EldritchFeminity
@EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on What's the difference between a hostage and a prisoner? 6 days ago:
Hostages are taken from their homes or jobs with the express intent to threaten their lives, and exchange them for a political outcome.
While this describes them perfectly.
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 1 week ago:
And if you voted for Trump, you supported the Palestinian genocide and the genocide of American minorities through the silent violence of the oppression of Project 2025 (as well as everything else in there such as the destruction of the American educational system), increasing the global power of Russia by appointing a known Russian asset to the presidency of the US (and all the other Russian assets that he was going to put into power through his cabinet), and the murder of potentially millions of Americans through another pandemic event, like Trump did during COVID.
And if you voted for neither? You were okay with either option happening. You didn’t care enough about genocide to prevent other genocides from occurring as a consequence of the election.
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 1 week ago:
Your message is true, but your stats are off. Trump only got something like 15% of the total voting population in the US and won by like 1.5% of the vote. Studies say that historically, 60% of Americans are more liberal than the government - and that includes when Democrats have been in power.
Conservatives are a minority, and the MAGA crazies even more so. They just shout really loudly to convince everybody that they’re a majority. The real issue is that 50% or so of Americans simply don’t care enough to vote against fascism or care more about maintaining the facade of order than freedom. Like MLK said, the biggest threat to equal rights isn’t the white supremacist, but the white liberal who cares more about a negative peace than true justice.
- Comment on Thank god "shit" is censored 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Thank god "shit" is censored 2 weeks ago:
Rouge vs rogue is another good one. Also, aluminum vs ah-lu-mini-um.
- Comment on The new Hulu Subscriber agreement just dropped - Don't like ads too bad. 2 weeks ago:
According to a US judge last year, “boneless chicken wings” does not mean the chicken wings don’t have bones in them.
- Comment on What emotion is this? 3 weeks ago:
Back then the game felt much bigger
You might wanna hook your phone up to a TV then.
- Comment on 🤡🤡🤡 3 weeks ago:
I speak Tumblr, let me translate:
Royalslimefather reblogged it from knifemilf, who reblogged it from someone else. The OP could be thousands of chain reblogs down, so it doesn’t matter who. But if you go back far enough in that chain, you get to Marine biologist shitposts’s response.
The way Tumblr works is like if Twitter had comment chains instead of quote-tweeting.
- Comment on It's a good group! 4 weeks ago:
They see the part that gives them a confirmation bias and willfully ignore the rest of the message.
As the saying goes: Spread the facts on the floor like a fan, and throw away the ones that make you feel bad.
- Comment on Driver stopped in Tesla Cybertruck banned in UK 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Driver stopped in Tesla Cybertruck banned in UK 5 weeks ago:
I think this still weighs more than 28 lbs
- Comment on JeSUS 1 month ago:
So what you’re saying is… Jesus was a bottom.
- Comment on "It seems likely Elon Musk has lost over half of the UK twitter daily audience by now" 1 month ago:
But there’s a difference between a political party ignoring their constituents and a social media platform where people don’t want to interact with assholes. Social interaction, in general, is a series of echo chambers. You’re not gonna invite the MAGA asshole everybody hates to your birthday to balance out the conversation because he’ll rant about out how certain groups of people don’t deserve rights when the cake comes out. You’re gonna invite your friends who you largely agree with in your opinions and interests. We used to kick those kinds of people out all the time on the internet, and nobody had any issues with “echo chambers” back when forums were still the thing people used.
Social media isn’t some public debate floor. It’s the local pub.
- Comment on "It seems likely Elon Musk has lost over half of the UK twitter daily audience by now" 1 month ago:
It’s funny how people don’t realize that social interaction in general is largely a series of echo chambers. Your group of friends all likely share common interests and opinions, but no news correspondent is writing articles about how bad that is and how you should add a fascist or two to your New Year’s Eve party to balance it out.
Social media isn’t some public debate floor. It’s a platform for social interaction, and if nobody wants to listen to you, there’s probably a reason why. This obsession with neutrality and both sides-ism is poisoning our social relationships. Progressives not only far outnumbered conservatives in posting politics, they also far outnumbered conservatives in general. These platforms see a rise in conservative views (and then extremism) as they make more left leaning people feel unwelcome and drive them off the platform.
- Comment on There was a time when everyone had common sense 1 month ago:
- Comment on Americans Need to Party More 1 month ago:
Seriously. I read the article, and the entire time, it was just a bunch of facts that all pointed to how poor our living conditions have become under mass surveillance, the commodification of the human experience, and dwindling bank balances, with the completely wrong conclusion that people are just lazy and don’t want to be the one to throw a party.
- Comment on Anon trying understanding women 1 month ago:
Emotionally stunted men cannot tell the difference between being friendly and wanting to fuck because that’s the only strong positive emotion they were ever truly allowed to feel as kids/teenagers.
It’s a huge cultural issue, and we can all thank toxic masculinity and the patriarchy for not allowing boys to have feelings or deep platonic relationships and then growing up to misinterpret any friendly interaction as a romantic advance.
- Comment on Saint Luigi 1 month ago:
As somebody who almost went into the video game industry, I look at it the same way I look at people saying that you should buy a game “to support the devs” even if the company has all kinds of issues like not paying their workers well.
With games and movies, the workers already got paid. Whether you buy the game or not doesn’t affect the devs at triple A companies - they got paid before it shipped, and the same with movie actors. They did their job and got paid, so meme away without a care. In that sense, movies and games are the exact opposite of the generative AI issue. You wanna play the latest Ubisoft or Activision-Blizzard slop? Pirating it and somehow finding a way to slip the devs 20 bucks for the beer fund is far more helpful to them than paying $70+ for it at retail.
