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COPS SHOULD ALWAYS BE UNDER A MICROSCOPE. THAT'S ONE OF THE NATURAL COSTS OF BEING GIVEN THE POWER OF LIFE AND DEATH OVER OTHERS. QUIT YOUR JOB IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT.
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Taught myself to read at age 2½. Probably a furry. Definitely not straight. Eat the rich.
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@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
at what point do we pursue alternative means of justice when the systems that are allegedly meant to provide it refuse to do so?
how do we begin to compete with a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence?
@anubiarts Hi, i love your work! I wanted to ask, how do you decide which specific colors to use when doing a pixelart redraw of a photo? is there an algorithm that generates a palette based on the most common colors in the image, do you use the eyedropper tool on particular spots, or do you have a list of colors you prefer and pick the closest ones from that?
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@resuna@ohai.social @ScriptFanix@maly.io @jmax@mastodon.social @TimWardCam@c.im @yugthebug@mastodon.social @thirstybear@agilodon.social
Plausible Whatever Generators
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@JuliusGoat@mastodon.social
calling oneself "apolitical" or "neutral" is just trying to pass one's own ideology as normal or default or unquestionable
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@resuna@ohai.social @ScriptFanix@maly.io @jmax@mastodon.social @TimWardCam@c.im @yugthebug@mastodon.social @thirstybear@agilodon.social
yeah but this also includes image generators and things that maybe can't be accurately described as dealing with "language" in its output
Kate Crawford's term "large-scale computing" is also good as a reminder that these things are really just the same sort of thing we've had for a while, but bigger, more resource-intensive, and more exploitative
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@hosford42@techhub.social
@the5thColumnist@mstdn.ca @CosmickTrigger@social.edist.ro
my guess is that they're at least subconsciously afraid of the system of patriarchy collapsing, and they see trans/nonbinary/GNC people in particular as a sort of metonym for that collapse, and so attack them because they're more tangible, accessible, and visible.
It's also a bit of virtue signalling: they need to make a show of rejecting any "deviant" ideas to satisfy their own anxiety that they might be wrong. They thrive on affective override because they know on some level that their beliefs won't hold up to scrutiny, that their subjectivity would have to change if they really thought about it, so they don't allow themselves to think about it.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QVilpxowsUQ
Who's Afraid of Gender? (A Guide to Judith Butler)
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@resuna@ohai.social
@ScriptFanix@maly.io @jmax@mastodon.social @TimWardCam@c.im @yugthebug@mastodon.social @thirstybear@agilodon.social
also if you wanna be more specific, u can say something like "plausible sentence generator", "plausible image generator", "plausible code generator", or whatever
so, for example, Minnesota recently banned plausible nude generators
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@matildalove@wetdry.world oh right forgot to mention, plenty of accents pronounce "bed" the same as "bid" (in particular, some New Zealand, Australian, and south-central US accents), so in those cases it'd make sense that it sounds a bit closer to "firal"
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@matildalove@wetdry.world tbf english vowels are particularly messy compared to most other languages
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@matildalove@wetdry.world
Can we seriously say, that a poor peasant or artisan has a free choice to leave his country, when he knows no foreign language or manners, and lives, from day to day, by the small wages which he acquires? We may as well assert that a man, by remaining in a vessel, freely consents to the dominion of the master; though he was carried on board while asleep, and must leap into the ocean and perish, the moment he leaves her.
