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A lot of people will agree that the proliferation and normalization of conspiracy theories in American society is dangerous and erodes our social fabric until you point out their emotional support conspiracy theory falls into that category. That's when you get very indignant people insisting they akshewally came to this conclusion based on Facts and Logic that "they" don't want you to know about.
the problem with israel is that they had so much goodwill following oct 7 because it was really such a horrific attack. all they had to do was respond more or less in kind and then sit back down and everything would be great. but no, they just couldn't stop killing and invading all their neighbours, and then that wasn't enough and they are just pissing off half the world for no good reason. like idk i think it's so easy not to accept stolen ukrainian grain from russia. the first time they were like oh you were too late to tell us this grain was stolen (ukraine was not too late). but now it's the second time already, and they started with "you did not tell us" (did too, and also this is literally the second time), then moved on to "you told us but there's no proof it's true" (there is lmao), and finally just ended up with "fuck you, don't tell us we can't buy stolen grain from russia and therefore finance their war against you". like literally i just think it is so easy not to do these things. and yet
...These are a lot of words for "I hate Israel but not the Joos I'm not a Nazi!"
Also "killing and invading their neighbors?" Did you not know Hezbollah and Hamas were the ones to attack Israel in the first place, after Israel had given them time and time again, the chance to not be psychotic Jew haters? Hamas were given resources and cash and what did they do with it? Initiate the worst attack on the Jewish people since the holocaust.
Hezbollah made the north's life a living hell for decades and you expect Israel to show them any goodwill?
I will ask you this- will I see you condemn Iran or North Korea for doing far worse? For executing innocent civilians or legalizing rape?
lmaooooo
the problem with israel is that they had so much goodwill following oct 7 because it was really such a horrific attack. all they had to do was respond more or less in kind and then sit back down and everything would be great
ALLL THEY HAD TO DO was murder and rape and behead and dismember and kidnap children just like my little blorbos!!!!!!! THEN no one would hate them [for waging a war they did not start, endangering their own soldiers in attempts to minimize civilian casualties, using taxpayer funds to provide aid they KNOW will be used to hurt them, spending millions providing healthcare to those who orchestrate the murder of jews (and their allies)]
do you hear yourselves.
Good will?????? WHERE?! There were anti Israel protests onmy campus calling it a genocide on OCTOBER 10th!!!! Israeli retaliation didn’t even BEGIN until October 12th. What planet are you on????
People were celebrating while the October 7th attacks were still underway.
Fuck off
“Jews are eating kids! you’re a Jew, I smell the kids!” very normal world we’re living in.
combatantisemitism:
NYC, May 31, 2026: A 23 year old Jewish woman sent CAM footage of her assault on a subway train.
The incident began around 2:15 PM when a woman started speaking about Jews “stealing wealth” before turning her attention to her. The woman then told her she could “smell the babies” she had eaten and repeatedly yelled that “Jews eat babies,” a centuries old antisemitic blood libel.
The encounter quickly turned violent. The victim was choked, thrown to the ground, punched, beaten, and had her hair ripped out as passengers attempted to intervene too late.
A New York woman captured on video the moment she says she was assaulted on the C train in Manhattan last weekend.
An antisemitic straphanger targeted a Jewish rider on a Big Apple subway Sunday, shouting in the packed train car “Jews are eating kids,” ac
Oh my fucking god??
“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”
— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech
Personally I hate AI because it uses slave labor, is killing the planet and is making people stupid, but that's just me. The soulless art aspect is just one little piece of my grander disdain.
wait how does AI use slave labor? Do you mean the human works that are stolen and not credited or compensated? Because technically under capitalism everything is exploited but there are varying degrees
Aside from the scraping, AI tech companies, including openAI/chatGPT, have outsourced training their models to countries in the global south, specifically Kenya in openAI's case. These workers are working in sweatshop conditions for less than 2 bucks USD per hour. I'm on mobile, but if you search 'openAI Kenya slave labor' and related keywords, you can find multiple articles about it.
Training AI takes a heavy toll on Kenyan workers, who say they earned $2 an hour to label and sift through gruesome content for American com
I think about this so goddamn often. Even the good uses are trained on slave labor.
Wambalo and other digital workers spent eight hours a day in front of a screen studying photos and videos, drawing boxes around objects and labeling them, teaching AI algorithms to recognize them. Human labelers tag cars and pedestrians to teach autonomous vehicles not to hit them. Humans circle abnormalities in CTs, MRIs and X-rays to teach AI to recognize diseases. Even as AI gets smarter, humans in the loop will always be needed because there will always be new devices and inventions that'll need labeling.
