Nobody wants to be accountable. AI let’s people hold accountability at arm’s length, because nobody is forcing the person responsible for the decision to use AI to be accountable for the decisions of that AI. It’s a positive feedback loop, where everyone involved in AI benefits from the lack of accountability, regardless of actual outcomes.

I think so. And they’ve certainly helped us toward a that tipping point, but there is no single event that got us there.

Imo that is. I’m not exactly a political scientist.

We do hold the dog owner accountable.
We’ve never held the AI creator or operator responsible.

If we started holding people meaningful accountable for the AI stuff, we’d probably stop seeing it used so much.

But also, you wouldn’t put a dog in charge of decisions about someone’s life.

The legitimate reasons for discontentment have existed for a long time, but I suspect that powerful people have found a way to capitalize on it en masse. They’re taking the kernel of truth (that the mainstream political options aren’t being effective) and directing people to solutions that benefit themselves.
Idk if it happening internationally is just collateral damage, if they’re trying to operate internationally, or other powerful people elsewhere have just learned from the previous successes.

So no, I don’t think there is a trigger event, so much as reaching a critical mass. They’ve come into the means of control (digital media making distribution of ideas so cheap, making manipulation of media exposure so easy), and a public who is so used to being lied to and mislead that they can’t identify trustworthy sources (FUD), and they’re striking while the iron is hot.

There is no mechanism for accountability or even auditing decision. We can’t put the unaccountable in charge of life and death.

Wealth and power.

Unscrupulous rich people benefit from the far right, so it is to their advantage to amplify it in media and technology.

There is real and legitimate discontent and disillusionment with the political mainstream, and they’re steering those people towards the far right by feeding the public lies that are plausible on the surface and provide an easy target for blame.
They’re supported by opportunic charlatans who can get rich by being the mouthpiece.

It should be a step back from that. Israel is committing genocide so you can’t be anti-genocide and pro-israel.
But Israel is trying really hard to pretend like they represent all Jews and Judaism in general, so to conflate anti-isreali and anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism.

Being pro-Palestine is certifiably not fringe, outside of the political and financial elite.

I still try to have somewhat anon accounts for anything interesting, but I’m sure that if you dig hard enough that you could connect them to me.

Right, as I said they were and still are an alternative to that style of music even though they became popular. They were a reaction to that style of music, not the concept of music being popular.

So no, that wasn’t reasonable if you put even a modicum of thought into it.

Will they be made by a company with a history of mining your data and ignoring your privacy, with the capability to clandestinely record people?
If so, then yeah, as they should be.

If not, then they should be fine.

I think you’re fundamentally (willfully?) misunderstanding the problem that people have with meta glasses. The problem isn’t just that they have cameras in them.

Even in the 90s when green day got famous?

I know lots of “new rock” and “alt rock” and “pop” stations that just never updated their licensed library and became dadrock stations.

Green Day didn’t label themselves as alternative.
And even if they did (which they didn’t), they didn’t stop being an alternative to Bon Jovi’s style of rock.

What an willfully ignorant take. What did green day do to hurt you?

How boring I am

Til Saturn is made of peas. Huh.

Earfun make some pretty good budget earbuds. Great value.

Missing the tile tracking feature which was honestly fire. Idk how sweat resistant

Cool, you’re disqualifying me based on a strawman you made up in your head.

Great job. Why do you even participate in online discourse?

Yes, of course I’m going to have to code for those different views. Where else would the views come from? Like if you want a webpage to look different, you need to make a new CSS, it doesn’t just magically look different because you want it to.

If I want to view the code as a big graph, then I’m going to need to code a graph editor for it. If I want to view it with C style syntax, then I’d need to make a C style syntax editor for it. Etc.

We already get almost exactly this with JVM and .net language, because you have many languages that compile to their intermediary language, and then can be decompiled back into another language that uses that intermediary language (sorta). But it wasn’t designed to do that, so when you try it’s not great.

Wouldn’t it be nice if the actual source of truth was the intermediary language, and I could view it as a graph, and you could view it as a c-style language, and someone else could view it as a c-style language but with tab indents and all the keywords were Spanish, and we could all edit it and see eachothers edits in our preferred format?

If you’re unable to engage people in a reasonable way, then you’re just as much of a problem as I am regarding progressing equality. People who mostly agree with you don’t deserve a novel belittling them via straw man.

Im not one for centerism and half measures, and I fully get the idea of the paradox of tolerance; but you’re exhibiting conservative purity culture, which is the very real failure to deconstruct our upbringing that causes progressive movements to constantly self destruct.

It’s strange you wouldn’t lead with the premise that it’s both.
There are plenty of bigots here, but the bigot movements are growing. How do they grow? By tricking or convincing people.

I generally agree with you, though, and those are the mechanisms by which they’re tricked or convinced, or primed for it.

UH!

Killing in the name by rage against the machine