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  • OpenAI Just Gave Away the Entire Game

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  • The Atlantic huh? Alright then, The Atlantic, I'll remember your name and that you published a piece concluding people are powerless to affect change.

    Now (steelman) can I square this with the sentiment from Propaghandi's "A People's History of the World":

    ...we'll have to teach ourselves to analyze and understandthe systems of thought-control.And share it with each other,never sayed by brass rings or the threat of penalty.I'll promise you- you promise me- not to sell eachother out to murderers, to thieves.. who've manufactured our delusion that you and meparticipate meaningfully in the process of runningour own lives. Yeah, you can vote however the fuckyou want, but power still calls all the shots.And believe it or not, even if(real) democracy broke loose,power could/would just "make the economy scream" until we vote responsibly.

    ...

    Does this apply here? The song is talking about ballot boxes and corporate explotation on a nation-state imperialist. The topic at hand is to do with the corporate exploitation on a worldwide colonization-of-attention level.

    So i think the way I best square this question, do we have the ability to do something about it, is this:

    Yes. You can do something. Not in the way that popular media depicts the french revolution. Revolution will instead be boring. In fact, IS: Change minds. Change your own mind about whatever forms of domination you have accepted as just. Demand to know who made OpenAI king. While you're at it, demand to know why it was just for Imperialist campaigns by "superpowers" justified The Contras. It's a history lesson we can learn from, believe it or not.

    Will you stay down on your knees, or does power still call all the shots?

  • OpenAI Just Gave Away the Entire Game

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  • Please keep saying it.

  • X is the worst social media app for LGBTQ+ people, says new report

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  • This is Not news for queer* people.

    I am in this instance using "Queer" to mean an umbrella for all who are othered by society.

    I'm telling you that people with lifelong chronic disability, people who are sex workers, and people who are dispropotionately targeted by the law enforcement or the state, AND disenfranchised casually in everyday society because of their appearance and/or melanin levels...All have networks of contacts they have relied on for over a decade in many cases.

    It was easy for me to get off Twitter but for a lot of people I care about, it'd mean severing so many important bonds...and I just thought this sentiment is something that someone reading might apply too, as well

  • The double sexism of ChatGPT’s flirty “Her” voice

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  • The potential of a "exclusion argument" does not justify reinforcing the servile, assistant stereotype. Researchers arent pulling that one out of their ass.

    I could pull together a youtube playlist of beardy men explaining why woman hating is bad. Would you like that?

    (Edit: Rhetorical. We can all see your true colors with the "gay agenda" conspiracy pushing bs.)

  • The double sexism of ChatGPT’s flirty “Her” voice

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  • The double sexism of ChatGPT’s flirty “Her” voice

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  • Ok woman hater

  • Windows 10 is EOL in October 2025

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  • Its the Data harvesting that's irking me. Not that data harvesting is new; but that i have a dreadful sense of M$' "AI" scheming just crosses a rubicon of data harvesting.

    I'm backing away slowly. Dont care what games or executables i wont be able to run. Get ready for the accusations that im the "radical arch-loving myopic lemmy elite": it's finally time to run *nix as host.

  • Linux Inventor Says He Doesn’t Believe in Crypto

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  • Polygamy: Mormons, etc. generally opposes womens rights.

    Polyamory: Ideally places noone above another, elevates everyone to have the healthy connections such that noone is a "3rd wheel" or more disposable. Less about "polycules" recruiting new members, and more about individuals pairing with new partners, and existing partners (initially at least) gaining a metaphor. Mileage may vary and the point is everyone's needs are a bit different and shouldnt feel pressured to fit neatly into a nuclear box.

    Just fyi.

  • Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico

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  • The many cited publications and texts found within say otherwise =)

  • Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico

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  • It seems you have a vested interest in discrediting and disencouraging anyone from imagining or exploring all the ways in which a better world is possible. How peculiar.

  • Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico

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  • Noone is accusing you of the very obvious, beligerent actions of the right wing authoritarians who ceaselessly perpetrate moral panics using fear based propaganda to consolidate their power.

    Anyway, Andrewism's latest video directly addresses your originally expressed concern:

    https://youtu.be/lrTzjaXskUU?t=2634

    It is not the single, momentous tsunami that shapes the coast, but rather the many small waves that erode the land with time.

    In short, a social revolution that “seeks to alter the whole character of society.” But what does that mean? People typically envision some massive uprising in the future akin to popular media’s depictions of the French Revolution, BUT in reality, as anarchists use the term, social revolution refers to an ongoing and intentional transformation of our society, economy, culture, philosophy, technology, relationships, and politics.

    It is not starting from scratch, but rather utilising the shell of the old to build the new, taking on a conscious engagement with current conditions and using the means that are compatible with desired ends.

    That process might be punctuated with flashy moments where leaps and bounds may be achieved, but much of the real foundations of anarchy are established in the interludes between insurrections.

    It is not the single, momentous tsunami that shapes the coast, but rather the many small waves that erode the land with time.

    The process of social revolution involves acts of confrontation, such as occupation and expropriation; acts of noncooperation, such as strikes and boycotts; and acts of prefiguration, such as establishing spaces of encounter, free schools, and alternative economies.

    If such efforts are effectively networked, they can grow large enough to practically counter the all-encompassing idea and experience of many that there is no alternative to capitalism and the State.

    I still recommend my video on the topic for a full explanation, with the obvious caveat that I would now challenge my consensus- and democracy-limited depiction of popular assemblies and cooperatives as a misrepresentation or needless restriction of anarchy, which can be more accurately...

    Not some tsunami to be scaremongered, but the regrowing of dormant ability to self-govern, which requires us to heal and educate from so many woundings and ills, misinformation and disinformation 🫶

  • Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico

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  • Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico

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  • Hey bud, if you cant imagine a world without [oppression] please step aside. The rest of us have work to do to end the violence. We know it's time.