"neither party is willing to stop it"??? Oh please eff all the way off with this "both sides" crap.... one party is POWERLESS to stop it, the party in power is willingly complicit in the shift towards fascism. There's a MASSIVE difference. Implying the Democrats are somehow willingly allowing this is almost propagandist.
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#22"neither party is willing to stop it"??? Oh please eff all the way off with this "both sides" crap.... one party is POWERLESS to stop it, the party in power is willingly complicit in the shift towards fascism. There's a MASSIVE difference. Implying the Democrats are somehow willingly allowing this is almost propagandist.
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tangent but i vibe coded a webapp that pulls article texts and runs tts via kokoro. Its interface allows me to read the article text while the current paragraph is highlighted + autoscrolled while the audio is playing. All of this runs on a cheap vps. Works surprisingly well, as long as you are fine with consuming it "later" (conversion needs some minutes)
I've been very happy with @voice aloud on Android to convert a page, (but most often for me) a PDF into spoken audio, sometimes I'll watch it auto scroll what it's converted. It's robotic but I've gotten so used to it I don't really worry much anymore (though I have played with voice clone stuff some and have really been tempted to use that). Anywho just reminded me of the app I have been using for probably a decade…
How is your voice handling pipeline emojis and "leftwards rounded arrow with hook" bullshit any AI slop will contain and any reader will insist on fully reading aloud? I gave up reading webpages because of this, I can't focus on the actual text because of all formatting embellishment. I sought and sought but haven't been able to find an Android app or browser extension able to AI-filter through webpage garbage yet - and I'm too lazy to try to vibe-code something for myself.
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There is also courage. You know if you are caught angle-grinding a Flock pole, your life ends there.
Your life doesn't end. Your perception of your life along this current trajectory and within this current system could end, but it could start you on another much more powerful path. I don't just mean this in relation to flock camera's but rather direct action.
I'm talking about the most likely outcome which is that the judicial system takes away all of your remaining freedom.
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#25Pretty sure a lot of people would need a fainting couch if they learned that they might need to avoid restaurants that only have QR-code menus. We seem to have an incredibly-infantilized stock of people these days, which is why I don't know that awareness will really help much.
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Your life doesn't end. Your perception of your life along this current trajectory and within this current system could end, but it could start you on another much more powerful path. I don't just mean this in relation to flock camera's but rather direct action.
I'm talking about the most likely outcome which is that the judicial system takes away all of your remaining freedom.
That's if you get caught. YOU won't get caught because you're smarter than that and you know what a plan is.
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#27"neither party is willing to stop it"??? Oh please eff all the way off with this "both sides" crap.... one party is POWERLESS to stop it, the party in power is willingly complicit in the shift towards fascism. There's a MASSIVE difference. Implying the Democrats are somehow willingly allowing this is almost propagandist.
Many Democrats support surveillance bills, like the KIDS act (https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/119-2026/h228) 104 Democrats supported and only 85 opposed (and 23 abstained).
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#28I am intrigued by the header, and it seems like this has some good points. However, I'm struggling to parse this content. There's a full image in between almost every sentence. In most cases, I don't find the image adds significantly to the point of the preceding or following sentence, so it just looks like filler for colour. I could put this into an AI but then what's the point of the article in the first place?
I read and read and read and he never got to a point other than some nebulous "this is wrong and we can change it" without specifics. DNF
That is the point. Nebulous however that has more to do with the multifaceted approach of those behind these activities trying to show that there is not just one bad actor. The purpose is to get you to click on those links at the bottom to learn more. If you got that far and did not feel the need to learn more then you have already chosen a side in this discussion.
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I'm talking about the most likely outcome which is that the judicial system takes away all of your remaining freedom.
That's if you get caught. YOU won't get caught because you're smarter than that and you know what a plan is.
That's what everyone thinks when they get caught. What are you gonna do about the ubiquitous surveillance? The very same cameras would track you from your house all the way to the one you cut down, even if you changed clothes.
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I read and read and read and he never got to a point other than some nebulous "this is wrong and we can change it" without specifics. DNF
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I wonder why people are downvoting when people in the US have been sentenced to decades for handling zines, sometimes being extradited to the US for helping fund Palestinians, and the administration is pursuing antifascists as "terrorists".