never thought i’d be saying this as a nepali person but the rest of the world has a lot to learn from nepal when it comes to revolution lol
young people literally spent two days showing the full force of their wrath against a horrific, corrupt system run by politicians that embezzled away every single cent of citizen money. they protested, and when the cops turned to violence, they did too. many of the biggest and most corrupt politicians (including the prime minister) were forced to resign, had their houses swarmed by crowds of furious people, were beat within an inch of their lives, and had their money thrown out onto the streets.
real, actual change is on the way in a country plagued by exploitation and poverty and corruption for DECADES because the population rallied together behind the sheer force of the young population and their anger - so much so that it’s being called the gen z revolution. THIS is how revolutions come about when every attempt to use peaceful means is met with bullets and suppression and social media bans in an effort to shut people up. and i think the west has a lot to learn about what true revolution and true progression is, because the way that our political discourse is so weak and watered down and pushed to be ‘friendly’ and ‘understanding’ is so pathetic at times. THERE IS NO NEGOTIATING WITH YOUR OPPRESSORS.
‘all forms of political violence is bad’ read it and weep losers
It feels like this is the biggest story to still be flying relatively under the radar in the anglophone press. If a single phonecall from a racist pig American can get hundreds of your senior engineers and their families, who are only there to oversee factory construction up to spec, rounded up and sent to the Gestapo torture dungeons then suddenly it’s an open question if any Korean, Japanese (and indeed eventually potentially even European) firm will ever feel safe directly investing in the US ever again
While watching a DVD from the library my TV popped up a message saying to press a button if I wanted to watch this from additional providers.
It’s never done that before so I looked it up and turns out Roku TVs have added all sorts of creepy things in the privacy section since I last checked.
One of which being they take screenshots from what you’re watching and send them to third parties to identify it.
Fucking hell! Remember when every fucking device in your life wasn’t a spy implanted in your home and working against your interests to try and sell your data? Remember how nice that was??
Remember when the TV was just a tool that would play the things you plugged into it?
i turned 30 this year. he died at 28. it’s so fucked. it’s so fucked!!!
he’s my big brother. how am i older than my big brother
anyway. the symptoms of a blood clot are variable but usually present as lower leg pain and swelling. it can be diagnonsed by a blood test and ECG. if you go to the hospital and they send you home but symptoms persist, go back. it can be treated. my brother’s blood clot travelled from his leg to his lungs and killed him a couple of days after the hospital sent him home with no tests.
of all my posts to get notes i’m not mad it’s this one but if i’d known i would have been more thorough.
blood clots are more likely if you spend a lot of time sitting down, like during a flight or a road trip. get up and move around every now and then.
leg pain is a big indicator, but so is shortness of breath or a lot of coughing. shortness of breath + sudden leg pain/swelling is cause for concern
the blood test they usually use to diagnose blood clots is called a D-Dimer. in most cases this is adequate but it’s not perfect. sometimes an ultrasound can be used to diagnose clots the D-dimer misses.
this is an uncommon issue, especially for anyone who is reasonably active. i didn’t mean to scare anyone, but the lack of awareness about blood clots is honestly insane to me. please listen to your body and trust yourself if you feel like something is wrong. if anyone in my family had known about this then we wouldn’t have let my brother leave the hospital.
i’m gonna say something that doesn’t feel good but you might need to hear it: bending over backwards being a people-pleaser, being conflict averse and not telling anyone your needs, and then being resentful and upset when your needs aren’t met is a You problem first
not related but also just good advice: when you’re lowkey frustrated with someone and can’t quite figure out why their behavior is bothering you, i highly recommend examining if they have broken an imaginary rule or standard that you hold yourself to
They may have fixed the answer to that question, but one thing they HAVEN’T fixed is the general “yes and” thing AI has going on.
Billions of dollars, people. Billions of dollars.
Note how they haven’t fixed this, they are just covering it up now that it’s going viral. Please remember that it is going to be just as batshit on topics where you don’t know enough to easily see that it’s wrong.
it is actually fascinating to me to see the exact same people who vitriolically hate ai for copyright infringement defending the internet archive.
don’t get me wrong, i love the internet archive, but like. i thought you guys were mad that you thought ai had works in a database without the author’s approval. what do you think the internet archive is.
Yea, you don’t want a world where copyright laws has the power to kill GenAI. Trust me.
As an author? There’s a huge difference between ‘This work has been put into an archive so that people can access it now and in perpetuity’ and 'This work has been stolen and put into a data set so that it can be used to generate AI slop for profit’
If you do not comprehend the difference between these things, I have to presume that you’ve never created anything, ever.
In what way is a work “stolen” because someone put a copy of it in a data set? Who is being deprived of the thing ostensibly being stolen there?
The labor involved in the creation of the work (of fiction or art) was stolen, because the creator is not compensated in any way, nor was the work freely donated.
Have you ever created anything, ever?
I have, but identity is irrelevant to logic.
Is my labor stolen if I make something and then someone else takes inspiration from that and makes their own thing that vaguely resembles it? Because that happens to me a lot and it never takes anything away from me.
Do you comprehend the difference between 'taking inspiration’ and 'taking the entire actual text, word for word, and feeding it into Big Autocorrect’
Unhinged take to say AI takes nothing. AI doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It’s incredibly energy intensive and pollutes poor communities they shove these data centers in. Not only does it contribute to global warming but it regurgitates stolen work from unpaid artists and writers for the profit of major tech companies. It is not a creator being inspired by another. Just like when major companies rip off small creators and face backlash, we don’t consider that work not stolen.
It’s that times hundreds of millions of human creations.
In a perfect world we train large data models on consensually provided work, and it is run on renewable energy, but this isn’t a perfect world. AI is ethically wrong in its current form and there is no gray area.
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