I vote for progress in primaries and damage control in generals.

I just also do other things when I’m not voting. If voting was actually as useless as many seem to think it is I don’t think we’d see such a concerted effort by those in charge to sequester “good” votes and manage elections. They’re trying to make it irrelevant because right now it still is relevant.

I find plenty of anarchists helping out at our mutual aid group feeding, clothing, and distributing harm reduction and survival supplies to people.

“AI” tech bros can’t even define the term. What they’re peddling is a nth degree polynomial regression with a hint of randomness at the end. That’s hardly “intelligent” let alone particularly “artificial.” The term sounded cool, and the end result had a similar enough vibe to what we’ve been groomed from media to be artificial intelligence so marketing coopted it. It’s now become one of those terms that’s so ambiguous you can shove almost anything you want in that big tent:

• Control a pong paddle–AI!
• Sucker gooners for money–AI!
• Advanced search of your restaurant menu–AI!
• The Internet, I guess if you’re uninformed–AI!

The US also has reams of data on every American. The difference is America is using to control, capture, and kill people.