Wow, that’s devastating. Stay safe friend, hope you heal soon concussions are awful.

About 50 terfs and nazis held an anti-trans rally down here a couple of days ago. 500-1000 of us showed up to drown them out with noise, I handed out about 150 whistles to people, someone played Chappell Roan and we had a dance party, it was intense. 200 cops blocked off the entire intersection and kept us apart by a good 50+ metres. The terfs eventually got forced to leave early, so we ended up having a march through the city and it went to absolute shit.

Arrests were made, cops tackled and beat up a trans woman and put her in the hospital, pepper sprayed a transfem journalist and abused their powers all day to forcefully search people who weren’t doing anything. As usual we were nonviolent but the media keeps calling us aggressive and violent thugs, if you watch any of the footage it’s literally all just the cops turning violent and beating up some of the most vulnerable people. We have a right to demonstrate and the state tried to prevent us from doing so, it’s absolutely disgusting and it’s only going to get worse if they pass their anti-protestor laws.

I ended up bailing earlier than I wanted to, I’ve got an appeal in less than a month and was already on the cops radar that day.

Wait what? Doctors won’t see victims? For legal reasons? What???

Are you okay, can we help in any way?

Oh haha, I didn’t really care that much about the socks but paw pads? Now we’re talking!

Got any recommendations for a music player?

I’ve paid for symfonium and love it tbh, it works really well, has great customizability and the offlining of favourited albums is so so nice. It has an internal download cache, but it can also export files to your downloads folder the way jellyfin does at the moment. My only gripe is that it’s not FOSS.

I went to grippy sock jail and there were no grippy socks, 3/10 wouldn’t do again. One of the nurses was trans and she was the only person there who didn’t make me feel judged or crowded, everything else was god awful.

Doing okay now, things aren’t stable yet but I’m working hard on fixing everything.

Yeah someone said this in another thread and it’s just like, completely meaningless. Just because a thing that can cause harm already exists doesn’t mean we should normalise the harm, especially when a tool like this makes it more accessible and far easier for that harm to occur.

So far as I see it that point is just another negative towards AI, it means people want to do harm, taking all of the effort out is necessarily going to worsen the issue. I’m not going to comment on what should be done about Photoshop because this isn’t a discussion about Photoshop.

AI image generation in particular is something I think should absolutely be banned completely. Giving the benefit of the doubt is okay, providing sources makes the poster a god imo.

Those tools are able to create non-consensual pornography, it can be used to create CP. It also steals from artists, plagiarises their work and enables some really problematic scams that I’ve been constantly fighting to keep out of an online safe space I maintain.

It’s important to take a stand against exploitative shit, if only to show some basic solidarity with those screwed over by it.

The person walking in two directions at once, another person just walking into a wall, those demonic eyes…

I wish it was the avocados, literally a daily thing for me lol. I’m just genetically cursed lol

Damn, that’s a great new trick

Oh wow, it’s been a year and half and I’m almost up to an A lmao

I thought the hand was a massive mushroom growing in some grass…

I kinda live by the whole “solidarity not charity” thing. I’ll chuck whatever I can spare towards mutual aid requests, and do some community building stuff so that we can all work towards meeting our needs collectively.

I’m not particularly against charities, though I know a lot of the people in my circles can give pretty extensive criticisms, for me they just don’t address the issues that are most prominent and urgent; the aid requests I see are often when people are in very immediate danger and there are an enormous number of them.

You can’t dismiss the legitimate harm enabled by these things by pointing to another thing that enables harm…

I think you could make reasonable points here, but you’re not engaging in discussion if you just dismiss them. These are legitimately serious issues and it’s worth taking them seriously especially if you actually believe the things you say and want other people to understand your point of view. I’m not going to lie, it’s gross to basically just say “well people get sexually abused anyway so it’s not a concern.”

Capitalism enables a lot of terrible stuff, but the world doesn’t immediately become sunshine and rainbows if it’s gone. There’s still a lot of work to be done after the fact

Eh, I don’t really buy it. You’ve still got an issue of plagiarism (notably not the same thing as copyright), soulless slop flooding creative spaces, the fact that LLMs just kinda lie all the time and then there’s the abuse enabled by image models, icky stuff and it’s absolutely not driven by capitalism.

Neural networks have a place in many fields, but when it comes to replacing human creativity, I’m not sold. I’ve certainly got no respect for anyone claiming to be an artist because they ran a program and stole the hardwork of potentially thousands of people. You can take away the profit motive, but you can’t take out the social motives. People are dicks and capitalism isn’t why they are, it’s a symptom and a tool.

Maybe there’s some use cases for that kind of thing, but I personally don’t see it and think we’d be just fine leaving that sort of thing out of daily life. I don’t see what we get beyond like making shitty graphics quickly or something, is that worth the harm?

Yeah honestly fuck this site. The hyperlinks don’t go to the things they claim, they just go to more of their own articles, scummy

Nah fibromyalgia, life is hell

Worst I’ve had is cops searching all my pockets and bag when I got arrested, I guess I consented? It was mostly fine, largely because I’m white tbh

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