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This Wednesday at 7pm ET, Adalah Justice Project is again joining forces with U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action (USCPR) and Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) for a phonebank targeting key Senate districts.
Together, we’ll be calling fellow AJP, DSA, and USCPRA supporters and patching them through to their senators' offices.
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It has been over 1,000 days since the current onslaught in Palestine began and 78 years of ongoing occupation and genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. This is one of the defining moral issues of our time. The Israeli government continues its assault with U.S. weapons and funding, but we have a chance to act. The Block the Bombs Act (H.R. 3565) would halt U.S. arms transfers to Israel, and while it has more than 80 co-sponsors, we know that a majority of Americans support ending military shipments to Israel. Our coalition is launching a national campaign to win an arms embargo, continuing our phonebanking series on Wednesdays. Will you join us?
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bit of a sad one, do you have any headcanons for how jo and dooku would grieve sifo-dyas? individually or together. asking more specifically for jo bc there’s so little canon content of her. we know the fallout of his death but im really curious what thoughts you may have for their emotional journeys. missin all my jedi parents😔
sad and dissatisfying take, but I don’t think either of them were able to grieve Sifo-Dyas properly before they died.
Sifo-Dyas’ death affected Jocasta in a way no other loss had before. Her work, her investment in the future generation of Jedi, had always been fulfilling enough to carry her through previous periods of grief. To her surprise however, after some time had passed, the agony was still razor sharp when she handled the memory of her friend without the gentle caution of fresh sorrow. For years leading up to the civil war, she carried this confusing agony in her heart. She never pretended it wasn’t there, but she also didn’t pretend to understand why the hurt hadn’t lessened. It felt as though she was left holding the memory of her friend, unable to progress, waiting for the Force to tell her it was the right moment to grieve. It wouldn’t be until nearly the end of the war, when the Jedi learned the true circumstances of Sifo-Dyas’ murder, that Jocasta would fully understand why she hadn’t been able to let go. At that point, any amount of grief she harbored for Dooku was converted to righteous fury, and the unbearable weight of Sifo-Dyas’ murder was fuel for the fire. By the time she’d escaped Order 66, she was grappling with the total destruction of her culture and the harrowing knowledge of what she needed to do next. I imagine, tragically, she considered grieving an individual to be unproductive and borderline selfish. He was still there with her, trapped in her heart, when she returned to the Temple and performed her final act of defiance against the Sith.
In the weeks following the crash, Dooku swung wildly between crumbling under the guilt of orchestrating the murder and blaming anyone except himself. Sidious understood that there was a perfect balance somewhere between self-loathing and delusion where his apprentice would be the most productive (manipulatable), and he knew exactly when to push the guilt button and when to encourage the delusions. Dooku was convinced he needed to focus on the big picture: the Sith’s master plan. That allowed him to detach himself emotionally and categorize his friend’s death as a distant regret, unfortunate but necessary. He would eventually feel like he himself had done a noble thing. Sifo-Dyas had been his friend, after all, he hadn’t wanted him to be killed, but for the good of the galaxy it had to be done. He began to see Sifo-Dyas’ death as his own sacrifice. He could never truly grieve his friend because he was too busy twisting his death into a means to an end.
4. Was there a specific fan work or canonical appearance that caused you to fall in love with the character?
mmmm it happened around four? five? years ago so i don’t remember how exactly i fell into this deep mine
I think it was some obi-wan - disaster lineage - dooku - sifo-dyas journey through fics and posts. I just love the concept of possible futures and faith and how seeing one may affect a person
12. Share another creator's work from the Mines that spoke to you / you still think about to this day and why you like it
@thats-ee post about jocasta’ and dooku’s relationship with sifo-dyas’s death and grief. I never before thought about jocasta’s version like this, that agonizing lack of closure. and i deeply love the way she describes dooku’s thoughts and how he makes sifo’s death all about himself
I’m still thinking about it
30. Go set a timer for 1 minute and draw him. Even (especially) if you don’t usually draw
All Jedi students should understand that fulcrum 'balance' does not mean that good accepts the existence of evil, in the way that sunlight gives rise to shadow. The dark has nothing to do with balance. Balance is a bed of green algae that feeds a school of darters whose numbers are kept in check by bog gulpers. Balance is the circle of life present in monolith systems. But beware, the greed of the dark side acts like a cancer on the living Force and the Sith are its chief agents.
