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there are two kinds of 'living under a rock' i think. ignoring petty social media and celebrity drama, not caring about beauty and fashion trends...admirable. that shit doesn't matter. being wilfully ignorant of important problems happening in the world, especially ones you have the power to change... selfish and cruel.

Hey, people all over the world.....you want to smile? THIS is what he went home to last night.

"NEW YORK HATES YOU!"

"We're here, we're queer, we're fabulous don't fuck with us!"

"Peaceful Protest"

Republicans want to kill young kids.

Draft for war. Deregulate child labor laws. Cut health care. Cut food assistance. Cut education funding. Avoid gun reform. Put more guns in schools. The list goes on an on.

GOP help young people vote? Register? Hell no.

happy juneteenth but dont forget that prisoners are legally allowed to be subject to slave labor and also black people are disproportionately arrested and subjected to that legality. happy juneteenth but slavery still lives in america. america is still dependant on slave labor.

Oh, to be this white and so unaware of labor exploitation in America for the past 400 years.

cynically yours, 4br4h4m l!nc0ln

Some time ago our fathers vomited forth on this continent a new kind of havoc, a new nation conceived in drunken greed and dedicated to the delusion that all men (and only the “fairest” men) are created equal.

Then, as now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that pathetic nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure it's own existence.

We are met on a blood soaked, offal stinking battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might have something to talk about later- over drinks before the sporting match begins. The cheapness of their lives notwithstanding, it is altogether fitting and proper that we should put ourselves through these superficial paces.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The diluted citizens, living and dead, who pointlessly struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our utterly insufficient power to add or detract.

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, and it will inevitably forget what they did here.

It is for us the sorry living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work of vain madness which they who fought here have thus far so wretchedly advanced. It is rather for us to be here pathetically dedicated to the great task remaining before us

-- that from these nameless dead we take increased devotion to that ill-founded cause for which they gave the last full measure of misguided devotion

-- that we here would highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; though we know they certainly have

-- that this corruptible nation, under any truly righteous higher power, must make an end of itself

-- and that government of the greedy, by the corporations, for the money, must needs perish in ignominy from this ravaged earth.

IOS users and Patreon. Big old heads up.

"Apple is requiring that Patreon use their in-app purchasing system and remove all other billing systems from the Patreon iOS app by November 2024. This means that starting in November, new memberships purchased in the iOS app will be subject to Apple's 30% App Store fee.

First, we want to be clear about one thing: this will not impact your existing memberships at all. Apple's App Store fee only applies to new memberships purchased in the iOS app beginning in November 2024."

Apple users, if you make your pledges through your browser you can dodge this fee.

This is just apple doing its usual nickel and diming to take a slice of every pie.

The shitty thing about the AI voice acting "agreement", beyond the fact that it was done without the input of the majority of people who would be affected, is that a lot of people have exactly WHY it's such a raw deal exactly backwards. It's not labor being eliminated to cut costs; it's labor being CHEAPENED even when there may very well be more of it involved.

There are lots of claims going around that AI voices are TOTALLY different from other voice synthesis we've had before because they let you just plug in a script and get the perfect read out, and that's just...not true, at all, unless you're really, really lucky. Sure, it's smoother and more intuitive work (generally) and more natural-sounding results than older iterations of voice synthesis, but there's still a LOT of specification and tweaking involved in getting it to consistently sound more like a person than a computer, let alone actually sound like a decent director might want.

In fact, one of the most effective ways to get an affect more dynamic than slightly-better-than-TikTok-TTS, is to.........have an actual human person perform it and use the synthesizer to follow along with it in a different voice!

In other words, in order for this to actually be a thing, you still need a voice actor who can give a convincing performance. And you need them to be willing to work for peanuts because their voice won't be in the final product. You need them to be willing to be denied credit because their voice won't REALLY be in the final product. But you also need them to be competent and give a good performance, because the synthesizer will follow along with them, whether they do it right or wrong. The only thing they can skimp on is things like vocal technique - you know, the way you do action scene after action scene without losing your voice by the time you're 45?

In order for this to be cheaper than just hiring a fucking actor, people in the process necessarily have to be criminally underpaid.

And yet, somehow, it's been given the go-ahead anyway!? Genuinely, fuck that.

turn this society upside down, and shake the trillions from the pockets of the aristocracy

Greedflation is manifest.

this is something I've felt since childhood and never been able to articulate.

Reminder: the companies and political entities pushing Project 2025 have addresses and go out to lunch a lot and should never eat a spitless meal for the rest of their lives.

Practice bagpipes outside their secure compounds.

Follow them around ringing a bell wherever they go.

If they are going to be farcically evil, be Animaniacally good. Be the definition of chaotic justice.

Also, vote. It might just kick the ball down the road a bit, but that gives people more time to organize a concerted resistance (in no way on any social media platform) to the fascist creep happening in America. It is possible to take this country from the bastards who control it, it will take work, effort, and occasionally going offline and talking to humans though.

All the ways for corpos to get me killed painfully are adding up, all those one percents

did you hear someone almost got sucked off a plane when the door flew open and now the FAA is implementing a new regulation in 2025 since companies haven't solved the sucked-out-of-plane issue? I love capitalism