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  • China bad tho, right lemmy liberals?

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  • I guess? I don't think I've ever really stayed in a memes community where that's the case, though on Reddit I was largely in places like egg_irl and traaa, where everything was focused around a shared experience of a minority group.

    Besides, it's not just the memes community, the memes is just where it appears the most blatantly and loudly. As the person above me said, it's an instance wide thing. ML is nowhere near as bad as Hexbear (or I have yet to see any targeted harassment campaigns against an instance for failing a purity vibe check come from ML, at least) but, as they say, "nobody hates leftists more than other leftists." Leftist spaces tend to have a bit of an undercurrent of only being welcoming to the "right kind of leftist." I used "decadent West" up there very purposefully. There's a bit of a vibe to ML that's less "uniting various leftist groups" and more "preaching The Good Word to those poor ignorants" proselytizing.

  • China bad tho, right lemmy liberals?

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  • Every time I see Cowbee in a thread like this, it's like I walked into a restaurant to see someone trying to explain to somebody else why their friend who just spat in their food is actually a cool dude doing great solidarity because the owners of the restaurant treat their employees poorly.

    ML in my experience has very little to do with engaging with leftists and more to do with bashing the "decadent West." Anytime I see memes.ml pop up in my feed, it's a 50/50 shot between me finding something funny or something that makes me debate blocking the instance as much as I can at an account level.

  • Do you feel that use of generative AI and LLMs is ever justifiable? If so, when and where? If not, why not?

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  • And yet, again, the instance has communities for every single big tech genAI model. That's definitely not anti-corporate. Using those models both contributes to their shareholder value/profits and the theft of wages from workers.

    And where do they get the training data for AI Horde? From scraping the web and all the freelance artists on there, like all of the big corporate models? Because then they're just justifying exploitation of workers as benefiting everybody when what they really mean is benefiting themselves.

    It's like the argument pro ChatGPT airheads use constantly about how genAI "democratized" art. You know what "democratized" art and made it freely accessible to everybody? The pencil. It's just making up excuses for wanting the product of skill without putting in the effort to learn the skill or pay appropriate compensation to somebody with the skill to give you the product that you want. It's upper management thinking.

    And this is why I say that it depends. Horde AI could be great - so long as the people whose work is being used to allow others access to skilled labor that they don't want to do themselves are being properly compensated for their work. Otherwise, it's no different from the corporations. Just because it's free doesn't mean that nobody is going hungry as a result of it. Unless it's trained exclusively on products from big corporations. Those artists got paid when they did the work, so nobody gets hurt there except in the theoretical sense of freelance artists potentially losing customers down the line to "good enough and cheap" genAI from people with the above upper management mindset.

  • Warnings of Iran Invasion Grow as US to Send Up to 5,000 Marines, Sailors to Middle East

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  • Anti-vaxxer insurrectionists protesting COVID regulations and "personal freedom" by attempting to shut down the government? Yeah, we had that. It's called Jan 6th. We've also had our own series of MAGA convoys over the years. We call them Y'All Qaeda. I don't know why this is your golden idol of what protesting should be.

    And you should give a shit that I'm a minority who has watched Canada be roughly 5 to 10 years behind the US in their own war on science and education since 2001. Trump may be the signpost that actually turns the Canadian slide into MAGA conservatism around, there was some evidence of them backtracking on those stances during his last term, but only time will tell.

  • What is the funniest impulse purchase you’ve made/seen someone you know make?

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  • How long did it take before you bought acrylics and a pad of watercolor paper to replace it?

  • Do you feel that use of generative AI and LLMs is ever justifiable? If so, when and where? If not, why not?

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  • Just my personal take, but my opinion basically boils down to "they can be."

    It's all about how ethically they're handled, and that can be good or bad at any scale. Take your very own instance, for example. Not that it's hosting a local LLM (maybe they are, IDK), but the instance openly supports GenAI and has instances for all the major GenAI companies/models. GenAI without ethical sourcing - which none of these companies do - is one of the most blatant examples of a corporation using technology to steal the skilled labor of workers to avoid having to pay them what they're owed for that skill. So your own instance is pro-corporatism, so long as they're benefiting from stealing from workers. Not very anarchist if you ask me.

    On the other hand, there's a company that I believe partnered with Affinity a few years back that is a website design company that was hiring artists to create UI pieces for a training set for their LLM that they were going to use to create website templates for customers as part of their service (and I think they were also guaranteeing royalties for those who contributed as well?).

  • Warnings of Iran Invasion Grow as US to Send Up to 5,000 Marines, Sailors to Middle East

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  • Oh, so you can dish it out but can't take it when someone else handwaves away your effort?

    I'm a trans woman living in the US. I absolutely know what I'm talking about. I've been keeping up with politics since I was a pre-teen just so I could know what rights of mine were being stripped away in which states. I'm illegal in 41+ countries in the world and 20 states in my own country.

    Keep thumping your chest about your little Sunday drive while people are chasing ICE agents out of their neighborhoods.

    But good to know this man never led a "real protest."

  • Warnings of Iran Invasion Grow as US to Send Up to 5,000 Marines, Sailors to Middle East

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  • I'm a trans woman in the US, a group who the government had already been stealing official documents from since before Trump was even officially in office and who states have been banning from public life, creating lists of, and trying to deny medical care to for years. We've been saying for a decade that conservatives would love nothing more than to round us all up and put us in camps. Guess what conservatives have expressed their desire to do?

