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Many of Zionism’s basic rationales were thinly veiled Judaizations of core Christian colonial conceptions: Terra Nullius, the claim that continents like Australia were effectively empty because their Indigenous inhabitants were categorized as less than fully human, became “A land without a people for a people without a land”28—a phrase adopted by many Zionists and that originated with nineteenth-century Christians. Manifest Destiny became “land bequeathed to the Jews by divine right.” “Taming the wild frontier” became “making the desert bloom.”
To promote AI is privatisation by the back door, as it inevitably means a transfer of control to tech corporations. However, this handover to AI will generate more miscarriages of justice as it proceeds to override the voices of those whose lives it affects.
AI Will Create a Thousand Post Office Scandals
Dan McQuillan
Google just launched VideoPoet, and it's insane
It's literally ChatGPT for:
- Text-to-Video
- Image-to-Video
- Inpainting
- Video Editing
Here're 10 wild examples:
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