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💯 co-signing on all of this. I am far and away not the first to say it- not even on this post, but to those of us from the FSU ourselves, whose family is from the FSU, or from any of the non-FSU countries who have had their own brutal Communist party history- the hammer and sickle and the red star represent death, pain, oppression, and generational trauma. As @notteadrops said, the context doesn’t vanish just because the user isn’t informed.

The British Library Puts 1,000,000 Images into the Public Domain, Making Them Free to Reuse & Remix

omg yay!

I worry a little bit that people who refuse to learn about ai as a part of their anti ai position are going to be extremely unprepared to understand what’s actually scary about it and already have their digital literacy at risk tbh

not that I am some genius in this regard but if you follow ai developments even slightly you might change the things you are most worried about. do people know the extent to which ai is already eating itself and how meaningless this is making swaths of the internet. do people know that there are plenty of random mid-sized companies today buying their employees’ likenesses to create digital clones and using these to make hundreds of videos. I am so much more worried about labor and surveillance and abuse than people becoming lazy about writing emails. and idk man I sort of like and respect people who are willfully ignorant about it as a way of minimizing its force in their lives and I am in some ways jealous but also when I see posts that basically still boil down to “chatgpt will never fool me” I am like 😭😭😭 for one thing not the only thing to be concerned about, for another thing I am really sorry but I don’t think you’re right

I feel it would be good to have a word that's like not ragebait but shamebait, where you can read a post and just go 'ah, this person just wants me to feel ashamed of myself and is not engaging with the issue in a constructive or useful way. I do not have to participate in this actually' and like. move on with your day

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it's so sick and twisted that you have to forge the life you deserve from the molten scraps of the life you were forced to have

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