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Combee -- Miki Tanaka
agnostic is lowkey the funniest belief system it's just like yeah idk it's none of my business
Oh woah hey there 🐱 I think that was a funny little accident just now. 🐱 You see I was just licking this plate of food left on the counter and you 🐱 pushed my face right out of the way. I think you just did not notice 🐱 my face was there so no worries, I’ll just go back to 🐱 OH you’ve pushed my face away again? Sorry I don’t mean to embarrass 🐱 you but I am in the middle of something here so I will simply just 🐱 You have pushed my face away again?????? 🐱🐱🐱
“The things you criticize AI for is stuff most of your tech does” is not whataboutism for a simple reason: AI literally is built into the same industry as the rest of the tech you use, bc it’s the tech industry. Thus, trying to reject AI alone for what is essentially a product of a hyper capitalist tech industry is functionally useless.
For example, it’s very reasonable to be concerned about the new Twitter data center that’s poisoning Memphis right now, and single out the LLM, grok, as a source of it. However, generating an image using locally run stable diffusion does literally nothing to contribute to this. Conversely, using Twitter without using grok absolutely contributes to the polluting Memphis. If we try to simply boycott AI entirely and nothing else, we still contribute to that data center. However, if we single out Twitter/X as a company, then we can actually have an effective boycott.
If your problem is the environmental cost of all data centers, and you single out AI as the source, but still continue to stream video (ie Netflix, YouTube, TikTok etc), use social media, etc, you are still contributing to the stuff that’s at least 90% of current datacenter output. I know this is news to people but data centers didn’t just. Suddenly become a problem post-AI.
People pointing this out are not being contrarian for no reason. Current anti-AI thinking has done literally zero for actually combatting the issues we need to care about, because a lot of these problems go beyond AI. This is the tech equivalent of banning straws.
The point of this isn’t to go “oh and yet you participate in society…interesting”. The point of this is to show how you need to be thinking systemically about these issues beyond the superficial shit you hear in op-eds and tweets, which by the way, frequently misreport the actual data/info regarding the situation.
You want actually effective movements that combat the tech industry? Check out notechforapartheid and BDS’s tech boycott list.
The fascist Israeli Zionist regime, backed by the U.S. government, continues its relentless brutality, sparing neither young nor old. Today, it targeted journalists Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqea, who have been tirelessly conveying the suffering of the people of Gaza around the clock, amid the strange and appalling silence of all world governments.
Here in Gaza, death and hunger surround our lives from every side. Children go to sleep without food, mothers shed tears of helplessness, and fathers search for a piece of bread or a drop of water. We have been left alone to face this hell, with only the free people like you on Tumblr remaining — the true humanitarians who raise your voices and give your money so we can continue to live, supporting the Palestinian families struggling to survive.
Among these families stands my own, striving to endure in the midst of all this destruction, with your support remaining a lifeline that never stops. 🇵🇸🕊️
Vetted!!!
(#167 on the verified fundraiser list by el-shab-hussein and nabulsi).
Amazing wplace sighting
Is it really you. The three weed girlfriends dude?
No, I’m the three weed EX girlfriends dude
Are they still smorking weed bunts??? Without you?????
*rips your arms off and pounds your head into your chest with them but is just sighing and not really into it the whole time*