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I cannot stress enough: you cannot give an inch on this issue. The moment you start accepting media using genAI for "small" things or just tiny aspects of production, they will only start outsourcing more of the process to AI This is how the smallest end of the wedge is driven in against laborers

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If you signed the #BethesdaDeclaration, consider also joining the #EPAHeroes speaking out against similarly harmful policies. act.standupforscience.net/forms/epa-ad... If you haven’t yet, today is a great day to sign both! act.standupforscience.net/forms/add-na... @standupforscience.bsky.social

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Support EPA workers who are resisting against Lee Zeldin’s anti-science and anti-American agenda by sharing the EPA Declaration of Dissent and signing on to the letter of support below:

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I got to talk to Ross on my Stream a while back about the Stop Killing Games initiative, and it's a shame the traction has stopped, so even if I'm a relatively tiny streamer, let's see if we can't give this another push? If you're in an EU citizen, it'll take 2 mins: www.stopkillinggames.com/eci

submitted 6 days ago • 30 comments

So just to recap: - Parents can force schools to erase LGBTQ+ existence because ??? - The Court's opinion on birthright citizenship is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. - We're reverting back to the Articles of Confederation ig ??? Except our population is now 340 million and every court might be its own country.

submitted 3 days ago • 146 comments

The war on America’s poorest and most vulnerable continues. Shameful.

submitted 3 days ago • 76 comments

It's not just #NIH. It's not just #NSF. It's not just #NASA. The whole scientific community has to make clear that all science across fed agencies is being destroyed in the US. We can't just ask for our particular piece of the pie. The whole pie is being thrown out - saving your bit won't work.

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

“But me? As a 45-year old native Brooklynite who is raising his children here? I've waited my whole life for this. For long, gloomy periods of my life I convinced myself something like this just wasn't possible. But if we organize, we can win.”

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Conservative Republican fashies have the most fragile of egos.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I played with a 'novel-writing' AI site once. It was dogshit. No continuity, no plot or theming, no substance. It was more work to correct than if I had written the fucking section myself. Sacrificing any genuine creativity to that literary pink slime is a repugnant betrayal of imagination.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

If someone throws a can of soup at a riot cop who's attacking them we have three months of discourse about non-violence meanwhile the Right has been carrying out assassinations for my entire life and there's never any of that shit directed towards them Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

submitted 12 days ago • 25 comments

This photo. ICE is a gang.

submitted 13 days ago • 708 comments

Last year, Kroger's CEO raked in $15.4 million — 457x more than its typical employee. Kroger also announced $7.5 billion in stock buybacks. I don't want to hear that Kroger can't afford to treat its employees fairly. Solidarity to these workers.

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I have no intention of reading his statement and please don't take this as an invitation to explain it to me, but how do you talk about Pulse without mentioning LGBTQ+ and Latino people?

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

The man who launched an attempted coup on the United States in 2020 and instigated an insurrection at the Capitol that resulted in five deaths now claims that people in Los Angeles are launching an insurrection. They’re not. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]

submitted 17 days ago • 64 comments

That's what bullies do all the time, BTW. Poke, punch, slap, rile up until their target tries to defend themselves and then posturing as the innocent victim. "I really don't understand why they threw a rock at me! Isn't it fucked up?!"

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

If I were fired and then got a letter telling me they changed their minds months later after they realized they fucked up

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

If you find yourself in one of those small-town dots on the map, and you are uncertain whether your actions make a statement, remember that your presence carries a significance far greater than you may realize.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Heads up if you live in Seattle, Chicago, Philly, DMV, and NYC. Be careful and know your rights. Protect each other and keep yourself safe

submitted 19 days ago • 18 comments

uhhhh... setting aside my hatred of chatGPT and the stupidity of letting a machine assess creative work: if your submissions are being scraped into chatGPT to 'assess' in the first place does this not totally negate IP protections of submissions agreement? this seems like a nightmare of liability?

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

While I fully support the #protests and this action...please, please, PLEASE-- NEVER GIVE OUT ANY PERSONAL INFO TO THESE SITES! Don't 'register'. It's unspeakably dangerous & unneccessary for anyone to have a list of protesters. NO ONE needs to know your info. Just go to the protest. #StaySafe

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Head's up for LA protestors

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This is like the AI equivalent of the Marshall Plan. They’re running out of training data (if they haven’t already) and all they have left is one company that generates it using sweat shop labor. Gotta wonder why this much money too. Soft acquisition? Who knows. It’s Saturday.

submitted 22 days ago • 6 comments

LAPD officer and wannabe tough guy Zachary Adler is completely unhinged right now. He was putting his hands on people all night and now he’s walking up to people threatening to shoot point blank. Fuck these pigs.

submitted 23 days ago • 88 comments

One of these photos is how HBO's The Watchmen depicted a fascist police force back in 2018 The others are real photos of the ICE agents who are rounding people up and disappearing them in Boston, Denver, L.A., and elsewhere

submitted 22 days ago • 66 comments

Remember this iconic photo from Ferguson? This is Edward Crawford, throwing back a tear gas canister to protect some nearby kids. Like many identified Ferguson protesters and organizers, he was "found dead" a couple years later and neither the cops nor the media will ever investigate.

submitted 22 days ago • 27 comments

If you can, help a homie out. He recently lost his home and is trying hard to make ends meet.

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Good lordy, this. this is such a common cop move that dozens with the Phoenix PD were caught passing around a challenge coin a few years ago that was referencing both a neo-Nazi slogan and shooting protesters in the groin.

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

It's also social media theater. A MASSIVE amount of "The Program" is just producing content for to reaffirm the fake-reality of "what's going on" via video package for a voter base that hasn't left the couch in Sisterbang County Trumpsyltucky since 2015.

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California representatives did a check in where migrants were being detained. They found no beds, no food and no water. Children were among the detained.

submitted 22 days ago • 274 comments

TEXANS! Dallas, Forth Worth, and more You apparently have several runoff elections Saturday!

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Yes, Mr. Roosevelt, there's a polio vaccine. Yes, sir, this man lies about vaccines. Yes, sir, we think you should embrace him. No? Okay, you're the boss. Now onto this next potential supporter. He's a car manufacturer. Yes, the fellow who did the Nazi salute. Sir, please stop yelling at me.