Heyyy, it’s chanology style anonymous. Nice.

In what world does it take two people to “make” a piece of malformed AI schlock?

So he’s going to do the same thing he did to his fanboys to the government? Oh good. Can we impeach this guy yet?

I caught some of the stream of this last night, sans audio. It’s crazy how plainly Vance and Johnson wear their evil on their faces. Vance has some pretty visible moments of shame, but you can see how well Johnson hides his from himself with that smug grin. They’re both dying inside, to be sure, but you can really see the psychological somersaults Johnson is doing on display.

I don’t know how people can look at them and not see it immediately before they even open their mouths.

To be fair, it’s almost infinitely cheaper to hire a bunch of people to post in threads muddying the waters of any discussion than it is to fix any given issue. If any public criticism devolves into bickering, it’s hard for outside observers to make enough sense of it to heavily impact sales.

Look how well it worked for the election. With a proof of concept that dramatic lying around, what money-grubbing executive wouldn’t want to follow the example?

You can. You just can’t have a small iPhone. Android phones are also a mainstream product, they’re just not popular with people who have thousands of dollars to blow on iPhones.

Android phones are, in fact, more popular than iPhones worldwide, and have nearly half the market in the US.

https://explodingtopics.com/blog/iphone-android-users

It is illegal. If this is something you’re worried about happening in your local area, I’d recommend making a fuss about it. If you can find evidence of specific people doing this, collect it and make sure the law is enforced. If you know a local library is being targeted, get them to take steps to minimize the risk of it happening. Things like making sure any large trash bins are readily visible to librarians or developing policies about just glancing in the trash every now and then to see if books have been thrown away might be helpful.

You can also probably help by keeping an eye out for books that may be targeted. If there are books you think might be subject to these sorts of actions, you could make a list of them and drop by to check on them every now and then. See if they’re on the shelves. If they’re not on the shelves, ask if they’ve been checked out. If they’re missing from the shelves and also haven’t been checked out, consider looking around to see if you can find them hidden away somewhere or buying a replacement to donate.

It probably isn’t simple to enforce this and to protect books from being removed from the shelves sneakily, because somebody has to put the work in. But if you care enough to do so, there’s no reason that person can’t be you.

Yeah. That’s certainly a possibility. Thinking about it won’t give me the answer, though. It could be that, it could also be something else. We don’t learn the truth of what’s going on in the world by just making up a good-sounding explanation and assuming we must be right, even if that’s how people discussing things on forums largely operates.

I mean, yeah. That’s the less than optimistic guess to make. But it’s a guess, it isn’t definitive. It’d be nice to know if that’s what they’re actually doing or whether it’s just a change in language to cover their own ass. Because both are pretty common.

From the Mozilla forums.

I’m curious what “Without it, we couldn’t use information typed into Firefox to perform your searches, for example” means. Like, is that literally just the search I type into the browser bar, or are they talking about scraping data from my browser to improve my searches the way a lot of phone apps do?

I could see some government somewhere passing a data security bill of some kind that makes rules around collecting and using data that redefines what that means in a way that includes something Firefox is already doing. I could also see them using this as a sneaky foot in the door as they plan to ramp up data profiteering like so many companies already have.

It would be nice if they’d clarify their reasoning for doing this a bit more specifically.

I don’t. I hope they get derailed and don’t have enough time to do nearly so much damage. I hope 10 years from now it’s an embarrassing mistake that comes as a wake-up call to people and prompts them to grow.

Why would you want to see shit get as bad as it possibly could? Just to dunk on some random people? To be right? The hell’s the point?

The instinct toward feeling superior being more important than having a decent world and a stable country is the reason we’re in this mess to begin with.

Another attack on trans women by people who almost certainly don’t know the names of even a half dozen non-olympian women who are professional athletes or a single trans athlete.

I literally am just trying to figure out how I’m going to keep making enough money to survive. I’ve been going through an insane level of instability over the past year. I’ve managed to get my mental state to a much less helpless place than it was a few months ago, but in terms of actual stability? I don’t even know what my life would be looking like in a few months if this wasn’t happening.

I have no fucking clue how I’m meant to be doing anything more than keeping my head above water. I’ve been sounding the alarm about this shit for years. I’ve been trying to get people aware and motivated, and I’ve had some success. But right now? I’m just trying to keep myself safe and I’m not sure how to do that.

I’ve been the person who resists the bystander effect so many times in my life. I’m the person who breaks up fights at parties. I’m the person who steps up and says something when they see something fucked up. I’m the person who’s stuck my neck out to stand up for the right thing even when it made me a pariah. But I don’t know how to do that now. And honestly, reading vague lists isn’t really giving me any further ideas.

The best I know how to do is not get completely overwhelmed by hearing the kind of rhetoric I’m hearing about myself and people like me from our government and from the people who’ve propped them up. Literally just figuring out how to do something as simple as get out of bed when I’ve got a neighbor who suddenly feels bold enough to throw transphobia right in my face in a world where I don’t even feel like I can safely apply for a passport.

I’m literally just trying to keep my finances straightened out and keep some kind of hope alive. I can’t be the person to fix this. I wish I could. Some days it feels like I have a target painted on my back just leaving the house, and I live in a pretty safe area of a pretty safe state. I worry about my friends who don’t. I worry that I don’t have the resources to do much of anything to help them other than talk to them and be there for them. I know that’s not nothing, but compared to all the shit going on it kind of feels like it is.

I don’t know who to point at and say “hey, I need help”, let alone who to point at and say “hey, this other person needs help”.

It is a massive eye roll.

Ooookay.

… One could say the same of participation in the electoral process. Taking your ball and going home doesn’t work any better as a voter than as an official.

Posts like this make me question the wisdom of being on Lemmy. The more I look at the kind of messaging I see on this platform, the more I think maybe it isn’t great. It’s a lot of demotivating, depression-inducing, defeatist gloom and doom and far fewer calls to action than I remember seeing on other platforms in previous conservative administrations.

I’m starting to feel like having a particularly leftist environment where the most frequent message is “we’re fucked the there’s nothing we can do about it” mostly just works to prevent the people who might actually get together and do something from doing anything at all.

I’m also not really sure where else to go for content aside from YouTube and Ground News though, at this point. Maybe we would benefit from considering the impact of the kind of things we’re signalling to the rest of the left, though. Because I’m not sure this is helping at all, and it may be actively making the situation worse.

We have ample reason to be discouraged, but I’m not sure targeting the only block of voters and potential activists who might actually both give a shit and be educated enough to get something to budge in order to inflict depression is a good strategy.

Nah, inability to produce the actual image is the point. All the “artist” did was type in a box, so that’s all the purchaser gets.

It would be kind of funny to offer AI schlock for sale and then give the buyer a framed copy of the prompt instead of the print itself

Everyone knows in real life your shoes come apart every 15 minutes and if you don’t eat every 20 minutes you’ll immediately die.