@kevinrns Counterpoint: There are more than a hundred million people in the US attempting to defeat this Fascist crime ring. We can do more than one thing at a time. Just because people are planning for midterms (a very important task, I might add) doesnโt mean others arenโt working in hundreds of other ways to apply pressure right now.
@drahardja @kevinrns I'm seeing ever-larger anti-ICE protests, my state officials are filing molto lawsuits, and we're being quite loud about all this. Might not be enough, but it's what we can do.
If it comes to a general strike, I'll down tools and march.
@drahardja @n1xnx @kevinrns I think a lot of our national media is abdicating their responsibility to report how many large protests are happening, even in smaller towns. At the same time, it feels like the larger social media networks have become some mix of complicit, overloaded with ads, and/or filled with Nazis, bots and Nazi bots. That makes it hard for people to organize or self-report bc many people have either left those networks or don't feel they can trust those networks.
@n1xnx @drahardja @kevinrns Presently, The dis-United States of America and Iran are both holding mass protests against their authoritarian regimes. All we can do from other places is and see which of the two succeed.
โAfter talking to NW Natural, they have released a multi language notice that will also go to every customer regarding how to best identify a NW Natural Utility Worker when they come to your home or are nearby. There has been reports of ICE agents disguising as utility workers to lure people out of their homes. Please stay aware.โ
-- Oregon State Representative Ricki Ruiz (Gresham)
Also, the trending tab works. It has been a while since I was on Twitter, but I vividly remember the "For You" tab being worthless for finding people I wanted to follow.
And when you see something come through your feed boosted by someone you've chosen to follow but written by someone else, consider clicking through to that person's profile. If you seem to have some things in common, perhaps you'd like to follow them, or maybe you see other interesting things or people in the things *they* have boosted. This is how you build out your network. There's no algorithm to do it for you, meaning you get to make the choices, not someone else.
@oberstenzian People don't put up with bullshit for long here. If they try bringing their bullshit here, they will quickly find themselves banned or isolated.
Once they realize that their bullshit can't be forced on anyone, they'll run to Threads or somewhere else.
and if the #grok porn bot scandal was the final straw for you, good on ya but please take the time to talk to anyone you know who may still be reluctant to leave X and encourage them to follow you here and leave that shit show behind.
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Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized
Move over, Ship of Theseus โ thereโs a new paradoxical thought experiment in town. Some power users of generative AI have grown so comfortable with their new tools โ especially image-generating ones โ that they now feel entitled to the specific prompts they use to churn out slop, as if the entire technology wasnโt based on the work of human artists that had been ingested without consent. Consider Amira Zairi, a self-professed โAI educatorโ and โambassadorโ for Adobe, LeonardoAI, and TripoAI, who posted a scathing rant this week on X-formerly-Twitter to her 49,000 followers. Her complaint? Other people were โplagiarizingโ her unique AI prompts. โโMake your own promptsโ isnโt advice. Itโs basic integrity,โ Zairi wrote, using syntax that reads suspiciously like text generated by ChatGPT. โIโm honestly fed up. Changing a few words, renaming the prompt, or slightly rephrasing it doesnโt make it yours, the idea is still the same, the vibe is the same, and the results are obviously similar.โ โAnd no, this isnโt about one or two people, and it didnโt happen once!!!!โ Zairi continued. โCreating your own prompts is actually easier than copying someone elseโs work! Try it.โ #AiSlop #AI Futurism
Friends and family of the 43-year-old man who was fatally shot by a Department of Homeland Security agent in Northridge on New Year's Eve gathered on Sunday to demand accountability and hold a candlelight vigil for their lost loved one.
Question for anybody whoโs played a lot of different MMOs: Has there ever been an MMO Raid where one part of the raid has had you do a Power Rangers style โEveryone works together to control a giant robotโ fight, or anything remotely similar? Because I feel like thatโd be sick as hell.
Turns out German farmers grew too much potatoes last year, so now all the extra potatoes have to be consumed (the alternative is just burning them for biodiesel). This means free potatoes for everyone in Berlin! They accept applications for batches over 1 ton until Monday; and also on Thursday and Friday there will be multiple distribution points across Berlin for picking up smaller amounts for personal consumption, measured in kilos. 4000-tonnen.de
๐ด ๐ - AOC: โI understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance and I. I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street.โ
โCorrupt, demented circus clownโ: Nobel committee slams door on Donald Trumpโs dream of stealing the peace prize Source: We Got This Covered โCorrupt, demented circus clownโ: Nobel committee slams door on Donald Trumpโs dream of stealing the peace prize Source: We Got This Covered share.newsbreak.com/gq0oo2pk
Hey everybody who knows about the history of mental illness. Someone I care about has ADD and is really badly disabled. I have a big ask of you.
Where can I read a history of societal attitudes to people with poor focus and weak executive functions ***BEFORE 1920***? That is, not a history of the diagnosis. A social history of the empirical phenomenon.
There's lots of books about #depression. Help me out now!
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity is a book by Steve Silberman that discusses autism and neurodiversity from historic, scientific, and advocacy-based perspectives.
This fascist project is coming to fruition now after 50 years in the planning - 1971 to be more accurate, with the Powell Memorandum & subsequently, Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission.
All because the 1960s gave the rich nightmares involving guillotines.
Given what's happening in the #US at the moment, we need to be really aware as to how Scotland is being used to further that agenda in other places
We can see what #Trump's got at the moment around #Greenland. We don't want to be complicit in that.
โIf we're not asking the questions about what they're doing when they come through #Wick, we should be asking the questions.
In the space of a week, the US administration has #kidnapped the Venezuelan president, suggested it could take Greenland next by force, and seized an oil tanker in Scottish waters.
Renee Good's family received so much money on their GoFundMe that they closed it and said that they would like to have the money go to other families in need... What a beautiful gesture
The fact that Renee Nicole Goodโs family closed their GoFundMe after it reached more than they ever imagined and requested we instead send donations to others in need is exactly the difference between the Good family and grifter Erika Kirk.
As I write, highly civilised human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are โonly doing their dutyโ, as the saying goes. Most of them, I have no doubt, are kind-hearted law-abiding men who would never dream of committing murder in private life. On the other hand, if one of them succeeds in blowing me to pieces with a well-placed bomb, he will never sleep any the worse for it. He is serving his country, which has the power to absolve him from evil.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair] Essay (1941-02-19), โThe Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius,โ Part 1 โEngland Your England,โ sec. 1, The Searchlight Books [ed. Fyvel and Orwell]
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in reply to Vic • • •Dave Rahardja
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in reply to Dave Rahardja • • •@drahardja @kevinrns
I'm seeing ever-larger anti-ICE protests, my state officials are filing molto lawsuits, and we're being quite loud about all this. Might not be enough, but it's what we can do.
If it comes to a general strike, I'll down tools and march.
Dave Rahardja
in reply to Steve Hersey • • •baconandcoconut
in reply to Dave Rahardja • • •Of Bookish Things
in reply to Steve Hersey • • •Presently, The dis-United States of America and Iran are both holding mass protests against their authoritarian regimes. All we can do from other places is and see which of the two succeed.