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a pretty sizeable amount of american politics can be easily understood as "liberalism is for girls and conservatism is for boys"

here are a few seconds of a bee living his best life on one of my rugosa roses. Rodman, NY #flowers #pollinators

a red button inscribed with “never forget 5 aug 2023, montgomery, al” and featuring a folding chair

never forget 🫡🫡

UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs Programme about performer Bonnie Blue condemned for ‘glamorising and normalising’ extreme pornography

Remember that when governemnts talk about criminalizing "barely legal" or "extreme" pornography, they are talking about criminalizing legal, consensual sexual activity between two adults, using phrases with no discernable legal meaning.

I can't stress how dangerous this is.

r/ChatGPTPro u/vurto • 28d If ChatGPT is not consistently dependable, how are we suppose to use it for actual work? Discussion It's behavior and results can randomly change due to some OpenAl tweaking that's opaque. On some days it can't even keep track of a fresh chat, it can't do calculations, it can't sort through a chat to extract relevant information, and when it's suppose to refer to source material in a PDF, it doesn't. All because OpenAl trained it for fluency and basically to simulate whatever it can for user satisfaction. I can use it for general chats, philosophical stuff, therapy, but nothing serious. I'm pro Al, but I approach it with skepticism knowing it's undependable (as I do with anything I read). And prompts can be interpreted/executed differently across users' own interaction with their Als so it's not truly scalable. How does the business world / leaders expect staff to adopt Al if it's not consistently dependable? It doesn't even calculate like a calculator. If the internet start claiming 2+2=5, that's what it'll answer with. I'd use it for hobbies and pet projects but I can't imagine using it for anything "mission critical".

You're so close

@mikestabile.bsky.social this pretty much sums it up

And all of this was predictable. Civil society groups, activists, legal experts, all warned of these results and were dismissed as supporting child predators.

Yet every criticism, every warning, every prediction about this law’s failures has come to pass within days of implementation

And of course, everything I've said about zombies and how part of dehumanization involves the idea that you ultimately exist as a product that's always available to work. You don't deserve rest. You don't even get to die under capitalism

Expecting more of this, particularly using AI renditions in a way that plays on the grief of mourning family/friends.

And that will be used to justify AI in general and that's a shitty thing to do

Just a polite reminder that we owe the concept of zombies to voodoun/Haitian cultures as an externalization of the fear of being compelled to labor beyond what was supposed to be the Absolute Freedom of death.

Christianity Was “Borderline Illegal” in Silicon Valley. Now It’s the New Religion Believers like Garry Tan are flipping the script in the venture capital world, making faith matter just as much as the ability to turn a fortune. Says one entrepreneur, “There are people that are leve...

Speaking of serious journalism, its the likes of Teen Vogue, Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair that are doing serious journalism on Silicon Valley because other so-called serious news outlets are doing a press-releases-as-journalism service to maintain their access.

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Is someone keeping an eye on his friends, or?

"Records show Henderson identified as a Nazi and white supremacist as he attended meetings with local Nazi groups"

Oh.

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Lmao I periodically check clearsky because it amuses me.

1. Im on a block list of blue maga.

2. Im also in a blocklist for non voters and the politically apathetic.

3. Im also also on a blocklist for leftists who use shitlib as a pejorative

Consistency means nothing.

it’s really bleak that we live in a world where governments would rather spend astronomical amounts of money on tech to censor the internet to “protect children” instead of like… not even half that on proper sexual education that helps children and puts them at significant less risk of CSA

hello i am the government. we have given predatory international capital everything they ever asked for but for some reason they want more things. we've already taken your entire salary so now we'd like your allotment, bin collection, community centre and lollypop lady.

He doesn’t want to “reduce chronic illnesses,” he wants to reduce people with chronic illnesses

And that is a result of the capitalist world we live in. Anything that *could* benefit humans is ultimately meant to either get our revenue or exploit us.

Until we actually build a culture and system that value humans as each truly valuable, these incredible technologies won’t truly exist for us.

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Seven moots/oomfs giving $100 each.

14 moots/oomfs giving $50 each.

Or, any combination thereof that reaches $700.

That is what I need RIGHT NOW to stay housed. If I don't get this done this morning, I AM FVCKED. NO. EXTENSIONS.

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I think it’s telling that rather than funding a world that allows more people to be able to make art, the goal of the tech overlords is to plagiarize the history of the arts to get rid of human makers and technique while concentrating more wealth into the hands of a few. I don’t know how that’s good

These fuckers … we don’t have to let them into our institutions. We just don’t.

a man with a beard wearing a grey shirt Alt: a man with a beard wearing a grey shirt

When they Black but the word nigga still don't sound natural coming out they mouth

The ADL's hypothetical scenario involving flyers critical of Israel's demolition program encapsulates many other issues that those who reviewed the material or completed a training raised. The scenario begins with a student leaving their dorm room to find a flyer taped to the door "warning that your residence hall will soon be demolished" "The rest of the flyer contains 'facts' about how many Palestinian homes have been demolished by the Israeli military to collectively punish and 'ethnically cleanse' Palestinians," the toolkit continues. The ADL is referring to the highly charged debate over Israel's mass expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in the West Bank. The training material then offers the Israeli narrative around the demolitions, claiming they target "terrorists" and "deter others from terrorist action". *. Other homes were demolished because they were "built without proper permits", the ADL states. "While you may agree or disagree with these Israeli government actions, the charge that Israel has demolished these homes to 'ethnically cleanse' Palestinians is inaccurate and inflammatory," the ADL material states.

According to the Guardian, the ADL is now creating education materials for schools in which the civil rights organization justifies Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes in occupied Palestinian territory.

Dunno if this is worse than AI wedding vows it if feels more gruesome

Wtf is the choked pear label?

Large brown black and white dog in a teal collar, laying on his side on a brown carpet. A gray and brown tabby cat with a white belly is hugging the dogs head with his front paws and resting his face on the dog's jaw

Sure everything is awful but also look at these boys

Here is a pretty picture of what air in American cities used to look like before the EPA

Stole a table?

That's it? That's the whole thing?

A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating The more than one million messages obtained by 404 Media are as recent as last week, discuss incredibly sensitive topics, and make it trivial to unmask some anonymous Tea users.

Please get off that app if you're on it.

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