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being anti ai is making me feel like in going insane. "you asked for thoughts about your characters backstory and i put it into chat gpt for ideas". studies have proven its making people dumber. "i asked ai to generate this meal plan". its causing water shortages where its data centers are built. "ill generate some pictures for the dnd campaign". its spreading misinformation. "meta, generate an image of this guy doing something stupid". its trained off stolen images, writing, video, audio. "i was talking with my snapchat ai-" theres no way to verify what its doing with the information it collects. "youtube is impletmenting ai based age verification". my work has an entire graphics media department and has still put ai generated motivational posters up everywhere. ai playlists. ai facial verification. google ai microsoft ai meta ai snapchat ai. everyone treats it as a novelty. every treats it as a mandatory part of life. am i the only one who sees it? am i paranoid? am i going insane? jesus fucking christ. if i have to hear one more "well at least-" "but it does-" "but you can-" im about to lose it. i shouldnt have to jump through hoops to avoid the evil machine. have you no principles? no goddamn spine? am i the weird one here?

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I do not AI WRITE, I do not AI DRAW, I do not listen to AI MUSIC and if it isn’t created by someone IT IS NOT ART.

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A good rule of thumb for AI is "would you trust a trained pigeon to do this?"

"We trained a pigeon to recognise cancerous cell clusters and somehow they're really good at it" okay great, that's something that could plausibly be a thing.

"We trained a pigeon to recognise good CV:s and left it in charge of sorting through all our job applications" uh perhaps consider not doing that.

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LGBT (labrador, greyhound, beagle, terrier)

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Disability is choosing to go to a concert with friends even though it'll take you 2 weeks to recover from having the Audacity to go out and have fun late into the night.

Disability is ✨️also✨️ being super proud of your service dog for wearing all of her safety gear, ignoring crowds, and successfully tasking through a really long day.

It's about finding your balance. Sleepy photo of the best girl, for tax

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me when my disabilities disable me:

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Reblog if you think it’s okay to platonically say “I Love You” to your friends

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Daily fucking reminder that Luigi Mangione is innocent, completely and fully. He has been convicted of no crime. He has had no fair trial. He is a SUSPECT. Luigi Mangione is entirely innocent and everyone needs to stop parroting this insidious propaganda that he “committed” the crime he is only SUSPECTED of. He is not a murderer. He is not a criminal. He is an innocent man.

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I'm a simple bitch. i believe the purpose of government should be to improve the lives of its citizens and protect its most vulnerable members. unfortunately i live in a day and age where this gets me labeled an enemy of the state

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Here to remind people in the US that service dogs can legally be removed from establishments for acting out or not being under control.

The favorite remark of people telling handlers to suck it up about the fake SD epidemic is "well you wanted it so there is no proof any dog is a service dog, and this is the consequence"

Except legally, any handler must answer to 2 ADA questions (when asked by an employee/owner of an establishment) AND any animal, regardless of legitimate Service Animal status, CAN BE REMOVED under certain circumstances. Those circumstances include but are not limited to:

Excessive barking, relieving themselves inappropriately, harassing other customers, and damaging merchandise, not being under handler control.

If businesses would just enforce what they legally already can, the fake service dog problem would decrease dramatically

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Ok, those of you who said the economic blackout wouldn't do anything, here's a longer term thing to do, called for by Black clergy members.

We're not shopping at Target folks. How we spend our money in a system that requires us to endlessly consume is a solid tool to lean in on. I don't think that the current administration actually cares about "the economy" in the way that past ones have, but I can tell you that Target's shareholders and c-suite REALLY care about how you spend your money.

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Former Minnesota Vikings punter, Chris Kluwe, who was blacklisted from the league for standing up for marriage equality, speaks at a city council meeting where he calls Trump a Nazi. He is subsequently arrested and carried out by police.

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A reminder to the "the American government wouldn't..." crowd. They have. They have made their own internment camps before. They have rounded up innocent citizens and immigrants before. The victims of which are still alive to this day and trying to share their stories with the world, they have been trying to warn us for a long time. George Takei (as seen above) is a famous example of this. He has written about his experiences time and time again, even publishing a book talking about his time in these camps. He may be famous now, but at the time he was just another kid forced from his home. To this day he still firmly dedicates himself to trying to educate and inform people, trying to spread awareness with his platform. The American Government can and will do terrible things. Do not let anyone convince you otherwise.

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'do you think you're superior for not using AI in your work' thank you for asking! yes i do

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Resisting tyranny takes a lot of forms.