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Leraje

@ leraje @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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  • The Satanic Temple is at it again!

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  • I strongly advise you watch the DeadDomain video and form your own opinions. Everything she claims in it is sourced. It is not at all what that Medium blogger says it is. If you prefer reading to video TempleWatcher has pages (with all points referenced) on the two owners Greaves and Jarry.

  • The Satanic Temple is at it again!

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  • TST's abortion campaign - which is strongly opposed by multiple pro-abortion support groups in multiple States - is a classic example of how they operate.

    Not only are they depriving legitimate pro-abortion groups of attention and funding, they are getting people to donate money for their business.

    New Mexico, where their current clinic is, has no problem with abortion. I see they're not naming the state where this new one will be but I'm betting it will be somewhere equally trouble-free for those seeking an abortion.

    What this 'competition' is doing, like all TST's fundraisers, is getting you to fund their start up costs in an abortion friendly State without any requirement to give anyone a return on that donation.

    If you want to support pro-abortion causes - and you should - support organisations who will actually help people.

  • Swifties wasted no time...

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  • But inciting violence politically is, judging by recent events, absolutely fine.

  • What is your favourite open source software that you discovered in the past year, that you can no longer live without?

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  • Vorta for Borg Backup - for linux and MacOS. You use it remotely but I use it for local backup because a) its encrypted b) its Borg so awesome and c) easy to use. I just pointed it at my home directory, told it where to place the encrypted backups and how often to make them.

    I've had to recover files twice and recovery is just as easy as set up.

  • Race is on to produce a super-coral to survive world’s warming seas

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  • Wouldn't it be better to just stop doing the thing that's making the existing reefs die?

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  • It's not an 'either/or' situation - both sets of people are culpable.

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  • Want to see the direct consequences of unfettered hate masquerading as free speech? That would be Elon Musk, Nigel Farage et al spreading utterly incorrect rumours about migrants in the UK and goading right-wingers to set fire to hotels where migrant families are staying. Luckily no one was killed but do you think tutting and calling them idiots before you move on is going to change a thing?

  • Absolutisms

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  • The concept of absolute truth is, ironically, the lie that exists at the heart of thiest religion. It provides a comforting certainty to them where they don't have to do any thinking or work out what their own opinions are on a given subject - they can just claim there is a set of absolute truths and that their particular god is the sole arbiter of that truth.

  • Bluesky continues to soar

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  • Mate, I was simply extending an analogy you introduced. I neither know (nor care) what the presence of a McDonalds does or doesn't do so don't Sagan me. Nor am I claiming mainstream social media is all arseholes. What I'm saying is that mainstream social media most certainly has the ability and propensity to make people into arseholes due to constant enshittification - part of which is the influencer phenomenon in my opinion and the need for growth at all costs.

    I most definitely have reached out to lots of good people on the fediverse and had lots of great exchanges that follow both professional and 'hobby' based interests I have.

    But here's the thing - you want growth? OK. I also have no issue with growth. But the best sort of growth in my experience comes organically. It happens at its own pace. The minute you start prodding it along with managed algorithms and all the other stuff mainstream social media now has you end up with an extended hate room. I don't miss Reddit or Xitter at all. I genuinely mean that. No more 'suggestions' of people to follow, no more manufactured outrage getting pushed to my feed, no more clickbait. Instead what I have now is a curated feed across multiple different types of experiences that I spent some time getting how I want them and dipping in and out of when I want to.

  • Bluesky continues to soar

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  • You're using words like 'ambition' and 'irrelevant' like the Fediverse is some sort of corporate entity. It's not - that's a point very much in its favour in the opinion of quite a lot of people on it. Contrary to your opinion that no one cares, lots do. What some of us don't care about is catering to a set of people who are paid to express opinions and who, it seems to me, over a period of time end up becoming Andrew Tate or Russel Brand.

    There's no McDonalds in the town I currently live in, which is 20 minutes away from one of the largest cities in the country. It might come as a massive shock to you but I - and I think the majority of people - can survive just fine without a Mickey D's. Not having one doesn't make a place desolate, it makes it healthier. And if someone really wants a Big Mac, they can go and get one from elsewhere.

    Do you see what I'm saying? This isn't the same place as that - it's quite nice to have a place online that still isn't. And for those that do want that, they can still spend time there if they chose to.

  • Bluesky continues to soar

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  • Strangely comforting for something I'm sure you thought was a snappy comeback,

  • Bluesky continues to soar

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  • I genuinely don't care about influencers. Like, at all.

  • Bluesky continues to soar

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  • Maybe they should stop caring about visibility and engagement and concentrate on participating in, building and y'know enjoying a community?

  • Man Arrested for Creating Child Porn Using AI

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  • I've literally got no idea what you're talking about or what your point is. Are you saying this person hasn't committed a crime? Because that's incorrect. Lots of jurisdictions have laws preventing things like CSAM generated imagery, deepfake porn and a whole raft of other things. 'Harm' doesn't begin and end with something done to an individual for a lot of crimes.

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  • The purpose of a game is to play a game through a series of objectives and challenges.

    Even if I grant you that the purpose of viewing CSAM is to see child abuse

    Very curious to hear what else you think the purpose of watching CSAM might be.

    it’s still less bad than actually abusing them

    "less bad" is relative. A bad thing is still bad. If we go by length of sentencing then rape is 'less bad' than murder. that doesn't make it 'not bad'.

    so implying that viewing such content would increase the cases of child abuse is an assumption I’m not willing to make either.

    OK?

    I didn't claim that AI CSAM increased anything at all. Literally all I've said is that the purpose of AI generated CSAM is to watch kids being abused.

    Neither did I claim that violent games lead to violence. You invented that strawman all by yourself.

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  • Intent is defined as intention or purpose. So I'll rephrase for you: the purpose of playing a FPS is to play a game. The purpose of playing GTA is to play a game.

    The purpose of AI generated CSAM is to watch children being abused.

  • Man Arrested for Creating Child Porn Using AI

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  • This guy did do something - he either created or accessed AI generated CSAM.

  • Man Arrested for Creating Child Porn Using AI

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  • There may well be the odd weirdo playing Call of Duty to watch people die.

    But everyone who watches CSAM is watching it to watch kids being abused.

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  • The difference is intent. When you're playing a FPS, the intent is to play a game. When you play GTA the intent is to play a game.

    The intent with AI generated CSAM is to watch kids being abused.