We each have a choice to resist the glitzy BS, thickest now during the season of profound consumption. Just say NO to AI. To ancillary crap unimportant to your being. To any tech with spy potential. Read books. Write prose, poetry, music, From your heart, from your billions of neural synapses, not from AI. As long as it's not a Zionist, love anything biological more than anything silicon. Just say NO.
Yep, it's the Jewish Zionist billionaires who control our media, our governments and are now pushing AI onto us that we must resist. For a tiny population to exert such mind numbing control over so many facets of modern life is unbelievably dangerous. How did this happen?
Zionism is a Jewish supremacist ideology, so it doesn't matter what faith they are individually. They are still upholding Jewish supremacy, which if you're a Christian is really weird.
You may call Zionism a Jewish supremacy movement. It is also an Evangelical Christian Nationalist movement. There may even be some Zionists who pretend to be Muslims.
True Christianity, Judaism and Islam do not support Zionism, but some Capitalists do.
I hesitate to identify all Capitalists as atheists because some of them worship Moloch.
The worshippers of Moloch may not sacrifice their own children but will often sacrifice those of others, including yours, if you have any. They may not burn them at a bronze furnace but will burn them with heavy debt loads and credit cards fees with usurious interest rates, or send them into wars for profits, or burn the places in which they live.
Really, you're twisting yourself into a little pretzel. Look at who controls the media, Hollywood, all western governments, the banks (Rothschilds et al), Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Ag, the Military Industrial Complex. Just look at what Larry the Fink of BlackRock owns around the world. Open your eyes.
Hypocrisy is condemned by Islam, Judaism and Christianity, but hypocrites abound especially in positions of wealth and power.
Similarly, usury is also condemned. Usury is essentially the collection of excessive interest on loans. Usury is a fundamental tenet of financial Capitalism.
What is “excessive interest”? What is the total interest charged for home mortgage loans or student loans?
Capitalism is a religion that overrides most others. Zionism was founded by atheists, many of whom were Capitalists. Honest Zionists do not pretend to be Christians, Muslims or Jews. They may proclaim to be Capitalists without hypocrisy.
Zionists used the jews to get Palestine because THEY wish to rule the world. All they had to do was find a few violent jews to start with and it grew from there by telling them they were the supreme beings. I suppose after being hated for being the killers of Jesus to their money greed and accumulation of properties in a select area, being told you were the chosen who could do no wrong, it totally went to the heads of many-too many-and looj where that led...
You mention "usury" isn't that how so many jews gained so much for centuries? Isn't that part of why they were from so many countries? And now they are using their ill-gotren gains to buy up everything in order to complete their manipulation of the public.
I don't mean your everyday jew, just those who've swalled whole this ^supremacist^ rubbish. If we are all made in God's image, and are all His/Her children it would be an extremely shallow god that gave preference to one religous group over all the rest - especially a group that seem hell-bent on as much cruelty and violence against a mostly passive people because thry have the weaponry that lets them do it, and the proganda put out by billionaires of the same ^belief^ to push the lies and block people from trying to tell the truth.
In Scotland right now they have produced a combined Palestinian flag with the Scottish Saltire to show support for Palestine. Some British jewish group have complained because it makes them feel "signifitantly distressed". How distressed do they think Palestinians feel at being bombed several times daily, made homeless and starved while their children are shot in the genitals by israeli snipers?
Yes! The combined flags are known as Paltires and I enjoy seeing them when in Glasgow. The complainers pretend to be concerned locals but the majority of senders were not Scottish, and many were from overseas, despite all the emails referring to “our” city.
Thank you, for that information. I don't ever remember seeing jews with payots or yarmulkes when I was in Glasgow, so they must have kept a low profile, or we didn't have the orthodox or hasidic. But I would think the american branch of AIPAC would stick its nose happily into another countries affairs.
My cousin dated a jewesss for a year or two, who was a milliner and had the best hat shop in Glasgow. Her only problem was she was tight-fisted. Members of the family had their own shops always gave a discount to family and close friends, not this lady. She was also the first person I ever knew to take doggy bags from our family homes after having dinner with us. She piled her plate so high you knew she would never eat it all, and that was after saying she wasn't really hungry, and not bringing anything to share as the rest of us did. No one said anything to my cousin but, I think she may have done the same when they were invited to friends, and the thought of a lifetime of that made him break off with her.
Throughout his political career, spanning several decades, Joe Biden proclaimed himself to be a Zionist. So, we cannot attribute such proclamations solely to senility or dementia.
>>"it's the Jewish Zionist billionaires.....and are now pushing AI onto us..."
Nothing of the sort. No connection between Zionists and AI. It is rather a connection between CAPTITALISTS and AI (and 'some' Capitalists are Zionists).
Such illogical conspiratorial thinking (i.e. Zionists are responsible for everything you don't like or don't agree with in the world) is a recipe for erreonous conslusions and hence a lack of ability to 'solve issues' (due to not knowing what the problem really is).
Okay, it's jews with too much money tgat are buying up tech companies and using AI to fool as many as possible. Could that be because the zionists fed them the lie that they can do no wrong?
Let's see how you feel if/when it's your country's turn to have a takeover attempt by using simple devices to blow up in your faces, then bomb and blockade you while your neighbours watch on, saying, 'Oh, dear, how sad.'
Davina, do you know the DIFFERENCE between Jews and Zionists? If not, you should read more of Caitlin's articles to UNDERSTAND this IMPORTANT difference.
