If you don’t think it’s dark enough yet, wait until you hear about #CurtisYarwin and how #Project2025 is modeled after his ideas to end #democracy and turn the world over to billionaires running fascist city-states with absolute military & #AI #surveillance, with #eugenics at the center.

It’s all out in the open. This is not a conspiracy theory. None of it is a secret.

#JDVance is the play. He’s the one they want to run for 2 more terms and end the American experiment.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6SUeeBpTKkVqyI0FEENiTr

What if the Great Filter is eugenics?

Maybe at the point a species gets it in their head to intentionally prune their species' genetic diversity is when they collapse because they become a fragile monoculture.

Via the @ataripodcast: in a 25-minute video, Jean Michel Sellier, Research Assistant Professor at Purdue University, demonstrates the use of an #Atari800XL to train a neural network using a genetic algorithm instead of the memory-hungry technique of gradient descent.

https://hackaday.com/2025/02/21/genetic-algorithm-runs-on-atari-800-xl/

I've had a soft spot for Artificial Life for a long time. During the last AI Winter in the mid 1990s, I was spurred to get back into education and onto a career in commercial software development by Stephen Levy's book "Artificial Life: The Quest for a New Creation". I loved that Artificial Life researchers borrowed well-understood mechanisms from genetics and implemented them in software to converge iteratively on solutions, in contrast to AI research, which was attempting to build models of categories which were not understood at all (and largely still aren't) - intelligence (whatever that is) and perception.

In subsequent years I wondered why I wasn't hearing any hype about Artificial Life; it turns out practitioners have been quietly getting on with solving problems using the technique. Meanwhile, yet again, AI boosters have blustered their way into the consciousness with another round of overcooked hype.

The Stephen Levy book is still worth a read, if you can find it. (IIRC Danny Hillis and the Connection Machine folks get a mention too.)

(I don't know if any of the genetic algorithm folks turned out to be supporters of eugenics, as many of the current crop of AI boosters seem to be.)

https://archive.org/details/artificiallifequ0000levy_l1x2

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter#The_setbacks_of_the_late_1980s_and_early_1990s

I'm trying to develop the habit of checking Peertube more often. Found this.

"This is a presentation of the paper "Only the Old and Sick Will Die" -- Reproducing Eugenic Visuality in COVID-19 Data Visualization, published in the proceedings of IEEE Tech and Society 2022."

https://diode.zone/w/b11ded51-f821-4c3b-a392-56011fe93ae7
#Eugenics #Dataviz #COVID #Ableism

The biggest incels are the most obsessed with eugenics. How is a childless person gonna be concerned about birth rates? #eugenics #incel #philosophy #tech #sociology

So grateful to the incredible Prof. @anitachan.bsky.social for her tremendous lecture (& wonderful conversation) in MPLS "Predatory Data: Feminist Resistance to Eugenics in Big Tech," on Thursday!!! Hosted by CBI for Computing, Info. & Culture & HHH Ctr. on Women, Gender, & Public Policy. Held in conjunction with International Women's Day today.

#eugenics #tech #science #gender #history

@histodons
@commodon
@mediastudies
@anthropology
@sociology

If you've never been a target of #eugenics by government - you should be grateful. You should use your privileges to try to help those of us targeted by eugenicists.

Why are more of you privileged & not targeted by government eugenicis monsters not doing much to step up to speak up for us - facing erasure by eugenics, by the same governments holding power over us?

WE NEED BRAVE COMRADES!
WHERE ARE YOU?

Prior to Covid it was normal to mask in the NICU. People understood that premature babies are as vulnerable as they come and need to protected.

Now? Gowns & gloves but no masking.

The damage caused by anti mask rhetoric will be felt for years (possibly decades) to come.

Mask mandates belong in healthcare. We should be providing free respirators at the door & cleaning and ventilating the air.

If you’re a healthcare worker who doesn’t think you need to mask, please read my plea on behalf of vulnerable patients:

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/a-plea-to-maskless-healthcare-workers

We know masks in healthcare stop the spread of airborne disease. We know they reduce the risk of hospital acquired COVID (which has a 10% mortality rate).

We know respirators work even better.

So why aren’t we masking? Why are patients having to bear the brunt of infection control?

