Iranian Miku

My hot take is that AI bears all of the hallmarks of an economic bubble but that anti-AI bears all of the hallmarks of a moral panic. I contain multitudes.

and then people had the gall to say she was being unreasonable for setting boundaries

tumblr desperately needs to get over its boner for the soviet union

Worm.

They killed intellectuals.

They killed queers.

They killed artists.

They killed Jews.

They killed priests.

They destroyed entire families on a whisper.

They claimed to be egalitarian yet no women ever made it to leadership positions within the government. All the top cabinet members were men. Hm. Weird. Plenty of TRAITORS were women and women were good enough to be trained as sexual traps for the enemy though. Hm. Weird.

They locked their people in the country and would not let them leave.

They did loyalty checks and if you failed you and your family would lose everything and there was no trial.

Yall can die mad about it and there was absolutely joy to be had in the USSR, but this stuff that happened.

A totalitarian regime is a rough time actually.

On Soviet "egalitarianism" - should also remind that "freeing women from kitchen slavery" did not at all change social attitudes towards what work only women should do. Women still had to be the housekeepers of their husbands and children - they just had to do it after they return from work, which now can very much be backbreaking labor that can ruin a grown young man' health, and will ruin theirs just the same.

PS they also one thousand percent did imperialisms on multiple fronts, so please stop pretending otherwise and like that's a purely Western disease.

When the Iron Curtain fell and Jews could escape, so many Jews left the USSR that the population of Israel temporarily doubled. (Granted, most of those people moved to other countries from Israel.) Imagine trying to find housing for that many people.

That's how bad it was.

I love their sass

Hehe. Wow, old tumblr stuff.

I have made it through one week of school, so a small treat for us all

Following the trend of Miku from X, she makes a miku Adelita, it's a sketch but I liked the result

Siguiendo la tendencia de Miku de X, hace una miku Adelita, es un boceto pero me gustó el resultado

thinking about six balls again (when he was born he weighed six balls)

Hey guess what? Firefox's creator, Mozilla, is considering whether to integrate an AI button/feature into their browser. If you, like me, use Firefox and wish to offer feedback, here is the thread: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/share-your-feedback-on-the-ai-services-experiment-in-nightly/td-p/60519

Pass it on.

I need help reacting to something

When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?

"The timing of the tool’s shutdown, months ahead of a major US presidential election, has drawn concern from groups that relied on CrowdTangle to track the flow of information on social media, including viral falsehoods that have led to real-world harm.

Using CrowdTangle, journalists and researchers could show how many users engaged with a piece of content, which groups supercharged the spread of a post and just how often political and medical misinformation went viral on Facebook and Instagram."

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By the end of this election campaign I imagine JD Vance will literally be in the shape of a pretzel.

today a fascist won an election for the first time since 1933. here, in germany.

i don't care if it's just one (out of 16) states. björn höcke is a fascist. a court decided not long ago that it's allowed to call him a nazi. bc he is one. not "far right" or "conservative" - he is a nazi.

here. in germany. and he just won an election.

it hasn't even been 100 years.

i am scared.

i'm so sorry, op. this is terrifying. (i hope it's okay that i added a few links.)

Prüft ein AfD-Verbot!

If you're from germany, please sign this petition to have the AfD investigated and potentially banned. And if you're not german but have german followers, please spread this post around.

The Path Ahead, from 2021

[Image description: digital art of Greg and Wirt from Over the Garden Wall, walking down a sunlit path. Beatrice flies ahead, leading the way beneath an arch of trees. End ID.]

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