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Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), the only Palestinian American member of Congress, voted against the amendment. “There is so much anti-Palestinian racism in this chamber that my colleagues don’t even want to acknowledge that Palestinians exist at all—not when they’re alive, and now, not even when they’re dead,” Tlaib said on the House floor. “This is genocide denial.”

He suspected we were going to say mean s—t about Elon, and he was right. Elon Musk is a penis.

Another motorist pulled up alongside me and said, “I just had to stop to laugh at you.”

Any problem you have with the truck’s controls is strictly because you’re a n00b. Only our shrewdest, most waterlogged minds can master such a visionary piece of machinery

This is a loud and lonely car for loud and lonely people. And while I enjoyed driving my Cybertruck, I hope I’m never loud and lonely enough to want to buy one.

For you, money is a stock, a bucket of dollars you can carry, and that you try to make sure isn't empty. For the ultra-wealthy, money is a flow, it's just a hose of dollars that you can point at anything that isn't suiting your preferences.

I know about an emerging spirit that believes that everyone deserves access to basic human needs—which includes space to live safely as who they know themselves to be—simply because of the fact of their humanity, without a thought to how that life should be deserved or earned, a spirit that sees humans as a value rather than a cost. And I know about a dominant empowered spirit that believes that only some deserve life, as mediated through its adherents’ own specific ideas of how people ought to be permitted to exist, and its adherents’ beliefs that they are the ones who get to issue the license of whether or not a person deserves to live, and that they are entitled to punish and abuse, harm and exclude, exploit and kill, those to whom they choose not to issue license. It strikes me the more accurate labels than left and right for these spirits would be humanist and supremacist. If I wanted to give these spirits labels,

they never notice that whatever offer of friendship  the “right” is extending is contingent, and is not offered to everyone

a “bully” is somebody who believes that there is something about the way you are that will allow them to hurt you and frighten you every day if they want to, and who wants to hurt you because hurting you makes them feel better, so they do.

Be careful what you ask them for. And it can be hard to tell what they are doing.

Our challenge, in the presence of ubiquitous, invisible, superior intelligent agents, will be to make sure that we, and our heirs and successors, remember what makes us human.

Just as an airline can’t escape responsibility for the advice its chatbot gives, no AI system can be divorced from the judgments of the humans who created it.

The first error is suggesting that computers can be digitally trained to be superior versions of human intellects. And the second is inferring that human judgment will not be needed once computers get smart enough.