NaevaTheRat [she/her]

That house is a nightmare, I love it!

Also looks better than my CSS and the aspect ratio hints that it’s responsive but maybe doesn’t implement accessibility well. So we score half points there.

Western democracy turning to the fascism which our forebeears helped defeat wasn’t on my bingo card.

The most annoying thing is the commies 100 years ago being right about this lmao. I certainly had to revisit some of my assumptions when a lot of leftist theory predicted the declines we’ve been seeing.

mandatory minimum sentencing is a completely fucked up knee jerk reaction. The government does sweet FA to tackle Nazis because half of Parliament is sympathetic to them, then decide to earn some quick PR by interferring with the court system and lending legitimacy to an extremely blunt instrument primarily used to lock up indigenous kids.

edit: no actually fuck this. Anti hate speech laws were only really updated for this shit a year ago (tells ya something huh), there literally hasn’t been time to test if the courts are just throwing Nazis back out onto the street with a slap on the wrist. Gaol is basically never good and the idea of punishing someone disproportionately as a warning to others is completely unjust. MMS is largely used in Australia to fuck up children and Aboriginal Aussies, the police still have to actually charge people and since they’re sympathic to fascism laws get applied unjustly.

LGBT people face vilification like actual eugenics enforced by the state until last year for trans people, murder by cops until quite recently that was never investigate, expulsion from private schools (students recently protected I think, teachers not) but faith groups get immunity to existing hate speech laws. The government doing this is in favour of completely ludicrous and fashy anti protest laws, and directs an increasingly militarised police state to spend most of their effort fabricating evidence against climate protestors while intelligence agencies scream into the void about a rising tide of fascism.

Mins himself is an enthusiastic supporter of ethnic cleansing in occupied Palestine. This is not an anti fascist measure from any sort of coherent platform. It is a stupid kneejerk reaction that will do nothing to actually stop facist (remember, they are very good at dog whistles) from a government that has no interest in stemming the tide of fascism.

Bullshit totalitarian cruelty doesn’t start being good because it’s used against people you hate sometimes, that just legitimises bullshit totalitarian cruelty and provides cover. Fuck this law, fuck this government.

The fear is ridiculous. Yes it’s somewhat sanitised, all social media is sanitised. Shit even on lemmy large instances are going to remove a video of me showing how to inject heroin or, for a more moderate thing, explain how trans people can DIY hormones.

It is good when people from different cultures share stuff. It is good when state barriers break down and people see how we’re all so similar at the end of the day.

It’s pretty straightforward to completely replicate the behavior of e.g. a house fly in software

Could you provide an example of a complete housefly model?

That’s a little histrionic. A large part of propaganda is censorship, it is propaganda when the Chinese government censors discussion of e.g. tiananmen square and it is also propaganda when a mashup of laws and commercial interests prevent people from openly discussing or educating themselves on political tactics. The essential essence is controlling what ideas are normalised and permissible and which are not without engaging with the substance of them.

Not all propaganda is bad, you probably agree with some stuff like indoctrination of people with the idea they have a moral obligation to help their community, or to first attempt resolution of problems via legal means.

There are obvious differences in how and what gets supressed or encouraged but you are completely naive if you think that all states are not explicitly propagandising their populations. They are not benevolent guardians they are weird machines of flesh and ideas which project power because those that don’t get selected away. If you think being clear eyed about the unreliability of emissions from LLMs is cover for chinese statecraft you are a paranoid moron.

Try asking chat gpt how to arm an insurgent group to overthrow the government. Or get it to admit the usa is a democracy in name only.

The difference is that we don’t see propaganda for what it is when it’s just “common sense” or the values being propagandised to us are ones we agree with. There are explicit censors in chat gpt.

All LLMs have propaganda baked in to them.

Skill issue

JSO continuing to be awesome in every single way.

Oh look. Liberals aligning with facists over paying taxes. Waow. I am so shocked.