Memes are honestly the perfect content to make with generative AI. The only issue is that the software we have right now is made by companies taking the work of others and not giving them their due. We aren’t doing it with a profit incentive, but they are. Which puts us in a situation where people want the reward of making art without putting in the effort or paying somebody else to put in the effort. It’s like these companies are selling coloring books of stolen artwork. You can’t link back to the original artists (if you could even spot the style of one specific artist in the generated image), so you can’t even bring attention to them. Making a meme out of art posted on social media can actually be a great advertisement for the artist (so long as people know where and how to find them) because that’s often part of the reason why artists post their art on social media in the first place. They’re advertising their skills to people who want to commission artwork. When people repost art without a source, they can actively harm the original artist. I’ve seen tons of artists complain about how reposts of their work by bot accounts will get thousands of views and likes while the original post on their account will get like one hundred views.
The tech is great, but the companies making it aren’t. And by using it, you generate revenue for them and incentivize them to continue their malicious practices. Until we’re in a position where artists are being fairly compensated, we need to be mindful of where this stuff is coming from.
One of the companies that makes one of the big digital art programs partnered up with a website design company a few months ago that is using gen AI in their website template maker. But, this company has hired artists to make the stuff that they’re training the program on, and the artists get royalties out of it. That’s how it should be - the artists got paid for their efforts, they get the credit that they’re due, and nobody has to spend all day making stupid buttons for a website UI.
- Comment on Saint Luigi 1 month ago:
I like to view it in the context of the passage about the three people donating money. One wealthy man donates a large sum of money, while a man who makes an average living donates a smaller amount, and the last is an old lady who donates something akin to $1.50. In the end, Jesus declares that the old lady gave the most because she donated all that she feasibly could while the wealthy man gave what was a mere pittance of his money and the other man gave a noticeable portion of his salary, but not enough that he would miss it.
The effort and generosity behind a donation (whether of time or money) is more important than the donation itself, and that’s what the rich can’t understand. By the time you get to that level of wealth, you’ve spent so much energy in accruing wealth that you no longer have the empathy to see those around you who truly need aid, and to lose that empathy is to lose an essential part of what makes us human - a part of the divinity that exists within us.
- Comment on Saint Luigi 1 month ago:
Image generators are not an essential resource. They’re a luxury. Using that as justification to keep doing a corporation and exploiting the working class just makes you a class traitor for convenience who doesn’t want to feel guilty about it. Like buying stuff from Amazon or Starbucks right now while their workers are both in the middle of massive strikes.
Some consumption is less ethical than others. If you wouldn’t buy stuff made in sweatshops, then why are you okay with putting artists in the same position? Until we get image generators that are open source and pay artists to use their work, we should stand with our fellow working class in solidarity.
- Comment on the amount of slop saying "wait till the end" is too damn high 1 month ago:
It’s like the TikTok equivalent of YouTube clickbait titles and thumbnails. I don’t even use TikTok, but I can hear the stilted AI lady voiceover saying, “Wait Until The End. You Won’t Believe The Transformation.”
- Comment on Saint Luigi 1 month ago:
It’s easily missed, especially in the form of text. There’s too many people who believe crazier things to not take stuff at face value, I know.
- Comment on Saint Luigi 1 month ago:
It’s a tool made unethically. Just because corporations use sweat shop labor doesn’t mean we should, too. The Screen Actors Guild has been on strike for weeks now demanding contracts for jobs that ensure that their performances won’t be used to train AI models to replace them. Would you cross the picket line and use an AI Harrison Ford?
Open source LLMs or those trained on ethically sourced data are awesome. OpenAI saying that they would go bankrupt if they can’t steal copyrighted material for their training data is not. Unless they end up getting into trouble for pissing off Disney and going bankrupt. That would be hilarious.
- Comment on Saint Luigi 1 month ago:
Made using a tool created by stealing the effort of the working class. Giving it a pass is like giving Temu a pass on working conditions and pay because it’s just cheap garbage.
- Comment on Saint Luigi 1 month ago:
Obviously. But we’re talking about a made-up saint here, not the actual man himself.
In the same way that I didn’t actually bother downvoting, I figured it was in the spirit of the meme to present it the same way people attribute their values to Jesus.
But it is important to remind people how these current iterations of generative AI are damaging to the livelihoods of working-class people. The goals of the companies making these are the same as UHC - the violence is just more silent and slower paced.
- Comment on Saint Luigi 1 month ago:
Downvoted for AI. Luigi would be very disappointed in the use of a tool built by exploiting and abusing the working class.
- Comment on it's big with all the kids, they're calling it "Karting" 2 months ago:
Are you a friend of Dorothy?
- Comment on Bad Ports 2 months ago:
Fun fact that may or may not be true: The left side of a ship used to be called “larboard” (to go with starboard) because that’s where the larder was - where the food was stored, and this was supposedly changed to port because that’s also where the wine was stored and it was both easier to say and easier to identify as being different from starboard.
Another fun unverified nautical fact: The word shit originated as an acronym for the storage of cow manure during transport at sea - Store High In Transit. Dried cow pies apparently have…violent reactions to salt water.
- Comment on Bumper sticker 2 months ago:
How long you’ve been taking hormones is the important part. How long you’ve lived as amab only really matters until a certain point, as it’s very difficult to maintain muscle mass from before you started hormones. And afab people have to build up muscle mass even when they start taking testosterone.
And yes, not every trans person is taking hormones or even will. But I have yet to hear of a single example of a trans person in regulated sports who wasn’t competing in the division of their gender while on HRT. Even the preteen kids were on puberty blockers.
- Comment on Bumper sticker 2 months ago:
Accurate.
