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As a honorary member of Gays for Hamas, I approve this message of pulling out. Another win for BDS

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Who still uses tumblr? And who are my mutuals? 😭 haven’t used this page for years and why I have 55k followers lmao

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I think everything above are on point about genAI and the its hatewagon everybody has been riding on for the last 2 years. Yes ChatGPT operates as a company under capitalism that aims to maximise scalability, value and profit. The people who are on its leadership are probably some power-hungry tech fanatics in repurposed ‘Elon Musk’ world savior archetype fashion, but genAI is just a tool. If we lived in a different society where modes of production were state or community owned, I think its purpose would be different to how we are using it now, and I don’t think genAI is as evil as everybody makes it to be. Moreover, I think we have watched too many movies, read too much sci-fi were robots takes over, or some AI become sentient, kills humanity or enslaves our species, and this kind of imagery has undermined any kind of critical engagement with genAI.

The moral police of academia scolding people using AI — a tool to help them write pointless essay to gain a diploma in order to get a degree and maybe get a well-paying job, is just bizarre, but at the same time symptomatic of the commercialisation of higher education. It is indicative of the grandstanding of capitalist knowledge production soooo concerned about ‘authorship’, ‘authenticity’ and ‘originality’ - baked into the enlightenment idea of progress, that is only and ever achieved through competition. No wonder academics or your professor hate that you can cheat using AI and get a good mark, because it displays how useless our education system is, while they are too invested and imbedded in its structure and operation. GenAI makes them face themselves in the mirror and realise that the institutions under which they teach are old relics that only maintain and support the system they claim to be opposed to.

time for another yap session so i’ve yapped about how the prevailing arguments against the usage of generative AI are extremely impotent, needlessly moralizing, not conducive to identifying the root of the problems surrounding it, and politically toothless in the fight against technocrats. like, leftists and libs are actually defending one of the biggest drivers of debt peonage in the world, american universities, because taking the piss out of people who make chatgpt write their essays is emotionally cathartic lol. people are debating the value of different pedagogy styles instead of like, the freaking price tag of the college institution, how the institution functions in our economy. bruh no one cares that physically writing your essay is a good way to assess your learning. we know! that doesn’t matter! College is sold as a product that can help you avoid job industries with worse-than-average working conditions, lol. who has the time to care about learning when you are trying to get credentials that will hopefully keep you out of coal mines dawg. some people do everything morally right in college and still end up in the coal mines! when we can confront that and ensure education isn’t tied to debt then maybe the handwringing about writing your essays by hand will matter lol.

but despite all of that, i think the root of the problem is the fact that the technology is mostly privatized and its results are alienating, which is a systemic problem baked into our capitalist economy. i have not been convinced that generative AI itself is morally bad yet. it’s more functionally bad, if anything. but alas, one cannot moralize about that.

very few are making a comprehensive analysis of the whole thing based in marxist materialism, but anyways. the only argument i find somewhat compelling that YALL make is about the environment, even though so few of the critics understand energy generation and consumption and i include myself in this because i don’t know a lot, but i know enough to see where this line of reasoning can fall short of a systemic analysis. i’m a gigantic hater of cars and sympathize with veganism so i learned more about the specifics of energy consumption and climate change through those crusades lol.

like, i can somewhat entertain the idea that genAI is just not actually useful nor necessary enough to justify its strain on data centers. but again, people end up blaming genAI for a systemic problem. is genAI the problem, or is the way we generate energy the problem? if genAI ought to be banned for this, then, like, what about streaming videos, what about cloud storage, or any number of things we do every day online and off that exceed the energy strains of genAI. just feels like it veers into moralism again, like why is using genAI worthy of banning but streaming netflix isn’t, despite it eclipsing the energy strain of genAI. i may need to think about it more lol but it’s a far more compelling argument than uh saving the spirit and soul and sanctity of art of whatever hitlerian babble yall be saying. AI generated wojaks are indeed a crime against nature but like cmon now lol. anyways insane yap session over.

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I haven't used this site for like 5 years… but maybe I should come here more…. What up?

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There are those who talk about grief and loss, those who after decades and centuries of colonial dispossessions, carnage, genocides, occupations, and perpetual deaths only ever feel the urge to organise when their social liberties are at risk. And there are those who are furious at those thirdworldist who are sarcastically giggling, thinking solemnly in the back of their head 'I told you so'. Any of us, in the imperial core, do not have a moral ground to stand on and criticise those who bear the biggest consequences of the imperial condition we live under - whether though wars and genocide funding by us, by our taxes and by those who we put in power, or through the colonial financial institutions, leaving economies in ruin and populations traumatized by increases in unemployment, poverty, and inequality.

However, do not be mistaken that those who giggle right now are the same as you, apathetic, indifferent or individualistic. While they giggle right now, they plot, scheme and conspire to liberate not only the lands they live in but also liberate the land we occupy and invade.

Remember that those who you want to portray as insensitive and cruel for not feeling any loss of grief after yesterday, are the same people who for more than a year begged you to act to stop this carnage. They did not see Demokkkrats or Republikkkans as their partners to upend death which they witnessed daily, they saw us as their comrades and invited us to partake in a war against this colonial condition.

And remember that they are not your saviour, they won't liberate us, they will liberate the land we live in. It is up to you to decide whether you join this new world, or burn alongside the ashes of the colonial empire.

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Make tumblr great again.

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If you leave the blog up people can still enjoy your work in the future. However, I completely understand if you want to deactivate and all. I really enjoyed your blog.

Thank you for all the curated posts you’ve given us over the years. Best of luck in the future :)

Take care.

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If you want to be in touch, my Instagram is @bayryam.bayryamali

I really think that some of the content on this page does not represent me anymore, and I have move on. I cringe so much when I look at what I have written before and I have been using since 2012. I think it is time to move on. It was fun and I have learnt a lot from everyone here!

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Registan square. Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Ian Berry.

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Mexico City, 1954, Werner Bischof.

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Kuwait 1991, Bruno Barbey.

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Rio de Janeiro, at the bay of Guanabara . “Macumba”, during the festival of the sea 1966, Bruno Barbey. 

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Night view of the eruption of Kirkjufell volcano and Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland by Robert S. Patton.  

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Fadiouth, Senegal, 1988. Baobab trees over the Catholic cemetery,  A. Abbas.

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Istanbul, Turkey 2007, Bruno Barbey.

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Poster by the Iranian Students Association (US) celebrating 8 March—International Women’s Day - 1970′s