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from the documentary “donbass: i’m alive”

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not to be insensitive but some of the salem witch trials were so funny bitches like “i saw her at the devils sacrament!!!” girl... what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament 👀

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former member of the sbu talking about the black site jail created by the ukrainian military in mariupol

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are there any critiques of AI art or maybe AI in general that you would agree with?

AI art makes it a lot easier to make bad art on a mass production scale which absolutely floods art platforms (sucks). LLMs make it a lot easier to make content slop on a mass production scale which absolutely floods search results (sucks and with much worse consequences). both will be integrated into production pipelines in ways that put people out of jobs or justify lower pay for existing jobs. most AI-produced stuff is bad. the loudest and most emphatic boosters of this shit are soulless venture capital guys with an obvious and profound disdain for the concept of art or creative expression. the current wave of hype around it means that machine learning is being incorporated into workflows and places where it provides no benefit and in fact makes services and production meaningfully worse. it is genuinely terrifying to see people looking to chatGPT for personal and professional advice. the process of training AIs and labelling datasets involves profound exploitation of workers in the global south. the ability of AI tech to automate biases while erasing accountability is chilling. seems unwise to put a lot of our technological eggs in a completely opaque black box basket (mixing my metaphors ab it with that one). bing ai wont let me generate 'tesla CEO meat mistake' because it hates fun

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10,000 soldiers at Vietnam’s 50-year reunification parade in Ho Chi Minh City. On April 30, 1975, communist-led North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon, ending the Vietnam War and unifying North and South Vietnam under one government.

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biting my mama

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uкraine flags in bio are daydreaming about bombing 9th may victory parade in moscow these days btw

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Traffic Controller Maria Shalneva in front of May Day Celebration Banner (Berlin, 1945).

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Just learned that there's currently wildfires all over Israel but the west bank is not burning. also Greece and Cyprus are both declining to answer requests for aid.

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Since we're talking about wikipedia today

 At least 5,295 Belarusian villages were burned and destroyed by the Nazis, and often all their inhabitants were killed (some amounting to as many as 1,500 victims) as a punishment for collaboration with partisans. Over 2,000,000 people were killed in Belarus during the three years of Nazi occupation, almost a quarter of the region's population.

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A US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet has been “lost” at sea after it fell overboard from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier while it was being towed on board, the Navy said in a statement on Monday.

A US official said that initial reports from the scene indicated that the Truman made a hard turn to evade Houthi fire, which contributed to the fighter jet falling overboard. The Houthi rebel group claimed on Monday to have launched a drone and missile attack on the aircraft carrier, which is in the Red Sea as part of the US military’s major anti-Houthi operation.

28 Apr 25

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US and Ukraine Sign Agreement on Access to Natural Resources - Bloomberg

30 Apr 25

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kms

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The family from the collection of 1890s letters I'm transcribing has a donkey that is exclusively referred to as "the donka" (always underlined) and I can't not read it in Eddie Murphy's voice.

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legitimately bothers me that i almost never see slavs/soviets recognized as victims of genocide perpetuated by nazi germany if the poster is from the west