They are trying to legislate haircuts. From the article: “The bill defines “social transition” as: “The process by which an individual adopts the name, pronouns, and gender expression, such as clothing or haircuts, that match the individual’s gender identity and not the gender assumed by the individual’s sex at birth. Teachers found guilty of “supporting social transition” would be placed in the same sex offender registration category as Tier 1 sex offenders, which is Missouri’s lowest level but includes possession of child porn or attempting a sexual act.”
Telling a kid it’s ok to have a particular hairstyle or clothing is going to be equivalent to possession of child porn?
You were right, I checked and I screwed up. I watched a bunch of Sora videos and got mixed up about which ones were new (thought I saw some of the new ones on the official site). I’ve updated the link to a YouTube video reviewing actually new Sora vids. Apologies to all.
A whole new breed of pressure-based sales. “TikTok analysis has identified 53 genes that are keeping you from looking your best. Our certified CRISPR-Techs are standing by to splice in the genetic codes that will give you the jawline and cheekbones that will get you followers. It’s like a photo filter for real life.”
This is Kyle Hill’s video on the predicted impact of AI-generated content on the internet, especially as it becomes more difficult to tell machine from human over text and video. He relays that experts say within a year huge portions of online content will be AI-generated. What do you guys think? Do you care that you may soon be having discussions/arguments with chatbots more often than not on popular platforms like Reddit, X, YouTube, etc?
I 100% agree the genie is out of the bottle. People who want to walk back this change are not dealing with reality. AI and robotics are so valuable I very much doubt there’s even any point in talking about slowing it down. All that’s left now is to figure out how to use the good and deal with the bad - likely on a timeline of months to maybe one or two years.
I agree. I’m talking about how quickly we’re going to have strategies in place to deal not how quickly we’ll have it all figured out. My guess is we have at best a year before it’s a huge issue, and I agree with your take that figuring out human vs. AI content etc. is going to be an ongoing thing. Perhaps until AI gets so good it ceases to matter as much because it will be functionally the same.
That is flat-out heartbreaking. Why are there so many things higher on the list of priorities than feeding the nation’s children? I won’t drag out the usual suspects, but we have all heard of government expenditures that make far less sense than that.
I wonder if it’s better for the top 10% and much worse for everyone else (and thus worse overall), as is often the case in private sectors. I had an argument during an election season with someone (they said they were a doctor) who said they didn’t want to wait for an MRI so they paid to have it done at a clinic they knew. They said this was a net benefit and argument for privatization because it cleared up their spot in the public line for someone else. I argued that being able to pay money for faster or better care is the very definition of a two-tiered health system that treats the wealthy better than everyone else.
The only drug that treats syphilis during pregnancy is in short supply. Untreated, the disease can pass to newborns, killing them or leaving them with disabilities. As cases rise sharply, the government isn’t doing much to prevent shortages....
Healthcare should not be left in the hands of private corporations. I don’t want babies to die or be disabled because Pfizer decided a particular medicine wasn’t profitable enough to warrant investment. Food, homes, medicine, and utilities are foundational for good quality of life. They should be guaranteed by the government, not left to an uncontrolled market to provide if it’s good for their bottom line.
If your strategy for winning is to keep people from voting then you don’t really support democracy (aka rule by popular vote). This sounds like a type of gerrymandering (which is illegal Edit: sometimes illegal, varies by state), just at the voter registration level instead of geographically.
Interesting! To point #1, I looked it up and apparently the legality of partisan gerrymandering (i.e. by likely vote as opposed to race) varies by state. I had thought it was completely illegal. Thanks for fact-checking me.
Putin’s recent actions, and Trump’s, fit the usual pattern: bad leaders nearly always get worse. They get worse in four phases, each more ominous and compounding than the one before. The progression usually starts slowly — perceptible, perhaps, but unremarkable. Then it picks up steam. Finally, if leaders are left to their...
I think it’s fair to say we’re now well into the age of AI-generated misinformation. Hopefully people aren’t casting their vote based on internet photos.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees on Monday accused Israel of detaining and torturing some of its staffers, coercing them into making false confessions about the agency’s ties to Hamas....
In 2014, Australian journalists produced a documentary called Stone Cold Justice: Israel’s torture of Palestinian children. An excerpt from the description: A film which has been produced by a group of Australian journalists has sparked an international outcry against Israel after it explicitly detailed Tel Aviv’s use of torture against Palestinian children. The film, titled ‘Stone Cold Justice’ documents how Palestinian children, who have been arrested and detained by Israeli forces, are subjected to physical abuse, torture and forced into false confessions and pushed into gathering intelligence on Palestinian activists.
I don’t entirely disagree. I’m not going to completely deny consumer responsibility, but I think it’s important to hold corporations much more accountable. My reasons are: sabotaging alternatives (this is huge), tons corporate money in politics (actively preventing change even if people want it), climate denial and false research (lying), and making sure everyone but themselves gets blamed when problems can no longer be hidden.
In the case of manufacturing, when environmental controls are implemented the corporations affected often just ship the work abroad. So even if citizens manage to make change in their own country the corporations just export the damage. You may say that people could just stop buying, and there is that aspect of consumer responsibility I’ve acknowledged. However, when all the options are bad it’s not realistic to say everyone should have forgone all cars, phones, or electricity produced by fossil fuels.
The general population has been deliberately denied information and agency to enact change. This latest statement in OP’s article is just a continuation of decades of corporate greed over truth and the environment.
My bad. Sometimes it’s hard to tell when you’re having a discussion via message board because nuance can get lost. I’ll edit that assumption out. Sounds like we’re on the same side.
Solutions (slrpnk.net)
Upcoming co-op Mass Effect game (www.dicebreaker.com)
Sounds like it’s going to be a legacy game:...
Missouri bill would make teachers sex offenders if they accept trans kids' pronouns (www.riverfronttimes.com)
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Fab Ciraolo's Cobain and Wonka (lemmy.world)
Creator’s Instagram is here with lots of other great pics.
Fab Ciraolo's Dali (lemmy.world)
Creator’s Instagram is here and it’s pretty great.
Gen Z is in danger (midwest.social)
Generative A.I - We Aren’t Ready. (www.youtube.com)
Over 7,000 students see their lunch debts wiped after $1 million donation (www.goodmorningamerica.com)
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New study links hospital privatisation to worse patient care (www.ox.ac.uk)
Syphilis is killing babies. The U.S. government is failing to stop the disease from spreading. (www.propublica.org)
The only drug that treats syphilis during pregnancy is in short supply. Untreated, the disease can pass to newborns, killing them or leaving them with disabilities. As cases rise sharply, the government isn’t doing much to prevent shortages....
People don't forget (lemmy.world)
Trump’s Allies Ramp Up Campaign Targeting Voter Rolls (www.yahoo.com)
Putin and Trump – from bad to worse (thehill.com)
Putin’s recent actions, and Trump’s, fit the usual pattern: bad leaders nearly always get worse. They get worse in four phases, each more ominous and compounding than the one before. The progression usually starts slowly — perceptible, perhaps, but unremarkable. Then it picks up steam. Finally, if leaders are left to their...
Black Trump Supporters Are Being AI-Generated (gizmodo.com)
UNRWA accuses Israel of detaining, coercing staffers into false confessions about ties to Hamas (www.cnn.com)
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees on Monday accused Israel of detaining and torturing some of its staffers, coercing them into making false confessions about the agency’s ties to Hamas....
Exxon CEO blames public for failure to fix climate change (thehill.com)