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It occurs to me, that whole cottage industry of "Omelas responses" is rooted in an audience's outrage at being made to feel anything other than acceptable range of emotions.

Every response validates Le Guin's central thesis about her hypothetical audience's complicity in structural violence.

generative AI has become widely available in the summer of 2022 and entered mainstream in 2023

people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip

Of all the easy things you can do to help the environment, conserve water for communities not corporations, not perpetuate scams, support the labor and rights of creators... *not* using generative AI is the fucking easiest. You absolutely deserve to be shamed for using it for image and text creation

It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
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Children and police officers among at least 30 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza Deadly attacks launched day before border crossing due to open as part of ceasefire deal

Israel bombed tents in Gaza today, killed at least 30 people including children, and the death toll is likely to rise

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don't mean to blow anyone's mind with this shocking insight but the direct line between epstein, 4chan, gamergate, tech bro fascists etc is misogyny. prolific rapists, guys who believe women have inferior intelligence, and guys who hate women for rejecting them all have something big in common!

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We're now accepting submissions for this year's charity bundle benefitting Palestine Children's Relief Fund! #pcrf #ttrpg
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Poster for “The Smash ICE Friendslopathon” featuring members of the Goo Crew smashing a big block of ice. Thursday Jan 29th at 12 EST 9 PST twitch.tv/team/goocrew Donate: tinyurl.com/goocrewsmashice

Tomorrow we’ll be raising money for the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota with our friends in the Goo Crew! We’re gonna be playing Lethal Company, Peak, REPO, and a bunch of other fun games all day - drop by to watch and help out!

Every lie they tell is an advertisement for a product that does not exist. They use 'general audiences' to lie about what their product does. Researchers in the field should call these scammers what they are instead of being like "Oh but they still publish papers." It's Avi Loeb shit.

We do know for sure that genAI and LLMs can’t feel. They are a “yes and?” machine designed to be sycophants, the fact that it keeps generating programming behaviours that are beyond the ability to fix of its creators isn’t proof of life. It’s proof the people making it aren’t as smart as they think

This only works as a philosophical position if you have dehumanised everyone on the planet, all of our wants, needs, hopes and desires into an algorithm simple enough for Silicon Valley tech nerds with zero interpersonal skills to approximate by stealing our writing.

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.

1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.

2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

I’m tired of being talked down to by people like this. They are doing the Elon Musk Mars In 2 Years bit but have tied the entire U.S. economy to a bespoke compliment generator. It’s time to start talking about these AI mutants like delusional babies.

Important to always remember the people who stand to profit the most off the AI grift are the dumbest, least interesting, least cultured people alive

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale

Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

to young people: you may at some point have heard about the Y2K problem. some people may have told you it wasn't a big deal

i need you to understand the only reason it wasn't a big deal was that everyone spent loads of time fixing code before it could become a problem, which is why it never did

The origin story of every wildly famous piece of cultural media is that it became so because it was interesting and refreshing in some novel way you couldn't get anywhere else.

NOBODY ever seems to learn this lesson

pathetic cowards pretending to be big manly men like all the women have been saying for the last decade but thanks for investigating i guess

when I was in college, a part of our university's graduation requirements had a community service component that they called service learning. one of my service learning classes involved work at a local homerless community center, helping people write resumes and cleaning bathrooms. our instructor told us to expect to see the bathrooms trashed a lot - like you will clean the bathroom and immediately someone will wreck it.

and it's not because they disrespect your work or don't value having access to clean bathrooms or whatever, but because of control. when you feel like you have no control over your life or your environment, your brain is going to want to assert control however it can. which results in thrashed bathrooms. it's control exercised over one small part of your environment that you still have the power to affect.

i see kids on tumblr using the language of social justice as cudgels on people who actually do care about and listen to them. or holding the creators within their own communities to an impossibly high standard that they never apply to mainstream media properties.

i just see thrashed bathrooms. 'These are the people my voice actually reach,' they rationalize, 'so these are the people I'll hurt'. but the guiding principles of social justice are aimed at correcting and dismantling systems. stop using them to dismantle people.

annual repost of Trashed Bathrooms

To other creators still on the CSAM & Revenge Porn Generating Site Formerly Known as Twitter: why the fuck are you still on the CSAM & Revenge Porn Generating Site Formerly Known as Twitter?

Attachment issues

Tilmon Edwards @tilmonedwards.com I have 3 axioms that help me decide when to talk to people I disagree with: 1. To debate a subject is to concede that the subject is debatable. 2. To reason with a person is to concede that the person is reasonable. 3. To ask for evidence of a claim is to concede that the claim might be true. May 5, 2023 at 10:45 AM

a digital image featuring the roughly drawn flags of palestine, sudan, congo, yemen, haiti and tigray. below is the following text - palestine, sudan, congo, yemen, haiti, tigray free all occupied, exploited and colonised lands.

free all occupied, exploited and colonised lands

Read this thread. I don't know what to say, other than we can't live like this anymore.

If you have any subscription to the Washington Post and the New York Times, just know whatever consequences come from Trump's illegal invasion is on them, and their owners. These two publications cannot be called journalism anymore.

Given how easy it is to be on the right side of history verbally its shocking how many people are too cowardly to meet even that bar