#educate yourselves

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[longliveblackness]

On January 1, 1830, North Carolina enacted legislation making it a crime to teach any enslaved person to read or write. The law included:

• Fines for anyone (Black or white) caught teaching literacy to enslaved people.

• Specific penalties for distributing abolitionist materials, which authorities feared could spark rebellion.

This law was part of a wave of anti-literacy laws passed across the South after events like: The 1829 publication of David Walker’s Appeal — a radical antislavery text written by a free Black man and Nat Turner’s Rebellion in 1831, which further intensified white fears and led to even harsher restrictions afterward.

Teaching enslaved people to read was seen as dangerous because literacy:

• Enabled communication and organizing.

• Allowed access to abolitionist writings.

• Empowered enslaved people to challenge their legal and social conditions.

Enslavers knew literacy was power — which is why Black communities pursued it despite the risks.

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El 1 de enero de 1830, Carolina del Norte decretó una ley que tipificaba como delito enseñar a leer o escribir a cualquier persona esclavizada. La ley incluía:

• Multas para cualquier persona (negra o blanca) que fuera encontrada enseñando a leer y escribir a personas esclavizadas.

• Sanciones específicas por distribuir material abolicionista, ya que las autoridades temían que esto podría causar una rebelión.

Esta ley formaba parte de una ola de leyes contra la alfabetización aprobadas en todo el sur tras acontecimientos como: la publicación en 1829 llamada La Apelación de David Walker, un texto radical contra la esclavitud escrito por un hombre negro libre y la rebelión de Nat Turner en 1831, la cual intensificó aún más los temores de las personas blancas y dio lugar a restricciones aún más severas.

Enseñar a leer a las personas esclavizadas se consideraba peligroso porque la alfabetización:

• Permitía la comunicación y la organización.

• Permitía el acceso a escritos abolicionistas.

• Empoderaba a las personas esclavizadas para que desafiaran sus condiciones legales y sociales.

Los esclavistas sabían que la alfabetización era poder, por lo que las comunidades negras la buscaban a pesar de los riesgos.

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Must be stopped.

[empireofthestates]

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[greenwichtraders]

Let this be so.

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Just a reminder...

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[aci25]

The rice canister has returned to demonstrate how hard our tax dollars work for everyone except for us.

To understand what your government is doing with American taxpayers' money, everyone—Republicans or Democrats alike—needs to watch this. With all of this corruption, money wasted on pointless wars, deteriorating U.S. infrastructure, a lack of universal healthcare, and rising living expenses, ENOUGH is ENOUGH. WAKE UP, AMERICA!

[j3llyflesh]

Just gonna make something clear here.

As an artist, I guess this whole situation is making me a lot more emotive on the matter, but I've reached a point where I don't give a fuck if I come off as dramatic for it.

If you use AI in any capacity, get off my page, unfollow me, and block me.

Some of you using AI to code, fill in gaps for cc, or literally just writing ideas for gameplay/cc is a new level of laziness that needs to be studied at this rate. If you're using AI to code, you've officially just admitted to everyone you couldn't give less of a shit about putting poorly/unchecked coded files into other people's games. DO tell me how you're going to fix them in upcoming updates. Is the AI code gonna be able to work around the absolute spaghetti-shite code that is Sims 4?

If you're using ai to generate swatches for your cc or to fill in gaps you don't want to do, congrats. You're just proving to people that you've lost the love of the game with this stuff and just wanna pump shit out for the sake of pumping shit out. Is burnout a thing? Yep! Absolutely. I've had it multiple times. Taking a break and changing your scenery is the solution, not half-assing your work and serving it on a questionable plate. If you plan a piece of cc with the intention to skip so many of those steps, are you sure you even wanna make it in the first place? If you're using ai to give you ideas for gameplay or cc. I legit have nothing tame to say to you. Pinterest is free and scrolling on here to find gameplay ideas is...... -checks notes-, also free. Play another game if this one is currently making you creatively bankrupt.

The fact that I have to double-check almost everything I download now is a little sad. I'm seeing an influx of creators who used to make their stuff A to Z from scratch, now filling in gaps of their work with AI, which tells me that they're completely fine with just giving that kind of quality for players who have loved and (in some cases) supported their work for YEARS. It's distasteful.

What happened to making/creating stuff here for the genuine sake of just, having fun? Never in a million years would I ask chatgpt to give me a mesh to texture, because the idea of learning to make it, falling face flat a couple of times from failing, and eventually getting it right is unironically the most human and artistically pleasant part of it.

Don't come into my comments going "if its not your thing just ignore it". You're right, and I will. But I will also choose to publicly shame the people using a 'tool' that is currently taking away jobs, polluting our air, destroying people's neighborhoods, ridding areas of their clean water, causing people psychoses back and forth, AND statistically making us dumber.

Wake up and educate yourselves, or rot into the delusion. I'm done being tame about this topic.