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Worst part of popular left wing AI discourse online is that there's absolutely a need for a robust leftist opposition to use of cognitive automation without social dispensation to displaced human workers. The lack of any prior measures to facilitate a transition to having fewer humans in the workplace (UBI, more public control over industrial infrastructure, etc) is a disaster we are sleepwalking into - one that could lock the majority of our society's wealth further into the hands of authoritarian oligarchs who retain control of industry through last century private ownership models, while no longer needing to rely on us to operate their property.

But now we're seemingly not going to have the opposition we so desperately need, because everyone involved in the anti-AI conversation has pretty thoroughly discredited themselves and their movement by harbouring unconstrained reactionary nonsense, blatant falsehoods and woo. Instead of talking about who owns and benefits from cognitive automation, people are:

Demanding impossibilities like uninventing a now readily accessible technology

Trying to ascribe implicit moral value to said technology instead of the who is using it and how

Siding with corporations on copyright law in the name of "defending small artists"

Repeating obvious and embarrassing technical misconceptions and erroneous pop-sci about machine learning in order to justify their preferred philosophy

Invoking neo-spiritual conservative woo about the specialness of the human soul to try to incoherently discredit a machine that can quite obviously perform certain tasks just as well if not better than they can

Misrepresent numbers about energy use and environmental cost in an absurd double standard (all modern infrastructure is reliant on data centers to a similar level of impact, including your favourite fandom social media and online video games!) to build a narrative AI is some sort of malevolent spirit that damages our reality when it is called upon

It's a level of reactionary ignorance that has completely discredited any popular opposition to industrial AI rollout because it falls apart as soon as you dig deeper than a snappy social media post, or a misguided pro-copyright screed from an insecure web artist (who decries a machine laying eyes on their freely posted work while simultaneously charging commission for fan-art of corporate IPs... I'm sure that will absolutely resolve in their favour).

It would be funny how much people are fucking themselves over with all this, except I'm being fucked over to, and as a result am really quite mad about the situation. We need UBI, we need to liberate abundance from corporate greed, what we don't need is viral posts about putting distortion filters on anime fan-art to ward off the evil mechanical eye, pointless boycotts of platforms because they are perceived to have let the evil machines taint them, or petitions to further criminalize the creation of derivative works.

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americans making this shit about them “WHAT ABOUT ME OMG WHATS GONNA HAPPEN TO US” nothing. you know who’s gonna suffer? iranians. iran’s ppl will suffer from this, not us. u guys aren’t the ones that are fucked. iranians are. not us. not everything is about us.

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Gif request meme: The 100 + favourite brotp (requested by @queengallaghr)

Raven + Memori

[Caption: gifs from The 100. The set includes Raven looking at Murphy and Emori in Becca’s island, surprised at Murphy’s genuine concern for her; Raven looking at Murphy and Emori when they’re tied up to the dropship, conflicted; Raven joking with them that the others wouldn’t leave her behind; Murphy and Emori sharing their oxygen with Raven; and the three of them laughing in relief when the ark’s oxygen is fixed and they’re all finally safe.]

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if you’re a bad roommate you’re not allowed to say anything ever. figure that shit out first

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Fuck everyone at Jolly Ranchers if I ran this shit we would be trillionaires

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Shut the fuck up about feminine and masculine energy

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I think every lesbian who says she wouldn't date a bi woman is functionally on the same wavelength as men who say they would only marry a virgin

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Has anyone figured out what’s so viscerally wrong with this woman yet

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dj single gunshot to the back of the head

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'respectively' is such a good sentence modifier. it allows you to define lists in parallel and zip them

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Love those ads for fake puzzle games where the puzzle is blatantly unsolvable

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One thing I really like about how we use the affordances of tumblr is how reblogging yourself is used to break textposts up. It's not just a novel form of punctuation, it's effectively borrowing a structural trick from comics.

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"Two Paid Ads And A Trans Girl's G-Rated Selfie" (tumblr, 2025)

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comment that just says "ai? :/" on your family christmas photo from 2012

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hi. fuck ice. here is how you can help families affected by unlawful deportation

edit: and FUCK LAPD. here is how you can help bail out protestors who are in the trenches, facing mass arrests and putting their bodies on the line.