cat with a spoon on its head 💀

I don't know how it works in other countries, but sci-fi was not that studied in Italian schools. Huge mistake, not acceptable. I think that we should all read and study poetry, the classics and sci-fi.

I still don't understand why it's so difficult for them to stop. I understand why boycotting Google and Meta services might be difficult because they're embedded in our lives, but there are no excuses for this shit. People just don't care about anything but themselves 🥲

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

It can be incredibly hard to see your progress when recovering from depression or burnout. The whole world keeps demanding certain benchmarks of you to the point that it’s easy to feel like a failure despite your hard work. Remember your progress is your own journey. Every win means something.

Certo, con l'ia puoi scrivere un'email più velocemente (forse? sbaglia costantemente) e puoi evitare di pagare artisti e illustratori (a quanto pare non meritano di guadagnare soldi perché non hanno un lavoro deprimente come gli altri). Ne vale la pena, dunque?
Chiamatemi luddista 🤷🏻

Non basta neppure smettere di postare le proprie foto online per salvarsi, perché i criminali di cui parliamo possono scattare foto a gente per strada o fotografare immagini non digitalizzate.
Le persone minorenni sono continuamente a rischio!

Ho visto valigia blu usare l'IA per delle immagini in passato (il che rovina la loro reputazione, secondo me), quindi ovviamente non la condannano in toto. La verità è però che non c'è alcun "potenziale utilizzo" (quale??) che possa giustificare l'esistenza di questa roba.

*Immagini, dati, parole e proprietà intellettuale.

TW immagini pornografiche non consensuali

Il problema è ovviamente anche tecnologico. Non c'è alcun motivo per cui questa tecnologia debba esistere, se non per creare falsi e fregare la gente. L'intelligenza artificiale generativa è basata sul furto di immagini.

When we say "billionaires shouldn't exist", it's because no private individual should be able to bully a government into enacting their own personal whims.

Report: U.S. Still Leads World With Highest Density Of Kevins

Report: U.S. Still Leads World With Highest Density Of Kevins https://theonion.com/report-u-s-still-leads-world-with-highest-density-of-1819576406/

Quote from Tamsyn Muir: "I do love stories about how the unflinching love of women for other women is a unifying force for good, and stories that uplift queer strength, but also: What if you made the bun of a burger fried chicken, instead of bread? KFC did that. They called it the Double Down. It is only just now that I realize how funny Double Down is, as a moniker. The Double Down is neither sophisticated nor good and may even worsen conditions you already have. Certainly it is a symbol of excess, and may even be a symbol for the evils of capitalism. But—the buns are also fried chicken! I have attempted to write the science-fantasy gay Double Down. No women in these books who look at each other should look at each other. They should go practice radical self-acceptance, get therapy, then marry those wonderful girls who take care of the elephants at the zoo. But they’re not. They’re wielding swords, raising the dead, and having affairs with each other. The buns are also fried chicken."

speaking of locked tomb, this muir quote is one of my favorite things anyone has ever said about writing and self-indulgence

... and two days later OpenAI admitted that ChatGPT's hallucinations can't be fixed because they're a side effect of how LLMs work. Stellar job there, @ox.ac.uk .

This bubble has to fucking pop, I can't see more destruction jfc

Every time I think about PhDs I get a slap on the face from reality and remind myself why it's not worth it. So glad I couldn't afford to study in England, imagine the amount of money and time wasted just to be exploited, devalued and impoverished by these institutions.

@bsky.app You need to rethink what you're about to do; if you just censor you are going to have people leaving their things untagged and potentially triggering survivors or traumatizing new people. The system is working now, don't destroy it.

And I'm not even talking about people who "just" write about rape; I'm talking about people who depict rape+who would do anything just to have a nut or for their fans to have one (most important thing, who cares about survivors, right?). Why would you transform this place into twitter2.

And yeah I don't know if I'm going to open the comments because I honestly don't expect people to have nuanced opinions and I don't feel like talking about it rn.

Because I just know some people would rather not give a fuck about survivors and just post triggering stuff out in the open for others to jerk off if the option is tagging it and getting their posts nukes by mods.

But why the fuck would anyone deny that rape is sexual and/or about reproductive coercion as well as power dynamics and dehumanisation of the victim. Which is also why people should fucking tag and put trigger warnings and bluesky is making a huge mistake with just banning.

Honestly one of the reasons why I fucking hate this whole discourse is the disrespect people have for trauma victims. Like OBVIOUSLY rape and consensual sex and just being aroused are not the same thing. This is what the "rape is about power" was supposed to teach.

Write whatever you want, I don't care and I'm a person who blocks and mutes constantly, but stop repeating pop sociology points to prove your point.

Your comment has no relevance to what I'm saying, I'm saying it's not an either-or situation (only sexual desire or desire for power) and it's no good to deny it just to prove another point. Rape is an horrible& complicated act/crime, I don't like this simplification.

Rape is not just about power, it's about arousal and sexual desire too. Stop denying this just to prove your point about fiction.

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In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit.

So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

Just noticed that I might have eaten a comma or two; I'm really sleepy today, so sorry.

I think those who hate trans people are under the impression that information about us somehow makes us "trans", whereas the reality is that all those feelings and unexpressed desires were already there, and then someone makes a word for it.

It's just a victory for Musk and a loss for artists and people who don't or can't be on twitter anymore. Some of us are just not safe there and our mental health is at risk. I lost connections and that doesn't help either.

I lost mutuals and can't follow some artists in the tlt fandom anymore because some of them decided to stay mainly on twitter. I don't want to sound accusatory, it just makes me sad that people who are triggered and afraid of grokAI and the Nazis can't even enjoy parts of fandom anymore.

@moderation.bsky.app These new policies directly harm the survivors you claim to protect. You’re promoting a dangerous lack of moderation and making it hard for survivors to consent to what they see here.

This is serious. These policies are directly risking lives.