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Lev Zadov is not my real name. I expropriated it from a dead man. He wasn’t using it. It wasn’t his real name, anyway. It was his dead name. Dead names aren’t real. In real life he went by Zinkovsky. I’m not particular about my own pronouns. We’re all on the same side of the Class War. "He/him/they" works. I also respond to "yo," "soup’s on," and "freeze motherfucker!" I call other people by whatever pronouns and/or aliases that they say they want to be called by. It’s only polite.

#ChristianNationalists #Palestine

"Christian Nationalists who form the bedrock of support for Donald Trump — 80 percent voted for Trump in the last election according to a voter survey by the Associated Press — have mounted a concerted campaign calling on the White House to back Israel’s annexation of the West Bank and Gaza."

https://scheerpost.com/2025/03/11/chris-hedges-trumps-christian-fascists-and-the-war-on-palestine/

#AI #robots

"In the nineteen-eighties, Hans Moravec, a Canadian roboticist, described a paradox: the tasks that are easiest for humans to perform, such as using our hands to grasp things, are often the hardest for computers to do. This is still true even now that many refined tasks, such as writing prose or computer code, have practically been conquered already. In my job as a programmer, I use an A.I. to quickly solve coding tasks that once would have taken me an afternoon; this A.I. couldn’t type at my keyboard. It is all mind and no body. As a result, the most 'A.I.-proof' professions may actually be old ones: plumbing, carpentry, child care, cooking. Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, once proposed a simple test that has yet to be passed: Can a robot go into your house and make you a cup of coffee?"

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/02/a-revolution-in-how-robots-learn