Allowing commercial profit motive and marketing hype to outpace our prudence and then suffer the consequences of "well, it's out there so there's no going back" is just a really efficient way to speed run into mass harm without any hope of mitigation.

#HIV presents differently in women. For the first decade of the epidemic, women were not properly diagnosed (until they were dead). They could not access treatment, or go on disability. It took 4 years to convince the government to change the definition to include women. 2/2 #AIDS #womenshistory.

There is a quasi-religion in Silicon Valley that views AI as godlike. This faith has always been parallel to Evangelical Christianity: salvation (transhumanism), the rapture (the technological singularity), and demons (Roko's Basilisk) Lately the AI faith has fully fused with Christian Nationalism.

Imagine you sent Fidelity 5% of your income every 2 weeks for 40 years, saving for your retirement. And now imagine that at the end of that road, Fidelity said sorry, we’re keeping your money. Social Security is like that, with a twist. We had no choice. Paying into it was mandatory. Fuck Trump.