Here are some hints for you ->
(1) Zionism is NOT EQUAL to Jews (There are Christian Zionists and other Zionists)
***Special clarification for Davina -> Being a Jew is NOT the same as being a Zionist.
(2) Zionism is NOT Judaism (and Judaism is NOT Zionism)
(3) Jews is NOT Judaism (there are Christian Jews, Arab Jews, Athiest Jews & Secular Jews, etc.)
(4) Jews is NOT EQUAL to Israel
(5) Criticizing Israel is NOT anti-semitism
(6) Criticizing Zionism is NOT anti-semitism
(7) Zionism = Anti-Semitism (the justification is too complex to present here)
(8) Zionism ideology = Nazi ideology
Get back to me (and READ more of Caitlin's articles) when you understand the difference between Jews, Zionism, Judaism, Israel, the goals of Capitalists, and more.
Until you understand the above, you will be WASTING your emotions (and energy) pursuing the wrong targets.
Think CAPITALISM when you think of AI (not Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, atheists, Zionists, Nazists, Hindutva adherents, fascists, whatever).
Do you? You have your one idea and no one is allowed, in your opinion, to have any slight difference that you do not approve of.
I know, from many of your pists tgat you lije to make people look small when their belief doesn't match yours. If that makes your day fine for you, but your better tham everyone attitude is galling.
Each of us has the right to our opinion, even if that is not exactly the same as yours. We also have the right to do our own research and understaning we get from that research.
It seems to me that you tend to pick on someone to belittle every so often, especially if you think they are not following your line of thought. We are all individuals who will believe what feels right to us, having your opinion ramned down our throats because ours doesn't match yours is bullying. And I for one do not like bullies. So if my beliefs are different from yours you can disagree but do not try to make me feel small, or call me stupid because it doesn't fit what you think.
Shit Davina, you don't have to listen to what I say. Simply listening to what Caitlin says will give you the same answers on this topic. Now, are you suggesting that Caitlin is wrong?
There are right opinions, wrong opinions, and grey opinions. Israelis and Zionists have wrong opinions. And EVERYONE that has 'the opinion' of conflating 'Jews with Zionism' similarly shares in this 'wrong opinion'.
2 + 2 = 4 (regardless if your opinion is that 2+2=5).
All you have to do is READ Caitlin's articles. This is not ME telling you this. This is Caitlin telling you this (unless you are having reading comprehension issues reading Caitlin's articles - in which case I understand your difficulties in understanding such basics).
BTW, I don't think Jeffery is suicidal. F ing israeli's are capable of anything. The world is busy disowning them all. I have read 25% of israelis are planning on leaving israel.
Point taken. I hadn't thought of that--silly me. YouTube has become impossible. It throws ads at you and forces you to watch the whole idiotic thing, showing it's only about the money they make from eyeballs on ads. It's become too obnoxious to tolerate.
Well said Mr. LoPresti. Going back to the "old-fashioned" ways like reading books, writing reflections, prose, stories novels etc and using our own creativity and ideas, rather than relying on an algorithm to generate some soulless content, is more important than ever. Agreed about love for the biological as well
What you forget Vin, is that MOST people won't have a choice - just like most people didn't really have a choice on whether to use a computer or not, use the internet or not, use a mobile phone or not, etc.
You are thinking of Generative AI as a 'consumer' directed technology/end-product, but that is a small segment of AI. Increasingly, AI systems will be embedded in many services you receive, many products that are available to purchase, many B2B (business-to-business) exchange of goods and services, in the research industries, and more.
Instead of 'saying no to AI', a more productive and helpful mantra would be 'know WHEN to use AI and when NOT to', 'know/be-aware of the pitfalls of AI' (similar to knowing the pitfalls/dangers of social media), and 'use AI to accomplish mundane, repetitive, time-comsuming but low value yielding tasks'.
Did you read my comment above Chang. Regarding folks informing themselves, boundary conditions, Marcus, etc.?
While you're correct about the embedding. — and the profit motive will drive that aspect beyond the control of our puny fingers — people have choices regarding the flawed crap out there right now. And will continue to have them in the short term. But we both know about human sloth. So much easier for folks to go with the flow of any propaganda that repeatedly shouts: "this is terrific, it'll upgrade your life experience . . . AND everyone's using it, so don't get left behind". That's what I observe happening at the moment which provokes me to raise my hand in a stop gesture like a concerned school crossing guard halting a speeder.
What I gather (from Caitlin, Marcus, and many other 'so-called' experts/pundits on AI), is MORE a reaction based on FEAR than a holistic understanding of AI technologies and the contexts and contrains of the systems within which they are deployed.
Generative AI (which most people unfortunately and mistakenly assume to be 'all of AI') in Capitalist political and economic systems will be deployed in a certain way, and in other systems it will be deployed in other ways.
For an example of this, spend some time researching how China uses this technology DIFFERENTLY than the U.S. does (at least for the time being) - including regulating it. Hence, a DISTINCTION needs to be made between 'the technology itself' and 'the way it will unfold in different contexts/systems'.
In a Capitalist system, ANY (and ALL) technologies will be used for the motives of profits (and other incentives of the system), whether it is 'AI technologies' or something else.
FEAR is not going to solve problems (and saying NO to AI is a reactionary response to such fear). Rather, education and understanding of AI technologies is needed. And that can't happen with an attitute like 'just say no to AI'. People in the past have said similar things like 'just say no to drugs', 'just say no to drunk-driving', 'just say no to guns', etc. with not much to show for results.
>>"That's what I observe happening at the moment..."
That which you observe is but one phase of the adoption of any new technology. There is ALWAYS hype at the beginning phases of a technology - be it internet, mobile devices, IoT, etc. That is a PHASE in the 'evolutionary path' of most technologies (and AI is no different).
