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I truly think the only solution to generative "AI" is to collectively decide that its use is the worst creative sin.

The cat is somewhat out of the bag imo. Since people can find and run LLMs locally, taking them down or making them illegal simply would not stop their use (making them illegal is a whole other rant). Even if no more were ever made, people would still find ways to use the ones that already exist. It isn't like bitcoin or nfts where multiple users are required to make them usable, so public disinterest isn't going to stop them from being used. Eventually it's going to be too difficult to train new models (power consumption, inbreeding, etc.), but only by shifting the culture around creativity and deincentivising their use can we curtail their use and maybe save the internet.

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i do think theres something sad about how largely only the literature that's considered especially good or important is intentionally preserved. i want to read stuff that ancient people thought sucked enormous balls

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Mullvad is a great VPN, BitTorrent is open source, 1337x.to, magnet download

Y’all Netflix is trying to kick us off for using A DIFFERENT WIFI NETWORK from the “household”.

We are not more than thirty feet from the other tv.

We have FOUR wifi networks because out in the goddamn woods, all of them SUCK.

This is fucking ridiculous.

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Elon Musk's MO of entering an established market/field, ignoring everything everyone in that sector has done up to this point, and then fucking everything up because he refuses to learn from anyone who's done this before, is directly analogous to colonialism

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if any minors are following me

always make sure to start forging parents' signatures on the first day of class. that way, your teachers won't know that you've been forging signatures for the rest of the year

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jesus never said thou shalt not commit large scale industrial sabotage you can check the Bible it is not in those pages

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“You have to cheat. Ask for as many extensions on papers as you possibly can. Pretend your computer is broken. Use your charm if you have any. If you’re going to cry, don’t wait until you’re out of the room–do it where the people in power can see you. Eat the same food every day if you can’t think of anything else to make. Put other things ahead of taking a shower, even if your mom said you have to take a shower every two days. Sometimes people won’t notice you’re cheating but even if they do and are annoyed you might still get by. My mom goes to workshops for people with ASD and then gives me the really long printouts that go along with them. The printouts tell me to sit down and make a list of everything I have to do. When I am anxious, as I have been this year, it’s hard to think about these things so I hold on to the printouts out of guilt but don’t actually read them. Then my mom finds them and gets upset that I haven’t read them and says that I’m not ready to live on my own. But I am ready to live on my own. Badly. Just like I can hold down a full-time job. Badly. Just like I am getting my homework done. Badly. And I forget to balance my checkbook, which none of my non-disabled friends do because you can get it online, and my mom says, “Well it’s different for you because they would be able to do it if they needed to, but you wouldn’t, so you have to do it.” Theoretically I understand this is true, but my checkbook remains unbalanced. Which is bad. And I feel bad. I do! At this rate I’ll never be able to go to college. But I do go to college. At this rate I’ll never be able to have any friends. But I do have friends. I just don’t do everything right with them all the time. For people whose lives are controlled by executive dysfunction, I firmly believe the difference between getting stuff done and not getting stuff done is not caring about doing things right. You cannot always make a list all the time and be early for everything. You just can’t. Hopefully you’re good-looking or funny or you remind someone of their niece. Exploit all opportunities. Do not do what people who are not disabled tell you to do (unless you want to, of course). All too often I find myself waiting for the day when I can do shit properly, which more or less amounts to waiting until I’m not disabled anymore. Then I can feel good enough to deserve everything I want. Well my cure is slow in arriving, so I’m just going to do everything I want now, if that’s okay with you.”

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from I’m Somewhere Else, “Max is a Miracle”

The best advice I’ve heard on how to get through college with a developmental disability when there are zero accommodations for executive dysfunction. You can’t let anyone else try to live your life for you, and you cannot worry about “doing things right”. Also: none of the things described here as “cheating” are ACTUALLY cheating.

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I pointed this out in a Discord server I'm in and thought Id share here:

Bob Iger announced that Disney is going to absorb Hulu, and Hulu will no longer exist next year. All shows will move to the Disney+ app.

Disney also announced they were going to remove shows and movies periodically from their streaming services.

I believe both of these moves are because of the Writers Strike.

Disney knows its going to lose the strike. There is too much public support. Specifically, the WGA is going to win writers getting more residuals from streaming.

So if Disney takes shows off of streaming, they dont have to pay the writers the residuals.

They are going to use excuses like "not enough funding for the server capacity" or "not enough views to warrent keeping the show". These are BULLSHIT. Its all greed. Its only GREED.

Pay attention to what happens in the following weeks.

And keep supporting the writers' strike.

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This probably sounds obvious, but I learned today that prisoners aren't protected by OSHA regulations, and that this is another reason why employers are so eager to utilize this modern slavery. It's only a couple cents an hour, less transportation costs than the overseas sweatshops, and if you want people to work with hazardous materials without proper training? That's fine too! Prison labor is the ultimate free market solution!

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To people who are desperately asking for fundz/donations on tumblr.

