It’s too stressful to worry about divesting from everything all the time. We do our best here in the swamp
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We shouldn’t be integrating AI into our lives though. AI sucks.
I concur, though my job has me integrating some open ai into our software. Not much I can do besides so what they like, bit of transcription and summary.
Had a coworker give me replies from gpt for an issue . I could tell easily because I had worked with similar data for years (parsing PBX data for calls) and knew the reply had errors. Like I know I can have issues parsing our data sometimes but it was insulting he gave an AI reply. So I nicely pointed out all the errors in the reply saying I assumed it was from ai. Mean did it nicely he was trying to help (and is a really nice dude) but still I know how to google and sift as well as ai probably does. And if I get the answer I remember it due due to the work I did.
Delete all your accounts, and tell all your friends and family to do the same. Refuse and reject any service designed to fixate your attention. You won't miss them, most people alive today lived in a world without their influence.
I have no great love for the current administration and nor do I agree with most of its policies.
But I'm definitely going to have to see a source on the claims mentioned in this post.
Are you an idiot or have you not been paying attention?
This isn't "I need a source" type stuff. They aren't hiding this...they just aren't talking about it on their platforms, for obvious reasons.
Do you know who Elon Musk is? Jeff Bezos? Larry Ellison?
You should. Because they are paying a lot of money to have nearly exclusive control (among themselves) of all national media.
Meanwhile, Sinclair and Nexstar are fighting to control all of the local broadcast stations. They aren't just buying up the station, they are buying the reputations of the known and trusted local news-anchors. That shit is priceless when you are running a propaganda machine.
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
Last season of Westworld was about guiding people through AI to control them. Your destiny was preordained by AI.
Let me know if and when they take over thelemmyclub, I'll be out of here in a heartbeat
We are on the losing end of the class war. And it feels like we aren't even trying to fight back.
Luigi fought back
A poll came out the other day that put Mamdani +49 (that’s not a typo +49) in New York. People are waking up, all the propaganda in the world cannot change people’s mind when they see someone fighting for their material interests.
I’ve been in this fight since Bernie in 2016 there are people who’ve been in it much much longer than me.
We are winning…
in NYC, but i dont see any other cities having a smilar situation. thats why the DNC and gop stop attacking him on MSMs, they dont want to inflame and spread his influence. Walz in minnesota has pretty much lost favor due to how weak he has become in light of the ICE attacks.
I heard some inside baseball that Walz might not have been as comfortable passing the far-left legislation that came out of MN over the last few years as we previously thought. I’m hoping Jesse Ventura will get back in there and do a better job when Walz term is up.
It’s certainly harder to organize outside of places like NYC, and there aren’t many places like NYC in this country. But I don’t see why people wouldn’t respond similarly to having their material interests served by government if people manage to organize for such a candidate.
When FDR was passing the new deal he won 4 landslides in a row across the entire country. Why wouldn’t people respond similarly today? (Besides the fact they passed term limits to stop a similar situation.)
I've been fighting since Gore "lost" in 2000. It's never felt like winning.
Firstly…
I completely agree that it has never “felt” that way. My point was that we need to stop and intellectually consider where we have been and where we are. If you slow down and think for a second you can see that some progress has been made.
Secondly… and please don’t take this as an attack.
Notice that I didn’t say Hilary lost, I said Bernie lost. The fact that you said Gore lost, as opposed to Nader lost suggests to me that you weren’t yet apart of the fight I was referring to in the year 2000. You were still a reactionary at that point, you were still thinking in terms of harm reduction or partisan politics, rather than an affirmative vision for what could serve the material interests of everyday average working people.
If you now have an affirmative vision — beyond blindly supporting whatever the Democratic Party does — that too is progress.
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The only winning move is not to play.
Big reason why I chose not to reproduce and am encouraging others to similarly abstain. Billionaires can't exist without the rest of us.
This was a problem decades before Trump took office, and the exact same problem will remain after he's gone.
Those corporations are "donating" (bribing) every election cycle for a reason, and it's not charity.
Each candidate has a billion dollars, win or lose... that we know of. Our reps and their entire families are millionaires. Bribery is blatant and legal.
See Super PACs and Citizens United for further details.
"Lobbying"
Thank fuck I literally use none of those services.
Right? It’s getting hard to talk to people nowadays because everyone seems brainwashed.
But you can’t get them out of it. Asking people to not check those feeds every day is like asking them to go without water.
It's embarrassing how dependant folks have become with technology and social media. I'm not immune myself, but I'll drop anything that goes against my values.
I keep trying to relate this to when we started mass-producing books. It must have been the same. We integrated that tech and got better.
I am not personally a fan right now.
ur still affected by how these influence the news cycle and general societal conversation
Yeah that's the problem. I don't use them, but a bunch of other people do. How do we get them to stop?
Ok, and? Why is everyone up my ass because I'm happy I don't support these elites? Sure the rest of the sheep are grazing in the pasture. How is that my problem? It's not like I don't talk to those in my circle. I can lead a sheep to water but I can't make them drink.
I wish WhatsApp wasn't the main form of communication in my area of the world.
That's the only one I'm on and it's because I could not convince anyone around me to just use texts or download signal
Yes you should break yourself from all of the US and Israeli tech stack. They cannot be trusted.
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But everyone else does and they will be voting in the next election dragging you down with them.
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People are talking about it, but the conversations are muffled or muted by those same billionaires.
Large no kings rallies should have had massive coverage, but were actively ignored by the news who frequently report on a handful of protestors who are promoting hate. Heck, with all of the pro Trump bullshit being a tidal wave of shit it just drowns out everything else so trying to actively discuss problems anywhere but niche communities is like trying to have a conversation in the middle of the dance floor at a rave.
Yeah we are talking about it, Melanie. Go outside.
Kind of ironic that this was posted on Twitter (X).
Is this any different than making a post on Reddit encouraging people to switch to Lemmy?
Does that make it less ironic?
If someone is on Xitter (or Reddit, or wherever) and using it, what means would you use to ask them to stop using it and suggest an alternative platform?
I would use the platform... Ironically.
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The percentage of sociopaths involved with creating a society should never be greater than zero.
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
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They said......on twitter/X ... with a blue check...
And how dare they criticize capitalism while living in a capitalist country!
And how dare they push for better labor laws while using electronics made by child labor!
Stop with the silliness.
But twitter is a nazi platform and there are valid alternatives available.
Alao participation in capitalism might be necessary to survive, posting on Twitter isnt.
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Lol, posted on “X”
Exactly where people who need to read this message are. What’s your point?
Moral superiority. It's seems to be a strong theme around here. Why worry about others when we're all so much better then them.
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The Conservative Propaganda Machine
There was basically one positive aspect of them going for this sort of model: they are very incompetent at actually controlling such a media conglomerate monster, specially as it grows. Now there's AI, there's social network personality cults-on-demand, they can increasingly and reliably offload the control to what are essentially primordially mental surgery bisected intelligence that can be cloned on demand. They are increasingly working to create the digital human cattle slaughterhouses they've always wanted.
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