spujb
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- Comment on How can A person find out if they were hired as a DEI or fired because of it? 5 days ago:
You are unhelpfully combative. DEI factually is a term that has been made a victim of twisting and manipulation. Flickerman was well within their rights to point out that this malformation of meaning has gone so far as to influence the basic grammatical use of the term.
You will notice that Flickerman even gives OP an out, admitting that their misusage of the term might be unintentional, likely skewed by years of propaganda. That is, OP could be entirely innocent and misled.
Therefore, ironically, the individual here who is truly reacting programmatically to seek victimhood, is you. :)
- Comment on How can A person find out if they were hired as a DEI or fired because of it? 6 days ago:
Be sure to read and take seriously the comments here, OP. They are correct. The majority of the media you have consumed about “DEI” was intentional lies to make you believe oligarchs and billionaires were on your side against a constructed enemy.
That enemy isn’t real. The billionaires aren’t on your side. They just wanted to cultivate your anger for personal gain, and for many, unfortunately, that propagandizing was successful.
- Submitted 1 week ago to [deleted] | 24 comments
- Comment on are terfs actual feminists or do most transphobic women just call themselves that? 1 week ago:
@WindFarmsofTikTok, the new kind of terrorist, hiding her barely veiled commands to her followers to bomb-threat green infrastructure behind her love of birds :(
- Comment on are terfs actual feminists or do most transphobic women just call themselves that? 1 week ago:
excellent answer and analogy, and even more points for not using the useless phrase no true scottsman :) /gen
- Comment on my version is better 2 weeks ago:
“go to lonely starbucks lovers” my beloved
- Comment on know the chain of command 2 weeks ago:
TIL “I” am a dogwhistle
- Comment on YSK there are other Pixelfed mobile clients than the flagship app (that include dark mode!) 2 weeks ago:
once i pointed out that most modern mobile OSes have a native “smart invert” which can make any app dark mode without messing with images and i got called ableist 😭
- Comment on YSK there are other Pixelfed mobile clients than the flagship app (that include dark mode!) 2 weeks ago:
+1 for wanting rudimentary editing tools in client apps. i don’t need filters or anything fancy but cropping and scaling as features would probably help with platform adoption.
- Comment on YSK there are other Pixelfed mobile clients than the flagship app (that include dark mode!) 2 weeks ago:
a good selection of these apps don’t. unsure if that’s an intentional choice or not.
- Comment on YSK there are other Pixelfed mobile clients than the flagship app (that include dark mode!) 2 weeks ago:
valid i think there are some scientifically proven drawbacks both ways also dark mode is worse if u have astigmatism
- Comment on YSK there are other Pixelfed mobile clients than the flagship app (that include dark mode!) 2 weeks ago:
i genuinely have no desire to stir beef but i have never heard a single positive thing from or about the guy 😭 i hope i can be shown wrong
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to youshouldknow@lemmy.world | 16 comments
- Comment on know the chain of command 2 weeks ago:
fool thats exactly what i told you to say
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to [deleted] | 21 comments
- Comment on emotional regulation hub? 3 weeks ago:
oh hells yeah
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to [deleted] | 9 comments
- Comment on Pixelfed's first plateau in progress 3 weeks ago:
I couldn’t find anything :( oddly, fediverse.observer actually was logging data before that time but it’s only accessible to me via wayback: web.archive.org/web/20241010192709/…/dailystats
@diasporg@mas.to any reason fediverse.observer is limited to only a few months? (no clue if this cross-platform ping will work but giving it a shot)
- Comment on Pixelfed's first plateau in progress 3 weeks ago:
I feel insane that no one has commented this yet??? The data clearly only starts in November. At minimum this is our second plateau and I seem to recall more that have happened lmao.
- Comment on CURSE OF RAH 3 weeks ago:
therapist: caucasian pharaoh isn’t real he can’t can’t hurt you
- Comment on Thoughts on bringing sportbots.xyz to Lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like there should be a page for sportsbots then. Mirroring “hundreds to low thousands” of accounts to Lemmy just sounds insane and poorly curated.
