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Likewise!! Much appreciate the understanding and patience 🤝

I am doing the opposite of that.
I don't describe org *members*, I describe average well-meaning people who share posts from their friends and try to boycott starbucks and the like. And that even their focus & sources get skewed that way.
I completely agree with you, why the hell would I do that??

Schizoposting continues: I think there's an insidious component to denying it existed until you're green in the face. That is, our claims can't be trusted. If we saw it, no we didn't. If it's irrefutable, the final verdict on what we experienced is up to anyone first but us.

I'm afraid the diff is, 🇵🇸&~🇷🇺 took hold in orgs/academia's ideological leadership a long time ago and was dormant. Now they took charge. And the average person who just wants to do the right thing they hear about on tiktok follows! Why would they freaking know what some dsa chapter endorsed!

Even among the well-adjusted median poster, who's 🇵🇸&🇺🇦, boycotts starbucks, doesn't know what nato is, maybe donated to uaf...
I realized I don't see those mutuals religiously follow some 🇺🇦 bds. Or profile politicians' 🇺🇦 statements. Everybody's playing "find the ziоnist" but why not the other thing?

imo it's just objectively an extremely important angle that any serious thesis on what's going on there would look into. It DOES matter that it didn't spring into existence yesterday no matter how you interpret this. To me this is, ironically, purely about wanting to see effort and research done.

I really really wish more explanations of аrtists on sns vs ai incl. those I don't agree with covered that it's a descendant of long time beef BETWEEN ARTISTS ON SNS

There are bad ways to train AI, but in general, it's "using" existing work to do what an artist studying it would do: Learning concepts and how those concepts map to visual data. Is it "theft of labor" if I, or a machine, look at pictures of cars to determine what cars look like? It's data analysis.

I'm not saying it's ethical for a company to train AI on the work of its workers for the sake of firing them and passing the savings onto itself. But you're simultaneously framing genAI as doing something it's not, while claiming aspects it shares with normal human artistry are new and unethical.

Also, if you want to get abstract: Any artist "uses" prior labor of all artists whose work they see, and builds upon that as a foundation. That's how culture and learning work. Is it theft of labor if an artist does that instead of growing up in a cave and reinventing graphical art from scratch?

SUPERHOT VR had its whole story patched out. I thought about it slightly too long and fell into rabbit hole. It doesn't make sense, it's bad that it happened, and it prompts a whole bunch of naval-gazing about Art.

It's hard for me not to take this as wanting a full social network where people are ignorant and stupid about these things and everyone just repeats to each other what they have to believe. Pressuring everyone to fall in line like this is so weird and authoritarian. Hate that shit.

The Hero's Salvation

#EvermoreLIVE #inART

Maybe we agreed with them! But we preceded it with a mildly phrased personal feeling towards a guy who cheered for mass killing jews. And you know what enrages them. That we think we can even say that.
Like, who do these jews think they are?!

Hitlеr particles emissions in these posts demanding we can't say the first part in "I despise the detained pro hаmаs student's views but I demand due process for him" are off the charts. Tasteful, yet subtle.

And nothing on earth is as utterly ridiculous and unreal as people who compulsively play stupid word games like "IsNotReal" or "the entity."

Normal criticism of Israel: "The occupation of the West Bank and the siege of Gaza are vile crimes against Israel's treaty obligations under international law."
Antisemitism: "Every Israeli's name and culture are fake; they should be sent back to Poland to die."

Dealing with 2 nationalist twitter armies baying for each other's blood, revenge, etc is hard enough, don't need overnight experts, diasporic nationalists, and others who have no knowledge or skin in the game start their hot takes

The thing about Israel's continued war crimes in Gaza is that at this point there's no meaningful military triumph capable of bringing down Hamas' surviving leadership.

Make peace & then use espionage to target the worst unrepentant offenders like a normal state. Anything else is ego stroking.

Instead of honoring them, our culture has thought people who worked for the common good in public service were cringe losers & parasites for a long time.

We paid them poorly, offered mediocre benefits & working conditions, & sneered at them as useless "bureaucrats". It has, and will, cost us.

World Central Kitchen halts work in Gaza as supplies run out The U.S.-based World Central Kitchen charity has halted work in the Gaza Strip, saying on Wednesday it had run out of supplies and been prevented by Israel from bringing in aid.

With no supplies left to distribute, aid groups like World Central Kitchen had no choice but to shutter operations that have provided life-saving food to families in Gaza.

Netanyahu's act of collective punishment is a searing violation of our Jewish values.

I love when far left news sites have a style guide where they always refer to, say, Minneapolis as ”so-called ‘Minneapolis’”

when you see the word Israel in scare quotes, that’s how you know you’re about to read a Very Normal Post

That is basically the explicit strategy, yes, a lot of the time people capitalize on the fact that they can simply drown out Jewish or Israeli perspectives in social prejudice and slander & thus achieve a victory they could not by force of arms (or convince others to take up arms for it).

BREAKING: Georgetown Scholar Badar Khan Suri to be Released From ICE Detention The release strikes another blow to the Trump administration following the release of Mohsen Mahdawi and Rumeysa Ozturk.

BREAKING: Court orders Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri to be *freed* from ICE detention.

Dr. Khan Suri — whose research focuses on peace building — was detained by the Trump administration two months ago.

Follows the freeing of Mohsen Mahdawi & Rumeysa Ozturk.

indeed a lot of woo feels inherently reactionary, relying as it does on authority and a made-up tradition rather than empirical evidence and repeatable logical steps

Like say what you will about Star Wars, high-flying heroics and what Andor is doing are two very different things, both tonally & thematically, to a degree that is just shy of violently at odds. It's not unreasonable for folks to go "that is the best Star Wars" OR to recoil from it as antithetical.

The simple existence of a character like Luthen and his being depicted as critical to the success of the Rebellion when his hands are so filthy with blood & his methods so cruel and cynical is almost *inherently* a mocking condemnation of more vanilla heroes as ultimately useless moral luxury.

Again, this is not a question of *quality*, but it's definitely a case of the show having a radically different thesis