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Ad-blockers won't cut it and never have. If there isn't an actual, noticable, "we have to explain this to shareholders", traffic drop the message is clear: this is fine and our users support it.

But the creators don-

They need to pick a side. You can spin up an Owncast server in ten minutes. There's a solution that runs on ATproto. A podcast is just an mp3 sitting on a server and an RSS feed.

Pick your side.

Here's what SHOULD be the coldest take possible: If you think you stand against what our government is doing but are unable to change the channel, you don't ACTUALLY care. Your threshold for fighting fascism is "so long as I don't miss my stories".

Get ready to drop Twitch, YouTube, various podcasts, etc.

This is it. This is your personal line. You either support platforms that take money for the Gestapo recruitment ads or you don't. You do not get a third option.

NEVER FORGET:As the price of food continues to climb, those of us on SNAP will have reduced monthly support due to the BBB, people will die of malnutrition and hunger. Food banks are already overrun with people who are starving.

Weather Service is now hiring back hundreds of positions that got cut in the DOGE chaos | CNN The National Weather Service has received permission to hire 450 meteorologists, hydrologists and radar technicians just months after being hit hard by Department of Government Efficiency-related cuts...

hahaha.

people used to worship the sun, but at least the sun is warm and beautiful. what an ugly, fawning god they've made. a pathetic little bag of desperate need, made in the image of its users

the brain that can see a face in a wall outlet was always doomed to hear the voice of God in a markov chain

I'm willing to sell the debt Unbound owes to me for pennies on the pound to the scuzziest UK debt collector, provided they're willing to send me footage of harassing the former board at their new jobs and banging on their doors at 3am.

Tesla board admitting the only thing propping up Tesla’s stock is Musk being a meme

Tesla Found Partly Liable in 2019 Autopilot Death A Miami jury has ordered the automaker to pay up to $243 million after finding that the Tesla vehicle had a “defect.” It's the first time Tesla has been found liable in an Autopilot-related crash.

NEW: A Miami jury has ordered Tesla to pay up to $243 million after finding that the Tesla vehicle had a “defect.” It's the first time Tesla has been found liable in an Autopilot-related crash.

I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.

This goes for "summarizing research papers" too! Again - this is literally and explicitly the job of the author to do this! It's part of the format!

Things that it says are acceptable:

"Ask GenAI to identify or summarize key points in an article before the student reads it."

That's... bullshit. That's the entire point of reading the article. That's either the job of the teacher (who has read it, and provided that summary) or what the student /

Um...was ChatGPT used to write these "Guiding Principles"?! This is an embarrassment and yet another reason I am glad I am no longer a member of the AHA.

I find it deeply troubling that anyone concerned with teaching or studying history is willing to sign their name to this, much less suggest it as "Guiding Principles" for history education.

My students frequently don't know what counts as plagiarism, why it's wrong, or how they're likely to be punished for it. To make all of that clear is a lot of hard work, and it's only manageable at all BECAUSE THE RULES ARE REALLY CLEAR. All writing must be your own, all sources must be cited.

And the idea that it's appropriate for students to use AI "as a writing partner," without notifying the professor that they've done so? Preposterous. Ridiculous. That's an invitation to plagiarism, and a muddying of the waters as to what plagiarism IS.

This guidance from the AHA is appalling.

we can't afford to travel but just imagine what carbonized biomes you'll be breathing in tomorrow

"why is lifting my legs proving so fucking difficult toda--ahh, breathing in pulverized trees and raccoons, got it"

ah, another air quality alert because canada is burning down, that explains why walking anywhere right now in nyc feels like struggling through hip-deep sludge

Too creepy for woody Allen is a level of creep that bends the mind

(seeing the president wandering around on the roof while the economy adds 3 jobs per month amid weekly pedophilia revelations) time to sign a billion dollar settlement with this man

another friend of mine just had chatgpt yell at him about how he should write porn, tried to force fetish content on him, then started sephiroth posting when he told it to stop lol

something fucking weird is up lately i think it might start driving away the 'normal' people playing with it now

Closer to the radium water craze, these assholes are Eben Byering themselves

Y'all remember when they used to just put cocaine & laudanum in drinks you could buy at a grocery store, & their marketing called it energizing, mood-lifting, & even outright healthy?

I think about that a lot these days the more these people try to convince us every product should be jammed w/ "AI"

*screaming*
"Last year, a New York-based company called NewsGuard released a report finding that there were 1,265 “pink slime” outlets across the nation, more than the number of dwindling daily newspapers."

Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes I didn’t even ask it to take her clothes off.

It is no accident that the early use cases for "genAI" consumer products revolve around the sexual harassment, abuse, and exploitation of women in power. It is no accident that the technology is immediately embraced as a tool of patriarchy and gender-based violence.
www.theverge.com/report/71897...

on that horrendous hatchet-job of a story on the poor trans woman working in m&s, she couldn't even have known they wanted a bra fitting. if you're trans you're apparently not allowed to speak to people in public without it being some form of sexual harassment even if it's your job

i was hanging out at my friend Damian's house and we were sitting outside burning a koosh ball in the street, his dad came out very drunk and watched it burn for a minute then asked me "have you ever howled at the moon?"