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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 6h

Folks always make this point like “let’s form common cause with the nazis who care about their stock portfolio” and it’s like no, the point here is for suburban wine moms and bushwick queer commies to come together to slap nazis around.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 18h

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Screenshot of a text exchange via Signal between Anna Bower and Lindsay Halligan.

Halligan: By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know.

Bower: I'm sorry, but that's not how this works.
You don't get to say that in retrospect.

Halligan: Yes I do. Off record.

Bower: I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked. But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story?

Halligan: It's obvious the whole convo is off record.
There's disappearing messages and it's on signal. What is your story? You never even told me about a story.

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Francisco Eduardo Vila Hoz @eltipejoloco.bsky.social · 10h

I should boot up the demo for that soon. Neat to see they shoehorned cheevos into it for the Steam-lease.

Francisco Eduardo Vila Hoz @eltipejoloco.bsky.social · 11h

That isn't to say gacha games aren't still skinner-boxes or that it isn't a shame when way too much effort is put into their presentation, but I can get why people who subject themselves to them without forking over cash would only raise a stink about them when automated-plagiarism becomes involved.

Francisco Eduardo Vila Hoz @eltipejoloco.bsky.social · 11h

Both systems require strict legislation and regulation acknowledging their ethical issues for either to even have the possibility of being made palatable to people with consciences, mind. And only one of the two has any governments properly cracking down on them.

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Francisco Eduardo Vila Hoz @eltipejoloco.bsky.social · 12h

Generative A"I" immediately exploits the users' whose content was used to train them prior to even the use of said tool(s) to create and subsequently implement assets with.

Gacha has a potential of simply not successfully exploiting someone fully aware they're interacting with a skinner-box.

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Francisco Eduardo Vila Hoz @eltipejoloco.bsky.social · 12h

I think I can get the idea behind considering Automated Plagiarism a bigger issue (or the only issue?) than the Exploitative Home Version of An Average Casino (i.e.- your average gambling intangible reward and/or micro-transaction system) by virtue of the immediacy of the adverse effect of each.

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🎃return of the Obra Deeny🎃(they/them) @geraldinepiche.bsky.social · 1d

An exorcism to send all the resist libs back to fuken Facebook

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17h

This is actually a perfect meme.

Send this to anyone, at any time, for any reason!

By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know.
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SHARE MY PINNED 📌 @pavlovforgoths.com · 21h

here's how you remove the AI from the latest Firefox update

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 17h

Lotta Black folks urging White folks to get out there and commit more than just the No Kings rallies, and lotta White folks Frustrated with a capital F at the temerity of being told this isn't enough.

I'm personally just enjoying seeing a reversal of who's being told to be the answer.

Sucks, huh?

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · Sep 13

"To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were.

But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."

www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...

Acceptable Losses

Whose deaths get to be deemed unacceptable in supremacist America, and whose are deemed necessary? And who does the deeming?

www.the-reframe.com

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Hey everybody look at this disgusting piece of trash human who wants disabled people to completely exit society and doesn’t understand how community care works.

“Don’t expect the world to take care of you” is a depraved way to exist in society.

patravey.bsky.social @patravey.... •1h
For the "everyone should mask" crowd: If you want to protect yourself, get vaccinated. If you want to add a layer of protection, wear a mask. If you fear getting infected despite those 2 precautions, avoid going where you believe the risk is elevated. Don't expect the world to take care of you.

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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 19h

SCOOP: more than a third of new recruits at the ICE training academy have failed the personal fitness test -- so many that the agency has had to start pre-screening new hires to weed out what one official called "athletically allergic candidates" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

A Third of ICE-Academy Recruits Are Failing Out

Push-ups, sit-ups, and a brisk jog pose a threat to Trump’s deportation campaign.

www.theatlantic.com

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 1d

It's funny, the no kings protests could be the best chace to normalize the idea of nationwide strikes in the US, if the organizers are serious. They do maybe 2 more on weekends to really lock them into people's practice, then say, "hey, let's show them we really mean business & do it on a Wednesday"

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The Overton Defenestration (Jenner) @soiendure.bsky.social · Nov 10

Just the fact that disabled lives are lives is enough. But it's actually more about more than lives.

This is bigger than lives.

It's our humanity.

You save lives. You live by those vaunted beliefs and practice them fully. And you restore our humanity.

The value of our weakest is /that/.

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The Overton Defenestration (Jenner) @soiendure.bsky.social · Nov 10

When you support and save another human life, regardless of their "use", that's when you're acting outside the ideology of supremacy, of fascism, of capitalism. To concern yourself with usefulness is to still be trapped in a mentality of exploiter and exploited--user and used.

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The Overton Defenestration (Jenner) @soiendure.bsky.social · Nov 10

It's taking care of our weak, our injured, our ill, our elderly and disabled, that is a sign of our civilization. That's when we broke away from brutal animals and that's how we got to the top of the food chain.

To not attend to our most vulnerable is an revolutionary and evolutionary dead end.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · Nov 4

“If you’re angry about THIS, but not about THAT—“

Bro I’m gonna have to stop you there, I am angry about so many things all of the time, I have never in my life been angry about just one thing at a time, my capacity for “things to be angry about” is as wide and as deep as the sea

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The Overton Defenestration (Jenner) @soiendure.bsky.social · 19h

The use of large language models (LLMs, aka AI) is an insult to all crafts/art forms & all creators of those crafts/art forms

You, yes *you* the person reading this, are able to become good enough to carry on the legacies of those who inspired you to take up your chosen craft/art form

Don't use AI

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The Overton Defenestration (Jenner) @soiendure.bsky.social · 19h

ANYTHING "AI" was used in wasn't created & it was especially not created by any listed creator(s)

If creating is truly your passion then have enough basic respect for the craft to do the work yourself. There's countless real people who'll support & help you develop the confidence & skills for FREE.

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The Overton Defenestration (Jenner) @soiendure.bsky.social · 19h

"AI" does not help it pollutes & it stifles ones development as a writer.

Writing at the quality one wishes to is a skill one can develop & there are massive communities of skilled writers (many trans & indigenous themselves) who provide tons of free resources & support.

NO REAL CREATOR NEEDS AI.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 22h

Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?

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Aura @aurahack.ca · 21h

I know Steam will never do this because they are libertarian in the dumbest and most annoying way but the GenAI disclaimer should be at the top of the page in bright orange the same way it displays when you don't have a VR headset or failed a purchase or some shit. It should be unavoidable.

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🍊 tsu @tsurudraws.art · 21h

been using the new settings for a few days now, and instead of every other post being AI slop, I get one every few rows at BEST (usually untagged)

for both artists and clients: if you use pinterest to make moodboards or plan designs, highly recommend making sure these are turned OFF

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Akane ⚔️🫀 DTIYS pinned! @akanelogics.bsky.social · 8d

‼️ REMOVE AIslop from your PINTEREST results.‼️
Let's see how true this is....

1. Go to ‘Refine your recommendations’ and remove everything related to ‘generative AI interests’.

(As if anyone who visits the site for reliable references would be interested in that...)

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