Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

The media coverage does not reflect this AT ALL.

In 2023, it was truly most people who didn’t trust AI and those numbers have shrunk since but it’s still around 50-50 on a lot of questions about AI

Polling can obviously be wrong, but I’ve followed the polling around AI from places like Pew Research fairly closely over the past three years and it has always reflected the idea that most people are wary or even hostile to the intrusion of AI, even if they’re personally willing to try ChatGPT

The worst part about the AI bubble popping is how many average people will be affected by the economic fallout. People will lose their job, kids will go hungry, and families will lose their homes. Yet these billionaire bastards won't feel a thing other than a decline in their net worth.

Some exciting news: 404 Media just won a grant via Muckrock to investigate book bans and educational censorship in the U.S. The plan is to file hundreds of public records requests around the country and to report on and archive all the documents for public use:

www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

“I’m a billionaire and a bad person and I’m scared of dying so let me pretend this technology will make me immortal oh I fucked up the economy for everyone else well who cares I’m a billionaire”

One of the crazy things about the AI bubble bursting is that consumer sentiment toward AI has always leaned skeptical to outright negative but it’s an industry propped up by pure billionaire greed, sycophancy, and childish fantasy

I've already lost all patience with the "conversations" about ICE because it's the exact same "conversation" people have had in this country about policing since its inception. Nothing changes in that conversation. Just new people rip van winkleing every few weeks.

This Halloween season there’s no movie as frightening as everything currently happening in real life

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

A scavenger hunt campaign to promote Taylor Swift’s new album The Life of a Showgirl resulted in a viral #SwiftiesAgainstAI campaign. www.wired.com/story/taylor...

So, as part of Taylor Swift's album rollout, there was a scavenger hunt involving videos that looked *really* AI-generated. So #SwiftiesAgainstAI became a thing and now the videos are impossible to find. Fandom outrage can be good!
www.wired.com/story/taylor...

Twitter wasn't a glorious paradise by any means, Trump used it quite heavily as a platform for his propaganda and Twitter sold itself to Elon Musk, but X is notably an asset of Trump's government

One of the reasons I insistently call it X and not Twitter is because X is quite literally a propaganda platform run by Elon Musk and heavily utilized by the Trump administration and that is notably distinct from Twitter

Social media is very effective at creating sin-eaters. A sin-eater is different from an ephemeral main-character. It's a recurring "well would you look at that guy" person you see screenshotted on your feed constantly, who is meant to stand in for the evils of some larger group you dislike

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

I definitely think email lists will be important.

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Yes! These tech monopolies are definitely a part of the problem, and a lot of the legislation aimed at the internet right now will empower them to further crush competitors and consolidate power

I often think about how tethered my reach is to these platforms and how I would communicate with an audience without them. It would be really, really hard

I think people take for granted the ability to post freely on the internet. Our ability to do so is endangered. Social media isn't going away but the powers that be are hyper focused on making it an echo chamber

Hear ye hear ye a message of hope and inspiration from our courageous leader in exile, Link. May all his loyal followers take heart!