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A cursory examination of our recent AI-related news is playing out like the opening montage of a bad apocalypse movie—and cut to an abandoned highway littered with burned-out cars and wildlife retaking the cities. Actually, the most likely end-of-the-world scenario making the rounds is that the most efficient way for AI to power itself is to superheat the planet past the boiling point of water. Oh shit, did I just give it an idea? Man, it’s so easy to screw this up. I used to say, when people asked me what I thought about AI, that it would erase history….
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Chiapas, Mexico – 1997
Some pictures from a trip to a Zapatista community center in Chiapas. In the 1990’s the Zapatistas began helping groups set up community centers in central locations to nearby villages. The centers offered education, programming and other services for Mayan villages in Chiapas, where no government services existed. No electricity, running water, and hardly any roads, which were mostly serviced by trucks that would drive around helping people get from place to place. Many of the houses in this area at the time consisted of grass huts, and people grew their own food and kept livestock. Money was only scarcely used when traveling to the nearest cities, where one could buy clothes and other supplies. The presence of a nearby military base would often be felt with helicopters passing by and trucks filled with soldiers roaming the area.