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Incredible that even Zuck managed saying something even remotely funny.
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Incredible that even Zuck managed saying something even remotely funny.
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"Progress"
Yes. It’s progress indeed.
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Trans men enter Miss Italy contest to protest anti-trans ‘women from birth’ rule
YES. This is EXACTLY what I’ve been saying!!! Like honestly, as a cis woman from Italy I’m so embarrassed by this nonsense. Like, cutting trans women out of the competition at this moment just means people are recognizing that trans women are “unfairly” more good looking than cis women. Which, personally, is true in my case but you don’t see me bitching about it. Fuck yeah trans dudes, trans chicks and non-binary buddies.
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Women in China are telling each other to bring their boyfriends to see 'Barbie' — and to use it as a litmus test for their thoughts on feminism and patriarchy
Correct. Honestly, if a dude gets offended by a movie that says “hey dude, learn how to love and value yourself without basing all of your sense of self on your romantic relationship to a woman and you’ll be much happier”, they are NOT a catch at all and they need to shed some shit about their lives.
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Disapproval of Elon Musk is top reason Tesla owners are selling, survey says
Isn’t it also the fact that everything he touches explodes and ends up being an unsafe product? I’d rather buy any other brand before buying Tesla, even regardless of his extremely unlikable personality and dumbass choices.
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Lebanon, Kuwait Poised to Ban ‘Barbie’ for Promoting Homosexuality
Whatever. I’m sure Mattel is crying on the 1billion dollars the movie made.
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Top Meta executive said the company's name change was a success because it beat out coverage of the 'Facebook Papers' revelations
Ever heard the criticism about some movie villains being “comically evil and unrealistic”? Well, tell those critics you’re sorry. Like even the MCU villains are realistic enough at this point. Matter of fact, Obadiah Stane is the perfect representation of one of these evil motherfuckers. That’s why he’s the scariest villain in the whole franchise.
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Sinead O'Connor hasn't even be dead for 24 hours and this shitty Youtube channel is already after slapping together a video to milk her death and her son's death for YouTube views.
Wait she died?
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X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has threatened to sue a group of independent researchers whose research documented an increase in hate speech on the site since it was purchased
“Free speech for me, not for thee”. God, I’m THIS close to deleting my account there and just migrating back to Tumblr and bluesky. There are just too many users I love that haven’t moved anywhere else yet.
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Honestly if someone calls me “woke” I take it as a compliment. It generally means I’m aware of what goes on in reality and in politics. I’d call anti-woke people “sleepy gullible morons” though.
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Trans men enter Miss Italy contest to protest anti-trans ‘women from birth’ rule
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Oppression follows ALL those lines. Oppression and privilege are intersections. That’s why a woman can be black but also be rich and live a better life than a dude who’s poor.
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So the one time he showed a hint of humanity it was fake? Lmaoooo that’s even funnier honestly
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Regarding the “Rust” shooting.
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That’s pretty much what this sounds like to me.
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The Real Threat to Free Speech Is Coming From the Right
We been knew
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Lebanon, Kuwait Poised to Ban ‘Barbie’ for Promoting Homosexuality
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There isn’t even any explicit reference to homosexuality in the movie, anyway.
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Trans men enter Miss Italy contest to protest anti-trans ‘women from birth’ rule
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I hope this is a joke?
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[AskEurope] Europeans, what is your favorite country of Europe other than your own?
I haven’t traveled even nearly enough, but I’ve had a really good time in Spain, specifically Barcelona. Switzerland too.
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Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works
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Because a computer can only read the stuff, chew it and throw it up. With no permission. Without needing to practice and create its own personal voice. It’s literally recycled work by other people, because computers cannot be creative. On the other hand, human writers DO develop their own style, find their own voice, and what they write becomes unique because of how they write it and the meaning they give to it. It’s not the same thing, and writers deserve to get repaid for having their art stolen by corporations to make a quick and easy buck. Seriously, you wanna write? Pick up a pen and do it. Practice, practice, practice for weeks months years decades. And only then you may profit. That’s how it always was and it always worked fine that way. Fuck computers.
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Israel Committing 'Textbook Case of Genocide,' Holocaust Historian Says
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Absolutely heartbreaking. And on the other side, there are IDF soldiers partying because they killed children. On the hills, there are Israeli citizens throwing watch parties of Palestinians’ houses being bombed. If an orthodox Jewish, Israeli journalist expresses basic empathy with Palestinians, other Israelis go surround his house and threaten him for being a decent human being. HOW are zionists victims of ANYTHING??? And to ward off any accusation of anti-semitism: this behavior has NOTHING to do with what Judaism actually says. No religion actually says this type of dehumanization is right. This has NOTHING to do with Judaism, it has everything to do with pure racism and colonialism. Nazism in short which, it seems, some Jewish people in Israel forgot everything about - and that’s the worst part.
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Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works
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Yes. Creative work is made by creative people. Writing is creative work. A computer cannot be creative, and thus generative AI is a disgusting perversion of what you wanna call “literature”. Fuck, writing and art have always been primarily about self-expression. Computers can’t express themselves with original thoughts. That’s the whole entire point. And this is why humanistic studies are important, by the way.