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Assassination is a Leaky Abstraction

it is the right moment for everyone who builds systems of control to reflect. It’s the right moment to pierce those layers of abstraction that allow you to get through each day, and question why it’s so financially lucrative for the system you’re building to exist.

Because there is no abstraction as leaky as a man waiting outside your hotel at 6:45 in the morning with a gun and murderous intent

Amazingly written article, last line giving me chills

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TWO international reporters shot in a single day.

Here I thought the article got the nationality of the reporter wrong only to find out they're just aiming for reporters in general now apparently...

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authenticity problem

This was the discussion on a recent post, which seems to be deleted now, about "AI" art on beer cans in the Mildly Infuriating community.

It's really upsetting how much art is now seen as AI looking when AI art only looks that way cause it was trained on great art. Anything stylized, slightly sepia, realistically shaded, etc etc, automatically assumed to be AI when some people have trained decades to develop this style themselves, but now it's just slop style

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Lazy Duck

After trying a search, opened Lemmy to see if it was my connection, immediately see this meme. Thanks for the troubleshooting confirmation Lemmy

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FastCompany: E-books are fast becoming tools of corporate surveillance

I honestly hadn't considered that eBook licensing data could be used in the way they describe in the article. EBooks becoming part of big data surveillance somehow feels especially disheartening to me.

Lately I feel like I've been duped for years since I used to believe strongly in the phrase "if you're not paying for it, you're the product" but it feels like with every paid product or service nowadays you're STILL the product...

But a pirate is always free 🏴‍☠️

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Japan appears to be confused about Christmas

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Thanks for the background! For those who don't want to click:

This claim is mostly false. The photograph was actually part of an artwork by Yoshio Itagaki in 2005, which in itself is a commentary satirizing the urban legend of a Japanese department store misinterpreting Christmas. The photograph has been used out of context and spread alongside the claim it aimed to critique.

Basically a Japanese artist creating satire I guess?

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Columbia student flees to Canada after ICE showed up at her door

Columbia University PhD student Ranjani Srinivasan calls accusations that she’s a ‘terrorist sympathizer’ absurd, telling CBC’s David Common that she feared for her safety after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials showed up at her door.

That's the entire text with a 7 minute video on the page.

Newsworthy and valuable info in this climate, but I can't be the only one who gets frustrated when a news site posts basically just a video and no actual article. Maybe just a personal gripe