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If you write with AI and let it think for you then you're checking out of civilization and shouldn't be entitled to its benefits.
As it should be. The internet has put actual reading on life support and AI will do the same for thinking.
Anon Opin@anonopin.bsky.social · last wk.I work in publishing. I don't know what you've heard, but if you use an AI to write your email, cover letter, or any part of your submission, it'll go straight in the fucking bin and you'll get blacklisted. You're insulting everyone who has taken the time to learn their craft.
You don't realise when you're young how much you think about death when you're older. And you don't realise when you're young that you're no further from death when you're 17 than you are when you're 78. You just don't see it because your head's so far up your own arse.
SCAM ALERT. If you've received comms from this Govt stating that the public will have start paying companies to stop stealing & polluting drinking water... please be advised the scam is real and is being orchestrated by three parties backed by 100,000's of dollars in corporate political donations
Five reasons the new RMA bills should alarm everyone in New Zealand - Greenpeace Aotearoa
The Luxon Government has torn up the Resource Management Act (RMA) — New Zealand's core environmental law.
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The National-Act coalition are probably the most evil government that New Zealand has had since the '80s.
Greenpeace Aotearoa@greenpeace.org.nz · 2w agoLast week the Coalition Government took one step closer to replacing the Resource Management Act (RMA) when the ‘Natural Environment Bill’ passed its second reading in Parliament. The RMA is the law that has protected Aotearoa's rivers, forests, coastlines and wildlife for more than 30 years. 1/6
Rated as "mostly true" by Snopes - A review of internal documents at Anthropic, revealed they bought millions of books in bulk, with a focus on "less common" and high-quality books, to "destructively scan". But unable to confirm for other AI companies. www.snopes.com/fact-check/a...
Thought experiment: Watch Get Out again, this time thinking of race as a metaphor for sex
Sabrina Carpenter knows exactly what she's doing and she's a genius at it. She's playing the zeitgeist like a virtuoso. And she's no hypocrite. Frankly I find her terrifying. But the fact that she can win a grammy for her music proves once and for all that the grammys mean absolutely nothing.
This year is the 250th anniversary of James Watt's version of the steam engine, which essentially was the birth of the modern world, and no one breathes a word about it
I work for a major record label and am also a part time musician. I release all of my own music independently because there is literally no value in signing a record deal for any artist.
I've decided that cinema as a narrative medium is a gargantuan white elephant and always has been. A film has to be insanely good to begin to compete with the level of emotional engagement of either of the two one-woman fringe shows I've seen just this week. Absolutely wonderful.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMV... Who the hell am I supposed to vote for?
Hilarious Woke Meltdown Derails Leftist Convention
YouTube video by Amala Ekpunobi
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The Luddites' actual argument was that automated looms meant expensive, skilled workers were being replaced with literal children, who were then getting maimed and killed, and maybe this is bad.
SlacktivistFred@slacktivistfred.bsky.social · last mo.The Luddites were “clinging to horses and carts” because it was the early 19th century and cars hadn’t been invented yet.
BTW kids, your disdain for anything "old" is a function of techno-authoritarianism in that it stops you from being curious about the actual trajectory of technological development and the exponential curve of wealth/power concentration enabled by it. Your stupid fawning parents aren't helping either
If you refuse to partake of any art by someone whose behaviour past or present offends your moral sense, then you know nothing about people, culture, or history, and your opinions about art are worthless.
Reading a paper book, enjoying the way the words stir up the silt on the bottom of your mind. Asking a neighbour something you could easily look up. Experimenting with what's in your kitchen. Singing a song your mother sang to you. Playing an instrument that can't be plugged in. Acts of resistance.
Trousers, slacks, or pants are an item of clothing worn from the waist to anywhere between the knees and the ankles, covering both legs separately
When a film studio declares that their forthcoming movie is going to "cater for a modern audience", you know that it's going to be absolutely shit.
I see that we're now at the "using big words in your book is ableism" point in the degradation of media literacy. You have in your hand a device that can pull up the definition of any word, dictionaries exist. If you don't know a word, look it up. What the hell has happened to curiosity??
No one who's ever done anything of value ever claims to be streetwise