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Not really. Non-chat/image bot AI that is more resource-efficient and specialized actually exists and may indeed make the world better, depending on use case.

It's also not hard to imagine a world in which the image/chat bots are developed on a different agenda and thus with different results. Granted, they'd still be power-hungry, given current hardware, but you could alleviate a lot of the pain of developing dozens of competing models and of the pointless pro-fossil push that currently comes alongside AI.

I find it hard to believe that people wouldn't look then.

The dog being "cute" to you is kinda not the thing that should define the dog. Would you say that kinda thing about humans?

The video makes it clear that Joe Rogan "did not understand" the Wapo article during 6 different podcast episodes. This is method. There's a reason this guy is still being promoted though wildly off-base.

The issue is not AI in itself. The issue is that the current iteration of AI chat/image bots is shoved down our throats by billionaires with a eugenicist agenda.

That's a many-edged sword.

If people tell you, "you can do better" simply as a tactic to shift blame, it's disingenuous. However, individuals going, as much as possible, plant-based and car-/flight-free and in general consuming less, those still are very good and even necessary steps towards ensuring survival of the species. Those steps also provide a degree of credible moral standing to those individuals on those topics. And we won't ever get to system change either if there isn't a critical mass of individuals who change their behavior, thus proving system change is possible.

E.g., the fact that plant milk is a thing now and every supermarket carries at least three varieties and brands now, is because consumers changed their behavior as much as it is about Alpro and Oatly marketing and lobbying.

To a degree, production currently is always decoupled from consumption right now. Somehow, we allow ourselves to landfill 30%+ of the new clothes that are produced worldwide currently. Same for food. Flights need to be 80% full to be individually profitable, but airlines will not simply discontinue a unprofitable route right away, because that would endanger their landing rights at the affected airports. Meta and the Google and Amazon will still start construction on new AI-focused data centers and force AI responses down your throat, because that is the future they already sold to their investors and AI is a loss leader right now anyway. Somehow, there's also this class of antisocial rich assholes that emit hundreds of times more than you do and whose behavior can torpedo any kind of climate action.

And all of that you can't affect much from the pure consumer angle, you need to organize and act politically. Ultimately, your power comes not from your individual action itself but from the fact that it may help convince more people to do the same.

All that said, the suggestion "delete some mails" here is just remarkably useless. Even compared to other barely useful suggestions like, say, "limit your total Youtube/Tiktok/Instagram time to 2h/wk" or "downgrade your video streams to 360p".

Bizarre. Apparently asking providers to cut off some AI or crypto shit ain't possible. No, instead you gotta pointlessly ask individual consumers to delete a few mails, as if that made any kind of difference.

And now we're copying current US politics but the profiteers aren't even domestic. Palantir and fracking companies and near everyone else profiteering off this BS government is a foreign billionaire.

So, about that NordVPN ad... That doesn't make any sense, or does it? Why'd he need a Korean IP adress from a VPN if he's already in Korea?

The issue is actually solidarity: When Jette Nietzard says something mildly controversial and a bunch of right-wing asshats start a campaign against a young women, there is a large-enough, largely older male part of the Green party that will agree with, at least in part, with such right-wing "criticism". And that kinda behavior is in fact not how you win elections.

Wait till you learn that that those Catholic organizations running hospitals are largely state-funded as well.

Be aware that the source is a little dubitable, garnering a "Mixed" rating by MBFC.
If you look for corroborating articles, it appears this story is only reported in various Indian outlets often ranked similarly, but not in e.g. the Guardian or other UK outlets.

They've drawn this comparison since 2023 and tbh, it always struck me as a little off. The point has always been justifying the "robust" response to the attack as self-defence.

