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I’ll hitch a ride, I need to go to Joann’s for some sewing supplies before my doctor’s appointment at my local Steward healthcare office…
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There are many reasons why AI slop has become the aesthetic of current digital fascism, but one may lie in the competitive and selective logic of AI training itself: GenAI amplifies the presence of those who are already highly visible – while rendering invisible those who are already marginalized
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I do think that the bigger stuff implicates Elon himself, though, and I’m not sure he’s that self-destructive.
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I have heard the term aliteracy applied in education. It refers to kids who CAN read, but they don’t, and they never build critical components of comprehension. I think it applies here.
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We can also tell by who is using the term, why they’re using it: the forced-birthers and those who credulously repeat them are the ones who conflate “fertility” and “birth rate.” Normal people don’t.
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Why would it be that when a much simpler explanation exists?
The forced-birthers want to remove both a woman’s right to choose and contraception. By using the language of fertility (which…we saw children of men, that was scary) it frames contraception as a crisis.
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I called my husband crying multiple times in my life because I had gotten off course and didn’t know where to go.
One of those times was my birthday and his present for me (when I finally arrived) was a GPS.
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On the one hand, you can get any one of a handful of people with very good progressive policies.
OR you could vote for the guy who killed seniors and created an enormous legal liability for the city that took thousands of hours to resolve last time.
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Obviously not the only factor, but the telecommunications act of 1996 has a lot to do with why radio has felt less “alive” since then. Corporate media plays what they’re told to play, and independent radio has struggled since then, and not just because of technology.
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We’ll also be reducing spending on travel, food, etc.
Universities directly contribute to the economy in so many ways.
Now construction companies and local restaurants will suffer too.
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I really wish word processors were still a thing. My kingdom for a slim cheap word processor that doesn’t connect to the internet!