Unfortunately, too many AI analysts (and self-proclaimed 'gurus/pundits' - and there are too many of them), are divided into black-and-white thinking (i.e. HYPERS and DOOMERS). The reality is 'in-between' these extremes - the detailed nuances - but thinking about 'nuances' is not 'sexy' or 'attention-grabbing' or what will land many of these so-called AI analysts screen-time and their 15 minutes of fame and fortune. Hence I tend to ignore BOTH hypers AND doomers and prefer to get dirty with the NUANCES of AI technologies.
We'll each have to find a path, and I continue to agree about education being key -- and always skeptical as a former educator about the evolution of that pedagogic process. My real fear is herd mentality, always operant in the society in which I live. I don't fear AI. I use what seems sane, find out what I can, avoid most of it except for that which I obviously cannot as you've outlined. Le deluge will occur as it will and I'll likely be dead.
"For an example of this, spend some time researching how China uses this technology DIFFERENTLY than the U.S. does (at least for the time being) - including regulating it"
Thank you Chang for the above. Wise nations with a good moral code will use new tech to benefit their people and humankind.
It might be a blessing if more of us didn't have such easy access to computers and some television companies that put out trash tgat young people think is real life. If it is real life for them then some drastic measures need to be taken to help them out of what is causing suicides in young teenagers.
Losing strategy? Far superior to a disaster recipe. Another opinion of the transformative value of AI in the hands of humans many of whom may not understand its perils and will thus be likely to inadvertently foster such "malicioius uses". Some extensive reading of Gary Marcus' substack may be in order as a reality check.
EDIT: Marcus' substack today is a well-balanced look - he's still bullish on eventual AGI, but the hype around LLMs like Chat GPT won't get us anywhere AND recurring core technical problems with LLMs are inherent to the technology.
My point is, trying to convince people to reject use of AI is putting the toothpaste back in the bottle AND throws the baby out with the bath water. I do think there are natural constraints, like overuse of local resources, that people will fight. Also, people will choose to reject it for certain things, like art or things that are simply better even with the flaws of human error. I like to cook even though it’s easier to go out to eat…
"the flaws of human error". That phrase reveals the deep issue with folks embracing AI for the wrong reasons. Is Joe Cocker's growl, his imperfectly hit pitches on "With a Little Help from My Friends" "human error"? that if AI were available it should've pitch-corrected and filtered? (just one example). Or is that part of, a key aspect of Cocker's performance art?
For the most part, the current generation of AI acolytes has little idea how to answer that question, and therefore, a poor notion of the boundary conditions that are appropriate. Granted, you can't put the toothpaste back in. But it's judicious to try to keep it from squirting all over the bathroom, particularly if it's got corrosive potential. Since that boundary condition aspect isn't happening, far as I can see (because of the ka-ching potential), I must take the "stay away" posture as a fall back at this stage of the endeavor. Show me a more enlightened, less-brainwashed user population, and an AI with true self-limiting system properties (not currently trustworthy in that department) and I'd be less concerned.
I resist by not using the usual browsers except when I try to download books because Amazon won't allow me to do so unless I use their preferred browsers, which are so thick with ads for so much rubbish, you can never read the article because of this invasion of your space, so I chose a browser that is ad free, really ad free.
Gotta resist the best you can. They do have a bit of a stranglehold on those of us who wish to continue this form of communication. Sometimes I declare my readiness to retreat to 1985 tech, but then I recognize the impossibility.
True, they always have ways to make that resistance totally inpossible, but we can do so where and how we can, when we can. Using our own brains, which was something we were taught in school through debating classes as well as through normal school subjects. How I loved the debating society.
How many recall the tests where we were told: a man, who had been a soldier during the war, died when a jet plane flew close to the ground above where he was sleeping in his garden? I was given the ^honour^ of being first up to answer what was wrong with that statement. It was obvious to me what was wrong but other students wanted to argue about how correct it was.
There are so many things wrong these and too many of us don't see why they are wrong.
Sci-fi writers are so prophetic at times that it blows my mind. The 1963 French Sci-fi novel Planet if the Apes predicted this.
It's different in its the nation of why
Apes gain control of the planet. Differing from the movie, they didn't rise to power due to nuclear war, but rather due to computers taking over the role of critical thinking. Humans got lazy, stop caring for themselves, but mostly stopped thinking for themselves and over time lost the ability to think currently and the ape simply past them on the evolutionary scale.
I read it a few months ago because oddly, I read dystopian novels to get my mind off the dystopian reality at the end of the day and this completely blindsided me.
Staying offline helps. Having creative projects helps. Meeting face to face rather than chatting online helps. Having friends who understand the AI danger and also avoid it helps. Getting your entertainment offline helps. Volunteering helps. Anything that gets you out of the digital world helps!
Back in The Good Old Days, publishing news was hard. For one thing, you needed a printing press, which was expensive and required specialized staff to operate it. Not only that, but a printing press cost money for every sheet of paper printed, and you had to spend more money on distribution.
They say that "freedom of the press belongs to those who own one" but there's more! Unless you planned to publish as an expensive and time-consuming hobby, you needed an income stream. You would get some money from subscriptions, but subscriptions are really a means to sell advertising. Dependence on advertising meant that there were some people the publisher had to keep happy, and others he could not afford to annoy.
Anyone who knows anything about local news knows this. At best, it's a tightrope walk between giving subscribers the news they want to know, and not infuriating your advertisers. The result was a sort of natural censorship. Publishers had to think long and hard before they published anything that would tork the bigwigs off. The fact that a publisher was tied to a physical location and physical assets also made libel suits much easier.
