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LukeZaz

@ LukeZaz @beehaw.org

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  • Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act

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  • The thing is, AOC herself spoke out against this bill according to this article. And I really, really want her to explain this one, as much as I do not expect that she will.

    I don't know how in the world I'm expected to have any faith whatsoever in our governance at any level when even our ostensibly most progressive voices aren't willing to block blatant garbage like this.

  • Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act

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  • Update: Welp, late today this passed the House overwhelmingly, 409-2. The only two nay vote were from Republicans Thomas Massie and Eric Burlison.

    Hey yeah can anyone fucking explain to me why AOC and Rashida Tlaib voted yes on this dogshit?

  • Maryland Sen. Van Hollen meets with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador amid court fight over US return

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  • I made this post three minutes ago???

  • DeepSeek: The Chinese Communist Party’s newest AI advance is making repression smarter, cheaper, and more deadly. Even worse, they aim to export it to the world.

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  • Many of the comments here provide salient criticism you've chosen to ignore. I don't know why you're even here anymore if you're just going to fight everybody and plug your ears when they call you out.

  • DeepSeek: The Chinese Communist Party’s newest AI advance is making repression smarter, cheaper, and more deadly. Even worse, they aim to export it to the world.

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  • Accusing people of bad faith without reason just because they disagree with you is one of the most disingenuous things you can do.

    My opinion of your posts here was already low. This has not helped.

  • DeepSeek: The Chinese Communist Party’s newest AI advance is making repression smarter, cheaper, and more deadly. Even worse, they aim to export it to the world.

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  • Several months back, we had a user who would post articles about China almost every day, to several places across Lemmy. They did this for months straight, and eventually some other users showed up for a bit just like them. It took a lot of pushback for them to leave.

    It was frustrating as hell, because suddenly I 1) couldn't avoid hearing about China when I went on Beehaw, and 2) started to reflexively ignore any articles about China because I couldn't trust them anymore. They were almost exclusively negative, they'd get posted ridiculously often, and occasionally they'd just be outright racist in the tried-and-true "we considered this acceptable/ignorable until it happened in China" sense. You don't listen to people who post like that. Months after they left, I finally started to be able to actually take headlines about China seriously again, and it was nice!

    And now here's you, starting up almost the exact same posting pattern those users had. I don't know if there's a Lemmy instance somewhere that just has a bunch of folks like you and you keep wandering over here, or if you're one of those users back with new account. I barely care which it is. I just really don't want this shit back.

    Please go find a hobby.

  • China will show fewer US films in response to tariffs

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  • A statement issued by the Chinese Film Administration (CFA) on Thursday, which we’ve translated using Google,

    I'm sorry, what? Is machine translation considered valid journalism now? I'm not saying the translation was outright wrong, but Christ this is sloppy.

  • Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people”

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  • I'm very much in agreement with Eno here, actually. I could imagine a world very easily in which LLMs and image generators didn't just "have use cases," but was actually revolutionary in more than a few of those cases. A world in which it was used well, for good things.

    But we don't live in that world. We live in one where it was almost entirely born under and shaped by megacorps. That's never healthy to anything at all, be it new tech or be it the people using it. The circumstances in which LLMs and generative models were developed was such that nobody should be surprised that we got what we did.

    I think that in a better world, image generation could've been used for prototyping, fun, or enabling art from those without the time to dedicate to a craft. It could've been a tool like any other. LLMs could've had better warnings against their hallucinations, or simply have been used less for overly-serious things due to a lack of incentive for it, leaving only the harmless situations. Some issues would still exist – I think training a model off small artists' work without consent is still wrong, for example – but no longer would we face so much of things like intense electrical usage or de-facto corporate bandwagon-jumping and con-artistry, and the issues that still happened wouldn't be happening at quite such an industrial scale.

    It reminds me how before the "AI boom" hit, there was a fair amount of critique against copyright from leftists or FOSS advocates. There still is, to be sure; but it's been muddied now by artists and website owners who, rightfully so, want these companies to not steal their work. These two attitudes aren't incompatible, but it shows a disconnect all the same. And in that disconnect I think we can do well to remember an alternate chain of events wherein such a dissonance might've never occurred to begin with.

