The “us vs them” perspective you’re pushing so hard here is the root cause of racial conflict. What happened to this guy was both tragic and unfair. You are not helping.

Lesson learned for all the non-whites: if you see white people in danger, walk away because they’re not going to let silly things like “literally saving their lives” get in the way of assuming you’re the bad guy.

If this is genuine, please touch grass. If not, please fuck off. Either way it’s poison I’m not going to engage with further

Like half the comments in this thread so far are you pushing race war shit, fuck off dude

Check out hall effect replacement sticks next time, better than new and supposed to hold up a while

People like expressing themselves, to know and be known is kinda what life is all about, and I have no idea how to meaningfully engage with someone who sees that opportunity as a burden to be alleviated. Hope you find both joy and peace today man

The difference is whether we’re engaging with one another collectively or being engaged by a machine in isolation. If we couldn’t tell the difference we would be “cooked” and it would be “so over” as the kids say. This is why it’s important to care about the human element, freebasing materialism has apparently caused you to dismiss your fellow man as confusing baggage

Further, this (thankfully) doesn’t seem very well-recieved, I would say in large part because it is thoughtless, souless, trite, mechanized slop. It’s making a room full of countercultural system-smashers who would otherwise agree with at least the general sentiment stop and think that you suck too

The impactful thing here is your output, not that of the slop machine, and I don’t think it’s having the influence you’d hope for mr. downvote

Your only point is:

1. If it supports my ideology it’s inherently good

From a human perspective it’s icky and you come across like 1950s propaganda to make commies look bad. When people express themselves they… you know what, I’m just gonna leave it at “ai sucks”. Simulated human output, our entire selves slurped up and analyzed to be extruded by a corporation, if your self-defined “marxist perspective” has an excuse for that it can eat my ass

Curse this ai slop. The fake crayon thing is really bugging me, like. Crack open a box and put a few hours in if you mean it, super accessible style

To steal your labor and use it to train their clanker replacement

Through… branding, merch sales, and fear of the other? Not sure I get it

“Make Europe Great Again” vibes

I’ll have to check it out, thanks!

Still can’t say I agree, but would like to thank you for the insight into your position and wish you luck out there

I want the exact same things you’re wishing for so vividly and poetically, but could not disagree more with your binary “us vs them” nationalism or the methods you’re proposing. I trust the proposed certifying authorities exactly as much as the current techlords and think the same infrastructure with different leadership will still have essentially the same consequences. Plenty of the harmful bullshit these platforms push isn’t just authoritarian (do you see the irony of advocating for a certifying authority here yet?) but profit or just plain ego driven. Any central authority will have an agenda of some kind, and at best be corruptible. Rather than establishing a framework for institutions to verify the identity of individuals and monitor their activity in the name of safety, I believe the solution involves facilitating and protecting their unmediated, unmonitored access to one another

This is the definition of reactionary and I would ask you to think things through more calmly. There isn’t a binary between allowing tech corps that kind of control and mandating it at a government level. There are many ways to hold these corporations accountable and mitigate the harm they cause. I strongly believe that adopting their data mining tactics is not the answer.

All of this sounds great, but I can’t help thinking of it as bait in the chat control/identity verification trap

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Damn, calibre was so good for so long. This is why I love open source though! No big deal, just time to move on.

Worst part is going to be having to tell people about it every time calibre gets recommended for the next year or so lol, like the whole Organic Maps > CoMaps thing

Long as we’ve got an expert here (not sarcastic, this is cool insight, thank you) what’s the downside?