Author Archives: aidarends

Humans rescue Doomsday Glacier? | MR Online

Have Oil Producers hijacked UN climate conferences? Answer: Yes, they have hijacked UN COPs (Conference of the Parties). Oh please! It’s blatantly obvious. COP28 was held in Dubai. The serving president of the climate conference COP28 was Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, who’s chair of Dhabi National Oil Company and who publicly stated there isContinue reading “Humans rescue Doomsday Glacier? | MR Online”

Way ahead of its time: The Remote Lounge NYC – Doc Pop’s Blog

The Remote Lounge was a high-tech bar in NYC’s Bowery District from 10/2001 to 11/2007. The bar’s gimmick was that it was packed full of monitors and closed-circuit television cameras. Anyone in the bar could control each CCTV camera via any of the terminals located throughout the establishment, thanks to their servo-mounted design. Each terminalContinue reading “Way ahead of its time: The Remote Lounge NYC – Doc Pop’s Blog”

Why AI Can Push You to Make the Wrong Decision at Work

Automation bias is the tendency to be less vigilant when a process is automated. But can we effectively check ourselves against AI before making a wrong decision? — Read on http://www.brainfacts.org/neuroscience-in-society/tech-and-the-brain/2024/why-ai-can-push-you-to-make-the-wrong-decision-at-work-090324

U.S. universities spent the summer strategizing to suppress student activism. Here is their plan. – Mondoweiss

Schools across the U.S. have altered policies and even landscapes in an attempt to make a repeat of last spring’s Palestine protests impossible. The result is a far-reaching war on free expression and the increased militarization of higher education. — Read on mondoweiss.net/2024/09/u-s-universities-spent-the-summer-strategizing-to-suppress-student-activism-here-is-their-plan/

Let America Be Your Periphery – Steve Salaita

We’re a year into unspeakable brutality, so let’s keep it simple:  there is no electoral solution to the problem of Zionist genocide.  If anything useful comes about in the United States, then it will be at cross-purposes with all these silly dreams of American redemption.   — Read on stevesalaita.com/let-america-be-your-periphery/

What American Fascism Has Already Looked Like

Settler colonialism, and class collaboration more generally, have been the motor of the roots of fascism in the United States; once a culture based upon genocide against the Indigenous was established alongside a culture of slavery based upon expropriation of certain “racialized” groups, then it could, and does, continue to serve as a kind ofContinue reading “What American Fascism Has Already Looked Like”