The internet changed all that. Now, any anonymous toolio with a laptop and WiFi can go into the news publishing business by nightfall, and with worldwide distribution and advertising revenue, to boot. Marginal cost of readership is zero. Needless to say, this development has The People That Matter very concerned, and they are working hard to stuff that genie back into the bottle.
When I was a kid in the 1960's media was much more critical of government and corporations. According to Matt Taibbi, a reporter who is the son of a reporter, the big change was the loss of income from classified advertisements, money that comes from ordinary people. This increased dependency on corporate advertisers.
Now government is openly moving to control media as in the recent effort for total military censorship.
People don’t collapse into propaganda because the machine is perfect. They collapse because:
attention spans are short or shot
emotional resilience is gone
literacy is falling rapidly
dopamine addiction is rising
people outsource thinking
truth feels exhausting or threatening
distraction is easy and always available
AI is a scalpel. The real rot is inside the culture. A healthy society could withstand these tools. We can’t — not because of the tools, but because we’ve become soft targets.
My verdict?
Like Mr. Orwell before him, Mr. Assange wasn’t describing the future. He was describing right now, just a little early.
The dystopia isn’t coming.
It’s here.
It’s banal.
It’s subtle.
It’s frictionless.
And it works because most people don’t even realize they’re in it. Mental lucidity in 2025 isn’t a lifestyle these days. It’s essential resistance, which few are practicing day to day.
Love the conclusion of this article. I think consciousness can only evolve. No technology or algorithm can interfere with this process. Ironically, it’s the suffering the system causes, including addiction, that drives people to discover the ultimate power that dwells within all of us.
Ignore the MSM, social media, the politicians, the DC Cesspool, and most other forms of media. You have to be very selective and be ready to jettison those that appear to be healthy alternatives. Many are not. You do not need any news to survive. Mental clarity comes from being a part of no cults or deep state prognosticators.
We're led by scads of people who are pursuing an agenda, mostly concerning power and money. We're hard pressed to find any who are guided by a moral desire to serve their consituency.
Like a pack of wild dogs, the rest turn on any who show any moral center or concern for the nation's wellbeing.
I found out that most of the news I was listening to was AI generated! Jeffery Sachs, Douglas MacGregor, John Mearsheimer etc. were being faked. Someone just says to an AI, make a broadcast of the latest news in the style of Jeffery Sachs or whatever. It's so easy they can make a vid every hour. The visuals are hideous, that's a giveaway, but from now one I trust only established sources.
Besides, once all these companies rely on AI, once they are completely hooked, the providers will start jacking up the price. That's what they always do.
I couldn't agree more. Even before all the high tech manipulations of our conscious awareness, the ageless wisdom teachings spoke of Maya, the illusion of embodiment. Know thyself was the timeless admonition.
You kill me Hillary. Surely you harbor an inkling of understanding that your threadbare and risible shtick is despicable in light of the “history” you would prefer not be understood. There is no esoteric aura about you. You come across not as learned, or insightful, or one bearing any sense of grace or our common humanity—but rather, as the pathetic liar and criminal that you are.
The bright young students at Columbia and around the world realize this. They know you abide genocide, and beyond all the other damning truths about you Hillary, this is one people know and feel in their bones, and there is no amount of bullshit you can produce that will cover that up.
To be successful we have to combat these forces with their own tools.
The digital world works with no emotion, no loyalty. It’s just numbers. They work in any direction.
The future will be determined not by who has the most money, or hardware, but by who has the better software, and the only software that matters is our brains. The people outnumber billionaires by a million to one, but if you’ve ever seen a little dog round up a hundred sheep you know how easily power can be controlled, if we let it. That’s what they’re counting on.
We each have a choice to resist the glitzy BS, thickest now during the season of profound consumption. Just say NO to AI. To ancillary crap unimportant to your being. To any tech with spy potential. Read books. Write prose, poetry, music, From your heart, from your billions of neural synapses, not from AI. As long as it's not a Zionist, love anything biological more than anything silicon. Just say NO.
Yep, it's the Jewish Zionist billionaires who control our media, our governments and are now pushing AI onto us that we must resist. For a tiny population to exert such mind numbing control over so many facets of modern life is unbelievably dangerous. How did this happen?
Zionists are not actually Jews. They are hypocrites of various denominations.
Zionism is a Jewish supremacist ideology, so it doesn't matter what faith they are individually. They are still upholding Jewish supremacy, which if you're a Christian is really weird.
You may call Zionism a Jewish supremacy movement. It is also an Evangelical Christian Nationalist movement. There may even be some Zionists who pretend to be Muslims.
True Christianity, Judaism and Islam do not support Zionism, but some Capitalists do.
I hesitate to identify all Capitalists as atheists because some of them worship Moloch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch
The worshippers of Moloch may not sacrifice their own children but will often sacrifice those of others, including yours, if you have any. They may not burn them at a bronze furnace but will burn them with heavy debt loads and credit cards fees with usurious interest rates, or send them into wars for profits, or burn the places in which they live.
Really, you're twisting yourself into a little pretzel. Look at who controls the media, Hollywood, all western governments, the banks (Rothschilds et al), Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Ag, the Military Industrial Complex. Just look at what Larry the Fink of BlackRock owns around the world. Open your eyes.
Get a grip on reality. Zionists are not Jews. True Jews are not Zionists. Learn to distinguish the difference.
Consult with Hassidic Jews or rabbis of the Cohanim.
The military industrial complex and Big Pharma, etc. have the support of Capitalists of all stripes.
You seem to be the pretzel if you are ignorant about the christian part of zionism.
Yes there is Jewish zionism but that is only a fraction of zionism. Christian zionism is the other big tentacle.
