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brrt

@ brrt @sh.itjust.works

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  • Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks

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  • A shitty narrator can get me to hate a book I like.

    And that is where I see potential for AI. There are quite a few books which I’d love to listen to but they are all narrated by a guy whose narration I can’t stand. AI would open the possibility to choose a voice and I might actually get to enjoy those books. It’s Amazon though so the ethical implications and quality concerns are something I’m worried about.

  • Gang who smuggled thousands of queen ants sentenced in Kenya

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  • Ants… some people would rob their mother for the Ants

  • "Look at my Art" (Art by Tragicgirlsco)

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  • "Look at my Art" (Art by Tragicgirlsco)

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  • Cuttlefish May Communicate with Discolike Arm Gestures

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  • Arm wave 2: Dab

  • Boxing rule (@deliberatelyburied)

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  • Did you skip Capitalism 101?

  • Deranged

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  • Is the computer/robot able to freely decide when/if to speak?

    No = you should direct your attention to your fellow “divine” beings who programmed them

    Yes = fuck you

  • Empathy

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  • Yeah, people become fascists by demagogues tricking them into thinking that their REAL problems can be solved using fascistic means.

    People become zombies by demagogues biting them.

    Are demagogues not zombies? Otherwise it’s kind of a circular argument.

    You can't make people fascist without lying to them, but lies of that magnitude need critical real world problems to gain traction.

    That’s just wrong. You can if you believe what you are saying is true. I’d say it’s even more likely that you will be successful in spreading ideas if you believe them to be true.

    I could say you lie to people because you demonize fascists. But you believe it’s true. I believe fascism is a symptom and if we really want to get rid of it we need to look at and fix the root causes.

  • Empathy

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  • the underlying societal issues…

    You gave me so much hope. I really thought you’d say “the underlying societal issues that lead to someone becoming a fascist”. But then…

    …granting fascists an opening

    Where do these fascists come from that are tricking people and look for openings to poison good peoples minds? Are they evil demons sent by Satan himself? Are they just born bad people?

    But hey, you keep on fighting the good fight against these evil humans like you’re on a crusade. I’m sure the current generation of fascists will be the last one if we just keep on doing what we’ve been doing.

  • Empathy

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  • It’s not about tolerance though. You can both have empathy for someone and not tolerate their behavior.

    If we don’t have empathy for the people we can’t tolerate we will only ever fight symptoms and not root causes.

    This is especially made clear with the example you gave. Because guess what, we have nazis on the rise again.

  • Empathy

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  • If you truly want everyone to have empathy for everyone no matter what then you can’t make exceptions. If you can make exceptions you allow for others to do so too while maintaining the guise of being empathetic. Even if you, your loved ones or anyone else you deem worthy of empathy are the exception in their eyes.

  • Is Marlon Brando in Heat?

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  • Now ask “Can one see California without Marlon Brando’s eyes?”

  • Teenage German tourists deported from Hawaii over ‘suspicious’ hotel booking

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  • I had a discussion a little while ago on Lemmy about someone saying “why should I care about US politics”. Well, add this to the reasons why.

  • me_irl

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  • You could do both, being curled up on the sofa with a sandwich and make the world a little better, by reducing your meat consumption. There are very nice vegetarian/vegan sandwich options.

  • Parkour!

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  • Even the snails are Illuminati now! /s

  • Element X, a European Alternative to Signal/WhatSapp

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  • I’m not sure about which metadata is collected by Element, but it might be possible to correlate data, for example through fingerprinting. So it might be possible to know who the parties communicating with each other are and when and with whom they have communicated with, even though they did not provide phone/email.

    With Signal, as far as I know and they claim, that is not possible. The only data Signal has is your phone number, when you’ve signed up and when you last logged in.

    So with my limited knowledge I’d say Signal is much more private for personal communication. Especially if you’re not tech savvy and take additional measures.

    And Lemmy is a social message board. There is no expectation of privacy here.

  • Element X, a European Alternative to Signal/WhatSapp

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  • Element sadly collects metadata.

  • Dawwwww

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  • the human population is very much reliant on animal sources to sustain itself

    Do you have a source for that? What % of the global meat consumption is actually necessary and what is just for pleasure? And don’t get me started on food waste…

    what is required to continue existing as a species

    Do you mean scale up as a species? We’ve existed for how many thousands of years in a sustainable way?

    the distinctive categories of pets and livestock are an unfortunate requirement of our current situation

    A requirement for what? You said we need animals to sustain ourselves. What do we need the distinction of pets for?

  • Dawwwww

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  • People who treat pets animals as property are not good people.

    FTFY

    I’m not a militant vegan, I do make occasional exemptions for ethically sourced animal products. But the distinction between pets and other animals is just hypocritical.