— “the prophecy of the chosen one”, fae coven, the jedi path. text restored from redacted pages here.
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36 Share a song, poem, or painting that reminds you of Sifo-Dyas.
More syku vibes than just strictly Sifo-Dyas, but these lines from Beckian Fritz Goldberg’s poem ‘Being Pharaoh’:
But this time I have loved you
so long I become
the boy you were. I must still
be alive, for everything is changing and
incomplete.
40 What aspect of Sifo-Dyas’s story do you want to explore in the future that you haven't yet?
I have done very little with his on-the-Council era. (He’s in the ruins of that phase of life in Mock Orange.) Because of course, I’m super interested in what exactly his fully mature Jedi Master abilities looked like at that stage of life, what lead Mace to say that the Jedi’s whole ability to usefully perceive the future was altered by Sifo-Dyas’s death - but also, the little day-to-day stuff. I want to write him going on the Council coffee run. I want to write him seeing Qui-Gon on the schedule and start to fake a vision only to get firmly "absolutely not motherfucker"'d and dumped into his usual seat by Mace. I want to know what he did to make Even Piell hate him so much.
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The bureaucratic AI arms-race is mutually assured destruction
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
According to an Economist editorial, "AI is breaking the British state" by making it too easy to file complaints, demands and appeals, which will "drown the state" with "demands as well-crafted as a first-class lawyer's":
https://archive.is/VTrj9
Let's pause a moment to appreciate the Economist's touching credulity about AI's coming legal mastery. The law seems to be the area where AI is most prone to "hallucinate" (that is, "produce defective outputs"), which can only be sorted through by skilled practitioners whose experience gives them the discernment to distinguish useful arguments from foolish ones:
(And this requires those skilled practitioners to avoid the "automation blindness" that afflicts people who are asked to remain vigilant for things that seldom occur, a phenomenon that has turned every TSA agent into the water-bottle-detectingest motherfucker the human race has ever produced, who still misses 95% of the guns that red teams bring through the checkpoint):
More notable than the Economist's faith-based predictions about the impending army of hyper-competent robo-lawyers is the magazine's proposed solution to this looming crisis: "stop creating entitlements that are ripe for AI-fuelled claims…prune the mass of procedural rights." Above all, replace the bureaucrats who process your "complaints, demands and appeals" with more AI, which will arbitrarily decide who gets what, through "personalised welfare interventions" that are not based on any kind of guaranteed rights.
Writing on his blog, the political scientist Henry Farrell tells us where this will inevitably end up: with AI-based robot wars in which increasingly stingy and pernickety robo-bureaucrats create demand for progressively more aggressive robo-lawyers:
As Farrell writes, this end-time was foretold by the prophet Alan Moore with his 1980s 2000 AD character Abelard Snazz, "the man with the two-storey brain":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelard_Snazz
Snazz "solves" the street crime epidemic on the planet Twopp with "Big Police Robots," who spiral out of control, arresting the citizens of Twopp for trivial crimes like wearing brown shoes with a blue suit ("breaking the laws of good taste"). To solve this new problem, Snazz invents "Big Criminal Robots" whose "cunning, efficient" crimes "take up all the police's time."
Twopp is left in a state of high-stakes Big Robot crimewars, in which the most efficient criminals imaginable battle the most ruthless robocops science can deliver, with the Twoppians caught in the crossfire, collateral damage in a robotic forever war (on crime).
As Farrell writes, this is already afflicting the US health system, where an army of insurance company robo-claim-deniers have been countered with a doctors' army of robot-claim-appealers:
The point being that people need health care, people need public services, and while there will always be some waste at the margins (whether due to incompetence or dishonesty) responding to this by beefing up the system's defenses with more advanced red tape just requires the people who legitimately need these services to employ more aggressive tactics.
