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@bruno_j_navarro *since the first right-wing think-tanks in the 60s and 70s.

@aral having trouble with that last sentence in the face of :have to pay child support, see a doctor, and eat food: but sure.

The machines are "trained" by scraping other digital art works and attaching LLM strings to describe them. They literally steal the art of others, to make that content available for calling up during "generation."

It is useful as an accessibility tool, for things like identifying objects and describing images. As an art tool, it regurgitates what others have done in quasi-bespoke arrangements at the user's request. It does not produce art, it produces output that can be artful on account of its having been art before being regurgitated.

It can caption images for the vision or visual processing impaired. It can assist with tasks that otherwise require extensive scholarship. It can not replace that scholarship, and it cannot replace the talent of an artist, and it cannot produce something even relatively novel.

It has uses that can assist humans. It should not be used otherwise, and is actively assisting in the destruction of our planet by consuming vast amounts of energy and water while producing equally vast amounts of waste heat.

Your skill at putting together strings of words that convine the AI to give you output that is pleasing, may or may not be a skill in itself. It doesnt seem to be worth bragging about, in any case.

@thekitmalone simplex seems like the best free option, but signal is the best ux by a margin; matrix seems best for PC use, not phone use. Just from what I've seen.

@GossiTheDog dude, just do it today. Join the fedipact. The very folks who have been the canaries in the coal mine have been screaming about this since day one, and you're only just now wondering if it might be a good idea?

Hey chat.

So I've been out of the "free downloads of software and multimedia" game for a while. Yarr, but I pine for the open sea.

What are the current good sources for torrents, streams, and so forth?

What's the best VPN for the dollar spent?

How do I keep Windows from snitching, aka sending usage data back to MS? I don't mind giving this up and going straight to Mint on the new laptop, but everything works for now and I'd rather not bother with tinkering just yet. I know, blasphemous.

Help? Thanks in advance. #streaming #vpn #tpb

@elight @Willow @donaldegray
Correct. The moral of the tale "The boy who cried wolf" It's not that you should always only ever tell the truth, it's that you should always respond to pleas for help, even if you suspect it's fake, because it could save someone's life.

@gwynnion That's why they called it the new deal. The deal was that we wouldn't kill them if they would do a better job.

@Radical_EgoCom @dbattistella it doesn't sound that way to me at all, other than it just replacing the current nomination process in a liberal democracy ofc; and historically your vanguard has designed to off my folks or put them in gulags. Let's not. Community, not colorguard.

@Radical_EgoCom @dbattistella I like the idea of a deeds-based meritocratic nomination process, parties be damned and philanthropy disqualified, for the election proceedings of the state.

I like the idea of no state at all even better. We wash our own dishes.

@pluralistic @StefanEJones I knew of someone at the station where I worked that got fired for pooping in one of the mailbags.

@AnarchoNinaWrites @redrozalia I don't expect we will. It'll be red team turning this into Handmaid's Tale, though. Blue Team will just try to make money off of it while they pay lip service to liberal ideals, as usual.

@AnarchoNinaWrites @redrozalia and, here's my last note.

You're making debate opponents of leftists over whether liberals "are" fascists. Seems weird. They *seem that way to you* and nobody disagrees with that.

Unfollowing, see ya behind the barricades.

@AnarchoNinaWrites @redrozalia I didn't run on anything, so no thanks to that; they aren't our people, I agree, but we are also treating them like identical problems and they're not a 1:1 identity.

@redrozalia @AnarchoNinaWrites on the other hand, failing to recognize a difference between business as usual neoliberalism and out-and-out fascism smells like a failure of the leftist talking heads. Everyone needs to stop using the is of identity, and start using operationalist language.

@mekkaokereke @stooovie @Remittancegirl touting the virtues of the starter pack is fine, what's to stop at from being corrupted in the same way that the block lists have been?