USE THESE REDDIT SUBS INSTEAD PLEASE FOR GOODNESS SAKE!!!!!!!!!

Hate Reddit if you want, but using these subs are your best chance. People gather in these subs because they have charity to spare:

/r/Assistance /r/legaladvice /r/RandomKindness /r/Charity /r/care /r/Random_Acts_Of_Pizza /r/Food_Pantry https://www.reddit.com/r/RandomActsOfPetFood/ https://www.reddit.com/r/RandomActsOfChristmas/ https://www.reddit.com/r/almosthomeless/ https://www.reddit.com/r/homeless

/r/freelance  /r/povertyfinance /r/thrifty /r/borrow /r/gofundme

/r/depression /r/familysupport /r/transitions 

I never see anyone actually getting any significant donations on tumblr and to be honest, tumblr is the worst place to ask for assistance. Use it as your last resort, it frustrates me to no end seeing people begging for help, reblogging the same post over and over, the same types of posts over and over, to no avail, when people are waiting to help you on a different part of the web  GO TO WHERE THE HELP IS. IF YOU WANT DIRECT ACTION TO WORK STOP WITH TUMBLR AND USE REDDIT.

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF SATAN REBLOG THIS SO WE CAN START REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF DONATION POSTS THAT GET STUCK FLOATING AROUND THIS WEBSITE

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Two Ontario residents have created a website that allows tenants to anonymously rate their landlords.

The Rate The Landlord website has grown in popularity since its launch three weeks ago, and now has more than 1,500 reviews from tenants..

The two co-founders — who CBC News agreed not to name over concerns for their safety — said they decided to build the platform because while tenants have to provide a lot of personal information when leasing a property, there is a lack of transparency when it comes to landlords.

Full article

Taggingz: @politicsofcanada

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i love how absurdly low the standards of journalism are when reporting on socialist states.

⚠️⚠️THE COMMIES HAVE BLOWN UP YOUR VIDEO GAMES (Minor Update):⚠️⚠️

[Editors Note: It was just a regular cyberattack that web services commonly face. The Communists haven't blown up your video games... yet.]

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Bridging the Digital Divide

The Digital Divide is a concept that gets thrown around a lot, especially within tech circles, regarding ways to improve education. Bridging the digital divide by increasing tech in schools is a common solution to a variety of issues with education, some of which would actually benefit from increased access to technology, and some of which probably would not. To understand more about why that is we first need a common understanding of what the digital divide is. Simply put, the Digital Divide is the split between having internet access and not. In a paper from 2018, Gonzalez et al. break the divide down into 3 aspects: achieving access, maintaining access, and coping with disconnection. These subcategories can help a lot with understanding the various issues that can fall under the umbrella of the digital divide. The idea of getting a computer or a tablet for every student generally falls under the category of achieving access, however it doesn’t address issue of maintaining access when the student isn’t at school. Additionally, grants from big tech companies like apple and google frequently don’t address what happens when those machines break down, at which point they are dealing with the coping with disconnection aspect of the digital divide.

Traditionally talk of the digital divide has veered more in the direction of discussions of access. This has broken down into access to hardware, and then access to the internet. these are both important aspects of the divide, but the conversation often stops there, without considering the realities of utilizing tech in the modern age. Hardware breaks down, and can be difficult to fix or replace, and internet access is a subscription service that must be paid monthly or it will be lost. At least in the US, getting internet access to every home has been a priority since the passage of the Digital Equity Act in 2021. It was only more recently however that the subject of reducing costs came up, since its all well and good to provide a wire, but if people can’t afford to pay the Internet Service Provider for access, it doesn’t do them much good. This is why having a model that recognizes the various obstacles to access is so important to discussing the issue.

A shift that’s begun to happen more recently that is actually taking us backwards in addressing the divide has been the rise of subscription services over ownership. It use to be that when you bought Microsoft Word, or Microsoft Office Suite, it was yours forever. In the last few years however, Office has become a yearly subscription, where if you don’t pay the upkeep, you lose access to the software. Many other services have gone down this path too, and while there has been somewhat of a crackdown on planned obsolescence with hardware, the software shift has moved towards squeezing as much money out of consumers as possible, reducing who can afford the premiums for professional grade products. While piracy maintains its status as a popular option for surmounting these paywalls, its disheartening to see companies actively increasing the barriers to bridging the digital divide instead of reducing them.

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im so done with seeing articles about kids and screen time that doesnt mention parent behaviors even once. “kids are always on their phones” so are the parents! which the kids look to for how they should behave! ipad babies didn’t chose to only play on their ipads, thats what their parents gave them!

an anecdotal example: when i was a kid, all my parents would do in their minimal free time was watch tv and then they would be surprised when in my sister and i’s minimal free time we would also only watch tv/play video games. they scolded us for not reading books, but they never read books. they scolded us for not going outside but they never went outside.

“kids are always on their damn phones” my mom is in her 60s and opens up candy crush anytime she’s sitting — it isnt just the kids