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Great piece. "Anti-authoritarianism cannot be optional. Internationalism cannot be reduced to when the baddies are easily identifiable within a traditional anti-imperialist mindset that limits itself to Western forms of imperialism."

Oh, and by the way? That whole "making six figures" thing? I fully believe that she is earning six figures in revenue. I also suspect that has to burn a chunk of that on things like Amazon advertising and fake reviews just to get her pitiful 250 in sales.

Lobby group Labour Friends of Israel has been referred to the Electoral Commission over concerns about its opaque funding. Andrew Feinstein, who filed the complaint, says he's concerned the pro-Israel group “may have breached electoral law”. www.declassifieduk.org/labour-frien...

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

can i offer you a free browser game in this trying time?

The British people must demand full transparency into all the funding behind Labour Together and Friends of Israel parliamentary groups.

This is what politics should feel like: thoughtful, honest and shaking things up. Hannah Spencer is going to be a brilliant MP for Gorton & Denton. It's time to stop Reform in their tracks: Watch online this Wednesday.

Its already ruined. The PM has been an active participant in a livestreamed genocide and Parliament has done nothing. For the vast majority, genocide is a red line.

You can not care if your neighbor prefers decaf or whatever, that's fine because it doesn't fucking matter. Who gives a shit. AI pollutes, it robs, it SUCKS. It affects EVERYONE.

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

If stories like this don’t make the Democrats want to abolish genuinely nothing will. That really is it. I’d say I don’t know how they sleep at night, but their healthcare is so much better than the rest of us, they can afford all the sleep medication you can’t. So they’re probably well rested.

Went to the nursery for plants. Found cat. She has a daisy on her collar.

We’re at the “villainize authors in articles for not guzzling down A I and incorrectly using “ableism” and “privilege” to scream at real artists” stage of A I and I just want anyone doing that to know you’re a soulless lackey doing the fash’s work and I hope you have exactly the life you deserve.

✨the internet is often an ALL or NOTHING hellscape so here are some things I’d like to share ✨ -Boycotts! Boycotting remains one of the most effective ways to stand against ~the bastards~ money talks louder than anything else. That’s just facts. But if you’re a poor and/or disabled person who’s 1/?

This is a scam. She's tricking readers into downloading "books" that the readers don't realize are slop until they start reading. You know it's a scam because she's using ever-changing pen names and not disclosing the AI usage because doing so would tank downloads.

this article’s a psyop, its sole purpose is to convince all writers they have to use AI or else

"More than 200" AI slop novels collectively selling "around 50,000 copies" proves that not one of them was actually good enough to create any organic interest. The entire business model is scamming people looking for something fun to read, thereby polluting the same waters where real books are sold.

Like, if you have to run from pen name to pen name to escape a rep, and subsist on quantity of low-quality crap shoveled out... you're a scammer. That's scam behavior.

'Who's going to win," she says after explaining that she can't even mention the pen names producing books because it will tank what pitiful sales she gets if people know she's using AI to produce them. LOL. Hear yourself.

So what's gonna happen there? She's going to have to constantly cycle through pen name after pen name, regurgitating books in different formats, and she'll be joined by thousands of other content extruders all fighting over the same "we fooled you" dollars.

And also, just like all fucking generative AI, this is just massive, scaled-up theft. This woman is functionally stealing money out of the KU pool from authors who are writing and publishing their own original works USING A TOOL that was itself built on stolen works.

most of all, fuck everybody who sees romance as a cash register rather than a genre worthy of respect. the booktok to AI slopfest pipeline has been the most grim, depressing downward spiral. it sucks.

If you think like that, then you're not a writer, just a content producer. And honestly, I bet your content sucks ass.

The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered

Anyone who has experienced bullying knows full well, nothing satisfies a bully. They never reach satiety in their cruelty. SM are adults who use their wealth and status to reenact the playground on a national political stage and the goverment lets them do it because they outsource their feminism,

Okay but Zack Polanski has been coming out with bangers

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

But apparently we need to force Disabled People into jobs that don't and aren't ever going to exist.

The UK has 1,844,000 people seeking work There are 734,000 jobs, at least 40% of these are fake dead listings Nearly 2m people seeking jobs but less than 0.5m jobs available That's the worst ratio ever and has been since the start of 2020 The problem isn't people, it's jobs

Stalingrad was liberated on this day in 1943. "Wave after wave of German assaults came within an inch of taking the whole city and were stopped each time as the Red Army and the Stalingrad workers counterattacked and kept a sector of their city - a factory, a bridgehead - free."

I read this, and I almost regret it. What do you even do with the knowledge that Epstein wanted and was trying to engineer societal breakdown via far right populism bc he thought it would benefit his sex trafficking business?

"I asked ChatGPT—" *discards your opinion*

I'm sure the next version will stop telling people to kill themselves and confirming all of their delusions and psychoses. They just need another $25 Billion dollars to make it work.

I will say that I think they are not that far off the money that OAI hates them; I don't think hate is the right word, but I do think OpenAI has absolute disdain for a large portion of their userbase. Unfortunately the userbase wants to keep giving them money instead of going "fuck OAI" 🤦🏻

"the one model that cared" For anyone following along at home, this is a reminder that ChatGPT doesn't care about you, cannot care about you, will never care about you. Christ. These people scare me.

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Elon Musk chatting it up with his friend Jeffrey Epstein five years after he was convicted for child sex crimes 👍

Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her

Don't forget Gaza. Support the families in Gaza who have lost everything. Gaza wants peace and humanity.

Bellingcat community members have already found two files detailing explicit allegations that President Trump engaged in sexual activities with children. One file is an FBI complaint form and the other is an FBI email chain. www.justice.gov/epstein/file... www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

I can't get over this. Sometimes you watch a movie and you go "Oh, I forgot that actor was in this movie." That never, EVER happened with any movie Catherine O'Hara was in. She tended to be the most memorable part of any movie she graced us with.

I think this is a great thread and a reminder that the calls today are not THE strike, they are the beginning of a long haul, and that’s what high school kids walking out this morning are screaming for. They’re screaming for the start.

ok, you guys convinced me to pull out the big guns: my seahawks chalkline bomber, nearly pristine and i'm gonna get it dry cleaned. yes it's expensive because it's for a great cause and i don't really want to get rid of it :) www.ebay.com/itm/16812268...

450,000 artefacts from the HS2 excavations *alone*. So the next time detectorists tell you they find everything archaeologically important - they don't. 😝 #Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting #Treasure www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Don Lemon is a journalist who was exercising his constitutional rights and this is a fascist, flagrantly unconstitutional action.

Called for barbed wire in the channel to sink refugee dinghies. Said trump had the right idea and "thank god for nigel farage" www.womanandhome.com/life/news-en...

Right?! I have no kids, never will. Still happy to pay for educated children!

We want and need a better society, which will not come by putting restrictions on people's education choices.

We don't have kids, there's no street lighting within 3mi of our home, we don't use the leisure centre or swimming pool: so when is Reeves sending our refund? In truth, we have no objection to contributing to these things and would prefer the Government not to tax people for attending university.