I’m in Italy, I do use it less but for the time I used it after the takeover I didn’t notice too many differences, even in English content. Even videos that are very positive about China (I get them on YouTube too)
Facebook on the other hand, which I very rarely use, had a terrible period with tons of rightwing propaganda, nothing to do with my profile.
Tbh it could just be that the dems are doing a China move: do nothing and win
Right now trump can either reference Biden, knowing people are sick of that, or he simply doesn’t have a definite target, “the radical left”. An emerging leader of the centre would give him a target. So it makes sense they stay quiet.
I’m not a us citizen tho, I know that there is a lot of political activism, especially around the DSA, and the recent big protests are good signs. What I expect is that whoever ends up being the democratic leader will have a very hard time being a centrist. The demo-socialists have a big chance, but corporate media is also going to play its role in supporting a rethoric of “now that we’ve seen crazy let’s go for someone respectable, not another crazy”.
The opposition, in the wide sense, is basically Sanders and the DSA, in my view, because they are popular and they are winning some local elections, including NY. But I still doubt they are going to be the face of the dem strategy for 2028, let alone the midterms.
As a user of both, I’m now getting repelled by reddit’s AI bots spreading AI and polymerket propaganda
I guess the feature here is not being bombarded with suggested communities and posts. Everything here is basically intentional choice, a double edge sword but surely a healthy one
But I do go back from time to time, I do want to chat with people with different political views
Since last summer i put a series of repeating activities on my calendar, one for every day of the week. Their main effect is reminding me that my free time could be spent on personal prpjects that do not necessarily need to lead to something public.
It also encourages intentional boredom, as opposed to scrolling. I don’t know if it improved my life a lot, i end up ignoring the suggested activities most of the times, but it helps me keeping that frame of mind, and it probably allowed me to put effort in a few things i care for.
I’m kinda starting to think the dems are silent because if they did support resistance and deploy national guards, it would technically start a civil war, and no rich elite would like that, and the general population would pay that too
Like, it could be used as an excuse to ramp up the kidnappings even more
I’m saying this because even people like Sanders, not exactly your typical lobby puppet, doesn’t seem to go for this. Perhaps they find it more useful to wait for the midterms and acquire enough power to avoid a civil war
That said, it’s disgusting to see how military and police do not act on their own against these illegal and unconstitutional kidnappings, and we all know they won’t ever be accountable for this inaction
Oh this is our sign Vulcans are here 🖖, checking on us before our First Contact
Somebody started with
A vehicle is a deadly weapon.
Guys guys i think we got them! Let’s ban private vehicles!
A down-top socialist approach would give actual democratic control over “capital”, meaning for example that those who provide the news would control it independently from those who provide the food on people’s tables, and big decisions inside them would be taken democratically among the big number of workers.
The reason these police kidnappings happen is that right now those capitals are all controlled by a very small monopolistic elite, twisting the national democratic process, preventing people from having actual control even over the State. Thus, media, food and police are all working basically for the same few guys.
At this point it’s easier to join a movement to tax private ownership of essentials, than saving for a home
It’s actually a song my Mexican friend knew, I didn’t even though I’m the Italian one xD
Che figata di serata!
Italian here, I had luck with my English teachers and my parents and then the internet encouraged me to learn extra
The sooner our society abandons individualism and goes back to community oriented structures, the faster these problems will disappear.
Mass media, mass religion, mass communication, they all included manipulation. From telling lies, to telling only part of the truth, to salience and propaganda. AI is the latest scary tool.
The issue is that we expect the individual to have the tools to defend themselves from this. That’s not how it works. We need human connection, small family communities, where members help each others on the various aspects of life, including following public discourse and politics. When everyone has their sense of belonging to a place of care, the value of money and of the mass manipulations it uses falls and fails to accomplish a thing.
Let’s also stop believing that people vote mainly based on how easy it is to manipulate them. People vote based on their culture, their experiences, their overall mood on how things are going. The turnout in New York should show that. No fake news on Mamdani had an effect that comes even close to people’s connection to a grassroots campaign, people’s dissatisfaction with Trump and billionaires, people’s cultural affiliation to a young immigrant that speaks of affordability, nurseries, and pride to be one’s true self against discrimination.
Time limits on apps where I tend to have arguments on politics
Mmmmm that sounds to me like some digital sound with a slight flanger. Like a guitar-ish sample.
LMMS has this Vibed instrument that starts from something pretty similar. You could play around with that, on a PC tho
Yes, I don’t think it’s a matter of training.
The diffusion model generates pictures by starting on a canvas with random pixels, then it edits those pixel colours and carves the picture out of that chaos
To achieve an area with all the same colour, it would need to put very exact values on the last generation step.
It can be fixed easily with a very subtle lowpass filter, but that would be human intervention. The model itself will have a hard time replicating it
Two that I noticed are:
For drawings in the ghibli style, you can see noise on areas that should have all the same colour. That’s because of how the diffusion model works, it’s very hard for it to replicate lack of variation in colours. If fact that noise will always exist, it’s just more noticeable on simple styles.
For music, specifically with Suno, it tends to use the similar sounding instruments between different tracks of the same specifispecified genres, and those sounds might change during the track and never come back to their original sound (because it generates section by section of the track from start to end, the transformer model will feed the last sections back as input to generate the new ones, amplifying possible biases in the model)
I’m a bit scared of the commitment, I work full time and barely have energy for projects
But mainly I would either start my own deserted community, or take over some that I’d be unqualified to manage
I don’t think it’s the kind of socialisation I seek anymore, if I had the time I’d rather play a game of tribal wars and be part of a big organised tribe. But IRL stuff is probably what would interest me the most, unions or activism.