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Everyone assumes they would be the one pulling the lever but in reality that is someone else

#Meme #TrolleyProblem #Ethics #Capitalism #Capitalist #Politics

A comic consisting of 4 panels.

In the first panel a guy wakes up and has a panicked look on his face. He says, "w-what?! Where am I?"

In the second panel the guy next to him says, "You're in the trolley problem!" You see 5 people tied to railroad tracks. There is a trolley heading straight toward them. There is a pile of money bags on the other track. A man with a top hat and a monocle is standing on the other side of the tracks with his hand on the lever with more bags of money sitting behind him.

In the third panel it zooms in on this rich man. The first guy says, "I thought I would be the one operating the lever..."

In the fourth panel it shows the two guys on the tracks again. The second guy says, "No that's someone else"

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Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-political-donations-income-dark-money-dhs-ethics?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #KristiNoem #DHS #Ethics #USPolitics #Government #Nonprofit

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#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #CarissaVéliz, author of #Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future—from Ancient Oracles to #AI

"[W]e talk about how both massive and intrusive invasions of privacy at all levels of society and false claims to be able to predict the future erode democracy, are corrosive to #ethics, and undermine people’s ability to think for themselves."

https://speakingoutofplace.com/2026/02/19/bullshit-and-infinity-why-ai-cannot-predict-anything-a-conversation-with-carissa-veliz/

#tech #artificialIntelligence #techCriticism #surveillance #books @bookstodon

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