  • Trump’s Crypto Reserve Is Really Happening

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  • Trump’s Crypto Reserve Is Really Happening

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  • There is no “safe” store of value, it always depends on demand

    If you don't think "safe stores of value" exist, why did you pontificate on what you thought would become one?

    Bitcoin transfers cost pennies on the Lightning Network [...]

    Press X to Doubt. Defending Bitcoin in 2025 is certainly a choice.

    There is a reason why Chinese people invested [...] in the housing market, allowing scammers to build ghost towns they never planned on completing… and then it all went crashing down.

    You realize this happens everywhere, right? Housing is an extremely common investment choice, and ghost towns (or at least, a lot of chronically vacant homes) appear frequently as a result. I am once again left asking why problems like this only seem to get noticed when Chinese people do it.

    Regardless, none of this changes what I've said; China is a superpower with a gargantuan economy that can't be ignored. And it isn't! Were it that the dollar died, China would be an enticing replacement for a lot of investors whether we like it or not. Many of whom would happily stomach the risk of government intervention in exchange.

    The US sees the Euro as a competitor of the Dollar; for the US to buy a strategic reserve of EUR, it would definitely mean recognizing defeat.

    I didn't realize we were still talking about the U.S. government's choice in investment alone! I had figured your initial comment had shifted this to being about the dollar's power writ large, especially given that the U.S. government's tactics as of late have been questionable on a good day and therefore not really worth speculating on.

    But sure, the federal government is unlikely to give up on the dollar. That won't stop it from imploding if they keep fucking up, and it wasn't what I was talking about anyway.

  • Trump’s Crypto Reserve Is Really Happening

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  • Trump’s Crypto Reserve Is Really Happening

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  • You have constitutional amendments for this exact scenario.

    Bold of you to assume any of that matters right now. Or ever, really. Cops can and have been shooting people stone dead for "looking like they might've had a gun." The second amendment has been a farce for decades at minimum.

    Not that I think waiting for Congress to fix things when they're the ones least threatened by what's happening is a good idea. Just pointing out that the Constitution stopped mattering a long time ago.

  • Trump’s Crypto Reserve Is Really Happening

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  • I don't think Bitcoin qualifies as a "safe store of value" when it fluctuates like hell on a day-to-day basis and transferring it anywhere for any reason costs exorbitant amounts of money. Much as you or I don't trust China, I think the powerhouse of an economy that it has will make it awfully enticing for investment orgs, and I don't think the U.S. will have to "recognize defeat" for the Euro to replace the dollar, either. If the dollar tanks, it tanks.

  • While Democracy Burns, Democrats Prioritize… Demolishing Section 230?

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  • they’re [...] going to lose everything they care about

    they’ll be mostly fine

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  • While Democracy Burns, Democrats Prioritize… Demolishing Section 230?

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  • now imagine that scenario with MAGA going in to a liberal gated community…what do you think would happen?

    My guess? The couple wouldn't bring any guns out to begin with, mostly because MAGA protesters would be white.

    Liberal communities have plenty of racism. It just happens through ignorance & a lack of thinking instead of direct malice.

  • Elon Musk and Wikipedia are feuding

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  • China is kind of notorious for being the place where you can find internet trolls for hire for cheap.

    Reflexively associating people & things you dislike with an ethnicity is a form of hate, and you are doing it. After all, America has plenty of – hell, I'd argue more – easily bought trolls available, and yet I don't seem to see a whole lot of people bringing up their nationality so much, assuming they mention them at all.

    And I'm not going to ignore racist statements just because pointing it out causes tension.

  • Elon Musk and Wikipedia are feuding

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  • Chinese internet trolls

    You know you can hate somebody without associating them with Chinese people, right?

  • Russia and US agree to work toward ending Ukraine war in a remarkable diplomatic shift

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  • I hate their policies, but you gotta acknowledge the honesty.

  • Tesla Takeover: protests planned at Tesla stores globally this weekend

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  • If you're suggesting we change the system from within, I've got bad news: We've been trying that. It hasn't been working. The purpose of the system is what it does, and what this system does is rob us of representation.

    Reckless hate and murder won't fix a damn thing, you're correct there. But neither will reliance on voting in a rigged system.