#Tech Bros

[thoughtportal]

He didn’t invent anything

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

[animentality]

[gazagfmboost]

Karam rafiq al-nabih & mother Tahini

Vetting: GoFundWatermelon / TheLastTurtle #216 Instagram: karamrafeek Tumblr: @karamrafeek / Personal Tumblr Post Fund Currency: € Euro

Karam is a forcibly displaced 23 year old engineering student who needs to evacuate to complete his studies. He is also desperately & diligently trying to help his beloved mother Tahini, who is deeply struggling with medical issues that are worsening with the poor water quality & lack of medicine. They're hoping to survive & evacuate to access adequate care, The fundraising site closed their previous fund that was well on it's way to being complete- I would like to please invite you to consider helping Tahini to recover her health & Karam to complete his studies- with a heart on the post, any sized contribution if at all possible- by following his account &/or by re-sharing their story to help them to feel seen & heard, Your attention & kindness are appreciated very much!

Help Karam & his family rebuild their life gofund.me/e5106d4a

[tippenfunkaport]

FYI, I have also locked all my fanfics down to registered users only because of the AI scraping on AO3. I'm one of many fan creators doing this right now and I know it stinks for users without an AO3 account, but it's the only option writers have available to us at the moment to stop our work from being scraped and stolen.

If this makes you mad, the Federal Register is currently open to comments on AI accountability until June 12th, 2023.

It only takes a second to leave a comment to ask for legislation that works used in AI creations or training MUST secure the express consent of the original creator before they can be used. If we can get protections for artists, writers, musicians and everyone who creates that their work cannot be used in AI without their permission, we can go back to making fanworks freely available without fear of them being misused. Until then, we're stuck playing defense until the courts catch up.

(If you're a fan creator looking to do this as well, AO3 has a tool to let you do all your fics at the same time in seconds. On your dashboard, go to Edit Works and you'll be able to change the status on everything at once.)

If you missed the context, AO3 recently found that the archive was scraped for use in AI services like ChatGPT and Sudowrite. While they put in protections in December 2022 to try to stop it from happening in the future, it's not foolproof and there is nothing they can do about works already swiped prior to that date. The archive is recommending fan creators restrict their works to registered users only to prevent against additional large scale scraping in the future.

[thashining]

Aww

[victusinveritas]

[psycohousecat]

This guy👇is bang on...

MAGA is gonna find out just what they actually voted for.

2025 is going to be the year of MAGA whining and I can't wait! 🤣

[thoughtportal]

[commiepinkofag]

US legislators are absolutely out of touch with reality — technology especially.

with kosa and tiktok censorship; with meta & google manipulating elections, trafficking private data, selling information to police, providing technology used in war crimes; with the cataclysmic environmental impacts of artificial intelligence… [to name a few]

ALL of the american tech companies do more harm to the world than one company in china.

none of that matters, solely due to the strong presence of a pro-palestine/anti-genocide movement on tiktok.

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

[serenityskyy]

Let's all calm down. They probably took a "Learn How to Code in 2 Weeks" course and thought tech would be their side hustle.

[bloghrexach]

Elon Musk posted this. Basically threatening America. You know … The party of family values is telling everyone to go fuck themselves in the face.

I hope you Trump supporters are happy. Because this is who’s going to be the president’s right hand man oh wait I mean the president is going to be Elon Musk’s Right hand man.

Or whatever.

We have two goons that are going to inhabit the White House. You Trump supporters got played. So very hard. 

@hrexach

[thashining]

ELON REALIZES HE MADE A HUGE MESS

Adam Mockler with MeidasTouch Network breaks down the moment Elon Musk realizes he turned Twitter into a cesspool that he can't control in the process of getting Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans into power.

[victusinveritas]