Humans in the loop are found not only in Kenya, but also in India, the Philippines and Venezuela. They're often countries with low wages but large populations — well educated, but unemployed.
The pay for humans in the loop is $1.50-2 an hour. "And that is gross, before tax," Wambalo said. Wambalo, Nathan Nkunzimana and Fasica Berhane Gebrekidan were employed by SAMA, an American outsourcing company that hired for Meta and OpenAI. SAMA, based in the California Bay Area, employed over 3,000 workers in Kenya. Documents reviewed by 60 Minutes show OpenAI agreed to pay SAMA $12.50 an hour per worker, much more than the $2 the workers actually got, though SAMA says what it paid is a fair wage for the region.
It's destroying the environment. It's taking advantage of people who're desperate. It's traumatizing them for dollars an hour--if they're lucky and they aren't denied their pay for no reason. I think about this a lot, that these people were made to look at awful and disgusting and illegal things for the sake of training these stupid AI.
"I looked at people being slaughtered," Wambalo said. "People engaging in sexual activity with animals. People abusing children physically, sexually. People committing suicide." Berhane Gebrekidan thought she'd been hired for a translation job, but she said what she ended up doing was reviewing content featuring dismembered bodies and drone attack victims.
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SAMA says mental health counseling was provided by "fully-licensed professionals." Workers say it was woefully inadequate.
It's just absurd and disgusting and infuriating. Yes the good applications are worth humans working on. It's not a bad thing--if the people employed to do the work are compensated appropriately and cared for. But so many of the uses are just unnecessary.
It just. Sucks. And all they'd have to do to make it suck just a litte bit less would be to pay people appropriately, give them access to the counseling needs they have, treat them like human beings worthy of respect and care on a basic fucking level. It wouldn't resolve the environmental issues or the fact that people are thinking less and less for themselves in the name of getting all of their answers from gen AI but at least they could do one thing to make it a little less The Worst Thing Ever.
I feel like every day I learn a new reason why AI is terrible
.....okay, call me crazy.
But how possible would it be to train crows to do this in exchange for food? We know they can be trained, we know they understand transactions, and we know they can complete tasks.
That seems like at least in some places it could be desirable.
Jonathan Joss was an Indigenous, gay man who was murdered on the first day of Pride month as well as Indigenous History Month. He died protecting his trans husband. Homophobia and racism aren’t marks of the past, and this is a heart breaking reminder of that.
Praying for a safe journey back to the spirit world, Uncle ❤️🩹🦅
Today is the anniversary of the death of Jonathan Joss (King of the Hill, Parks and Rec). Jonathan Joss was an Indigenous, gay man who died protecting his transgender husband, on the first day of Pride month. Today we remember him and how he protected his family.
Reblog if you are a human rights extremist who believes that all humans are equal and has no sense of loyalty to nation states.
nasa to the artemis crew: right no pit stops at jupiter alright? moon and back
artemis: no worries
nasa when they return: so how was it
artemis crew, suspiciously stupider than before: how was what
october 2025 • the lake district
some of you people are so annoying. i mean me too but good lord
I bring a real 'actually people who are pregnant do deserve some special consideration because they are effectively at least temporarily disabled if not permanently after some complications' vibe to the party that a lot of people don't seem to like
are you “adaptable” or are you just willing to subject yourself to existing in low key background-level ambient misery
these are different things btw. actual adaptability means not dealing with being miserable long term. and being constantly mildly annoyed/frustrated with a situation but being “able to deal with it” counts as ambient misery. btw.
let this be your sign to make your life just a little more livable. get a dollar store trash can for your bedside so Cup City’s invasion plans fall through. block a tag or post that makes you grind your teeth every time you see it. get some grip pads so your bed stops sliding across the hardwood a little bit every time you get in it. tell that person you need a little more support. if you get annoyed at a situation more than a couple times, change it. don’t be content with being miserable.
and the more that you start doing this, the better you will get at detecting your own feelings and advocating for yourself! This is an important start to being more of a person in the world if you struggle with that
“We left rhetoric about Jews poisoning wells in the Middle Ages!”
Modern rhetoric:
Bank of England are letting you vote for what animals you want on their new bank notes: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/help-us-design-our-next-series-of-banknotes
Pine martens are an option!
PINE MARTENS??!?
Oh my god, you can choose up to two from each category:
HOW CAN I NARROW THIS DOWN
