Being entitled to equal rights doesn’t mean they actually get them. It also doesn’t account for the fact that many Palestinians are denied citizenship or remain in occupied territories controlled by Israel and explicitly not guaranteed equal rights

The comprehensive report, Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime against Humanity, sets out how massive seizures of Palestinian land and property, unlawful killings, forcible transfer, drastic movement restrictions, and the denial of nationality and citizenship to Palestinians are all components of a system which amounts to apartheid under international law. This system is maintained by violations which Amnesty International found to constitute apartheid as a crime against humanity, as defined in the Rome Statute and Apartheid Convention.

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So Federation lets you move your data, but that’s it? It still has global moderation and from what it sounds like all accounts are still dependent on the original BlueSky server to login. So if it goes down, doesn’t that just take all servers with it?

1. You’re literally commenting on an article about AI image generation having to be shut down because it’s not going well
2. Pets.com also advertised at the Super Bowl, it doesn’t mean much other than spending a lot of money

So is there an “AI is going just great” website yet like there is for Web3?

I did read the full article and am not convinced.

1. The entire thing is predicated on the idea that TikTok is a feminizing, intelligence-destroying superweapon that can single handedly bring down civilizations (the only evidence cited are spurious correlations that treat IQ as a real science)

2. Even if you take that as the average view of the US in China, it’s still a leap to say they are, either actively or passively, planning the downfall of the US when the two countries are so entwined. It’s just more US vs China fearmongering

3. While he does say that TikTok needs to be regulated, nowhere does he advocate for larger scale curtailing of capitalism, and in fact ties all of his negative authoritarian points to socialism. It’s singling out TikTok for the larger sins of an unregulated tech industry

TL;DR: right-wing hand-wringing over the app “turning the kids trans and lowering their IQ”

The author also has articles defending Israel and complaining about “woke ideology” if you need any more reason to skip it

I’ve been happily using Mastodon but most of the users I followed on the old site went to BlueSky instead. There’s no other way to keep up with them without it, and it sure as hell is better than Twitter these days

CEO pay is so ridiculous, there’s obviously no way they’re going to self regulate so we need to either tie it to worker pay/well-being or put it under the control of their employees

That’s to be expected. What remains to be seen is how many of them will stick around after the initial surge.

As Randall Munroe would put it, duty calls

I’ve seen estimates that it costs $30+ dollars per month per user to run these AI models. And that doesn’t even include how expensive it is to build and train these systems. I imagine this is what will ruin the appeal of AI for a lot of people, as right now we’re in the honeymoon phase where a bunch of it is free or low cost but as they raise prices it’ll get less appealing.

Seconding SmartTube, it’s also just straight up better than the YouTube app on top of the adblocking

Legitimately thought this was from the Onion

You’d have a point if the printing presses only put out randomized, meaningless chicken scratch, but instead you’re conflating how art is presented with the art itself.

Prompting a machine isn’t creating art any more than commissioning an artist is creating art. Writers still had to actually write books to print, AI removes everything between the initial idea and the final product.

The printing press didn’t change the text inside the books and made books widely available to the public. Art is already everywhere, we don’t need AI to have enough of it and it fundamentally replaces what is actually good about art.

augment their production quality

Lmao

And Tamagotchis weren’t ugly as sin either!

Web 360, because when you see it you’ll turn 360 degrees and walk away

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