It sort of looks to me like some of them are human-created (or at least human-curated), and some of the crappier or more nonsensical ones are created by generative AI.
I couldn’t find any ones that it would refuse to do – maybe it’s recently started using an AI image generator for those ones?
Edit: Okay, now I am sure that it’s using generative AI. I’m not trying to talk smack about the majority of them that are pretty reasonable and even sometimes creative, but also, sunset + butterfly yields:
I can’t believe that anybody in Washington actually believes that it makes sense to get rare earths in Ukraine.
In at least one conference, Trump repeatedly referred to them as “raw earths.” He just doesn’t know his ass from his elbow. I sort of assume that Putin is at the root of his sudden obsession with raw earths, but who knows. But he doesn’t even really “believe” things in the reality-connected way that you or I would use the term.
You didn’t have to rub it in by including Glasgow and Dublin too. It could have been just a merry joke.
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I actually don’t think so. If I had to guess, I would say that some of them are so dysfunctional as people that this is their solution for a good place to stay in DC since they have no other housing.
Yeah. As with a lot of things, it makes a huge difference which aspect of the situation you’re dealing with.
If the tiger is in your tent, facing out, safeguarding your peace and generally doing fair dealings with you, then you might come to see it as a good thing. Europe is talking about interacting with America from that point of view, and becoming shocked now that the tiger might be becoming dangerous.
If you’re in the village where it goes at night to feed, then things look very different, and always have.
they aren’t authorized to speak to the media about the looming crisis
What the fuck un-American nonsense is this?
I do get it. We’ve normalized the “employer” to “employee” relationship, where you’re sort of a free person but also sort of a slave, and that’s carried over into government service. Fuck that though. You are a person. You’re allowed to talk if you want to, and any separate person who’s trying to tell you they are the one in charge of that decision is probably a big piece of dookie at heart.
Leaders with a mandate are not necessarily a bad thing. With countries as with humans in small groups, it can sometimes prevent squabbling if there is one person who’s authorized to settle disputes.
However, just as with individual humans, when the consent of the governed goes away, it can start to become something really bad.
And then Putin will say, “You need to get them out, invade Ukraine and help me! Launch a nuclear strike on France!”
And Trump will say, “That sounds scary. I don’t like that.”
And Putin will say, “Just do it, you lard! I own you!”
And Trump will get distracted by some french fries and stop returning his calls, now that the interactions are not rewarding him anymore.
The EU lady coming up and taking a picture is spot on.
Well… you’re not wrong, but there does come a point when it is time to stop obeying the dictates of your designated role. Everyone’s here by accident. Anyone standing in an office has the option of doing literally anything, on any given day, depending on how they see their duty to human beings in and out of their organization. At a certain point, I think it is okay to be ahead of the people who are supposed to be your “leaders” in terms of telling you what you are and are not allowed to care about or speak out on. The humans in government above this person would have been perfectly within their abilities to say “You know what, he’s not supposed to say that, but he is right, and fuck anybody who tries to tell us as the official government of New Zealand that he is not.”
Everyone involved in Vichy France was following the rules. So, for that matter, were most of the people involved in the Wehrmacht.
Yeah I like how they basically proved his point.
“Hey guys it’s time to stand up for what’s right, we are losing our safety. There are clear parallels for how dangerous this is.”
“Whoa whoa whoa that sounds super dangerous. I mean talking about it. No talking about it. That might be dangerous.”
Yeah, I’m all for making stuff smooth with these different proposals, I didn’t mean it to sound like I was not. I was just saying that making things easy is not always the best or most valuable of the goals.
IDK, man. It’s not that hard to just check a few of the communities and see which ones are active, and then post to those ones. And the benefit you get, for asking people to take literally a couple of minutes of effort to sort out how to get involved with some particular topic, is pretty significant.
I’m not trying to say not to make good solutions to it, but also, trying to make everything maximally easy carries a significant down side, in that it attracts people who want to put minimal effort into everything (including their posts and their interactions with others once they’ve arrived on the network.)
I think a lot of it comes down to finding a little space with specific like-minded people. There’s the whole “dark forest internet” theory that talks more about it and what some of the solutions can be.
Mastodon seems to do a better job of this. Specifically because you have to sort of put some effort into building up a little network and finding people you like interacting with, the quality of the interaction is a lot higher. There aren’t these handy megaphones laying around where any given person can broadcast to everybody at any time, which then means that you have to have stressed and hassled moderators keeping up a steady stream of people which they are kicking out or muting, because they did something ostensibly bad.
Content moderation on Mastodon is its own whole issue, but I think the core principle is, develop solid connections instead of just random interactions with random people and it will be much better.
Oh, certain users on blahaj definitely mean harm. I’m not trying to give anyone a free pass on toxic behavior because they belong to the “correct” grouping, although I know that claiming those passes is a real popular activity. I’m talking more about the original intent of the instance.
Even the “dragon is a gender, we’ll ban you if you disagree” “disagreeing with me is transphobia ALWAYS because I say it is” stuff, I want to give some level of benefit-of-the-doubt about. I kind of think the original intent of blahaj was good, and it’s now been hijacked by people who love causing drama and being the righteous attacker against someone who they’ve been able to define as “bad.” I’m just saying I don’t think feeding the flames is necessarily a good activity even when the complaint is legitimate. I feel very differently about some instances where it seems like the core admin team is part of the deliberate trolling and bad-faith behavior.
Maybe I am wrong and missed something. I have not been keeping close attention on it.
It’s their choice whether they want to entertain the exact same conversation over and over again, in ways that create needless drama with some other instance, an instance which doesn’t seem to mean any harm.
I would support this move on db0’s part. It’s not about blahaj, it’s about db0.
Edit: You know what? My viewpoint doesn’t need to be rehashed in this comment.
A lot of drugs that give you uncontrolled mental energy will give you focus, insight or creativity, in short uncontrollable doses. In the same way that burning down a building will let you see into rooms that you never were familiar with before. For a short time.
I have heard that meditation can give you the same type of experience and insight without destroying you while you are doing it. I can’t say I know for sure, but I can believe it.
Holy shit, I stand corrected. I’ll report these and see what happens, but it seems not unlikely that the answer might be “nothing.”
Probably a good anonymous way is for me to buy a $40 gift card and send you the card details over Matrix. How do you feel about that?
It seems like you and maybe at least one other person are just not grasping what I am saying here.
A human did not make that decision. Sounds like it’s possible that maybe you are reading a lie that Google is telling you, and believing it is truth, I don’t really know, but yes they’re using generative AI for at least some of them.