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Cake day: November 16th, 2021
  • Samsuma@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Figma balls
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    10 days ago

    And the indigenous reclaiming or reappropriating words and phrases totally never happened in history, ever. “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is fundamentally different from “between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty”. Notice how the Euroanglo-Zionazis never utter the former phrase.

    Understand that the former phrase is more than just a reappropration to the latter, but a call for the liberation of indigenous land from occupation by settler-colonialists. It’s no dogwhistle, and it is very crystal clear what it means: not one inch for Euroanglo-Zionazis.

    Likewise, it’s very crystal clear what Euroanglo-Zionazis mean with their Lebensraum ass phrase: total wipeout of indigenous land and its people in favor of Euroanglo-Zionazis.

  • Samsuma@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices
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    2 months ago

    amazing, we have child sex defenders in chat now. I was hoping it would go without saying that child sex, regardless if it’s between two children, is wrong. But when it’s enshrined in your “civilized” laws, suddenly it makes it ok.

    I’m not even going to entertain this further by conceding that Iran’s marriage and consent laws are horrible, because they are and it goes without saying, and it’s something that needs to be worked on stat. Take your disgusting, vile Westernophile shit out of here.

  • Samsuma@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices
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    2 months ago

    As opposed to western “Divine Secular Absolutism”? Real funny looking words you got there, when stringed together.

    Authoritarianism is a dumb, useless and meaningless term, when you understand that every state assumes authority (name me one country that doesn’t assume authority, therefore isn’t “authoritarian”).

    1979 happened because you libs couldn’t stop trying to meddle in Iran’s affairs.

    Coulda saved spared us from the dogwhistle by just saying “they’re not white”.

  • Samsuma@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.ml•AI Is Destroying a Generation of Students
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    2 months ago

    Yep, pretty much, I didn’t feel like putting it into words, so thanks for this. I’d add that arguably, when students “play the game”, they get the same flack, or worse, than job applicants who exaggerate or straight up lie in their resume the same way companies lie about free unlimited PTOs, job security, a clear career ladder, etc.

    Using morality or honesty as an argument against students who cheat is an attack on students, a distraction from the fact that this shit doesn’t work the way it was advertised actually, which has been internalized and normalized in many societies, left uncontested, which is big bad.

  • Samsuma@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.ml•AI Is Destroying a Generation of Students
    594·
    2 months ago

    “I am often left with a choice between soliciting participation where students are merely the deadpan voice boxes of hallucinatory AI slop, or silence,” the Philadelphia teacher despaired. “Which am I supposed to choose?”

    ChatGPT isn’t its own, unique problem. It’s a symptom of a totalizing cultural paradigm in which passive consumption and regurgitation of content becomes the status quo," Nathan Schmidt, a university lecturer and managing editor at Gamers With Glasses, told 404.

    Seems to be easier to blame students for understandably responding to rote-practice, monotonous factory-work oriented slopfest curricula with slop, rather than actually addressing the core issue at hand.

  • Samsuma@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Italy admits hacking activists with Israeli spyware Paragon
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    2 months ago

    I just have this feeling like you get persecuted for speaking against the government in countries like China, whereas you need to be a strong figure to have the same fate in other countries.

    I have no data and this is just a feeling.

    We can learn and take away a lot from this vibes-based, “democracy” virtue-signaling analysis, but not about the topic at hand.

    This is still a cool way to downplay the West’s imperial staple of suppressing activism, engages in revisionism and amplifies everything that helps liberalism, all while accusing everyone outside the imperial core of doing so (or doing worse) as well, the statement along the lines of “does worse” doesn’t mean anything when you recognize that it’s a Western idea fully embraced and embroidered by the West that is insurpassable/incomparable to any other form of censorship.

    Freedom of speech is a meaningless concept, especially so for anyone that’s not white, when you can’t actually criticize EU/US/KKKommonwealth countries within these countries meaningfully without fear of losing your job, your house, your visa (this is exacerbated for foreigners, often not talked about) or your life.

    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/tufts-university-student-detained-pro-palestine-views-transferred-louisiana

    https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-warrant-mahmoud-khalil

    Your “freedom” to “speech” and “democracy” are constrained within a clearly drawn boundary, the boundary of which is drawn by the ruling class.

    Any other country outside the West engaging in censorship is either a) a dog of the West or b) protecting itself from fully succumbing into being a dog of the West.

    Notice how a Westerner does not risk anything by truly believing in and expressing things like “china censorship bad arabs/muslims are dirty terrorist scum and need to be wiped off the map these russian orcs need to be wiped off the planet”, but a non-Westerner risks absolutely everything by even slightly hinting at a criticism towards Western imperialism/wanting better conditions at the cost of the ruling class, perhaps even in their own damn fucking country, this is where point a) comes in to play.

    When it comes to China, they fall squarely in b):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAEwoYIYgJA

    Once you understand the asymmetry, it becomes a lot clearer why the “both sides” argument is just a feeble attempt at minimizing Western imperialism.