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Freaky fucker............................................. Socialist sicko...........................................

[gnapist]

As this empire day ends, let us be reminded of all the people who will otherwise claim to be fundamentally critical of police who nonetheless immediately accepted the narrative provided by them when they arrested Luigi Mangione under the only premise that his clothes and chin look similar to the one captured on security cameras.

Like, it doesn't matter if killing the CEO was good or not, or if he's indeed guilty or not: you shouldn't assume someone is guilty just because they got arrested, and you shouldn't believe police when they say they got the guy that committed a specific crime because, very often, they didn't.

[tpwrtrmnky]

"Whether someone understands it or not, these are the consequences of the political views they're espousing" is a pretty important analysis tool for online movements because quite honestly, over half of everyone engaging in politics online have no foundations for the stuff they're saying and are just saying whatever makes them feel like a member of an in-group.

[tpwrtrmnky]

If your in-group is "the left" you're very much not immune to this. In fact, trying to do left-wing politics without even trying to build a foundational political understanding is a great way to end up as a neo-nazi with a tumblr accent rather than an effective left-wing advocate.

[gnapist]

Many such cases, and I've been pointing this out for years

[ms-demeanor]

milcl (man i love copyright law)

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or sincere but either way mickey mouse isn't going to fuck you.

[ms-demeanor]

milrwjamudcacaltdartsfhtlaodwarbopagkbaapm (man i love remembering when jstor and mit used draconian copyright and computer access laws to drive a researcher to suicide for his totally legal access of documents written and researched by other people and gate kept by an academic publishing monopoly)

[publiusmaximum]

It's really too bad he didn't steal all that work and feed it into an LLM. He'd be a billionaire if he had.

[ms-demeanor]

I mean one of the foundational points of Swartz's activisim is that from an open access perspective, he wouldn't have been stealing if he had downloaded all of those documents and trained an LLM on them. And doing so would not have broken any laws (just like downloading them wasn't breaking any laws and wasn't even a ToS violation for either MIT or JSTOR at the time).

I think there's a reasonable argument to be made that Swartz was planning to use the documents for some kind of data project that might have eventually looked like an LLM and if I'm being perfectly honest I think we'd be in a less shitty world if someone with Aaron's beliefs about freedom of information was at the forefront of LLM development.

[nobrashfestivity]

Via amandapourlesintimes

[ms-demeanor]

milcl (man i love copyright law)

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or sincere but either way mickey mouse isn't going to fuck you.

[ms-demeanor]

milrwjamudcacaltdartsfhtlaodwarbopagkbaapm (man i love remembering when jstor and mit used draconian copyright and computer access laws to drive a researcher to suicide for his totally legal access of documents written and researched by other people and gate kept by an academic publishing monopoly)

[ms-demeanor]

No actually the core of my argument here is that data scraping is good actually and information wants to be free and it's more important that we guarantee protection for the right to access and use and transform information than it is to strengthen copyright for any reason.

[gnapist]

Copyright doesn't stop scraping for AI because it's a failure but because it's a feature. Just like murder law stops you from killing your rapist husband but doesn't stop farmers from poisoning rivers causing hundreds of human deaths plus decades of environmental damage.

But that's what yall aspire to, don't you? Like every little musk fanboy you think you can self-made-genius your way to stardom and be able to walk all over others by emulating and praising the worst actors. Like when Disney (objectively now the most creatively bankrupt company in the world) tried to sue openai for encroaching on its precious brand recognition ...only to then try to invest on Sora before it was deprecated.

[soundclown]

[teethwreath]

[cal3ris]

is this gonna get me fired you think

[gnapist]

That's not a thing that happens at work, though. Unless you really can't tell the difference

[fuckyeahmexico]

En México persiste una “grave crisis” de personas desaparecidas, pues desde el inicio del Mundial de Futbol, el pasado 11 de junio, a la fecha se han registrado más de mil 200 nuevos casos, denunciaron familiares que buscan a sus seres queridos.

Al concluir sus jornadas de movilización para visibilizar esta problemática en el marco de la justa deportiva, madres, hijas, hermanos y padres señalaron que, mientras el “Estado mexicano busca proyectar una imagen de fiesta y modernidad, el país y ellas continúan enfrentando una grave crisis de inseguridad y desapariciones”.

