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Aral Balkan
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Social oncologist. I make small things. Unapologetically anti-genocide. From Gaza? If you need to get verified, please go here: https://gaza-verified.org/join/ Want to donate to people in Gaza? Please see https://gaza-verified.org/donate/ My posts are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) 🍉🌻 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ #SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #tech #privacy #humanRights #personhood #democracy #aral #fedi22 #searchable
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Aral Balkan 1 year ago
OpenAI Shuts Down Sora Access After Artists Released Video-Generation Tool in Protest: ‘We Are Not Your PR Puppets’
OpenAI Shuts Down Sora Access After Artists Leak Video Tool in Protest
OpenAI suspended access to the Sora generative-AI video system after artists in an alpha-test program released it publicly in protest.
 Famous Big Tech bottom feeders: “We don’t understand… what’s wrong with being PR puppets?” Via @npub19anq...vvyh #AI #OpenAI #protest #backbone #artists #PR #BigTech
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Aral Balkan 1 year ago
Did you know IBM helped Hitler carry out the Holocaust? Is it in any way surprising that we can’t do anything about Big Tech and toxic oligarchs like Elon Musk when even those who helped carry out one of the worst tragedies in human history remain unpunished? Should it come as a shock that the very same bastards are funding and pining for fascism today? #BigTech #fascism #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #BigData #AI
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Aral Balkan 1 year ago
Dear Americans, Vote for Kamala Harris even though both candidates will continue to arm Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people because, yes, the alternative is worse and, yes, because your country – and others like it (the UK and Germany spring to mind) – is so morally bankrupt and undemocratic that your political system doesn’t even leave you the option of not supporting a genocide. But don’t you dare stop there and pat yourselves on the back. (1/3)
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Aral Balkan 1 year ago
If people have to hack your privacy-respecting browser to make it respect their privacy, maybe your privacy-respecting browser isn’t really privacy respecting. #mozilla #firefox #privacy #privacyWashing #AI
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Aral Balkan 1 year ago
Linux: We have no idea why folks think we’re hard to use. Also Linux: Would you like to use useradd or adduser to add a user to your system? 🤔 #linux #userAdd #addUser #decisionDecisions
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Aral Balkan 1 year ago
“[Blair] asked DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis, ‘If you were a government today why would you not want to have all of your data in a cloud-based infrastructure so you can analyse it with an LLM?’” ✅ Clueless ✅ Corrupt (son owns AI firm) ❌ Muppet (insult to muppets)
I'm looking for a man in AI, trust fund, 6 foot, blue eyes
Tony Blair at yesterday’s Future of Britain Conference On Monday morning, along with a couple of thousand other people, I received an email with ...
 #AI #LLM #DeepMind #Blair #UKPol #Multiverse
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Aral Balkan 1 year ago
I used to think Google were evil but smart. I no longer think they’re smart. #Google #search #surveillance #capitalism #PeopleFarming #AI #LLM #evil #notSmart image
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Aral Balkan 1 year ago
If your justification for the genocide of the Palestinian people is that what Israel’s doing is legal, may I remind you the Holocaust was legal too. Hitler was acting entirely within the laws of Nazi Germany while committing the genocide of the Jewish (and Roma, and gay, and disabled, …) people. Legal does not mean moral, just, or right. If something is legal but unjust, it is your moral duty to break the law. No social progress has ever come about without moral people breaking unjust laws.
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Aral Balkan 1 year ago
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered Israel to halt its Rafah military offensive.
the Guardian
Israel-Gaza war: Netanyahu rejects genocide claims as ‘false and outrageous’; Palestinian Authority welcomes ICJ ruling – as it happened
UN’s top court orders halt to Rafah offensive, saying it is ‘not convinced’ evacuation and other measures are alleviating Palestinians’ suf...
 #israel #palestine #gaza #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #rafah #ICJ #InternationalCourtOfJustice #UN
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Aral Balkan 1 year ago
International law is whatever the Unites States says it is, you fucking communists. Don’t make us nuke you again!
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Aral Balkan 1 year ago
Duck Duck Go is down because Bing is down. (Also, you saw the recent AI stuff, right?) Folks, I know… I use Duck Duck Go also but remember they have venture capital. Enjoy it while it lasts (or let’s fund and build alternatives differently that aren’t temporary businesses with profit motives and exits but commons-owned institutions working for the common good). #DuckDuckGo #bing #microsoft #ventureCapital #DDG
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Aral Balkan 1 year ago
Opposing genocide isn’t antisemitic. Saying that opposing genocide is antisemitic is antisemitic. You know what’s inhumane? Genocide. You know who’s committing genocide? Israel. You have zero moral standing to assess me. Those who commit and are complicit in genocide never do. So yes, most definitely, goodbye. #israel #palestine #gaza #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide https://digitalcourage.social/@sl007/112268942430540187
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Aral Balkan 1 year ago
“The true con artist doesn’t force us to do anything; he makes us complicit in our own undoing. He doesn’t steal. We give. He doesn’t have to threaten us. We supply the story ourselves. We believe because we want to, not because anyone made us. And so we offer up whatever they want—money, reputation, trust, fame, legitimacy, support—and we don’t realize what is happening until it is too late.” – Maria Konnikova, The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It…Every Time #SiliconValley #BigTech
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