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I need privacy not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgment and intentions are.

I need privacy not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgment and intentions are.

I need privacy not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgment and intentions are.

Gimme your best woke Christmas traditions!

Buckle up, we're doing Butlerian Jihad discourse.

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I'll also add, to this day these models STILL REQUIRE HUMAN INPUT DURING TRAINING.

What this actually means on the ground is exploited workers from the global south sifting through HOURS OF DISGUSTING ABHORRENT MATERIAL EVERY DAY.

You DO NOT HATE AI ENOUGH.

Hallucinations are FEATURES not BUGS.

LLMs are LYING search engines. You can search for real world branding or IP and get it. Just like google.

Unlike google, it can also COMPLETELY MAKE UP results that are just rotten mincemeat of all the data it chewed up and regurgitated. It's BUILT TO DO THAT.

YouTube video by Acerola "Generative AI" is not what you think it is

Absolutely RAZOR-SHARP explanation of the topic.

I promise you don't hate AI enough yet.

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The specific worry I'm trying to voice is that the majority of people are going to simply just roll over and manufacture the consent for an entirely ID-surveilled internet.

People care more about gorging on internet slop than they do about protecting their identity.

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz Congress Is About to Break the Internet

Moral of the story:

These ghouls do NOT give a fuck about your kids.

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Utah: "we care about our youth! social media bad."

Also Utah: "Trans kids especially can go fuck themselves, and we didn't actually mean what we said earlier. Ahhh, BOOHOO, go cry at a golf course, you're wasting water."

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

You want to "keep up with" everyone but not enough to actually do community building work. Got it.

How can said relationship be important enough that you'll go into fight/flight if asked to delete your account (spoiler it's case the app is literally drugs), but simultaneously NOT important enough to warrant any actually meaningful person-person interaction.

to me, it's weird to have such a strong parasocial relationship with people you claim to "know"

there's a reason family reunions only happen like once or twice a year!

CAUSE NO ONE THAT DISTANT FROM YOU NEEDS TO BE MORE INVOLVED THAN A YEARLY CHECK IN ANYWAYS

Honestly, Big Tech has successfully propagandized us into thinking it's asocial or weird to not have 15 different online profiles.

The stereotype of "not on insta or facebook" is your conservative boomer grandpa who keeps to himself cause of his 'views'

When really it should be the NORM.

Perfection may be the enemy of good. However, accepting mediocrity is a unique type of hell that most people seem perfectly comfortable with.

This is the behavioral change that I'm talking about and that has the power to SAVE US.

Sadly, some of these things are LITERALLY CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE. I can't deny that.

But It's not unreasonable to expect you to cutout all the other forms of consumerism you're engaging in just to "fit in".

Perfection may be the enemy of good. However, accepting mediocrity is a unique type of hell that most people seem perfectly comfortable with.

"Facebook is the ONLY place i can find support."
Ok and is that the ONLY time you're on facebook? Doubt it.

And why are we not more perturbed that facebook is the ONLY VIABLE stand in for real communities??

"Amazon is the only way to get my meds." And is that the ONLY thing you buy from them?

Is my expected level of consumption in these systems ZERO? YES.

Is there ethical consumption under capitalism? NO

THIS DOESN'T FUCKIN MEAN YOU GET AN EXCUSE TO SIT BACK AND NOT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT YOUR COMPLICITY.

People simply don't give enough of a shit to change their behavior in any meaningful way.

If there's one guarantee about humanity, it's that they'll collectively march straight into the face of extinction and only care when there's no other choice but to save themselves.

Like instead of DRAWING A HARD LINE and not backing down from an ultimatum the masses will do anything to decrease the amount of friction this causes in their lives.

We've been trying to reach the same critical mass/tipping point with the climate crisis since the early 70s!!

This rant brought to you by this @taylorlorenz.bsky.social video!

Mostly I'm just fkn sad that we know the answer about online ID verification.

AND MOST PEOPLE WON'T GIVE A SHIT. They'll all be RACING to see who can give away their personal shit the fastest!

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The thing i don't get is the seeming lack of boundaries or "red lines" the average person has.

There've been NUMEROUS instances to prove Meta is a heinously evil company. And as they continue to harvest you for their AI training, theres STILL NO MASS EXODUS??

WHEN IS ENOUGH FINALLY ENOUGH ?!?!?!?!

YouTube video by Naomi Brockwell TV How To Buy Things Anonymously

Think you have nothing to hide?
Think again!

And pay attention next time you buy something (online OR in person)! How badly do these companies want your info?

Do they not ask for nearly EVERY STEP??

Why are you not uncomfortable yet??

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YouTube video by Second Thought The Homelessness Crisis

Billionaires have SO MUCH power they can hoard things that god himself wouldn't even imagine hoarding.

Like housing, for example.

Greedy, disgusting parasites.

#EatTheRich

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YouTube video by Louis Rossmann Thoughts on dynamic pricing at stores

Price Tags are A CONSUMER SAFETY MEASURE.

PRICE TAGS PROTECT CUSTOMERS.

THIS. IS. EVIL.

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YouTube video by Louis Rossmann Thoughts on dynamic pricing at stores

You'd be naive to think companies aren't already implementing facial recognition on you to get you to pay more.

Online shopping has been doing it for YEARS. One of the more notorious instances is Uber/Lyft dynamic pricing.

Add in Flock Safety's 80,000+ street cams?!

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LDS Gospel Topics Essay about Israel and how 'we can't know whether or not Jesus would've supported apartheid cause he never says that word'