I think it's a collaboratively created document which, as you noticed, used to be hosted on the site of NCTV but is now hosted on the site of AIVD. :)

The document is here. Israel is mentioned multiple times in it, though most times as a target of threats. However, there's also this (DeepL translation):

Israel also seeks to influence political and public opinion abroad, including Netherlands. This was illustrated by the distribution of a report by the Israeli Ministry of Diaspora and Anti-Semitism, following disturbances surrounding the Ajax-Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer match in November 2024. The report was not shared with the Dutch government through official channels, but was sent specifically to specific politicians and journalists. The manner of dissemination was called unusual by the Dutch Ministers of Justice and Security and of Foreign Affairs and, because of the potential negative consequences for Dutch residents, undesirable. For example, the individuals mentioned could be intimidated or threatened, or in the most serious case, assaulted.

and

Known targets of state interference are international institutions present in the Netherlands, such as the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice. The United States and Israel publicly expressed threats toward the court, and the United States has imposed sanctions.64 This could damage or even shut down the court's work, in part because the court may have no or limited access to financial services. Currently, sanctions have only been imposed against a chief prosecutor because of the court's arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister and former defense minister. However, further completion of the sanctions list is real in time. The U.S. sanctions may in time have profound consequences for the functioning of the court, and thus for the prosecution and trial of individuals suspected of committing international crimes, such as genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes. Also the courts are an interesting target of espionage and undermining influence for a large number of countries, because their nationals can be tried there.

Dutch original

Ook Israël probeert de politieke en publieke opinie te beïnvloeden in het buitenland, waaronder Nederland. Dit werd geïllustreerd met de verspreiding van een rapport van het Israëlische ministerie van Diaspora en Antisemitismebestrijding, naar aanleiding van ongeregeldheden rondom de voetbalwedstrijd Ajax-Maccabi Tel Aviv in november 2024. Het rapport is niet via de officiële kanalen met de Nederlandse overheid gedeeld, maar is gericht verzonden aan specifieke politici en journalisten. De manier van verspreiding werd door de Nederlandse ministers van Justitie en Veiligheid en van Buitenlandse Zaken ongebruikelijk en, vanwege de mogelijke negatieve gevolgen voor Nederlandse ingezetenen, onwenselijk genoemd. Zo kunnen de genoemde personen worden geïntimideerd of bedreigd, of in het ernstigste geval aangevallen.

Bekende doelwitten van statelijke inmenging zijn in Nederland aanwezige internationale instituties zoals het Internationaal Strafhof en het Internationaal Gerechtshof. De Verenigde Staten en Israël uitten publiekelijk dreigementen richting het hof, en de Verenigde Staten hebben sancties ingesteld. Dit zou de werkzaamheden van het hof kunnen beschadigen of zelfs stilleggen, onder meer omdat het hof mogelijk geen of beperkte toegang heeft tot financiële dienstverlening. Op dit moment zijn er uitsluitend sancties opgelegd tegen een hoofdaanklager vanwege de arrestatiebevelen van het Hof tegen de Israëlische premier en voormalig minister van Defensie. Een verdere invulling van de sanctielijst is op termijn echter reëel. De Amerikaanse sancties kunnen op termijn diepgaande consequenties hebben voor het functioneren van het hof, en daarmee voor de vervolging en berechting van personen die verdacht worden van het plegen van internationale misdrijven, zoals genocide, misdaden tegen de menselijkheid of oorlogsmisdrijven. Ook zijn de hoven voor een groot aantal landen een interessant doelwit van spionage en ondermijnende beïnvloeding, omdat hun onderdanen aldaar berecht kunnen worden.

@hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz Could you fix the editorialized title, please? (Note from the mod.)

These kinds of articles age less well than you'd hope, e.g.:

Sie verbreitet auch die Behauptung, Gaza sei ein „Konzentrationslager“.

That may have been a lot less true then. But right now, the Israeli government's publicly-stated goal definitely is creating a concentration camp for Gazans.

For the record, I am not really going to defend an activist I know nothing about beyond her being a member of the Freedom Flotilla crew. But I'd advise being a bit careful with these kinds of claims about "spewing hatred against Israel".