—David Hume, Of the Original Contract (1748)
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@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
"declining birthrates" discourse on turtle island is pretty much always just racists' anxiety about demographic shifts as a result of (among other things) the one-drop/recessive definition of whiteness
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@Houl@wetdry.world on my machine waylandmas freezes for exactly ten secons every time I open a present
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@Melezioh@mstdn.games nah you're good i just wanted to specifically respond to the "real life solutions that can happen" thing since it gave me an excuse to dump a whole bunch of stuff I've been thinking about that I think would be good and also that are doable by politicians specifically, since i assumed that was what that bit was about
i should clarify tho that when I said "make them lose the primaries", I did specifically mean the primaries and not necessarily the actual election. I'm still not coming down either way on voting blue vs voting green/nothing. and also, if we do pursue the "voting out insufficient dems" strategy, we should probably come up with a concrete list of criteria for what a candidate should do, stick to it, and actually publicize it and talk about it in order for it to be effective (unions could probably help a lot with that)
as for grand overall strategies, i'm afraid my own picture isn't much clearer than yours (and honestly is probably less clear in at least a few ways). i honestly don't really see how any of this will change for the better without some tectonic shift in the political landscape, like a change in the liberal party's leadership, the collapse of the fascist party (not too far-fetched tbh), the rise of an actually viable progressive party, or something really risky like a constitutional convention or the dissolution of the Union (and I'm absolutely skeptical of accelerationism)
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@Melezioh@mstdn.games
As for workable steps (or at least policies that centrists and libs should be able to take more seriously than "empty the prisons", not necessarily that they'd be more effective):
Ranked choice voting is very popular and would do a lot to break up (or at least weaken) the partisan duopoly.Prosecuting Orange Man and all of his accomplices and enforcing the laws already in place that say that insurrectionists who try to violently overthrow democracy in order to enslave the population are not allowed to hold office (a lib candidate could easily spin this as being "tough on actual crime")Policing fascist organizations as hate groupsVoter reenfranchisementPrisoners' rights, including the right to voteStatehood for DC (and Puerto Rico and Guam if they want it)Hardball redistricting of the kind that we've been seeing in e.g. Virginia is absolutely a good thing if it means fewer seats for the Pedocon PartyDamages paid for at least the crimes of this nation where the victims or their direct families are still alive, including victims of Jim Crow, housing discrimination (including people of color, but also queer people and people with disabilities), theft of Indigenous land (e.g. Standing Rock in 2016), police violence, conversion practices, wage theft, and so onAntitrust action, up to and including breakups and forced liquidation (Big Tech of course, but also the monopolies of media (particularly Disney), food (particularly Nestlé), retail (particularly Wal-Mart), et. al.)Outlaw paid lobbyingUniversal basic income
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@nickwedig@dice.camp
It's amazing how willing people are to just take these arguments at face value and not internalize the obvious reality that they literally just want to use the arm of the law to force you to give up your money and your freedoms. That's it.
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@lesbianhacker@monads.online
idk, it still implies it's "the left" "pushing" the "middle" to the right rather than people who've always been reactionaries feeling more comfortable about it
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@scottsantens@hachyderm.io
Worth keeping in mind, however, that for some subset of people, statistics like this won't matter at all. Not in the sense that they'll just ignore reality, but in the sense that they don't consider "materially making people's lives better" to be a primary function of their ideal government. For some subset of people, the function of government is to punish inherently-sinful humans and ensure the best people are at the top of the hierarchy, and UBI or similar programs are bad because they "reward laziness".
If convincing people is our goal, we need to be ready to recognize when we have fundamentally different unspoken base assumptions, and be ready to argue against those rather than assuming the starting premises are identical.
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@MaximilienMoreau@mastodon.social @Wired@mstdn.social 6. I'm sure it definitely seemed that way circa Q4 2001, but that feeling's largely subsided with the defeat of ISIS and the wearing-off of the nationalism the so-called "war on terror" stoked. Also, crime is still trending down. There was a notable uptick at the start of CoViD-19, but that's worn off as far as I'm aware. 7. There's definitely still pollution, it's definitely causing some health problems, and our medical system is definitely underprepared in a number of ways, but not at the scale this seems to be suggesting. 8. I mean gas is up of course, mainly due to that one day in 2020 when oil prices went negative and killed off a bunch of small businesses, re-strengthening OPEC's cartel and allowing them to create artificial scarcity, but alternative energy has been continuing to grow quickly (particularly renewables) 9. CoViD-19 definitely tried, but it's only managed just under 6.5 million kills so far and we've already got vaccines going out, so I'd say this one's a win. 10. If anything, the social and cultural backlash is pushing for MORE progress. There's certainly been a flareup of nazi shit, but overall people are working on kicking that wheel forward.
All that said, though, right now it's looking like around 25-75 years from now is gonna be the rough part. The real sink-or-swim for our species is still ahead of us, but we are on the way to preparing for it.