- Comment on Thoughts on bringing sportbots.xyz to Lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
No. Account mirroring and bot posts go against the essential nature of social threaded link aggregation. I see sportsbots is already a Mastodon project which makes much more sense because microblogging has a follow-the-user rather than a follow-the-community model. Lemmy is follow-the-community. If there is interest in this content, users will create a Lemmy community and post content there. Maybe they will even link to the sportsbots mirror. But don’t just set up a script to do it for you, that’s just something people are going to block.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 3 weeks ago:
based
- Comment on (:3) 4 weeks ago:
you just need to be a participant in the PIE program or similar and it costs about 63¢ per prisoner per hour
- Comment on (:3) 4 weeks ago:
is called satire, a thing which can and often dies come in layers i.e. meta irony and post irony
not a new thing especially among young people
- Comment on (:3) 4 weeks ago:
good post OP hard to believe the first instance of this is from iFunny in 2017
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to [deleted] | 17 comments
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 1 month ago:
There’s nothing wrong with opposing technology as it currently stands. Maybe there’s room for nuance in language, but that doesn’t break their argument.
As it currently stands, the user above is right, and the labor of human artists is being siphoned into corporate profit with zero compensation. In the same way, at the beginning of the industrial revolution the labor of children was siphoned into profit with zero compensation and deadly work conditions.
The way the textile industry was “fixed” was by opposition: speaking about the issues related to the technical developments and advocating for better treatment of the laborers. The only way AI as it currently stands can be “fixed” is also by opposition. Being critical of AI doesn’t mean “turn it off,” it means speaking about the issues related to the new technology and advocating for better treatment of the laborers.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 1 month ago:
Enabling millions of people to jump traditional entry barriers is a good thing
False :( look how bad Google search has gotten, overrun by AI blogposts and advertising slop. Enabling millions of people to jump traditional entry barriers dilutes the hard, real, work that people do.
But more to the point, the genie is out of the bottle, and no amount of objection is going to stuff it back in.
We regulated the assembly line and gave laborers compensation and safety rights when power tools increased their capacity. So too, we could force OpenAI et al to compensate the copyright holders from whom they scraped data. No one is calling for the genie to got back in, only for the capitalists to stop being the ones with all the wishes.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 1 month ago:
It’s because AI enthusiasts genuinely proud and in awe of their work, and those that are still staunchly pro-AI are unaware of how much damage they have already done.
Two key facts:
- Generative AI is powerful and amazing
- Generative AI was immediately sold to the capital-owning class and is now being developed and guided by the motivations of profit
Freya Holmér does excellent analysis at around the 43:00 mark. She notes that AI represents a story of human triumph, and the innate quality or “coolness” that lies in that. But on the other hand, she explains how generative AI has quite quickly become entirely devorced from positively amplifying human expression. Exceptions to this exist, where people use AI creatively as an extension of themselves exist, but are exceptions only and not the rule.
I see other threads here discussing “is there even demand for authentic human art?” And those discussions ignore that yes, there is, and that authentic human art was scraped from copyright holders on the internet without their consent. “Is there even demand for human art?” is what is being asked, when the technology in question was immediately bought up and exploited by billion-dollar companies who are gaining immensely more value from generative AI than even the most lucrative AI-artist.
I encourage “AI bros” reading this to look around and engage with the art world. Genuinely. If you have always wanted to be a screenwriter or painter hobbyist, go engage with those stories. Go and see the human experiences, training and techniques that are visible in every line and brush stroke. Creativity is quite a wonderful and powerful thing and I always encourage it.
Then, after you have experienced these works to a new degree, look back. Don’t even ask “is AI good”—because we all agree, it’s an amazing feat. Instead ask “do I want this technology to be monopolized by corporate interests?”
