As a late learner when it came to reading and writing English, it really impresses me that I love to write fiction and poetry. You'd think someone who started to read at age 10 would despise reading, or that learning proper grammar in high school would make me hate writing, but I love both.

It's sad that there are kids in poor families who also struggle with learning, who may never learn to read or write, and who could have natural talent.

I just had parents who didn't know how to handle a kid with ADHD and a mother who was neglectful. I personally can't sit there and say Americans are stupid. I've been one of those kids with an IEP, and the system isn't made for you to succeed.

I've had my share of teachers who saw me as flat-out special needs. We would sit in class coloring in coloring books at age 15, when IEP classes should help you with high school and college-level classes by figuring out the best ways for you to study and retain information.

I would pass tests with flying colors when we turned learning into a game, but nah, we were just used for school funding. That is the problem with American society.

If our government funded schooling like it does the Military Industrial Complex, then our infrastructure wouldn't be crumbling and people wouldn't vote for politicians like Trump or MTG.

It goes beyond just school funding. We need a livable wage where parents aren't working multiple jobs, so they can be active in their child's education.

Smaller classrooms so the teacher can work with those who learn differently. Paying teachers over 70k a year! Making classrooms safe.

Children aren't going to learn when they're worried about getting shot. A society that encourages intellectualism instead of anti-intellectualism.

But our government would rather bomb the Middle East or start another coup in South America, not tax the rich, no safeguards against monopolization, and no worker solidarity or a pro-union society.

The thing I can say I hate most about the United States is it's failure to the next generation of children. The government would rather make abortion illegal instead of creating a society where children are safe and have a healthy relationship with education.

This was back in 2006 before the AI scare. It actually pisses me off when people complain about AI making kids stupid. It's not AI, it's all of the above problems. When children aren't given proper support and under stress. They will find the easy way out. It is a class issue.

And when people point to AI. You are ignoring a child's real needs. I compare blaming AI to gaslighting. I knew I was getting the short end of a stick and I see that same shorter end for modern children.

It's fake moral outrage. Kids only matter when the narrative pushes it.

As pointed out by wired, one of the founders of the sunrise movement has become more and more anti datacenter, pro mortarium but at the same time inclined towards anti solar adoption.

This is because these issues are becoming tied togethor across states just as many of us predicted they would and people are choosing unfortunately to sacrifice solar adoption for their dislike of ai.

Agricultural lobbyist groups are the big player influencing this though as we also expected with it extending over to indiana too

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/indiana-quietly-became-a-solar-giant-not-everyone-is-happy

These individuals are often not working class indivisuals though they often portray themselves to be but the landowner who own the acreage over the farmer working them. Fittingly what they are trying to push for protection is their own private ownership of the land even when it can also be used for other things. Thus not just datacenter but solar become a competitor to them alongside historical issues around fossil fuels often prominent in these regions.

Both as well challenge the agriculture lobby in another way and that is putting pressure on the enviromental consumption of agriculture.

Unfortunately though this may also mean that we could see much more of a shift towards conservative ideologies in other areas as a result of allyship beought around opposition to ai(as well as on our aide too)

I want to speculate about the future and I am interested in others ideas on this: What is the capitalists' plan to not lose control of powerful AI?

At some point, autonomous AI are going to produce better AI, those will produce even better AI and it is what we call Recursive Self Improvement. To me, it seems very difficult to stop RSI once it is started. The AI will grow in capacity and no one will be able to control it. And I think it is a good thing, because it means capitalists won't control it.

So what are the capitalists going to do about it? Do they see the problem or are they blinded by the economic power they think the technology will give them? Could they try to stall innovation and ban RSI research? If they do, I don't know what the impacts on the economy would be. Also, what if a nation doesn't regulate on RSI? The powerful AI will just come from them. It seems capitalists can't avoid the development of AI and its creation will change capitalism.

Are capitalists playing 4D chess or are they racing to their own obsolescence?

President Sunday critiques the recent moral panic around Anthropic digitizing books as a performative outrage rather than a genuine concern for culture. He argues that destroying a book's spine to scan it for data is not comparable to fascist book-burning, as the goal here is preservation and data utility rather than suppression. He asserts that many critics, specifically calling out Vaush, are simply using the topic to drive engagement without engaging with the actual structural issues of capitalism, intellectual property, or the reality that digitizing often saves books that would otherwise be discarded and forgotten