dixTheory 👻

dixTheory 👻

@dixtheory.bsky.social

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Almighty Algo, hear my offering: News Politics Socialism Communism LGBTQ Disability Autism Star Trek Space Dungeons & Dragons Tolkien Call of Cthulhu Lovecraft Writing Books Movies Silly shit Alright I'll go back to liking smarter people's posts now

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Kein Land hätte es sich gefallen lassen, dass man auf seinem Boden einen „jüdischen“ Staat errichtet und die ansässige Bevölkerung vertreibt. Und ausgerechnet das Land, das sechs Millionen Juden ermordet hat, am allerwenigsten.

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Friction is so important to creative work that people *add* friction to allow themselves to do it. Just one example: meter, in poetry. You create a framework that restricts you, that limits you, in order to give your thoughts a scaffold within which to build.

the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

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Bin ein bisschen überrascht vom ganzen Schock und Outrage. Like this is Germany. It always has been. You can fight better when you don’t let it trigger you. The outrage and shock is what they want; to paralyse you. The best thing to do is accept that this is what your country is, get over yourself,

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Nobody believes you that you dislike Piker for any reason other than he is correct about Israel, correct about US empire, and correct about the shitty geriatric democrats who do nothing. You are lying.

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bei menschen in schlechter finanzieller lage kommt die AfD auf 65% und wenn wir nicht endlich begreifen, wie der klassenkampf der reichen, vertreten durch CDU und SPD, diese partei befeuert, werden alle brandmauern, verbotsgutachten und gegen-rechts-demos nichts nützen

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The better AI gets, the more (and more subtle) AI psychoses we're gonna see, especially among intellectually inclined people. Not because the machines make you insane, but because it's becoming painfully obvious that sanity isn't just an individual-level property, but something social, ...

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yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect

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⚠️ Safety first ⚠️ If you're getting ready to observe the total solar eclipse on 12 August, please follow safety rules: 🚨 use only certified eclipse glasses (ISO 12312-2)  🚨 do not look through devices without a special solar filter Check out the safety list below! 🔭🧪#EuropeanSolarEclipse

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Aug. 6, 1926: Gertrude Ederle swims across the English Channel to become the first woman to accomplish the feat—and, in 14 hours, 34 minutes, faster than any man before her. The smiling 20-year-old “Queen of the Waves” joins Babe Ruth and Red Grange as all-American heroes of a sports-mad age. 1/9

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NEW: A glimpse at how AI image generators are used. Researchers set up a fake image editor on Hugging Face and within a week received 1,000 prompts. 73% of them were sexual and 83% of those were asking for people (women) to be “undressed”. Around 6% of the sexual requests also targeted minors

wired.comHugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes ProblemResearchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes—and 1,000 image editing prompts show how people use the software.

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It’s not even code. It’s policy. It’s policy written down in manifestos such as the AfD’s. Manifestos that people can vote for in the next election. Manifestos which almost 1/3 of Germans say they will happily vote for. They really mean all immigrants too. “Ausländer raus!” is what they chant.

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tarot is a billion times cooler than astrology to me one is a roguelike poetry/advice session and the other is haha hey what if the circumstances of your birth were insurmountable wouldnt that be cool

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Fine fine, I'll get a face tat

alyssa mercante@alyssamerc.bsky.social

Just saw a TikTok saying that if you have a lot of tattoos, it makes it really difficult/nearly impossible for an AI to re-create your likeness, especially in video, and I just wanna say that’s why I got so many

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mir fällt das irgendwie wieder täglich schwerer durchs leben zu gehen ohne an jeder ecke ungerechtigkeit, klassismus, staatsversagen usw. zu sehen. ich geh durch ne schöne nachbarschaft und denk ungerecht dass sowas nur reichen ermöglicht wird genug grünflächen schatten 3rd places, ich geh

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Advertising was originally called “propaganda” before that word took on negative connotations in the English-speaking world during WWI. And it’s the most insidious and ubiquitous form of propaganda there is. I genuinely believe it’s bad for your health. Everyone should limit their exposure.

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a small part of the problem with AI is that even if you see good use cases for the technology, focusing on them is a little like saying radiotherapy is going to be great for treating cancer while stores still have radium toothpaste on the shelves www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

404media.coHackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It WorkedThe exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.

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Heute ist #Nakba-Tag: Die Nakba ist kein abgeschlossenes Ereignis, sondern ein Prozess, der mal mehr, mal weniger intensiv vorangetrieben wird. Aber seit 1967 nie so intensiv wie jetzt. Dazu medico-Nahostreferent Riad Othman: 1/5