In support of this, Farrell points to a great, long essay by Dan "Accountability Sink" Davies for the Niskanen Center, "'The Problem Factory' – Preemptive risk aversion in infrastructure planning and the role of professional services":
Davies' essay describes how increasing bureaucratic defenses against frivolous or dishonest claims drives the participants in these processes to assume a war footing and approach the system as a battlefield, leading to the very runaway cost inflation that the bureaucratic process was instituted to prevent.
(Davies, a cybernetician, has some fascinating advice about how to structure planning processes to minimize this, but that's out of scope for this particular post.)
This reminds me of nothing so much as the spam wars. There was a time when it was very easy to set up a mail server and provide email access for anyone who wanted it – including spammers. Increased spam begat increased anti-spam countermeasures, notably the creation of blocklists that allowed mail administrators to automatically reject email from "insecure" mail servers.
Inevitably, spammers figured out how to send spam from "secure" servers, resulting in stricter, more onerous standards for mail server configuration. Spammers – for whom the ability to send spam is an existential matter – figured out how to meet these standards, so the security demands jumped again – and again, and again.
Today, sending and receiving mail is so technically challenging that most of the internet's email is run by a handful of giant, mostly US-based corporations. If any of these companies decides your mail server is spamming, you effectively disappear from the internet and good luck getting them to acknowledge an error. Meanwhile, these companies emit an avalanche of spam, but no one will ever block their servers, because to do so would be to cut off billions of legitimate email users:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/10/dead-letters/
And since most of these companies are US-based, they are liable to being weaponized by Trump, who has taken to ordering his tech giants to block foreign officials whose policy decisions make him angry:
Another parallel is the content moderation wars that saw the large platforms coming up with progressively more detailed rules about what constituted harassment and hate speech, only to have dedicated trolls master these rule-books. Trolls – for whom harassment was a full-time vocation – became the world's greatest experts on the platforms' speech policies, which let them skate right up to the line when abusing their victims, and to get those victims kicked off the platforms if they could be lured into putting a single toe over the line in response:
Farrell criticizes the Economist's answer to the (allege) looming robo-lawyer threat as "solutionism," Evgeny Morozov's word for "Recasting all complex social situations either as neat problems with definite, computable solutions":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_fix
Using AI to root AI-generated bureaucratic appeals sacrifices the system's putative purpose – delivering services – in the name of defending that service from abuse and misuse of the system's resources. As the pioneering cybernetician Stafford Beer famously wrote, "the purpose of a system is what it does." If your bureaucracy is more concerned with fighting fraud than delivering service, then it isn't a service delivery system at all – it's a service denial system.
As Farrell writes, the people of Twopp can tell you how this ends – in a war of giant robots in which we are all collateral damage.
(A brief postscript: Farrell is a font of science fictional analogies to modern policy issues. This weekend in the FT, he and Dan Wang published an excellent editorial on the relevance of the paranoid, claustrophobic fiction of Philip K Dick to our present political reality:)
"Using AI to root AI-generated bureaucratic appeals sacrifices the system's putative purpose – delivering services – in the name of defending that service from abuse and misuse of the system's resources."
But GUYS!!! This is peak on-brand behavior for any capitalist system.
Hi, Ant! A q or 2 for you, from the August Anniversary Ask game ...
#29 ~ Favorite Sifo-Dyas post of all time? Could be your own or someone else’s.
#9 ~ What does your perfect Happily Ever After look like for Sifo-Dyas?
(This has nothing whatsoever to do with Pray. I ask this question completely innocently!)
29. Favorite Sifo-Dyas post of all time? Could be your own or someone else’s.
so there are many amazing posts in the mines many of which became part of how i view sifo’s character or made me love him a bit more (or got me into a project bigger than anything i ever done-) but then i think about my favorite post i think about this wip post by @blueberry-ry
it holds a special place in my heart, it’s so soft and tender and light and i just want to look at it and hold it gently🤲
9. What does your perfect Happily Ever After look like for Sifo-Dyas?
I’m very basic i just want him to have some nice time, relax, unclench his jaw and stop thinking that he’s responsible for the galaxy’s future (and for this one the galaxy’s future should stop being a star wars canon)
for Pray sifo it’s pretty much the same. fuck everyone’s arcs someone gotta step in and re-kidnap him and throw him into actual mind healers in some distant old temple as far away from dooku as possible
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