LOL...just noticed my pic has a glimpse of some instructions for preparing and "implementing" the Cologuard home kit. Maybe a psychological association in play there re: the "pain in the A**" many people consider "even thinking about" our home carbon footprint represents. LOL

This. And it prompts in me another question: The world now, compared to how it could be with FAR MORE solar and wind? We've lost 40 years of time on more renewables, not to mention the improvements and economies of scale we could have been buildingover all that time, ...1/

“Inevitabilists will tell you a version of this story whose moral is, See, you take the good with the bad. They’re wrong. You don’t have to take the good with the bad. You can get the good without the bad. 1/

“This is a book about what AI can and cannot do, but even more important, it’s about the possible social arrangements of AI, from not using some AI technology at all, to using it in ways that let some of us choose to be centaurs, while saving our friends and neighbors from ...1/

“AI hucksters want you to believe that all the things they call “AI”—an incoherent grab bag of many technologies, some of them not especially related to the rest—are coming, and that when they arrive, there is only one conceivable way that we could use them. This is just ...1/

“The fact that social relations between people and their technology can be different means that the current arrangement is a choice, and—crucially—it means that we can choose something else.” — Doctorow, Cory. The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI ...1/

“For many years Thiel felt himself to be in the wilderness, tilting against “the terrible arc of the political in our world.” There simply weren’t that many Ayn Rand–loving, Book of Revelation–quoting transhumanists who shared his authoritarian ambitions. ...1/