How can you be anti-deepfake but pro-piracy?
https://sh.itjust.works/post/57925746
How can you be anti-deepfake but pro-piracy? - sh.itjust.works
The EU has recently decided to crackdown strongly
[https://www.courthousenews.com/eu-lawmakers-back-ban-on-sexualized-ai-deepfakes/]
on deepfakes, whether you’re a citizen or a celebrity. This falls under abuse of
AI and self-autonomy. Wouldn’t the same exact rationale also work for creative
media, whether it’s corporate or civilian? What you make is just as
self-autonomous to you too, or so I would think.
How does the concept of the Overton Window live up to its hype?
https://sh.itjust.works/post/56924275
How does the concept of the Overton Window live up to its hype? - sh.itjust.works
I’m unsure if this question comes from what many of you would refer to as
skepticism. The inspiration to put pen to paper so-to-speak and ask the question
comes from an interesting exchange I witnessed yesterday. Yesterday was the Ides
of March, and someone chose the day to ask a question about people acting upon
some kind of acknowledgement of the Overton Window due to the political
environment we live in today, and someone joked about the irony of asking the
question on the Ides of March, which is the day of the year when Julius Caesar
was assassinated. Though the conversation then kind of evolved into a
conversation after that where people talked about if the Overton Window was a
“thing” in ancient times, with there being an understanding among us that the
political activity of ancient times didn’t benefit from any kind of acknowledged
“moving window”. Anywho, that made me think more vividly of asking this, and it
can be seen as a follow-up to a previous question
[https://sh.itjust.works/post/55482327] I had asked. As a recap, the Overton
Window is the phenomenon where people say there is said to be a window of
acceptability on the political spectrum that decides how a community will act in
the face of certain societal issues. If the political spectrum was a slit where
a lever is stuck into, the Overton Window would be the lever. If you think about
it more, in a way that reminds us that politics is meta, historicity, classical
ethics, and certain non-governmental aspects of different cultures are enough to
go so far as to add a layer of scrutiny to the Overton Window. How would you
phrase your answer if you were having a discussion about this and someone
mentioned their acknowledgement of the Overton Window was shook by thoughts like
this, as one might perceive is happening here?
TIL there's a remote Amazonian language that's so hardwired for empiricism that it disproves the logic of people who complain about sealioners
https://sh.itjust.works/post/56796001
TIL there's a remote Amazonian language that's so hardwired for empiricism that it disproves the logic of people who complain about sealioners - sh.itjust.works
Lemmy
TIL we're back to sexism being mainstream
https://sh.itjust.works/post/56430872
TIL we're back to sexism being mainstream - sh.itjust.works
A very troubling revelation for International Women’s Day.
I don't say this necessarily to judge, but what's the logic behind some people who celebrated Brian Thompson's death in 2024 lamenting the Ayatollah's death in 2026?
https://sh.itjust.works/post/56280268
I don't say this necessarily to judge, but what's the logic behind some people who celebrated Brian Thompson's death in 2024 lamenting the Ayatollah's death in 2026? - sh.itjust.works
Even some of those who said his murder was technically wrong still said they
celebrated Brian Thompson’s death on the basis that he caused people harm.
Admittedly it got to a point where a lot of it was semantics. “Ayatollah” is the
title of the ruler of Iran (or Persia if we want to call it that for historical
consistency), similar to how Egyptians had pharaohs or how the Greeks had
archons. Until the end of February, the Ayatollah was Ali Khamenei, who was said
to have dictatorial tendencies that ended with dozens of thousands of deaths.
American president Donald Trump had the military sweep in and killed him. Was
the broken clock right twice that day? A lot of people say no and stand by the
Ayatollah. I bring these two people up in particular because the logic seems
exactly the same. They caused people harm for their own gains and were killed by
someone acting out of their bounds, but [insert political party here] only
supports one and opposes the other, and this is what is constantly shared on the
news. The types of coverage both get is completely parallel too. The only
difference being the sides switched. The parallels are strong enough to a degree
where, in the groups of all the people I am associated with (apparently this is
a spreading trend), people as a rule often use “Brian Thompson”, “Ayatollah”,
and “Ali Khamenei” interchangeably or refer to both as “Ayatollah Brian
Thompson” or “Brian ‘the ayatollah’ Thompson”, often sharing art of Luigi
killing the actual Ayatollah or people asking Luigi what his views are on the
Ayatollah being killed (someone should do that last thing). Is there a
difference from the perspective of someone who opposes one but not the other?
If it's been proven that anything has potential to be politicized, why do we speak of so many ideas as being outside the left/right spectrum, even when they actually influence a left/right philosophy?
https://sh.itjust.works/post/55482327
If it's been proven that anything has potential to be politicized, why do we speak of so many ideas as being outside the left/right spectrum, even when they actually influence a left/right philosophy? - sh.itjust.works
I’m helping to build an instance, and we had a debate recently on whether
Platonism is left-winged or right-winged. It’s an ancient philosophy, mind you.
Created by Plato. One small side said it was right-winged, one small side said
it was left-winged, and the majority said it couldn’t be either. Someone
remarked “what do you mean it’s neither? Marx cited him!” Admittedly it’s
frustrating when you’re researching these things so you can give it a respectful
comparative review and someone says “you can’t judge people of ancient times
based on your left-right mode of measurement” in a world where something like
whether Obama can do a public prank April Fool’s Day is a “political” issue
(remember when he said he was building Iron Man as an April Fool’s joke and
everyone on the right claimed it was unprofessional while the left enjoyed his
sense of humor). That’s somehow more worthy to put under the microscope than
Plato, the world’s first “public” philosopher (after Socrates and Thales who
weren’t of specific opinions and Ptahhotep who was more of a superior advocating
an approach that worked for him)? In my eyes at this point, as well as the eyes
of the groups I help out in, everything is equally politicized as a default;
that is, “politicization” is what the individual makes of it at a given moment.
But I know that isn’t how the world operates. Marx himself was known to write
about an enormous number of topics, from faraway cultures to appropriate
punishments for oddly specific crimes. How does the inherent potential of
everything that exists to be politicized square with the idea that certain
things are also inherently seen as non-left-or-right based on the circumstances
that they hold in their own setting?
It saddens me to think this is a driving force when communicating with fellow community members
https://sh.itjust.works/post/53428281
I thought the whole point of last year was to be vigilant against whatever dictator we might be living under, not encourage the living situation of the characters from V for Vendetta
https://sh.itjust.works/post/52996262
I thought the whole point of last year was to be vigilant against whatever dictator we might be living under, not encourage the living situation of the characters from V for Vendetta - sh.itjust.works
Lemmy
So were the Gen Z protests all for nothing considering this?
https://sh.itjust.works/post/52289810
What's going on in NYC? I literally got back to watching NYC news just to see this.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/50693996
