Sharing firsthand accounts is vital right now

Sorry, Gale. We need to save the world. Now if you’ll excuse me, Halsin and I are going over here.

Making fake images of things happening in the world right now for real is just so insane. Trading actual humanity and resistance for a smooth disneyfied consumer friendly fascimile. Just reducing reality into slop as it is happening

I would posit that the reason so many people are shocked by the image of the White House being demolished is because it shows that Trump views it 1) entirely as his property and 2) that he doesn't really expect anybody else to live there.

But instead they share hollow, meaningless slop completely disconnected from any humanity, because it drives engagement and inflates their ego.

It’s impactful because it’s real. It’s true. And it might inspire someone else to stand up.

Stardew co-op on Four Corners farm 10/10

Every ethical question aside, I’m concerned that he thinks this image is persuasive

A glossy, kitschy fake picture with melty-faced protesters holding DANCE CHANGE & raising a flag with 11 stripes, on a street that exists nowhere. There’s nothing human or real about this. How can it be persuasive??

They could be using their massive platforms to share this. This is a real person, in a real moment in what will be our future’s history. It was taken by a real photographer (Daniel Cole) who captured this one in a million shot.

These are journalists. With no concept of why it might be important to preserve trust in journalism, or even reality. They want to fantasize about fighting fascism in weird kitschy AI pictures while the rest of us are in the real world.

With respect, we need to be able to point to an objective reality so the world can see what’s happening. The feeling this image evokes might be great, but something so obviously fake makes us look like idiots, and can be used by the right to diminish the fact that millions of real people protested.

Thank you for inspiring others with your bravery and joy!

Photo credit goes to @jentaub.bsky.social I believe. Great photos!

Thanks for standing up for our rights!

Totally valid if you don’t mind the AI images. I do think it’s going to be a big problem though as people have a harder & harder time distinguishing propaganda from reality. Most AI generators have a watermark, but it’s easy to remove.

People know that paintings are art. The problem with AI images is that people often don’t know if they’re real or not. That is a problem when we’re resisting fascism, which relies on the distortion of truth.

I like the sentiment of the picture, but it devalues the millions of people who protested.

Yes, Roosevelt Park

Here are some actual photos of actual protesters taken by actual people in Detroit yesterday.

Please please please stop posting AI generated slop. It distorts the truth, pollutes the planet, and pollutes our minds.

brb sending all my taco bell diarrhea to the king for his nightly feeding

SCATUS

Even if it is illegal and a circuit judge orders him to stop, they’ll appeal and it’ll go to SCOTUS. Obvious shadow docket ruling in favor of diarrhea

My front-facing camera

Rashida Tlaib (MI-12) attended today

The inflatables have overtaken war ravaged Detroit