Please have a look at this
https://youtu.be/xBo9mmDDIg4
And this
https://youtu.be/AKzAzbjKNF0
Its a much larger story, but this is a good shortcut into the christian zionism section.
Like many Christians are not Christians.
https://myislam.org/quran-verses/hypocrites/
https://christianfaithguide.com/what-did-jesus-say-about-hypocrites/
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/15196-zebu-im
Hypocrisy is condemned by Islam, Judaism and Christianity, but hypocrites abound especially in positions of wealth and power.
Similarly, usury is also condemned. Usury is essentially the collection of excessive interest on loans. Usury is a fundamental tenet of financial Capitalism.
What is “excessive interest”? What is the total interest charged for home mortgage loans or student loans?
Capitalism is a religion that overrides most others. Zionism was founded by atheists, many of whom were Capitalists. Honest Zionists do not pretend to be Christians, Muslims or Jews. They may proclaim to be Capitalists without hypocrisy.
Well said.
Zionists used the jews to get Palestine because THEY wish to rule the world. All they had to do was find a few violent jews to start with and it grew from there by telling them they were the supreme beings. I suppose after being hated for being the killers of Jesus to their money greed and accumulation of properties in a select area, being told you were the chosen who could do no wrong, it totally went to the heads of many-too many-and looj where that led...
Ps dont forget the Jesuits. Thats another can of worms.
Im glad im not the only one who tries to say this...
Its not clear to me if this is a israelian mindphuck or a severe ignorance.
Or christians in denial of christian zionism?
Eretz Israel (modern Israel) would not exist without the support of the USA and UK.
You mention "usury" isn't that how so many jews gained so much for centuries? Isn't that part of why they were from so many countries? And now they are using their ill-gotren gains to buy up everything in order to complete their manipulation of the public.
I don't mean your everyday jew, just those who've swalled whole this ^supremacist^ rubbish. If we are all made in God's image, and are all His/Her children it would be an extremely shallow god that gave preference to one religous group over all the rest - especially a group that seem hell-bent on as much cruelty and violence against a mostly passive people because thry have the weaponry that lets them do it, and the proganda put out by billionaires of the same ^belief^ to push the lies and block people from trying to tell the truth.
In Scotland right now they have produced a combined Palestinian flag with the Scottish Saltire to show support for Palestine. Some British jewish group have complained because it makes them feel "signifitantly distressed". How distressed do they think Palestinians feel at being bombed several times daily, made homeless and starved while their children are shot in the genitals by israeli snipers?
Yes! The combined flags are known as Paltires and I enjoy seeing them when in Glasgow. The complainers pretend to be concerned locals but the majority of senders were not Scottish, and many were from overseas, despite all the emails referring to “our” city.
Thank you, for that information. I don't ever remember seeing jews with payots or yarmulkes when I was in Glasgow, so they must have kept a low profile, or we didn't have the orthodox or hasidic. But I would think the american branch of AIPAC would stick its nose happily into another countries affairs.
My cousin dated a jewesss for a year or two, who was a milliner and had the best hat shop in Glasgow. Her only problem was she was tight-fisted. Members of the family had their own shops always gave a discount to family and close friends, not this lady. She was also the first person I ever knew to take doggy bags from our family homes after having dinner with us. She piled her plate so high you knew she would never eat it all, and that was after saying she wasn't really hungry, and not bringing anything to share as the rest of us did. No one said anything to my cousin but, I think she may have done the same when they were invited to friends, and the thought of a lifetime of that made him break off with her.
According to a local on-line newspaper, the campaign was organised from London, by a Genocide denier...
Wow! Imagine having the nerve to do that with their food - borderline stealing. Your cousin made a wise move there.
Para one, mising word - banned - from...
There are three layers above the Zionists. Beware. How did it happen? It’s been here all the time.
In which layer does Zionist Joe Biden reside?
Throughout his political career, spanning several decades, Joe Biden proclaimed himself to be a Zionist. So, we cannot attribute such proclamations solely to senility or dementia.
>>"it's the Jewish Zionist billionaires.....and are now pushing AI onto us..."
Nothing of the sort. No connection between Zionists and AI. It is rather a connection between CAPTITALISTS and AI (and 'some' Capitalists are Zionists).
Such illogical conspiratorial thinking (i.e. Zionists are responsible for everything you don't like or don't agree with in the world) is a recipe for erreonous conslusions and hence a lack of ability to 'solve issues' (due to not knowing what the problem really is).
Okay, it's jews with too much money tgat are buying up tech companies and using AI to fool as many as possible. Could that be because the zionists fed them the lie that they can do no wrong?
Let's see how you feel if/when it's your country's turn to have a takeover attempt by using simple devices to blow up in your faces, then bomb and blockade you while your neighbours watch on, saying, 'Oh, dear, how sad.'
Davina, do you know the DIFFERENCE between Jews and Zionists? If not, you should read more of Caitlin's articles to UNDERSTAND this IMPORTANT difference.
Here are some hints for you ->
(1) Zionism is NOT EQUAL to Jews (There are Christian Zionists and other Zionists)
***Special clarification for Davina -> Being a Jew is NOT the same as being a Zionist.
(2) Zionism is NOT Judaism (and Judaism is NOT Zionism)
(3) Jews is NOT Judaism (there are Christian Jews, Arab Jews, Athiest Jews & Secular Jews, etc.)
(4) Jews is NOT EQUAL to Israel
(5) Criticizing Israel is NOT anti-semitism
(6) Criticizing Zionism is NOT anti-semitism
(7) Zionism = Anti-Semitism (the justification is too complex to present here)
(8) Zionism ideology = Nazi ideology
Get back to me (and READ more of Caitlin's articles) when you understand the difference between Jews, Zionism, Judaism, Israel, the goals of Capitalists, and more.