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@sysop408@sfba.social it's probably more about the system that causes there to be a few people who have hundreds of thousands of dollars to toss at causes they believe in, and the unaccountable power that that arrangement inherently gives them
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@apps
I'd say there's definitely judgment here, but it's mainly just for, like, using generative ML, working for the cops, or just consistently being a buffoon
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@Loosf to be fair, an older version of the build heavily specced into stamina, and the current version still has some bits of that
alright here's my DFL primary picks
- Peggy Flanagan for US senate (probably best shot at beating Collaborator Craig)
- Matt Little for US rep-2 (probably best shot at beating Klein and Berg, who are both AIPAC. Hugh McTavish would be my second pick if we had RCV.)
- Erin Maye Quade for MN senate-56 (the only one on the DFL ballot, but she's good)
- Kobey J Layne for governor (literally the only appealing candidate. Klobuchar's clearly the party pick but sucks for reasons @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io has identified before, Evenstad is violently pro-cop and a "fiscal conservative", Gates's About tab has a "Why I'm a Centrist" section in the dropdown, Wazwaz doesn't even have a page, Savior is a perennial candidate, and Vang is mostly appealing except that he identifies as "MAHA" and uses the ableist R-slur on his page)
- Keith Ellison for attorney general (no question. also Madgett's a pro-cop centrist)
- Secretary of state and state auditor are both single-candidate on the DFL ballot and I'm not aware of any reason to care much about either of the candidates
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@anubiarts Hi, what's the best way to contact you for commissions? I tried emailing the address in your carrd.co a few days ago but haven't gotten a response
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@pathunstrom
Everyone's already mentioned Terraria, but yes, that might fit, though blood moons/goblins/pirates/eclipses could maybe count as "hard calendar" systems? they're entirely RNG, but they're not really avoidable or skippable either, and they tend to prevent you from doing anything else until they're done. also stay away from the The Constant and Zenith special seeds, since those add a hunger mechanic.
I really like Fallout 4 as well. It's got a blend of town building, exploration/scavenging, and FPS combat that I thoroughly enjoy, and, aside from the repeatable radiant quests (which many people limit or just disable with mods), I don't think there's any of those time systems (though you'll want to avoid survival difficulty, since that adds not only a hunger mechanic, but also a thirst and sleepiness mechanic. similarly to the thing in Terraria, this was added after release, so it's not like the game is missing something without it.)
Finally, the next closest thing I can think of is Noita, which is kinda like a blend of Terraria, NetHack, and a falling-sand game. There's not really any construction you can do (not easily, anyway), and you're not really expected to return anywhere, but you ARE expected to gather materials and build them into better weapons: the wandbuilding system in this game is absolutely deranged in the best possible way. Noita is a game that expects you to exploit its mechanics in the fullest sense of the word. The main issue is that it's absolutely unforgiving, with very limited healing, mandatory permadeath, and a whole bunch of complicated and intersecting mechanics it doesn't explain at all that can and will find new and exciting ways to kill you like a rat in a power box. The only hunger mechanic that exists is added by one particular perk you can select in between levels, which is near-universally considered a bottom-tier pick to always just skip unless you're going for the 100% achievement
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@bigiain@aus.social @adastra1930@mastodon.social @Viss@mastodon.social @zog@jauntygoat.net @blogdiva@mastodon.social
"combine" how? is it possible to have both programs installed on the device at once and switch between them as necessary or would one need to reflash every time or have two separate ESP32s?
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@MaximilienMoreau@mastodon.social @Wired@mstdn.social
- US-PRC relations certainly aren't perfect or even ideal right now, but they're certainly not at Cold War level.
- Not really sure what the "new technologies" or the "expected productivity increases" being referred to here were in 1997, and I don't know what "big economic boosts" specifically mean according to the writer
- I'm not familiar enough with Russian politics to know whether the term "kleptocracy" is correct, but there is definitely a lot of nationalism, and it is threatening at least one country in Europe. However, I wouldn't call it "quasicommunist". Also, I'm not sure when the last time was when Russia WASN'T basically run by a mafia.
- East/West integration seems to have gone fine? I mean there's some issues in the East for sure, particularly queer rights and some racism, but I don't know if that counts as an "integration" thing. (also Brexit doesn't count since the UK never used the Euro anyway and AFAIK it wasn't related to east/west relations at all)
- Well we're not at that point yet, but we are approaching it rapidly, so this could definitely be one.
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@fx@chaos.social @governa@fosstodon.org literally all it has left is that ublock origin works better on it, purely due to manifest v3 on all the chromium fork browsers
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@zimmatore@turtleisland.social removed from power by any means necessary, along with all their many enablers