Some anti anti-AI arguments are really bordering on ignorant stupidity and show a lack of historical and political awareness.

It is possible to recognize that LLMs work well enough for the average company for software these days AND still not use them for many ethical, political or personal reasons.

I can also see that a car would ease my life and bring me faster from A to B and still not own one for plenty of good reasons.

I can also choose where/when I take a stand and follow my conscience

Even Epstein said it: The plan is to crash the economy, create a huge stimulus package for the financial sector, use the position of power to pocket the money for loaylists, and foot the bill on the taxpayer.

This is the plan. The actual message I read from the #Epsteinfiles is another wealth transfer to the ultra-rich by manufacturing a crisis.

Funding far right think-tanks, experts in victim-blaming, is their get out of jail free -card.

#Kleptocracy #epsteinclass #economy

"Hacker claims theft of data from 700,000 Substack users; Company confirms breach"

We really need laws to make companies more accountable for their security

The company should not be confirming hackers claims, they should be responsible for letting their users know they have been compromised

And there should be real consequences

At least then most of the profit in infosec would not be made writing quasi illegal tools for authoritarians to spy on journalists and activists

A friend asked "so what do we do when the line gets crossed?"

My answer: You're doing it right now.

I think the line for a lot of folks will never come, because for a lot of people its better to have a job and a roof over their head under fascism than to be willing to give that up for the sake of stopping fascism. That's really all it comes down to for 99% of people, do you have food and shelter if "yes" then the status quo is tolerable enough to keep going.

Maybe it will happen when they actually stop people from voting and refuse to count votes from blue cities. Lots of people still have faith in the current system's ability to fix itself, I'm not one of those people. I'll take fast and rough fascism I can fight Today over slow and tolerable fascism i cant do anything about over several decades. Democrats, at least as the party currently exists, are just "slow fascism" and its a lot harder to get people motivated enough when the agency of armed thugs they employ to kidnap people stay mostly confined to the inside of office buildings.

The people of Minnesota are fucking marvellous.

They're deliberately putting Mexican flags on their cars so that CBP/DHS waste time chasing them. They're calling it ICE fishing 🤣 ✊

#Minnesota #SolidarityIsBeautiful #USPolitics

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Fellow Doomscrollers, I have created a "fun" game for you to play! I call it: Reply Guy BINJO. Click on any popular post on the fediverse and start filling in the squares!

Love to see it!

“Fuck ICE” chant erupts at AEW pro wrestling show in Las Vegas, pausing main event match

https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/wrestling/wrestling-fans-launch-anti-ice-chant-aew-match-las-vegas-pausing-event-rcna257579

Hunter Biden not being in the Epstein files is not surprising to the real hunter heads, several sex workers have said that he was extremely respectful and never made them uncomfortable. He likes two things; crack and women.

Did you know that c̷̨̈́i̵̮̅l̶̠̐͊͝ȁ̷̠̗̆̍̍n̷͖̘̯̍̈͒̅t̶͍͂͋ř̵̞͈̓ȯ̷̯̠-̸͚̖̟͋s̴͉̦̭̔̆̃͒û̵̥̪͆̒̕c̸̨̨̧̺̎k̵̼͗̀s̸̖̜͍̲̈́͋̂͠@gravitywell.xyz is a totally valid email address?

so is “:(){␣:|:&␣},:”@gravitywell.xyz

MUNICIPAL WASTE’s TONY FORESTA Doesn’t Regret Creating Controversial DONALD TRUMP T-Shirt: ‘F**k That Guy’

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster… for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”

― Friedrich W. Nietzsche

Made some improvements to the nginx setup so that things should be a bit smoother with streaming services.

So far so good having pleroma and lemmy moved to the VPS. CPU and ram usage increase is reasonable.

Think there might be some truth in this matrix...

(creator: unknown)

Testing out using rclone to mount the media library for jellyfin, it seems usable so far but scanning the entire library would take an insanely long time.

The image below is of Rep Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D, WA3) US Congresswoman from SW Washington. In between the murder of Renee Good on 7 January and the murder of Alex Pretti on 24 January, Gluesenkamp was one of 7 democrats who voted to fund ICE. The bill would not have passed without them.

She and her husband own Dean's Car Care on NE Lombard in Portland.

#Washington #PDX #DHS #ICE

#introduction

Hello Fediverse!

We are Hypostasis, a progressive metal band from Greece.

Formed some 15 years ago, we have unfortunately been on and off (mostly off) for various reasons ever since. Life happens.

We released a 100% self-produced EP back in 2016, played a few shows, and were forced back into oblivion shortly after.

In the meantime, we were growing, writing new music, and planning a return. It is almost time now. We have recorded our debut album, and are planning a full release in the next few months!

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Please don't think that you can stop a Nazi by pointing out hypocrisy or by pointing out that they are lying.

They know. It is a feature, not a bug.

When a fascist lies to you, they are displaying power. "I know I am lying. You know I am lying. What the fuck are you going to do about it."

When a fascist lies to other fascists, they are displaying loyalty. "I know I am lying. You know I am lying. We do this because it is how we show allegiance to the cause."

In this way, fascism is inherently an empty ideology. It stands for nothing. It believes in nothing. It can therefore lie about everything.

Except one thing: power.

Fascism MUST lie. It MUST deceive. It MUST play to baser beliefs like racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and xenophobia, because it has literally nothing of value to offer.

They know this. We know this. That is why they lie.