Until you understand the above, you will be WASTING your emotions (and energy) pursuing the wrong targets.
Think CAPITALISM when you think of AI (not Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, atheists, Zionists, Nazists, Hindutva adherents, fascists, whatever).
Do you? You have your one idea and no one is allowed, in your opinion, to have any slight difference that you do not approve of.
I know, from many of your pists tgat you lije to make people look small when their belief doesn't match yours. If that makes your day fine for you, but your better tham everyone attitude is galling.
Each of us has the right to our opinion, even if that is not exactly the same as yours. We also have the right to do our own research and understaning we get from that research.
It seems to me that you tend to pick on someone to belittle every so often, especially if you think they are not following your line of thought. We are all individuals who will believe what feels right to us, having your opinion ramned down our throats because ours doesn't match yours is bullying. And I for one do not like bullies. So if my beliefs are different from yours you can disagree but do not try to make me feel small, or call me stupid because it doesn't fit what you think.
Shit Davina, you don't have to listen to what I say. Simply listening to what Caitlin says will give you the same answers on this topic. Now, are you suggesting that Caitlin is wrong?
There are right opinions, wrong opinions, and grey opinions. Israelis and Zionists have wrong opinions. And EVERYONE that has 'the opinion' of conflating 'Jews with Zionism' similarly shares in this 'wrong opinion'.
2 + 2 = 4 (regardless if your opinion is that 2+2=5).
All you have to do is READ Caitlin's articles. This is not ME telling you this. This is Caitlin telling you this (unless you are having reading comprehension issues reading Caitlin's articles - in which case I understand your difficulties in understanding such basics).
My apologies to everyone else fir the typos, sometimes the edit thing does not work.
Watch out on U-Tube. Luckily I still have a brain and perception.
A Jeffrey Sax video the other day......this was not J. Sax because I know how he moves his head when speaking and the format was suspicious.
I wrote in the comments. Beware: this is AI
Books and more books and music and drawing..............writing. I agree Vin.
Jeffery would be a important for the israeli's to abduct. He is a hero to us all.
There would be no stopping us all merging together.............to trace him?
BTW, I don't think Jeffery is suicidal. F ing israeli's are capable of anything. The world is busy disowning them all. I have read 25% of israelis are planning on leaving israel.
Actually I meant his actions, speech from Jeffery is more powerful than any few weapons : )
It's Jeffrey Sachs, not Sax. But yes, I saw that AI video of him last week. Creeped me out and I don't know why he would consent to that.
No one is consenting to it. Youtube isn't stopping it. Tbey make money off ad views. Many well known people are being victimized.
Point taken. I hadn't thought of that--silly me. YouTube has become impossible. It throws ads at you and forces you to watch the whole idiotic thing, showing it's only about the money they make from eyeballs on ads. It's become too obnoxious to tolerate.
And it is very well-funded "science" for warfare upon our minds:
"We Are Everywhere" - Fort Bragg Psychological Warfare Group Posts Chilling Video
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/we-are-everywhere-fort-bragg-psychological-warfare-group-posts-chilling-video
Well said Mr. LoPresti. Going back to the "old-fashioned" ways like reading books, writing reflections, prose, stories novels etc and using our own creativity and ideas, rather than relying on an algorithm to generate some soulless content, is more important than ever. Agreed about love for the biological as well
>>"Just say NO to AI."
What you forget Vin, is that MOST people won't have a choice - just like most people didn't really have a choice on whether to use a computer or not, use the internet or not, use a mobile phone or not, etc.
You are thinking of Generative AI as a 'consumer' directed technology/end-product, but that is a small segment of AI. Increasingly, AI systems will be embedded in many services you receive, many products that are available to purchase, many B2B (business-to-business) exchange of goods and services, in the research industries, and more.
Instead of 'saying no to AI', a more productive and helpful mantra would be 'know WHEN to use AI and when NOT to', 'know/be-aware of the pitfalls of AI' (similar to knowing the pitfalls/dangers of social media), and 'use AI to accomplish mundane, repetitive, time-comsuming but low value yielding tasks'.
Did you read my comment above Chang. Regarding folks informing themselves, boundary conditions, Marcus, etc.?
While you're correct about the embedding. — and the profit motive will drive that aspect beyond the control of our puny fingers — people have choices regarding the flawed crap out there right now. And will continue to have them in the short term. But we both know about human sloth. So much easier for folks to go with the flow of any propaganda that repeatedly shouts: "this is terrific, it'll upgrade your life experience . . . AND everyone's using it, so don't get left behind". That's what I observe happening at the moment which provokes me to raise my hand in a stop gesture like a concerned school crossing guard halting a speeder.
What I gather (from Caitlin, Marcus, and many other 'so-called' experts/pundits on AI), is MORE a reaction based on FEAR than a holistic understanding of AI technologies and the contexts and contrains of the systems within which they are deployed.
Generative AI (which most people unfortunately and mistakenly assume to be 'all of AI') in Capitalist political and economic systems will be deployed in a certain way, and in other systems it will be deployed in other ways.
For an example of this, spend some time researching how China uses this technology DIFFERENTLY than the U.S. does (at least for the time being) - including regulating it. Hence, a DISTINCTION needs to be made between 'the technology itself' and 'the way it will unfold in different contexts/systems'.
In a Capitalist system, ANY (and ALL) technologies will be used for the motives of profits (and other incentives of the system), whether it is 'AI technologies' or something else.
