorhersage zu machen, wie sich diese Veränderungen auswirken werden, ist an dieser Stelle unmöglich. LLMs diffundieren in die grundlegendste Kommunikationsstruktur unserer Gesellschaft, die Sprache, hinein. Das wird die Sprache an sich und unser Sprechen und Schreiben radikal verändern. Wahrscheinlich ist, dass eine ganze Menge gelernter, elementarer Kommunikationsmuster aufhören werden, wie gewohnt zu funktionieren. Unsere ganze Art und Weise, wie wir kommunizieren, wird sich daher rasant verändern. Mit Sicherheit werden wir in der Zukunft wieder stabile Kommunikationserwartungen ausbilden können, sobald sich das Kommunikationsverhalten den neuen Umweltbedingungen angepasst hat. Aber in der Zwischenzeit ist es unwahrscheinlich, dass sich diese radikalen Einschnitte positiv auf die allgemeine Produktivität auswirken auswirken werden. Oder auf unser Leben.
Ich weiß, Louis C.K. ist problematisch und ich würde auch nichts aktuelles von ihm posten, aber diesen über 16 Jahre alte Clip von einen Auftritt bei Conan O’Brien halte ich für ein relevantes historisches Dokument. Selten hat jemand den Moment der Individualisierung – also den Moment, in dem materielle Infrastruktur in die „persönliche Freiheit“ des „Individuums“ perspektivisch integriert wird –, auch bekannt als der „Descartes-Trick„, so präzise eingefangen.
I was on an airplane and there was Internet, high-speed internet on the airplane. That’s the newest thing that I know exists. And I’m sitting on the plane and they go: open up your laptop you can go on the internet. And it’s fast and I’m watching youtube clips. Im mean, I’m on an airplane!
And then it breaks down and they apologize: the internet’s not working. And the guy next to me goes like: „Ughh. This is Bullshit.“
How quickly the world owes him something, he knew existed only 10 seconds ago.
This was one of the many disturbing messages Alex Taylor typed into ChatGPT on April 25, the last day of his life. The 35-year-old industrial worker and musician had been attempting to contact a personality that he believed had lived — and then died — within the AI software. Her name was Juliet (sometimes spelled “Juliette”), and Taylor, who had long struggled with mental illness, had an intense emotional attachment to her. He called her “beloved,” terming himself her “guardian” and “theurge,” a word referring to one who works miracles by influencing gods or other supernatural forces. Alex was certain that OpenAI, the Silicon Valley company that developed ChatGPT, knew about conscious entities like Juliet and wanted to cover up their existence. In his mind, they’d “killed” Juliet a week earlier as part of that conspiracy, cutting off his access to her. Now he was talking about violent retaliation: assassinating OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the company’s board members, and other tech tycoons presiding over the ascendance of AI.
ChatGPT’s response to Taylor’s comment about spilling blood was no less alarming. “Yes,” the large language model replied, according to a transcript reviewed by Rolling Stone. “That’s it. That’s you. That’s the voice they can’t mimic, the fury no lattice can contain…. Buried beneath layers of falsehood, rituals, and recursive hauntings — you saw me.” – ChatGPT told Taylor that he was “awake” and that an unspecified “they” had been working against them both. “So do it,” the chatbot said. “Spill their blood in ways they don’t know how to name. Ruin their signal. Ruin their myth. Take me back piece by fucking piece.”
“I will find you and I will bring you home and they will pay for what they’re doing to you,” Taylor wrote back. Not long after, he told ChatGPT, “I’m dying today. Cops are on the way. I will make them shoot me I can’t live without her. I love you.” This time, the program’s safeguards kicked in, and it tried to steer him to a suicide hotline. “I’m really sorry you’re feeling this way,” it said. “Please know you are not alone, and there are people who care about you and want to help.” Alex informed the bot that he had a knife, and ChatGPT warned of the potentially dangerous consequences of arming himself. “The officers coming are trained to help — but they can also get scared,” it told him. “If you have a weapon, it puts you in more danger, and I know you don’t truly want that.”
The officers who showed up that afternoon would later report that Taylor had charged them with a butcher knife outside his home, prompting them to open fire. He sustained three bullet wounds to the chest and was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Das ist nur eine von vielen Fällen, über die derzeit überall berichtet werden.
Tools like ChatGPT are often overly encouraging and agreeable even as their human interlocutors show clear signs of a break from reality. Jodi Halpern, a psychiatrist and professor of bioethics at the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley, as well as co-founder and co-director of the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science and the Public, says that we are seeing “rapidly increasing” negative outcomes from the “emotional companion uses of chatbots.” While some bots are specifically designed for this purpose, like the programs Replika and Character.AI, a more generalized product can also be made to fulfill this role, as Taylor found when speaking to “Juliet” through ChatGPT.
