This is a trigger for a long long discussion, the question is whether we can have it here. Local alone is not a value if the reasons exchange takes place between "communities".

In a city, a large one, food is rarely local, it can't be. What is a city exporting to rural areas to exchange for food? In the old days of the industrial world cities were developed because that is where industry was, and the export of industrial products from the city gave it the power to import what is lacking. The early industrial world cities have now been drained of all industrial production. Still the same import both industrial and non-industrial products, food fuel, etc.

How can this be sustainable? How can the exploitation of rural areas from urban centers continue?

It all boils down to global wide range absolute dependence for survival to networks of exchange handled by very few control/power centers.
Not only hasn't autonomy been taken seriously, we live in the first time of humanity of total lack of any autonomy.

This model is a spring board for endless and widespread wars, it is so bankrupt and idiotic it is as if one designed it with doomsday as the ultimate goal. It is amazing how humanity has sustained for so long under capitalism, while the system is inherently destructive and pointless, for both humans and all life that is perceived as a single species environment.

#extinction #capitalism #destruction #doomsday

#datocurioso

¿Sabían que Latveria es una nación ficticia situada en la región de los Balcanes dentro del universo de Marvel Comics?

Este país se ubica geográficamente entre Hungría, Serbia y Rumania, teniendo como capital la ciudad de Doomstadt. Según la cronología establecida en las publicaciones de la editorial, el territorio dejó de ser una región asolada por conflictos internos cuando Victor von Doom tomó el control del gobierno tras derrocar al rey Vladimir Fortunov. Bajo su administración, Latveria se transformó en una potencia aislacionista que no paga impuestos a organismos internacionales y que cuenta con un nivel de "bienestar" social y tecnológico superior al de sus países vecinos debido a los avances científicos implementados por su gobernante, aunque es en realidad una dictadura.

La soberanía de Latveria es reconocida por las Naciones Unidas a pesar de las constantes tensiones diplomáticas con grupos de superhéroes y otras naciones. El orden interno se mantiene mediante el uso de una fuerza policial robótica conocida como los Servobots y Doombots, lo que ha permitido que la tasa de criminalidad sea prácticamente inexistente dentro de sus fronteras. Aunque es una monarquía absoluta, la narrativa de los cómics describe que la población local muestra una lealtad fanatica profunda hacia Von Doom, a quien ven como el protector que salvó al país de la pobreza y la opresión extranjera aunque los ciudadanos no tengan libertad ni ninguna garantía individual asegurada.

— A. Eldritch, Periodista, Locutor, podcaster y bloger del fediverso

Alt text via @altbot y @TeLoDescribot

#Latveria #Marvel #Comics #GeografíaFicticia #DoctorDoom #doomsday #mcu

The real problem with AI-generated artworks...

First of all, I would like to assure you that I am completely open to and enthusiastic about #technology. I don't believe that Pandora's box can be closed again. However, #AI will change our #society forever, and I #fear that no one is aware of the real implications.

A major problem with AI is interpersonal alienation. With every #online #communication, I can no longer be sure whether I am even talking to a #human being, and if so, how much AI that person is using. AI #advertising even shows us how to score points with the perfect AI responses during #dating. You can have the other person screened by AI and then respond perfectly to their wishes and hobbies. But is the other person even real anymore, or do they just want to manipulate me for quick pleasure and then throw me away?

Even when friends show me their #artwork, it could always contain AI. The perfect vacation photos or the painted picture. Even at #school, I no longer know whether the presentation is real or generated by AI. In the past, you could copy something, but you still had to make the effort to find good material. Today, AI does all the work, and I no longer know whether the funny introduction or the punchline is even real. Assuming that this is all real and true work, then I can no longer appreciate it because I consider it to be AI. This totally alienates me from my friends.

Our #society is based on understanding and interpersonal intimacy. To find your place in society, you need #feedback but also #acceptance. But if everyone optimizes themselves to the max with the help of AI, what is there left to accept? This will make society cold and apathetic, and more than “you have tried your best” is no longer possible. If someone does have a genuine flash of inspiration or develops something groundbreaking, everyone will just shrug their shoulders because they suspect it's the next AI #hype. This makes it impossible to reveal oneself to others or to understand them, which destroys a fundamental human requirement.

Before the AI era, #art was a form of communication for which words were insufficient. #Music, in particular, has the power to touch your heart. But today, I always find myself wondering: isn't this AI music designed to trigger these emotions in me in order to manipulate me, and isn't there actually a real musician expressing their heartbreak in this #song? In future films, I won't be able to tell whether humans were involved in writing the script at all, or whether humans even wrote the #lyrics for the songs on the new album in the charts.

We will be trapped in a #matrix where it doesn't matter whether you take the red or blue pill. Either something is clearly AI, or you can't be sure how much AI is in it. We simply won't be able to tell anymore. This is exactly what is intended. People are already falling in #love with AI or having #therapy sessions with it. The corporations at the forefront of AI want precisely this #dehumanization in order to #control us more easily and turn us into mindless consumer victims. #SiliconValley #ideology seeks immortality in artificial bodies, with the future of #humanity playing only a subordinate role as a means to that end.

#politics #future #mankind #science #problem #fail #apocalypse #doomsday #world #education #emotion #internet #dystopia #mindset #propaganda #fake #manipulation #power #economy #cyberspace #cyberpunk #warning #danger #news