need to make everyone in San Francisco watch this video every morning and every night

Hoping desperately for a Nigel Mansell moment
youtube.com/shorts/cQhHU...

All of those esoteric questions about how we define consciousness are fine and interesting, but the tech companies are not pushing those questions as part of a quest to advance understanding. They want us believing they're making something powerful that we must accede our agency to.

One tiny giveaway is that they're never interested in asking if animals are conscious, for example.

It's a beautiful, humane piece, I was genuinely shocked to hear about what she has been through, and inspired by her support of younger artists. I want to see more of her work now..

open.spotify.com/track/0nMVtL...

Seems a massive security risk given Trump's relationship with Putin?

Interestingly the original character landed up in an American jail with his accomplices all dead.

Is that a pavlova or

Yes. As @abbierichards.bsky.social says, "fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an idiology"

bsky.app/profile/gare...

This is a stupid question, but why doesn't he? Why hasn't he? What are the actual impediments to doing that? From us outside the US the inaction is baffling. You have a lawless private army roaming the streets assassinating citizens.

To go from Gandhi to Don Logan is just the most extraordinary range.