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FlashMobOfOne

@ FlashMobOfOne @lemmy.world

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Artist, musical performer, and former derby skater from the Midwest.

I'm single, childless, and married to freedom and adventure.

ACAB, Anti-War, and I hate Democrats, Republicans, and billionaires. (Yes, even your favorite billionaire: the pop star, the philanthropost, the legendary athlete, or the soft-spoken investment guru who cosplays as middle class.) With each passing day I get a little closer to hating everyone.

Also, I refuse to use Donald's last name out of hatred for the man and his brand, FYI.

  • U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material

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  • If you want to call yourself an artist, do the work yourself, Stephen.

    You limpdick, no talent ass clown.

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  • Came here to say something similar.

    I'm a little tired of free speech absolutists looking at terrorist ideologies and concluding "No, man. That's just an opinion." as if we're deciding which condiment we like most at a burger stand. Speech is regulated in some ways, and should be. (Look at Stolen Valor laws for an example.)

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  • There is no 'we' in your hypothetical, unless you're sitting on a billionaire fortune or a member of the Epstein class.

    The only power you or I have is local, and this is a national problem.

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  • When I was in art school our TA's were making 20k a year but stilling on 50k - 100k in student debt. They'd all been to bigger, more prestigious art schools, and they were barely getting by. And each of these schools was churning out hundreds or thousands of students every year.

    That convinced me to take a different direction in life. Glad I did. I'm still a working artist and make a good living with it as a side hustle, but I'm glad I don't have to live with the uncertainty.

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  • I support Age Verification

    (Not to be confused with: I like Age Verification.)

    For a few reasons.

      1. The government already has all of your info and is spying on you from any device with a camera or microphone and wireless connection and without a warrant or meaningful accountability. We know this objectively because the FBI, desperate to look competent, inadvertently publicized footage obtained illegally in the Guthrie case that shouldn't have existed.

      1. It's not 2014. We have enough information now to know definitively that social media (and increasingly, use of LLM's) is harmful to children's mental health, and that its negative effects are more pronounced on developing brains. (Though they affect adults as well.) These systems harm a person's mental health and cognitive abilities, and while this bit is anecdotal, I know several teachers who struggle to teach kids because they're no longer able to focus on anything for more than sixty seconds. (And the question: "Why do I have to know this if an AI can do it for me?" is becoming a common refrain.)

      1. Private entities also already have your data. Go look yourself up on spokeo.com or some other background check site if you don't think so. (And be sure to put in a request there to have your info deleted while you're at it.) Or sub to a deletion service that will remove it for you.

      1. People say that to cut kids off from social media will isolate them, but I grew up in a world where we only had email, chat rooms, snail mail, and land lines, and somehow we magically made friendly connections anyway. It's a nonsense argument, and ignores that social media itself is isolating people to a much greater extent.

    Essentially, I think Age Verification is the lesser of two huge evils, and I don't expect the government in my country to force social media companies to disclose and change their algorithms to eliminate the harm being done to kids, so Age Verification becomes a necessary evil. (Hopefully a short-term one, but we'll see.) The social media companies have too much money for any civil suit to meaningfully impact them financially.

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  • I just use 'Hide Post' liberally.

  • Foster, Cupid

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  • Makes sense. The little furry god stole my heart.

  • Frasier. FIV+ foster

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  • I hope Frasier's little life is full of catnip, cat naps, and daydreaming.

  • Trump Admits Americans Will Likely Die in New War Nobody Wants

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  • You're right. It's almost the line word-for-word.

    Are we sure it wasn't AI?

  • Trump Admits Americans Will Likely Die in New War Nobody Wants

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  • It could happen, but I doubt it. The last time the US had a legitimate anti-war movement, it was in large part due to the draft.

  • This is Jelly. Jelly almost burned the house down this morning.

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  • Yeah they did. That's a perfect kitty right there.

    Sorry about the stove, though.

  • Trump Admits Americans Will Likely Die in New War Nobody Wants

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  • Nothing more American than a draft dodger sending others to die.

  • US man issues challenge to disprove his claim of having world’s smallest penis to raise micropenis awareness

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  • "It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it works out for him."

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    TIL that Elon Musk controls 90 companies. When he buys land, when he orders food, or when he gives money to politicians, he uses shell companies

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  • Most people do.

    Usually it's Taylor Swift.

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    TIL that Elon Musk controls 90 companies. When he buys land, when he orders food, or when he gives money to politicians, he uses shell companies

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  • This is how all of your favorite rich people live.

  • No work, need attention

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  • Your wish is my command, furry god.

  • President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems

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  • This is the kind of stuff I think about whenever a Democrat tries to tell me that Biden or Obama were powerless.

    They could have done this to the makers of assault rifles in order to spur greater regulation in the wake of mass shootings. After all, they're certainly contracted with various federal entities.

    That is, if they gave a shit.

  • Maybe the real Iran was the friends we made along the way

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  • I'd love to think that, but this is America, where basic geography might as well be Egyptian hieroglyphics to most people.

  • good lord....

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  • Awesome, thank you for the info!

    My fave used to be Plesiosaur, because I was mad into cryptozoology stories as a kid, and Nessie and Mokele Mbembe are (according to legend) potentially dinosaurs who survived the meteor.

    But I no longer believe that, and am a little annoyed that my schoolteachers didn't teach me a little extra skepticism.