“we must stop letting Russia define the terms of the Ukraine crisis”

Isn’t the west defining the terms when it backed a coup that lead to the rise of fascism, the glorification of Bandera, and the murder of civilians in eastern ukraine.

yeah anyone interested in gaming will want something more powerful, but I think the author’s overall point is correct. For most of us, buying refurbished computers makes the most sense.

"It is important to recall, in this regard, that five of the eight members of the Horkheimer circle had worked as analysts and propagandists for the U.S. government and national security state, which “had a vested interest in the continuing loyalty of the Frankfurt School because a number of its members were working on sensitive government research projects.”

I had read a little in the past about how the CIA funded literary magazines (like the paris review) in order to spread western ideology globally in opposition to the ussr.

This is along the same line of thought, the us and corporate backers funding anticommunist left philosophers to focus on everything besides material analysis and class struggle. I knew a little bit about this before reading this article, but some of the specifics are really damning. The story of Walter Benjamin is heartbreaking.

As for what I think, even if this is true and the AI is sentient, I look at it like I do every other scientific advancement under capitalism: something that is potentially really useful will be taken advantage of by all of the wrong people