It’s not difficult to hold two ideas simultaneously:

X is important (because people decided to make it that way)

X shouldn’t be important (and wouldn’t be, if people hadn’t made it that way)

Promise you won’t use it.

“Kamala is not American” is coming.

She spent several years in Canada, so we have Canadian yearbook photos. And if conservatives can say Barack Obama is not American, and anti-immigrant sentiment is rising, they will definitely do it about her.

As the most powerful nation, literally nobody can stop us from being this stupid.

But in the event of a fascist takeover, please do try.

I really like how those first two are basic science, but somebody was actually able to innovate them into doing something useful.

I wish more technology was like this, and not whatever the crypto/metaverse/NFT/AI people are doing (mostly mistaking fluff for innovation)

Are you talking about an artist exclusively running their images through an AI model until it is capable of regenerating images that look like it was created by them and have some semblance of intent?

In order to get anything that looks remotely like what people want, I’m pretty sure they would have to upload millions of pictures of their own creation first. So most people just layer their images on top of the giant mash of ethically sketchy data that already was there.

The edit is a nice touch.

I probably should have said “inverse” or “reverse” instead, couldn’t come up with the right word for that at the time, sorry

And the opposite reverse is true, which I think is more interesting: the average Democrat voter is to the left, probably far to the left, of Biden on several things (the border, Israel, and marijuana legalization all come to mind).

They’re starting to roll ads into AI-generated comments, and are selling off user data. It really does suck.

Even if you adopt hardline Marxism-Leninism-Maoism as an ideology, the modern state of China has applied so much pro-capitalist revisionism to it that it’s a shell of its former self. Today, Maoist parties are suppressed in China.

I’m not a Maoist by a long shot, but I can at least appreciate the fact that the ones shouting “revisionism!” the most are the ones who have most bastardized their own texts.

All of these roll off my back except for the one slur that leftists use against leftists: “liberal”

Do you percolate

Username checks out.

So does domain name

Western standards are extremely far-reaching.

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Do mod records get federated separately, or did OP just miss the record?

Do mod actions actually federate this differently from subreddit visibility? That’s strange and interesting.

TVTropes but with a very boring game of blackjack

https://www.reddit.com/r/tvtropes/comments/c0n9rh/all_the_tropes/