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/we-need-mandatory-masking-in-healthcare

J.D. Vance enjoys reading stuff by fascists and eugenicists.

#JDVance #fascism #eugenics #CremieuxRecueil #Twitter #RawEggNationalist #captivedreamer7 #ElonMusk #ApartheidElon #Trumpworld #MAGA #Republicans #USPolitics #FarRight

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/jd-vances-neofascist-reading-list

There’s measles outbreaks in multiple States now, and every time a new cluster is announced there’s an exposure at an ER

Why? Because that’s where the sick people go

It’s one of the reasons disabled people often say they won’t go to the ER unless literally dying.

They’re not safe places for us:

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/i-wont-go-to-the-er-unless-im-literally

In the Twin Cities, please join us TODAY at 5pm (Humphrey Room 105) for a free public lecture by U. of Illinois' standout Prof. of Information Sciences Anita Say Chan, her talk: "Predatory Data."

Co-hosted by UMN CBI for Computing, Information & Culture; & Ctr for Women, Gender & Public Policy. I will give a short framing talk.

@politicalscience
@histodons
@anthropology
@sociology
@commodon

#eugenics
#genderstudies
#womenshistory
#womenintech
#womeninstem
#tech #history

There’s so much going on in the world that we can’t control.

The Covid pandemic gave way to rising fascism, just like the pandemics that have come before.

People are scared. Many lost loved ones. Society changed overnight. The loss of control that many felt allowed bad actors to rise up and capitalize on people’s fear.

No matter what our governments say or do, Covid isn’t over. It’s still killing and disabling people.

What’s worse, the pro infection crowd has become so loud and emboldened that vaccine uptake is down, masks are vilified and we’re seeing a resurgence of diseases like measles and tuberculosis.

Despite all the infectious disease threats out there, we still don’t have mandatory masks in healthcare.

The one place people absolutely can’t avoid, the place they should have a reasonable expectation of safety, has become one of the least safe public spaces.

Patients are being infected trying to access basic healthcare, because staff refuse to mask. Refuse to test. Refuse to isolate.

It’s eugenics, and we need people to realize it before it’s too late.

We need mandatory masks in healthcare. We must protect patients AND staff. We must protect even the ones who refuse to protect themselves.

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/we-need-mandatory-masking-in-healthcare

So OpenAI apparently believes custom-built AI agents are now worth $240,000 per year, about half the cost of the most highly-paid medical professional. It may be no where near as good as an actual human doctor or lawyer or engineer, but it never sleeps, it never gets tired. And in exchange for that ability to work round-the-clock at a fraction of the capacity of an actual human, it takes around a million times more water and electrical energy to keep it running than a human.

If I didn’t know better, then this would be one of the stupidest things I have ever heard, which makes me wonder if OpenAI is having their own AI generate business plans for them now.

But I do know better. It sounds stupid because they are lying about their stated goals. Their actual goal is for the wealthy ruling class to eliminate all human labor by any means necessary, and create a perfect wealth-generating machine for themselves. Nevermind that the logical extension of this is that they will have to murder everyone else on Earth who is not among their trusted inner circle, as all other humans are all potentially competitors for their natural resources. All their talk about a hybrid of humans and smarter-than-human machines is the philosophy of transhumanism put into practice, “transhuman” being just another word for “Ubermensch,” or “master race.” That is the real goal, which is why this ridiculous business plan by OpenAI actually makes sense.

https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/114113004264163371

Via @timnitGebru

Interesting that #Musk's #Doge hasn't shut down a single #NASA mission.
Is it because he told them don't target #WhiteyOnTheMoon? Or on Mars?
#Racism #Nazi #Eugenics

Prospera, Thiel-backed #crypto ‘city’ running unreg. MED experiments on a Honduran isle may be the spark for a US coup agst HN this Nov.

In recent weeks R Stone, E Prince & Prospera founders have hinted at efforts to ensure the socialist govt of X Castro loses in Nov & the RW ally of Trump returns, a result that'd save it. Byron Johnson was injected with a novel gene therapy there. Longevity researchers often appear dangerously enamored with #eugenics.

#TechBros #USPol
https://www.donotpanic.news/p/the-trumpists-agitating-to-coup-honduras