En un mensaje pronunciado en la Glorieta del Ahuehuete, al dar lectura a un documento, recriminaron la desaparición de tres jóvenes de entre 14 y 15 años en Guadalajara el pasado 30 de junio, “a plena luz del día, en calles abarrotadas de gente festejando. Asimismo, desde que inició el Mundial tenemos más de mil 200 desapariciones en el país”.

Más información en jornada.com.mx

[fuckyeahmexico]

Al menos cuatro personas murieron durante las celebraciones de la Copa Mundial en Ciudad de México después de que miles de aficionados al fútbol llenaran las calles para celebrar la victoria de la selección mexicana.

Un hombre de 44 años y dos mujeres, de 19 y 48 años, fueron encontrados inconscientes en la colonia Juárez, cerca del centro de la ciudad, según declaraciones del secretario de Salud Pública de Ciudad de México. Más tarde se determinó que habían fallecido por asfixia, dijeron las autoridades. También falleció un hombre de unos 30 años y cuya identidad aún se desconoce, tras sufrir ataques epilépticos y una hemorragia digestiva.

Las víctimas fueron halladas en calles laterales cercanas al monumento del Ángel de la Independencia, en el Paseo de la Reforma, una zona donde se reunieron miles de aficionados después de que México derrotara a Ecuador y se clasificara para los octavos de final del Mundial de fútbol.

[itsybitsyjoltik]

we can’t keep letting him get away with this

[prokopetz]

If there's one piece of advice I'd give to folks in the US running Kickstarter campaigns, it's that if you're shipping rewards to Canada, please just send them via regular post if you possibly can. Outfits like UPS and DHL charge absurd fees to the recipient for every little thing when shipping from the US to Canada. I just got charged $40 CAD in "processing fees" to receive a package because DHL had to collect $4 CAD in sales tax.

[prokopetz]

"Isn't that just customs" nope. If a parcel arrives with $20 in customs and duties due, DHL will collect the $20 from you, then charge you an extra $80 for filing the paperwork on your behalf. Those amounts are not an exaggeration!

[prokopetz]

I don't necessarily agree that Susie Deltarune having a YA fantasy bildungsroman arc while literally everyone she knows is an active suicide risk is a genre disconnect, per se, since a lot of YA fantasy is genuinely Like That, but I'll grant that we don't usually see it from this particular angle.

[feyd-rautha-apologist]

Kris: I feel intensely alienated from the people around me, everything I do is constricted by several layers of obligation and whenever I try regain some tiny degree of agency over myself it's actively killing me

Noelle: I feel so stuck in place and unable to deviate from the role I've been assigned that I'm willing to literally kill myself just to prove I can change something about my life

Susie: Even if it's scary, I have to learn to make friends and be myself, and to hope for a better future!

Ralsei: I can't allow myself to think of myself as truly alive because otherwise I will never be able to cope with the knowledge that I'll never get to live the life I want to live

[jerrycummblr-deactivated2025012]

It's really simple. If you're born with a vagina and you naturally have elevated testosterone levels, you're a man. If you have a vagina and you take testosterone, you're a woman. But also if you have a vagina, you'll never be a man. But also if you have higher testosterone then you were never a woman. Woman never yes man a vagina testosterone no was an elevated. Vagina man.

[son-of-crows-and-rats]

[happyroadkillart]

I didn’t wanna let America’s big 250 pass without a classic roadkill political comic . For people who don’t keep up with the news or don’t get the allegory erm imagine the lollipop is oil and the baby is a baby, but from a different country

[389]

[plotzlich]

[gnapist]

Lying to yourself is significantly easier than lying to others because yourself doesn't question yourself.

It's not that hard, most of the times someone says "I don't get..." it's more on the speaker not making the effort, rather than the thing they don't get being some cosmic contrivance. Make a better effort, or learn from the people who did.

Sometimes it even takes a conscientious effort to not understand something because you lie to yourself to make it more complicated or ignore things that you can see or things that you've yourself done. Like what does "everything they once spoke and did" have to do with lying to themselves? That sounds more like the description of someone who has changed their views on things; meanwhile, people who lie to themselves often do so to avoid the same. Perhaps this is the argument of someone who doesn't believe people can change for both better or worse and thinks that a person displaying that change is playing some trick on them?

[shock]

the wording on this Jack russell vid beamed a permanent mark onto my brain