I think it's easy for me to get locked into a mindset of identifying things that are bad, and I don't think it's intrinsically bad to identify and make sense of why something is harmful, name who's responsible for those structures of harm, etc... but I also want to provide an outline of where to go, rather than away from things.
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This might be my own bias, especially based on my previous quotes and what I've written about; but I really appreciate how naturally Ruha Benjamin goes between accountability for those who monopolize our imaginative space, hoard our ability to dream, privatize resources, etc... and then shifts her attention to the world we need.
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In this chapter, Ruha Benjamin invited me to think about what may be pie in the sky, or too far-fetched. I think about how often I look at the first DMs I shared with @sassycrass. I think about a world where she and Tinu are still here, but not crowdfunding for a rideshare to the hospital. I think about how impossible it is to keep living like this, and how much this world needs to change because we can't keep living like this.
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I don't think it's just going back and forth between one and the other, though; I think the more I reflect on these passages the more I appreciate that she's throwing the weight of the critique behind the forceful push for "a world in which everyone can thrive". I'm trying to learn how to turn sharp critiques into sharper inclusive world-building, and how to land in some place that's motivated and hopeful, and not exclusively sorrowful.
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I think it's easy for me to get locked into a mindset of identifying things that are bad, and I don't think it's intrinsically bad to identify and make sense of why something is harmful, name who's responsible for those structures of harm, etc... but I also want to provide an outline of where to go, rather than away from things.
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I think a lot about Tinu Abayomi-Paul and Shafiqah Hudson. Tinu spent so much time fighting for other people, helping promote mutual aid efforts so people could survive another night in the world. Shafiqah and a number of others (Ra'il i'Nasah Kiam and Sydette Harry) coined #YourSlipIsShowing, and she was one of the first people to identify and document the disinformation campaigns on Twitter and elsewhere on the web in the 2000s and 2010s.
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Millions of people have died from COVID, countless disabled by Long COVID; settler violence has been a defining part of America for hundreds of years, and anti-Black violence has and continues to be the core purpose - not an accident - of American policing.
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I think I said in another comment that this framing took me a little by surprise. I don't think I've given enough time to the thought that the ridiculous ask, the outrageous proposal, the "far-fetched" request is to ask for people to survive in this world as it currently exists.
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scheduled email going out soon. it has a url that isn't in the web archive so try not to lose it in the next ~12 hours lol
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frighten workers so that they stop making demands of employers for fear of losing their jobs or benefits.
this is totally apt. generative AI in hollywood, in law, in silicon valley, etc... don't offer to facilitate work - they offer management in all of those contexts the downward pressure on workers; a threat to force workers to take worse conditions and deal with more bullshit or be batted with the threat of being "replaced by AI"
https://buc.ci/abucci/p/1737558855.833589
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and this post, "destroy AI".
https://masto.al2.in/@ali/112674102051313714
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in light of the news of the united states committing $500bn in funding to AI infra, i want to once again point out this post, "defining AI", and another one
https://masto.al2.in/@ali/113607441380526970
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... But when the conversation turns to history, when I ask them to think about disparate impacts, or to interrogate "engineering-brain" solutions, their faces turn sullen and they suddenly become very tired or something. Now, every little obstacle is enough to overwhelm them.
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I thought about living in SF in 2020 during the initial lockdowns and how people started to realize they liked slow streets. Entire streets got completely closed to let kids play. It led to restaurants and open air activities that wouldn't have been imaginable otherwise.
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... and the time these cars spend constantly circling blocks and homes for "training". I didn't really have much more to say about it at the time, or even since then, because other people have written much more persuasively than me about self-driving cars.
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And it's so frustrating to try to interact with someone who you know is capable of being intelligent, capable of being creative, capable of thinking critically...
it's almost like they close their eyes and start saying "honk shoo honk shoo" to pretend to be asleep to get out of the conversation as soon as it got a little challenging.
Is there a word for when this happens?
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I don't really have an insight, except to say that I've seen (and probably been guilty of) shrinking when going from "growing heart cells from scratch" to "confronting entrenched inequality and injustice".
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This made me think about something tangential - how many times I've talked with people about an engineering problem, seen them be enthusiastic, willing to do all sorts of mental acrobatics. When they're motivated, they can think and be clever about all sorts of obstacles...
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But I felt (and now, again, feel) acutely robbed of something unfathomable. I shudder to think about all the spaces where we are denied space to imagine, but I can't help but feel like it's pervasive, and as much as I don't want to think about it... I feel like I need to identify it now.
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What we're robbed of, imaginative space, is impossible to quantify and maybe even impossible to estimate. Self-driving cars are just one (microcosmic) example of tech billionaires experimenting and thus depriving us of space to experiment and imagine things ourselves.
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