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  Right The question isnt then ‘how do we avoid being taken in by the artifact’s influence?’, but, ‘what does the inclusion of this artifact change about how we must address the systems we are looking to dismantle?’ Maybe I’ll just leave this exerpt from Lorde and ask whose misunderstanding you’re pointing to in this conversation about AI Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educated men as to our existence and our needs. This is an o...

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  It’s only strange in the forced misreading of the meme you’re using As op already clarified - the point isnt that tools have no influence over behavior, only that the behavior isn’t a deterministic one implied by those invoking Heidegger or Lorde

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  Aside from the ethical implications of profiling users or of using a corporatly owned server and model to execute this, I see nothing uniquely concerning about this practice that isnt already a risk of federated social media generally. Every mod on every instance is free to use whatever tools or standards for moderation they want - that’s an intentional byproduct of federation. Similarly, the collection of this data for use with llms is a bygone conclusion at this point - there was never any...

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  I will keep repeating this until the day I die: the democratic political machine ***cannot function*** as it exists today without it's not-so-clandestine marriage with capital. Piker being a massively-popular mobilizer of young voters does **nothing** to endear him to a party who's entire political infrastructure is directly at odds with his political views on capital, labor, and anti-imperialist geopolitics. The DNC will sooner drown in it's own piss, shit, and vomit than adopt...

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  Now imagine someone heading toward eviction and homelessness standing in line waiting to make this choice. Americans have more immediate needs than what anyone not in the 'thermonuclear war' camp is offering