You're right. However, we learn slurs as a shortcut to express sentiment. For educational purposes: what would be some acceptable ways of expressing the same sentiment?
calls for āremigrationā or mass deportations of foreigners and citizens deemed to be unassimilated, are now commonplace among AfD supporters and leaders
They make assimilation sound so important... meanwhile, people with jobs and families, who lose them for some reason or other, turn to extreme religious excuses to attack people, like this one last week:
It's almost like the real cause was neither immigration, nor assimilation, nor religion... and more of an attempt at "suicide by cop" caused by insufficient resources for mental health.
Now, seriously. Android 14 on a Samsung phone, lets me select "location: only while using the app". I close apps when not using them, and limit notifications so they don't get auto-started at random. Unused app detection, puts them in "deep sleep" which doesn't allow them to run at all, and strips them of all permissions.
This scanner, would be more useful if it also checked which apps have the location permission enabled, and are frequently used.
I've been using OsmAnd~ from FDroid, and it's the first time in a long time that I've felt something close to feature overload. Between the modes, all the settings per mode, different map layers and sources, all the plugins, and ability to edit maps... that thing feels more like a GIS app than a maps app š
OpenStreetMap itself also has a map with wiki-style feature edition history and comments.
Well, it depends. They let you use any coin of 0.50ā¬, 1ā¬ or 2ā¬... Temu has 8-packs of metal tokens for 3ā¬, AliExpress has 10-packs for 1ā¬, but many businesses have seized the opportunity to gift branded plastic or metal tokens, including some car dealerships... even the shops themselves! At this point, I have more tokens than I'll ever have a chance to use š
To be fair, I haven't been following Argentina too closely. Still, remembered how during the campaign, he promised to "reduce inflation to 150% and devalue by 50%"... which was like "what? so 300%?". Not sure how they managed to close the year at 117% (and 54%), in October it was at 193% (and 54%). I haven't checked the full "inflation & devaluation" series.
Since 2020, the EU has been working on crypto regulation: obligatory KYC and AML, financial knowledge assessment to allow buying ETFs, crypto, margin trading, with matching risk limits and required customer protections similar to stock trading, traceability, ban on privacy tokens, extra rules for meme coins, flagging and blocking of suspicious operations.
From Dec 30, 2024, in the EU these rug pulls are legally restricted to only people who can afford to lose the money, and are informed of the risks, and can prove it. Anyone offering vulnerable people entry to the casino, is breaking the law, with huge fines attached.
Yes, there is a spike... and Milei has masked the most recent one with a devaluation by decree
2023: 211% inflation
2024: 117% inflation / 54% by decree = 216% effective
Argentina has a serious case of stagflation, with public spending slashed, international investors capped in their ROI, and a poverty level going back to 2005 numbers.
In Spain, most stores with a parking lot use the same system.
Many people carry a plastic "coin sized token" to avoid the problem of random people "stealing" your cart with the coin in it... but usually they still return the cart to get their token back.
Right now, human NNs are the most complex around the block, so our anthropocentric egotism tries to gatekeep art to humans... ignoring all the animal art out there, like for example birds building "beautiful" nests to attract mates (beautiful to each other, not necessarily to humans), all the art going on between fish, cephalopods, dolphins, whale songs, etc. There is also no guarantee that human NNs will remain supreme forever... and what then, will humans stop creating art, or will the ant tell the elephant that its art is not a thing?
Tools DO use existing human work, otherwise city photography could never be art, cultural photography could not be art, definitely a Campbell soup can could never be art... and so on. The Camera obscura has been used to "cheat" at art since possibly the paleolithic, then extensively "abused" by the likes of Leonardo da Vinci to copy both natural and human works.
Modern AI does way more than "copying", it abstracts the underlying patterns, then integrates those abstractions with a prompt, to "make up" an output. Sometimes the output of the abstraction of an "A" looks like an "A", other times it doesn't. People keep putting AI down for "hallucinating"... but you can't claim that it "hallucinates" and "copies" in the same sentence.
Some artists have spent over a century trying to one-up each other to the bottom, starting with Dadaism and even before that (anyone remember Salieri's populist operettas?). It's got to a point, where a black square on a canvas, or a banana taped to a wall, got called "art".
Other artists, have been trying to transmit emotions and feelings through their work, using whatever tools at their disposal. Be it through words, paints, shapes, interactions, etc. With more or less success, but they've been trying.
An AI is another tool, like a camera is a tool, a brush is a tool, a chisel is a tool, a keyboard/typewriter is a tool, and so on. People can use their tools to produce low effort trash... or they can put effort and thought into what they want to transmit.
Good AI art, takes the same or more effort as good non-AI art, to make the AI produce what the artist intends. Retouching parts of the output, either with more AI or some other tools, refining or retraining the whole model, creating complex prompts to make the tool output something closer to the artist's vision. That vision, is the core of the art.
Low effort AI art, is mindless theft, no dispute there, good for quick memes and little more.
Thoughtful AI art, is a conversation between an artist, and a tool with massive experience in observing other's art, in order to extract the essence of what they can apply to their own. An AI works best as a brain extension, capable of reading all the books, seeing all the paintings and photos, watching all the movies, listening to all the sounds and songs, way beyond what's possible in a single human lifespan. Then it's the artist's job to sift through that.
Focusing on just the "AI" part, does a disservice to the whole art community. Focus on the person instead... and if they've put no effort, then go ahead, feel free to laugh at the "art", no matter which tools they've used... unless they admit to be still learning, in which case some encouragement and tips might be a better way.
Yeah... we got lied to, and swindled. I grew up with "who cares about rent, there's always one or two houses to fall back, worst case go to the summer house, use your money on yourself!", ended up wondering whether I'll be able to afford funeral costs and 20 more years of a relatively low mortgage if anything goes wrong tomorrow, as in one day from now. I've been lucky to avoid getting thrown on the street (not even a van) from medical bills, but it doesn't help to get disability denied because I came 2 months short of the minimum. Cases like yours, really scare me. Hope you find a solution... then share it šØ
You're right. However, we learn slurs as a shortcut to express sentiment. For educational purposes: what would be some acceptable ways of expressing the same sentiment?