    Come at me again and tell me I'm not doing anything about my government when you don't know the first thing about me.

    You sir, are a fucking moron and transphobic to boot. Go be racist somewhere else.

  • a girl can never be hyperfeminine/sexual, chaotic, unfiltered online without ulterior motives allegations

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  • Considering it was only about 100 years ago that science decided that women could orgasm and weren't just faking it to make their husbands happy...yes, the idea that a woman can be horny and is a normal human being is a shocking revelation to some (many?).

  • Warnings of Iran Invasion Grow as US to Send Up to 5,000 Marines, Sailors to Middle East

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  • First rule of operational security: if you're going to do something, don't tell anyone that you're going to do something. Especially on social media/someplace with easily traceable records.

    How about you start blaming German Jews for letting Hitler start WW2 next?

  • Warnings of Iran Invasion Grow as US to Send Up to 5,000 Marines, Sailors to Middle East

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  • You mean that one time a bunch of Canadians drove in a line?

    Compared to that time a protest was staged across an area the size of Europe? From small towns with a few dozen people to capital cities? And then again? And again?

    These were all literally a quick Google search away. And you know what? Almost all of them are from last year, from a couple of cities out of those national protests, because our media is captured and it's very difficult to find photos of the people scaring off ICE attempting to snatch people in broad daylight or the masses of abandoned cars in Chicago - some of them still running - from all the ICE raids. Or the community watch groups that have sprouted up to track where ICE agents are in the city. I couldn't find a single picture of the protests from Boston then where there were more protesters in the city than the total population of the city. Most of what I saw was pro-ICE propaganda from news outlets about immigrants in NYC "cheering for ICE after capture of violent gang members" and other nonsense.

  • that's it!

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  • I live in Fairly Large Town, USA, and the couple of bakeries here only make confectionaries like cakes and cupcakes. The closest you can get to buying a loaf of bread would be ordering a sandwich from a deli or store-made bread from a supermarket where they cook frozen dough from the regional supplier.

  • Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US

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  • An estimated 20% of women will be sexually assaulted in their life. Half of those will happen by the time that they're 16. 40% of trans women will be sexually assaulted.

    This isn't about your feelings being hurt.

  • When women have a crush on men

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  • Are people still that puritanical that they care about somebody else's sexual activity?

    Yes. Many people devote their entire personalities towards policing other people's sex lives. Just look at the hatred towards LGBTQ people that continues to go on and on. It never went away, it just got pushed back, often to largely rural areas. Look at the transphobia of the past 15 or so years. That's all based in the same nonsense.

    Even amongst the LGBTQ community, you have the recent "kink at Pride" drama, but there are also decades old issues like gay men using the same homophobia used on them by straight guys against bi men - or saying that they're not part of the community if they're dating a woman.

  • I fucking hate ChatGPT and ai and all of that shit

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  • When I was in highschool, I came up with an expression: "Scratch an artist and you'll find a student of many subjects underneath." To some extent I agree with you, but I think it's more that kids aren't really introduced to a variety of subjects in an interesting way. Art causes you to learn at least a surface level understanding of the science behind color theory and lighting, anatomy, engineering, and a host of other things just by the nature of needing it to get better at creating what you see in your head. Our understanding of anatomy today is founded upon the studies Da Vinci and his apprentices did of bodies that they stole from graveyards and performed autopsies on in secret.

    Kids are naturally curious. They know nothing of the world around them and that curiosity and desire to learn is how we get stereotypes like the kid who never stops asking questions.

    It's just that the way subjects are often taught is not conducive to engaging with that curiosity (ignoring when that curiosity is stifled by other influences like parental beliefs). Plenty of schools played with Kerbal Space Program, which has a simplified but still fairly realistic depiction of orbital mechanics in it, and that abstracted system taught many kids the basics of orbital mechanics and the science behind building rockets. Minecraft has taught many kids the basics of circuitry, as redstone is literally just basic circuit wiring - to the point where somebody created a full computer running DOS in Minecraft with a working keyboard and screen and everything.

    I think it's an issue of approachability vs one of outright not caring. Tomes about the math behind nuclear physics has nothing on telling a kid that today you'll be telling them about the Demon Core or how basically all forms of generating power boil down to new and exciting ways to boil water. When you include the particle physics involved, they'll be much more interested in how that relates to why one guy in the room died while everybody else was perfectly okay than just an abstract on the deflection of radiation by atoms.

  • Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store

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  • But refusing to buy from one company specifically is. Just because you buy similar products somewhere else doesn't mean that you aren't boycotting the other company.

    I refuse to buy from Blizzard, Activision, EA, and Ubisoft. I refuse to buy Sony games so long as they require a PSN account for PC games. Just because I buy indie games doesn't mean that I'm not boycotting those AAA companies for their actions.

  • A broken clock is still right twice a day.

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  • The politicians? Sure. But the average American liberal/leftist just wants peace and universal healthcare.

  • A broken clock is still right twice a day.

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  • Sooo...what exactly has changed? That still sounds like right and left to me.

  • What's with users of fediverse using 'Go back to reddit' as a retort to other users?

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  • TIL, I thought it was intentional from the start.

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