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I am a child from G@za. This is my childhood, as you can see in the picture. I am not just a number. I am a 16-year-old child living a real, endless nightmare. While you sleep, we are counting the shrapnel.

ahmed-motaz

The b0mbing hasn't stopped. A b0mb falls around our dilapidated camp every day. Every night, we hear the sound of shrapnel tearing through our tent and the neighboring tents, piercing the walls of our tent. We pray to survive until morning.

ahmed-motaz

It's not just the elderly who are suffering from the b0mbing. I also suffer from chronic anemia and other illnesses. I am forced to "scream in pain, and my condition worsens day after day due to the restrictions imposed to obtain the necessary medications." The medications are very rare and unavailable; their cost is exorbitant, and I cannot afford them.

ahmed-motaz

I am threatened with de@th due to disability and lack of medication caused by the b0mbing, which threatens to kill me. Please h@lp me and my family by d0nating so that our tent can be repaired and I can buy the medication for my illness and save my life. Please stand with us.

ahmed-motaz

Guys, I'm scared right now and I can't stop crying because of the pain in my bones and the terrible headache. The night is unbearable and won't let me sleep. I'm also afraid of losing a family member or dying from the shelling and shrapnel falling on our tent. Please h@lp me by d0nating so I can buy my medication and repair our tent. Please d0nate.

save-child-ronza

OH MY GOD... OH MY GOD... OH MY GOD...

I don't want to lose her, please don't let my sister slip away from me!

save-child-ronza

Hello everyone, it's me, Zeina. I'm back again.

I have lost everything... I lost the donation account set up for her treatment, and I lost my Tumblr accounts that brought together all her supporters and our friends. Oh God, I don’t want to lose her after all this pain.

save-child-ronza

She's fighting severe anemia and acute malnutrition right now, We can't afford the cost of her treatment, and the occupation has destroyed medicine warehouses and is preventing medical supplies from entering through the crossings. I stand beside her bed completely helpless, watching her grow weaker and fade away before my eyes every passing minute.

save-child-ronza

I am begging you... I am a child in Gaza, watching my sister die before my eyes, unable to stop it. Donate now and help me save her life before it's too late. Share her story and help us reach the new GoFundMe account to support her. Please... please don't leave Ronza to suffer alone.

save-child-ronza

Donate if you can please please!!!

She's being so big and brave.

kaijufluffs

The long awaited sequel.

evilnicegirl

recently my plug has offered free weed for:

bunch of ice

mw2 double xp tokens

evilnicegirl

new fetch quest dropped

evilnicegirl

loth-caatgirl

herpsandbirds

Hummingbird Clearwing Moth (Hemaris thysbe), family Sphingidae, Indiana, USA

photograph by Adam Wilson

jmfenner91

I'm SO excited to finally share these pieces I created for D&D's Ravenloft: The Horrors Within.

This project was such a huge honor to work on. I remember as a kid looking through the players manuals & doing little studies of the artwork in there, so this feels a bit full-circle. You can get a peek at higher-res versions of them on my insta!

dark-winged-doppelganger

Heyyyyyy magnusssss

infezmite

ot3

when people say stuff like "you need to have hobbies that aren't media" i agree with the letter of it, because i think that you have to have at least one or two tactile hobbies to stop you from descending into madness. but its never actually about that it always comes with the smug, condescending implication that media is a kind of consolation prize for people who aren't able to have Real interests. and its just like. well i actually do think the collective body of books, film, plays, television, comics, and video games produced by the human race is vast and meaningful enough that a life spent mostly picking through it and reflecting on it could be perfectly fulfilling

ladylyra

We can have a little worldbuilding as a treat

communistkenobi

everyone rightfully complains about how the r word is back in vogue now but I think the people talking about how using ChatGPT makes you a small brained lazy degenerate are getting off way too easy

communistkenobi

“hey don’t use eugenics language to describe a thing you don’t like”

“wow I can’t believe you’re defending the thing I don’t like”

black-market-wd4o

In language that's sufficiently non-adjacent to eugenics, having generative ai retrieve (usually surface-level, incomplete or just plain wrong and always plagiarized) information and format it for you has been shown in studies to inhibit retention and comprehension, since you aren't doing the work yourself. This is bad because 1) people aren't acquiring the skills and knowledge they need, 2) incomplete knowledge translates to shoddy work and long-term information/skill decay, 3) depleting your own skills puts you at a disadvantage with your employer when it comes to fair pay and work conditions, 4) concentrating your ability to know or do anything in the hands of for-profit data-scraping companies that exist to steal wages and shield the corporate world from accountability is stupid. Sorry, foolish.

communistkenobi

you’re not the first person to say something like this on this post, but it wildly misses the point - people being reactionary are not making an otherwise reasonable argument but just using incorrect language to do so, they’re just being reactionary. calling people who use a chatbot mental degenerates isn’t some misguided attempt to raise awareness about neurological health lmao. the people who say things like this are using fascist language to make a fascist argument about the defective intelligence of people they view as mentally inferior to them for using a technology they don’t like. treating those sentiments as otherwise reasonable is just arguing for a “rational” form of eugenics logic. stop saying shit like this on this post

communistkenobi

how do you see a post telling people to stop using fascist language to talk about AI and respond with yeah we actually need to talk about disability more seriously :/ genuinely what the fuck is wrong with all of you people

copperbadge

Public Instagram users, heads up -- Meta just made your images available for AI use.

This reached me through a newsletter I subscribe to (Daily Tech Insider -- I don't know that I recommend it, it's kind of spammy, but does occasionally provide useful intel on AI) and I couldn't find a public version of it to link to so I'mma just copypaste the newsletter's content here:

Meta just launched Muse Image, its new AI image generator, across Instagram, WhatsApp, and the Meta AI app. It edits photos, generates social-ready images, and powers new Instagram Stories effects. Public Instagram accounts are automatically eligible for AI remixing. Someone can tag a public profile and create new images using that person's photos. Meta says users can opt out (currently only on mobile), but the default leaves photos in play. Worse, users aren't notified when AI content is created with their material, and opting out won't delete images that already exist. Meta is, however, applying an invisible "Content Seal" watermark to track AI origins, and a detection tool is available online for anyone to check images.

The detection tool is actually slightly useful, in that if you want to check if an image is AI generated you can pop it in there, but it will only tell you if it was AI generated through Muse Image. According to Meta, "Images created by Muse Image in the Meta AI app [...] carry a hidden provenance signal that stays intact — even when cropped, compressed, resized, or screenshotted." Which honestly just means that anyone seeking to use AI images for nefarious purposes won't use Meta, and we'll see how long the content seal protocol lasts before Meta wants higher traffic and does away with it.