FEAR is not going to solve problems (and saying NO to AI is a reactionary response to such fear). Rather, education and understanding of AI technologies is needed. And that can't happen with an attitute like 'just say no to AI'. People in the past have said similar things like 'just say no to drugs', 'just say no to drunk-driving', 'just say no to guns', etc. with not much to show for results.
>>"That's what I observe happening at the moment..."
That which you observe is but one phase of the adoption of any new technology. There is ALWAYS hype at the beginning phases of a technology - be it internet, mobile devices, IoT, etc. That is a PHASE in the 'evolutionary path' of most technologies (and AI is no different).
Unfortunately, too many AI analysts (and self-proclaimed 'gurus/pundits' - and there are too many of them), are divided into black-and-white thinking (i.e. HYPERS and DOOMERS). The reality is 'in-between' these extremes - the detailed nuances - but thinking about 'nuances' is not 'sexy' or 'attention-grabbing' or what will land many of these so-called AI analysts screen-time and their 15 minutes of fame and fortune. Hence I tend to ignore BOTH hypers AND doomers and prefer to get dirty with the NUANCES of AI technologies.
We'll each have to find a path, and I continue to agree about education being key -- and always skeptical as a former educator about the evolution of that pedagogic process. My real fear is herd mentality, always operant in the society in which I live. I don't fear AI. I use what seems sane, find out what I can, avoid most of it except for that which I obviously cannot as you've outlined. Le deluge will occur as it will and I'll likely be dead.
"For an example of this, spend some time researching how China uses this technology DIFFERENTLY than the U.S. does (at least for the time being) - including regulating it"
Thank you Chang for the above. Wise nations with a good moral code will use new tech to benefit their people and humankind.
It might be a blessing if more of us didn't have such easy access to computers and some television companies that put out trash tgat young people think is real life. If it is real life for them then some drastic measures need to be taken to help them out of what is causing suicides in young teenagers.
Losing strategy. Might better to use AI to prevent the malicious uses of it. Good people using AI to battle the bad people using AI
Losing strategy? Far superior to a disaster recipe. Another opinion of the transformative value of AI in the hands of humans many of whom may not understand its perils and will thus be likely to inadvertently foster such "malicioius uses". Some extensive reading of Gary Marcus' substack may be in order as a reality check.
EDIT: Marcus' substack today is a well-balanced look - he's still bullish on eventual AGI, but the hype around LLMs like Chat GPT won't get us anywhere AND recurring core technical problems with LLMs are inherent to the technology.
https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=888615&post_id=180115766&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=b8qtt&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxODg4Mzc5MywicG9zdF9pZCI6MTgwMTE1NzY2LCJpYXQiOjE3NjQ0MzQyOTgsImV4cCI6MTc2NzAyNjI5OCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTg4ODYxNSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.nILG4VW-IxaEKs-zdqoOgTeCel3MJ_E8f4WRi--3DNA
My point is, trying to convince people to reject use of AI is putting the toothpaste back in the bottle AND throws the baby out with the bath water. I do think there are natural constraints, like overuse of local resources, that people will fight. Also, people will choose to reject it for certain things, like art or things that are simply better even with the flaws of human error. I like to cook even though it’s easier to go out to eat…
"the flaws of human error". That phrase reveals the deep issue with folks embracing AI for the wrong reasons. Is Joe Cocker's growl, his imperfectly hit pitches on "With a Little Help from My Friends" "human error"? that if AI were available it should've pitch-corrected and filtered? (just one example). Or is that part of, a key aspect of Cocker's performance art?
For the most part, the current generation of AI acolytes has little idea how to answer that question, and therefore, a poor notion of the boundary conditions that are appropriate. Granted, you can't put the toothpaste back in. But it's judicious to try to keep it from squirting all over the bathroom, particularly if it's got corrosive potential. Since that boundary condition aspect isn't happening, far as I can see (because of the ka-ching potential), I must take the "stay away" posture as a fall back at this stage of the endeavor. Show me a more enlightened, less-brainwashed user population, and an AI with true self-limiting system properties (not currently trustworthy in that department) and I'd be less concerned.
Sadly, we shall see sooner than we all know.
Sorry, those that control the communication are the users. We are only the content.
I resist by not using the usual browsers except when I try to download books because Amazon won't allow me to do so unless I use their preferred browsers, which are so thick with ads for so much rubbish, you can never read the article because of this invasion of your space, so I chose a browser that is ad free, really ad free.
Gotta resist the best you can. They do have a bit of a stranglehold on those of us who wish to continue this form of communication. Sometimes I declare my readiness to retreat to 1985 tech, but then I recognize the impossibility.
True, they always have ways to make that resistance totally inpossible, but we can do so where and how we can, when we can. Using our own brains, which was something we were taught in school through debating classes as well as through normal school subjects. How I loved the debating society.
How many recall the tests where we were told: a man, who had been a soldier during the war, died when a jet plane flew close to the ground above where he was sleeping in his garden? I was given the ^honour^ of being first up to answer what was wrong with that statement. It was obvious to me what was wrong but other students wanted to argue about how correct it was.
There are so many things wrong these and too many of us don't see why they are wrong.
Started boycotting Amazon years ago... so I don't have this problem... 😉
Sci-fi writers are so prophetic at times that it blows my mind. The 1963 French Sci-fi novel Planet if the Apes predicted this.
It's different in its the nation of why
Apes gain control of the planet. Differing from the movie, they didn't rise to power due to nuclear war, but rather due to computers taking over the role of critical thinking. Humans got lazy, stop caring for themselves, but mostly stopped thinking for themselves and over time lost the ability to think currently and the ape simply past them on the evolutionary scale.
