You have made a fundamental error. The facists don’t want trans people gone.

That doesn’t mean they won’t keep killing them, it means they value the utility of trans people as targets for violence.

They want to keep killing trans people but yes they will switch to gay people or whatever if they have to, you aren’t wrong in your point but I think you are misunderstanding how genuine their desire to kill trans people is outside of any logic.

While stoking nationalism to boot lol

Do you think Islamophobia is a nothingburger?

No

This was inevitable, the value of AI is derived from quality open and accessible training data of genuine expert human conversations that are constantly added to and kept up to date and yet the fundamental business model of AI companies is founded on disguising the value of that with a purposefully obscure woodchipper that brutalizes all of that information into a less useful, more manipulatable product of lossy compression algorithms.

The only way these AI companies can succeed is by definition completely devaluing the datasets they existentially rely on to maintain and create the AI, the only way this could ever go was to have a brief honeymoon period of AI companies stripmining the collective human wealth of the internet and then drowning and killing it with worthless bot crap that is always somehow fed back into the mouths of the very same algorithms creating the crap and thus everything degrades.

The only play these companies really have is to enshittify all other alternatives faster than their AI goes to shit… which is exactly what these companies are trying to do.

In the end all AI companies have really proved is that intelligence begins somewhere in the process of a librarian creating a library, and that we can gesture at that crudely by mutilating libraries created from the labor and love of countless people into untrustable bots that serve to privatize the wreckage of that knowledge… but none of that actually proves what the AI comapanies are doing is the valuable part it just proves that a well curated dataset contains a latent capacity for intelligence already.

I do too, but it is easy enough just to simulate most of that stuff with AI so what could be the harm in getting rid of all that if if our pre-emptive belief AI can just replace it all is founded on unshakable and absolute faith?

The nice thing about this ideology is I can pretend to be cold and rational while behaving like and politically alligning myself with evangelical christian end times crazy cultists, and the confluence of money and power just feels natural and right!

If our attention spans were shrinking because of constantly being bombarded with attention shifting distractions (which I personally think is nonsense but everyone else seems to believe is indisputable) wouldn’t ads be a form of mass violence?

I do believe motivation and attention are closely linked so motivation is likely a factor in the decline we’re seeing in attention capacity

You misunderstand this, the link to motivation has to do with how salient a particular thing is to you overrides any abstracted idea of attention span not that people “aren’t motivated enough” in general which is nonsense.

Have you seen evidence to the contrary re attention spans?

Yes, lots, see this post where I lay it out in detail.

https://lemmy.ca/post/70915284

Have you seen evidence the concept “attention span” abstracted from context and motivation exists as a scientifically and rigorously defined concept? In a way that is falsifiable and not just narratively connecting correlations into something that gestures vaguely at something we believe is intuitive?

-----Literally ALL of the studies you linked indicate correlation not causation.------

https://www.techscience.com/IJMHP/v27n3/60240/html

Although this study confirms the negative effects associated with frequent use of short video platforms, there are several limitations. First, while the study identified a relationship between the duration of short video usage, addiction to short videos, and the phenomenon of TikTok brain, along with decreased attention control, the cross-sectional design of the research prevents the establishment of causal relationships between the variables.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/brb3.70656

Finally, the cross-sectional, questionnaire-based design limited the ability to infer causal relationships or explore underlying mechanisms.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2024.1383913/full

Correlation analyses revealed a significant negative relationship between MPSVATQ and self-control, in addition, a significant negative correlation was also found between MPSVATQ and the theta power difference under incongruent minus neutral target condition of the ANT, suggesting that individuals with a proclivity for mobile phone short video addiction may encounter challenges related to executive control and self-control abilities.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/brb3.70656

Short-form video media use was significantly associated with higher inattentive behaviors. The association was stronger among younger participants. No significant associations were found with hyperactive–impulsive or oppositional-defiant behaviors, although total screen time remained significantly associated with these outcomes.

https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Short_form_Video_Use_and_Sustained_Attention_A_Narrative_Review_2019_2025_/30648764

Although current research methods have their limitations, the evidence suggests that frequent short-video use is associated with poorer cognitive functioning.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02673843.2026.2623337

SVA is significantly associated with reduced attentional control, as demonstrated by studies conducted by Xie et al. (Citation2023), Ye et al. (Citation2025), Zhou et al. (Citation2024), and Singh and Prusty (Citation2025). The correlations were low to moderate in strength (r = −0.23, p < .01; r = −0.56, p < .01; β = 0.43, p < .001; r = −0.209, p = .006).

…

Variations in measurement tools for SVA and cognitive outcomes may also limit comparability, while reliance on self-reported video usage can introduce reporting inaccuracies.

https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/14/5/559

Second, due to the cross-sectional survey design, it was not possible to determine causal relationships between SVA, IA, and negative emotions.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1856148/full

Given the cross-sectional design of this study, the findings should be interpreted as associative rather than strictly causal relationships.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1774030/full

The potential harmful consequences of frequent use of short-video platforms are revealed in this study. However, the relevant conclusions have the following limitations. Firstly, due to the cross-sectional design employed, the directionality of the associations between variables and the causal mechanisms cannot be ultimately determined.

Microslop*

I don’t know if you are joking but I saw a documentary about babies and it turns out they are extremely intelligent and dangerous before learning to speak human language at 2-3 years old.

According to Dr. Kinder’s research on toddlers/babies, they are born possessing vast, universal knowledge and speak a secret yet impossible-to-translate pre-language called Babytalk. However, at age 2–3, the knowledge and language are lost as the babies “cross over” by learning how to speak human languages. All babies raised in Dr. Kinder’s underground research facility were adopted from the orphanages Babyco supports (as they serve to filter out which babies should or shouldn’t be raised under the Kinder Method) and transformed into small geniuses through use of the Kinder Method, and then used in experiments to decipher this secret yet impossible-to-translate language used by the eight baby geniuses.

I don’t think a lot of naive lefty liberals realize this danger, they are far too trusting of new people.

Yeah I have been vibe agitating with some fellow serfs, we used to meet in private in dark rooms with no electronics but nowadays we all just converse individually with Claude and meet up in Discord to confirm what we realized we already knew and it is way more efficient!

Yeah the self immolation is stunning.

Hey that is selfish of you to not want to come here! After all we have done for you! You know what, because of that hostile act I have decided we WON’T stop bombing you during our ceasefire, jerk!

Jeez what is wrong with people these days, everyone keeps turning on us!?

If I had known the past would be like this I would have stayed in the future.

I timetravelled back to see a time before most animals went extinct and yet the lack of curiosity in people about the processes that are happening now that will shape the earth for hundreds of thousands of years is as insufferable as The Timetraveller’s Guide warned me it would be.

Now if I just can remember where I put/will put my time machine I am ready to go home.

I never want to hear people talk again about artificial intelligence excitedly with hope or fear for the immense potentials while ecociding natural intelligence without a second thought… like fuck this time period is cynically crushing to the soul…

Microslop*

Capitalism without the capacity to buy anything or have a meaningful impact on power structures is just called Fuedalism.

What matters in the US isn’t the wealth itself, it is the wealth you deny others that really matters to us here.

I wonder which one of us is gonna get Donnie Darko’d by an airplane engine falling out of the sky first?

Because you are poor and they are rich.

If a rich person does something illegal it might just be innovation so we must treat their noble visions and sacrifices with legal shelter and acceptance we cannot afford to extend to ourselves.