Caitlin Johnstone saying exactly what I am thinking.
I also want to add that Iranians who have been living in the English-speaking countries are not immune to this kind of brain-rot she is talking about in her article. Many of us are so extremely isolated from reality that we exhibit this kind of near-psychopathic behavior. It is shameful.
If you do oppose war and don’t want to be triggered, of if you have experienced it first hand and have PTSD as a result, I wouldn’t include you in that shameful group of people.
But if you just don’t want to think about it because it is upsetting and you feel you have the right to be happy and mind your own business, or if you are making excuses, blaming the victims for supporting their own evil government and therefore that justifies whatever ill fate besets them, you have a responsibility to see the effects of your decision, for example, the bloody, dead children lying in rubble.
... Show more...Caitlin Johnstone saying exactly what I am thinking.
I also want to add that Iranians who have been living in the English-speaking countries are not immune to this kind of brain-rot she is talking about in her article. Many of us are so extremely isolated from reality that we exhibit this kind of near-psychopathic behavior. It is shameful.
If you do oppose war and don’t want to be triggered, of if you have experienced it first hand and have PTSD as a result, I wouldn’t include you in that shameful group of people.
But if you just don’t want to think about it because it is upsetting and you feel you have the right to be happy and mind your own business, or if you are making excuses, blaming the victims for supporting their own evil government and therefore that justifies whatever ill fate besets them, you have a responsibility to see the effects of your decision, for example, the bloody, dead children lying in rubble.
Pasting part of the article here (begin quote):
War is the worst thing in the world. Westerners talk about it like it’s a fucking video game, like “hurr durr, we just go in there and achieve our objectives and win,” when really war means shredding human bodies to bits.Children burning to death in front of their parents.
People holding their own guts in their hands as their life slowly slips away.
People getting trapped under rubble and dying excruciatingly slow deaths of suffocation or dehydration.
People picking up pieces of their beloved family members.
Westerners are able to hold this compartmentalized video game mentality about war because war isn’t something that happens to us. We’ve never had bombs dropped on our neighborhoods. We’ve never had the experience of seeing a severed hand on the ground after an explosion and trying to figure out who it belonged to. We’ve never had the experience of seeing our child’s shredded body after a blast and thinking about how we’d carefully helped them dress that precious body for school just hours before.
We just see the movies. The propagandistic war documentaries. The sanitized news reports.
It’s not real to us. It’s not personal. It’s just this cutesy Hollywood image of sexy Good Guys doing flips and spin-kicking evil Bad Guys off cliffs.
You know this is true, because if it wasn’t then nobody would support US wars. If westerners had an actual, visceral understanding of what war really is and what it actually means, and if they could truly, deeply grasp that the people on the receiving end of those airstrikes are human beings just like them, there’s no way they’d support inflicting such nightmares upon their fellow man.
Which is why everything in our civilization is aimed at hiding that reality from us. War is made to look heroic and glamorous. Middle easterners are framed as deranged subhuman savages. The flesh-and-bone consequences of western warmongering are hidden from public view as much as possible.
#politics #NoWar #EndTheWar #Iran #Israel #USA #UnitedStates #Trump #Netanyahu #EpicFury #EpsteinWars #OperationEpsteinFury
Baldur Bjarnason
in reply to Baldur Bjarnason • • •> In our analysis, we find that both the scale of this data gathering for training purposes and the representational issues in the training data span multiple international human rights laws and standards, from privacy violations and non-consensual data collection, to discrimination, harassment, and threats to the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of thought.
From the Amnesty PDF report:
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Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International
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in reply to Baldur Bjarnason • • •> Many of the fundamental design features of the generative AI products discussed within this briefing, in particular those pertaining to OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, Meta, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion appear incompatible with aspects of international human rights law and standards. The design principles of these products involve massive data collection without consent, biased training processes and the potential for manipulative outputs.
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Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International
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in reply to Baldur Bjarnason • • •@datarama@hachyderm.io By my count Anthropic's name appears in the report 7 times, and only in connection with its dealings with the US DoW. A charitable read of the one paragraph and its references is that the report lets Anthropic off the hook, laying most blame with the DoW. Indeed several of the mentions of Anthropic were about how the DoW labelled it a supply chain risk because of its public statements against using Claude for domestic surveillance, painting Anthropic is a positive light. By contrast, OpenAI appears 30 times, Google appears 26 times, Meta 38. Even DeepSeek appears 16 times. Given that Anthropic has just overtaken OpenAI in Monopoly money valuation, the discrepancy is noteworthy.
There is every reason to believe that the conspicuous absence of Anthropic's name from this quoted list isn't an accident. Anthropic has been extremely deliberate (and in my view cynical ) in their attempts to paint the company as the "ethical" AI vendor, which goes rig
... Show more...@datarama@hachyderm.io By my count Anthropic's name appears in the report 7 times, and only in connection with its dealings with the US DoW. A charitable read of the one paragraph and its references is that the report lets Anthropic off the hook, laying most blame with the DoW. Indeed several of the mentions of Anthropic were about how the DoW labelled it a supply chain risk because of its public statements against using Claude for domestic surveillance, painting Anthropic is a positive light. By contrast, OpenAI appears 30 times, Google appears 26 times, Meta 38. Even DeepSeek appears 16 times. Given that Anthropic has just overtaken OpenAI in Monopoly money valuation, the discrepancy is noteworthy.
There is every reason to believe that the conspicuous absence of Anthropic's name from this quoted list isn't an accident. Anthropic has been extremely deliberate (and in my view cynical ) in their attempts to paint the company as the "ethical" AI vendor, which goes right up to having Chris Oleh able to say a few words in the room when the Pope announced his encyclical. There too the Pope seemed to be implicating Anthropic in his critique of AI, yet Anthropic was present and able to shape and craft how that critique landed and to suggest they were poised to rise above it. This is not an accident---they are quite adept at PR, and controlling the narrative is rule #1.
Baldur Bjarnason
in reply to Anthony • • •datarama
in reply to Baldur Bjarnason • • •Like @abucci mentioned, I'm not sure it's coincidental. Anthropic has worked *very* hard to position themselves as "the ethical AI company".
My own opinion about their ethics is best expressed by my question: I immediately leap to "I wonder who they bribed?".
Joshua McNeill
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