I read it a few months ago because oddly, I read dystopian novels to get my mind off the dystopian reality at the end of the day and this completely blindsided me.
Thanks Caitlin. I dig in my vegetable gardens and plant seeds by hand with sore knees and back.
It's centering and "grounding". I have a couple of pretty big kitchen gardens.
YMMV.
(Riding a bike route where people don't try to kill you for a couple of hours can be good, too.)
Staying offline helps. Having creative projects helps. Meeting face to face rather than chatting online helps. Having friends who understand the AI danger and also avoid it helps. Getting your entertainment offline helps. Volunteering helps. Anything that gets you out of the digital world helps!
Back in The Good Old Days, publishing news was hard. For one thing, you needed a printing press, which was expensive and required specialized staff to operate it. Not only that, but a printing press cost money for every sheet of paper printed, and you had to spend more money on distribution.
They say that "freedom of the press belongs to those who own one" but there's more! Unless you planned to publish as an expensive and time-consuming hobby, you needed an income stream. You would get some money from subscriptions, but subscriptions are really a means to sell advertising. Dependence on advertising meant that there were some people the publisher had to keep happy, and others he could not afford to annoy.
Anyone who knows anything about local news knows this. At best, it's a tightrope walk between giving subscribers the news they want to know, and not infuriating your advertisers. The result was a sort of natural censorship. Publishers had to think long and hard before they published anything that would tork the bigwigs off. The fact that a publisher was tied to a physical location and physical assets also made libel suits much easier.
The internet changed all that. Now, any anonymous toolio with a laptop and WiFi can go into the news publishing business by nightfall, and with worldwide distribution and advertising revenue, to boot. Marginal cost of readership is zero. Needless to say, this development has The People That Matter very concerned, and they are working hard to stuff that genie back into the bottle.
When I was a kid in the 1960's media was much more critical of government and corporations. According to Matt Taibbi, a reporter who is the son of a reporter, the big change was the loss of income from classified advertisements, money that comes from ordinary people. This increased dependency on corporate advertisers.
Now government is openly moving to control media as in the recent effort for total military censorship.
Put a cog in the wheel. Stop the machine. Create a new world. Free Palestine.
The real threat isn’t the technology.
It’s the weakness of the modern mind.**
People don’t collapse into propaganda because the machine is perfect. They collapse because:
attention spans are short or shot
emotional resilience is gone
literacy is falling rapidly
dopamine addiction is rising
people outsource thinking
truth feels exhausting or threatening
distraction is easy and always available
AI is a scalpel. The real rot is inside the culture. A healthy society could withstand these tools. We can’t — not because of the tools, but because we’ve become soft targets.
My verdict?
Like Mr. Orwell before him, Mr. Assange wasn’t describing the future. He was describing right now, just a little early.
The dystopia isn’t coming.
It’s here.
It’s banal.
It’s subtle.
It’s frictionless.
And it works because most people don’t even realize they’re in it. Mental lucidity in 2025 isn’t a lifestyle these days. It’s essential resistance, which few are practicing day to day.
Well said Michael Lynch!
Thank you sir.
Love the conclusion of this article. I think consciousness can only evolve. No technology or algorithm can interfere with this process. Ironically, it’s the suffering the system causes, including addiction, that drives people to discover the ultimate power that dwells within all of us.
Resist Much
Obey Little
Ignore the MSM, social media, the politicians, the DC Cesspool, and most other forms of media. You have to be very selective and be ready to jettison those that appear to be healthy alternatives. Many are not. You do not need any news to survive. Mental clarity comes from being a part of no cults or deep state prognosticators.
There are some good indie journos out there and of course wonderful humans like Caitlyn.
We're led by scads of people who are pursuing an agenda, mostly concerning power and money. We're hard pressed to find any who are guided by a moral desire to serve their consituency.
Like a pack of wild dogs, the rest turn on any who show any moral center or concern for the nation's wellbeing.
Hear here !
I found out that most of the news I was listening to was AI generated! Jeffery Sachs, Douglas MacGregor, John Mearsheimer etc. were being faked. Someone just says to an AI, make a broadcast of the latest news in the style of Jeffery Sachs or whatever. It's so easy they can make a vid every hour. The visuals are hideous, that's a giveaway, but from now one I trust only established sources.
Besides, once all these companies rely on AI, once they are completely hooked, the providers will start jacking up the price. That's what they always do.
And all this as more and more percent of the population gets stupider and stupider , more and more brainwashed, and more fascist. Super MAGAnizid.
I couldn't agree more. Even before all the high tech manipulations of our conscious awareness, the ageless wisdom teachings spoke of Maya, the illusion of embodiment. Know thyself was the timeless admonition.
You kill me Hillary. Surely you harbor an inkling of understanding that your threadbare and risible shtick is despicable in light of the “history” you would prefer not be understood. There is no esoteric aura about you. You come across not as learned, or insightful, or one bearing any sense of grace or our common humanity—but rather, as the pathetic liar and criminal that you are.
The bright young students at Columbia and around the world realize this. They know you abide genocide, and beyond all the other damning truths about you Hillary, this is one people know and feel in their bones, and there is no amount of bullshit you can produce that will cover that up.
To be successful we have to combat these forces with their own tools.
The digital world works with no emotion, no loyalty. It’s just numbers. They work in any direction.
The future will be determined not by who has the most money, or hardware, but by who has the better software, and the only software that matters is our brains. The people outnumber billionaires by a million to one, but if you’ve ever seen a little dog round up a hundred sheep you know how easily power can be controlled, if we let it. That’s what they’re counting on.
Resist, always, even just for practice.