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“Fuck #Ice shoutout to my Mexicans , pass this shit”

-  Fabio Ochoa @QuePasaWindow

UPDATE! HOW TO GET / PRINT THEM!!!

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Hey! This is the link to the cards, a good resource for anyone who needs them or wants to provide them to their community. https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards

https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards

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im sure someone already made a post about it but i came across a ublock origin add-on that blacklists around 950 AI websites and disables AI overview ☝️ so u can be free from seeing AI in your search

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Good morning me, did you sleep well?

Did you wake up feeling good? Do the light and the wind and the smell and the sounds all seem like they're brand new and fresh this morning? Is each and every cell in your whole body awake and alive now? Today you are who you are today, see? You're still me, but you're a newer version.

Myself ten years from now... that's so far away it's almost impossible to imagine. Am I alone, or is there a wonderful person next to me? Well, knowing me, I'm sure you're causing all kinds of trouble for lots of different people... I'm sorry, I don't mean to, but it's all right. That's part of life too isn't it? You're not perfect but you've got a lot to give. So remember - I'll always be cheering you on.

In your time I'm no longer here, but I am here today, and I'll always be cheering for you, right here. Cheering for you - my only self.

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One of these things is not like the others.

Can't believe I've now lived through the rise and fall of Soviet Russia, Geocities, Myspace, Livejournal, Facebook, Google+, ICQ, Skype, AIM, wide use of YIM, Vine, Twitter, and now Tiktok.

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Occasionally as an Australian you'll be talking to someone from overseas, and you'll discover a common phrase you took for granted is, in fact, not universally known outside of our country.

Turns out casually dropping "fuck me dead" into conversation will give unsuspecting Americans an aneurism.

The more you know.

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I've seen tons of similar stories - like Fahrenheit 451 - and Black Mirror even had one a lot like this! A very, very common trope/fear we humans have of the technological future is how invasive and consuming it will be... because it already is. This is the natural trajectory for capitalism - especially as we put AI into all kinds of shit that doesn't need it.

I've even had gaming youtubers break down the psychological manipulation that things like video games use to dig into the same part of the brain that gambling taps into... capitalism is literally altering our brains to better predate on us.

That said, I'm built different - I'd just get a raspberry pi and build it to block ads... like we've done once already in my home. (And then I'd probably be in capitalist prison too, but oh well. I've ripped the AI and external searches out of my Win11 bc it was predatory and annoying, so I will continue to alter the products I pay for and own!)

About ten, fifteen years ago I wrote a story about a guy living in a Capitalist dystopia. His walls, furniture, and tableware are all covered in smart displays. Basically animated wallpaper. It's sold as being able to turn your room or objects into anything - A nice forest view, outer space, a fantasy realm... but the companies that run this stuff keep sneaking ads in.

It gets so bad he's always being woken up by adverts that offer insomnia cures and better bedding that play when he tries to sleep.

So he buys the ad-free tier, and it's great... for a few months. And then he starts getting adverts from 'premium partners'. So he goes up a level... and the same thing happens.

So he jailbreaks his wallpaper and sends all the ad servers to 0.0.0.0 and voila... he can sleep.

Until this SWAT team blows his door off and drag him off to jail. The Ad companies are suing him for loss of revenue for the products he' notionally have bought if he'd watched their adverts, based on some weird 'The average consumer buys X products with an average value of Y' calculation.

The judge is like 'well I dun wanna annoy the sponsors' so he RICO's this guy's house and possessions and sends him to jail.

... which is a nice relaxed non-volent offender jail for the corporately disenfranchised. But because these people have no money... there's no ads and now he's happy because the only place he's free... is in prison.

Which at the time was a bit much and now it's like: Called it.

Elon's suing companies for not advertising because he's losing revenue. He's also cranking the price of Ad Free Twitter. Disney and Amazon play adverts on their paid service when services used to be free because of the adverts... and now you have to pay to watch the adverts or go up a couple of tiers.

And google's going around freaking out about ad-blockers.

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I have a feeling this will become iconic in due time.  

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I wish there was a way to completely OPT OUT of AI. Like you could set your ENTIRE Internet browser to NOT shove it down your throat.

When social media was getting big, you could just NOT get a Facebook or a Twitter. It was simple as that. You can't do that with AI.

Trying to find a job? It goes straight to an AI filter. Trying to look at art? Here's 100+ ai shit. Trying to look up who was in what movie from the 1980s? GOOGLE GEMINI IS HERE WITH THE COMPLETELY WRONG ANSWER!

Someone PLEASE create a way to allow people to get AI the FUCK OUT of our lives if we DO NOT WANT IT!

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Suddenly I am thinking about that article written by Brennan Lee Mulligan about being witness to extremely hyper-wealthy people believing they were going to live forever.

Not if the rest of us have anything to say about it, said the guy with words on his bullets to the heart of a health insurance CEO.

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Today I found out my dead grandpa was a massive shoplifter and every ice cream sandwich, Little Debbie roll and candy he gave me was more than likely stolen. He always had little gifts for me. Gifts he had stolen. Apparently Walmart was his favorite spot to steal from. I thought I couldn’t love and respect my grandfather any more than I already did but I do now. Poppy, you were a real one.

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Almost all of my favorite things in one post! I guess now is when I also tell people to watch Westworld (the show - the movie is laughably bad), because they were not only interpreting Crichton's work, but expounding upon things that... soon came to pass/were already on the rise in the real world, and are still concerns. It's not just about Wild West robots, just like Jurassic Park wasn't about clever raptors! (The part in later seasons with the AI therapist was scary - then I found out... that was already happening, and had terrible results in the real world!)

Dear necromancers, why would you bother summoning human corpses when dinosaurs are an option

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( ^-^)/ Being different has its benefits.. Mostly you're going to suffer tho

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Both! I write for my characters that I'm roleplaying, often, and first person is more often when I'm really in a character's head, and want things shown through their perspective - it's when I want people right there feeling what this imaginary person is feeling/going through. But sometimes you don't want every detail revealed by a character's inner thoughts and knowledge, and you want to pull the camera back to third person! Kinda like in a video game I might rarely use the first person camera, but it's useful for finer details - while third person is a step back, a clearer view of the immediate surroundings... not just what the person is focused on. (Plus first person is a great way to flavor things with how a character sees the world - they can be a bit of an unreliable narrator, or flavor the world view with their own. There's reasons to write in either!)

I am thinking about fan fiction writers, but anyone who writes any kind of fiction can answer. (As far as I’m aware, non-fiction is usually written in the past tense - but if I’m wrong do let me know!)

If you like, explain why in the tags!

When I was young I gathered that all serious works of fiction were written in the past tense (past tense third person to be precise) so that is what i did when I started writing. However my mind was blown by the power and immediacy of Margaret Atwood writing in the present tense so I started to experiment with it myself, and now i strongly favour it. I get the impression that past is still the most commonly used, but I’m prepared to be surprised!

Please share!