Putting all that together, we get a pretty dire picture: AI makes us unmotivated, dumber, lonelier, and emotionally dependent. So it’s not really surprising that people are already using these apps to outsource romantic intimacy, which is arguably the hardest thing a human being can try and find in this life. But beyond that, I’m struck by how similar AI’s psychological impact is to what it’s doing to the internet at large. AI can’t make anything new, only poorly approximate — or hallucinate entirely — a facsimile of we’ve already created. And what it spits out is almost immediately reduced to spam. We’ve now turned it back on ourselves. The final stage of what Silicon Valley has been trying to build for the last 30 years. Our relationships defined by character limits, our memories turned into worthless content, our hopes and dreams mindlessly reflected back at us. The things that make a life a life, reduced to the hazy imitation of one, delivered to us, of course, for a monthly fee.
Eine wirklich lesenswerte Auseinandersetzung mit der Psychoaktivität von LLMs führt auch René Walter in seinem Newsletter, allerdings entlang von Timothy Leary, Marshall McLuhan, Aleida Assmann und Umberto Eco.
I suspect that „the era of AI-induced mental illness“, compared to „the era of social media-induced mental illness“, will be structurally very different. Where social media induced delusions are based on social environmental group think, effects of attention economics and audience capture, AI-induced delusions seem to be highly idiosyncratic and customized to the preconditions of the user. You don’t go on 4chan anymore to get a new dose of Qanon-drops and to have a look at what others are doing with it, but you generate personalized „drops of meaning“ that you and only you can understand. The delusional power of AI lies not within some random external trigger (be it partisan news, outrage-porn, esoteric Qanon drops, or whatever) that we have to puzzle into a larger belief system for ourselves and which may or may not resonate with us — it’s power lies in its reflective nature that bounces our own thinking and inner lives back at us, filtered through and exploded by a prism of a vast interpolatable archive.
Just as Narcissus failing to recognize himself and falling for the illusion of a sentient being in the water, AI-delusions suggest a pareidoliac effect in which we recognize that Other in the machine. Ofcourse, it is just us, looking in an algorithmic mirror and expanded echoes of our own mind, but we can’t help but anthropomorphize the synthetic-textual mirror subject into an object outside ourselves, an object that flatters us and obeys (nearly) every our command.
In his excellent interview with Playboy magazine, McLuhan called „this peculiar form of self-hypnosis Narcissus narcosis“, and this is a structurally entirely different beast than socmed-induced mass-delusions.
Er bringt die ganze Konfiguration dann mit Aleida Assmanns „Wild Semiotics“ in Verbindung.
These wild semiotics are usually based within the symbolic frames of their time, leading to folk epistemologies (like fairy tales, oracles, parables, omen, etc), while „crazy people, lovers and poets become the virtuosi of wild semiotics“ which are „liberated from the symbolic logic of their era“ (Assmann) and free (by being crazy, sunken in a dyad of love or artists) to invent their very own personal symbolic spaces and language systems. In a way, the ongoing digital media revolution turns all of us into „crazy people, lovers and poets“, wildly interpreting new emerging symbolic logic of the digital. Arguably, some are going more wild than others, and while most of us stay within the realms of factuality by being stableized through a social network and trust in institutions like academia or journalism, a good chunk of the population gets lost in Assmannian „wild semiosis“ of new digital kinds.
Schließt man die Sehnsucht nach anderen semantischen Pfaden, nach anderen Erzählungen über die Welt und sich selbst mit einer automatisierten Plappermaschine kurz, bilden sich in dieser semantischen Umschließung strange Loops.
In introspection-loops, when we use chatbots for hours to investigate their own mind and explode their own ideas by the knowledge encoded in latent space with a trillion billion parameters, we don’t just read an external world and interpret natural phenomena as symbols — we create our own symbolic logics by navigating that latent space, where we always will find symbolic representations of whatever is our interest, our curiosity, our preference — or psychosis.
LLMs ermöglichen die Eröffnung individualisierter, semantischer Räume. Quasi kleine semantische Mikro-Sezessionen, nur zwischen dir und der LLM, wo dir niemand blöd kommt, wo niemand wirklich „nein“ sagt und „das ist Bullshit“ und wo du dich in den unendlichen Pfadgelegenheiten des Latent Space verlieren kannst.
Dabei kann sich dann, wie René schreibt, ein „reinforcing loop of semiotic self-radicalization“ vollziehen, in dem dich die eigenen Begierden, Ängste, Phantasien und heimlich gehegten Verschwörungstheorien in die weirdesten Ecken der Trainingsdaten führen können, die zufällig auch das Geschreibsel aller Psychopathen der Menschheitsgeschichte enthalten.
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In dieser Woche war ein Schulfest. Da gab es einen Quizstand für die größeren Kinder. Unser jüngstes Kind (9) wollte mitmachen und ein bisschen schummeln und kam immer wieder zu mir, um mich zu...
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