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by a_shovel 4y ago
From the article: > "Short version: [Kiwi Farms is] A very edgy forum ... where users cruelly gossip and post public information on niche online oddities (lolcows) that thrive on the attention KF gives them. " [Emphasis mine.]
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by a_shovel 4y ago
That may be obvious to you . Have you tried asking some of the people documented there what they think about the site's culture, and how well it discourages harassment against them?
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by a_shovel 4y ago
From what I've seen, that does seem to be the accusation. I don't think it's actually possible to make hormones in a bathtub.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
She has run to one country, the United Kingdom, which surprisingly doesn't have an extradition treaty with Canada, but which is mentioned specifically as a country that will extradite to Canada on this [ https://www.justice
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by a_shovel 4y ago
But the site is going anywhere; it's going lots of places, in fact. They can't find a host that will both accept them and can handle the DDoS, so they've been bouncing around between domains and hosts. This is the kind of i
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by a_shovel 4y ago
It's really incredible. All these people defending Kiwi Farms, accusing Keffals of various crimes, and claiming Near didn't commit suicide, genuinely seem incapable of correctly gendering trans people for long enough to accuse the
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Maybe the Wikipedia page says nothing about the accusations against her because the accusations aren't credible.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
I dunno. Given that this is the only counter-argument people seem to have, maybe the police just forgot to update the database. It's certainly a lot more likely than whatever conspiracy theory Kiwi Farms is pushing about them faking th
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Near stated they would commit suicide, a major news outlet and people close to the victim stated they committed suicide, and they haven't been heard from since then. They are almost certainly dead.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
This is not a slippery slope leading to suppression of all dissent, 1984-style, if that's what you're asking. If another site starts up to dox and harass trans people, I could see a similar campaign against them.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
There's nothing actually misogynist here, though? It just looks like vulgar humor to me.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
They stated they would commit suicide, a major news outlet and people close to the victim stated they committed suicide, and they haven't been heard from since then.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
> Kiwi Farms, formerly known as CWCki Forums, is an American Internet forum dedicated to the discussion of online figures and communities it deems "lolcows" (people who can be "milked for laughs"). The targets of thre
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by a_shovel 4y ago
What, exactly, are you calling propaganda here?
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Okay, I've been really negative about AI image generation, but this is a really cool use for it.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
What law? She's not giving anyone hormones, you know. She shares information about informed consent clinics, the effects of hormones, and places to buy safe supplies.
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Do you think that supports the claims made above?
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> ...we worked with our Proudflare employee resource group to identify an organization that supported LGBTQ+ rights and donate 100 percent of the fees for our services to them. I'm sure their LGBTQ+ employees will appreciate that
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by a_shovel 4y ago
The big numbers don't impress me, but the fact that such tiny machines can correspond to complex and even meaningful theorems is fascinating. I wonder what the smallest number of states you need to encode a pre-existing well-known math
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by a_shovel 4y ago
That first one just sucks. I don't have anything else to say about it. The second one is representative of the upper end of what I was getting. It's almost passable, but doesn't hold past about five seconds. The left and ri
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Nah, that's not it. I mean flat #000000/#ffffff. Google "stencil image" and you'll see what I mean. AI really doesn't handle styles with restrictions like that well. I tried the stable diffusion website with va
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by a_shovel 4y ago
> Having them right out in the open lets us know who they are and what they're up to. It also lets them communicate far more easily, facilitate far more harm than they would otherwise be capable of, and recruit new racists as easily
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by a_shovel 4y ago
"Any style" seems like an enormous stretch. There definitely seems to be some styles that AI favors, ones which I've seen described as "clutter the frame so you don't notice the flaws". It struggles with simple
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by a_shovel 4y ago
The incentive for dropping a stalking and harassment site from their service is the opportunity to stop providing the services a stalking and harassment site needs to function. Most humans have a sense of morality that influences their acti
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by a_shovel 4y ago
This comment from the author was an interesting perspective on how it'll impact the market for illustrators. > "Those "clients" [who just need an image and don't care about the quality] you are talking about don&
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by a_shovel 4y ago
The people with a billion dollars have millions in cash on hand and can get millions more without significant problems by selling a bit of their stock. I think people overestimate the illiquidity of billionaires' assets. But yes, it&#x
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by a_shovel 4y ago
If everyone had the same amount of money, then yeah, we wouldn't need UBI. UBI is made for a world where we don't all have the same amount of money. There's not 10 people with 1 money each, there's a ton of people, som
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by a_shovel 4y ago
I suspect you and the author are using different definitions of "paid for". To rephrase, in order for the tube of toothpaste to be on the store shelf, all the resources required to create it must have already been expended. The
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> Human imagination can't create anything really novel. Everything you create is just cutting, stitching and deforming what you already seen in semi-random ways until you get something interesting to somebody. That's an awfully
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> Toothpaste and toothbrushes are considered potentially lethal non-essential personal property and are disposed of during intake. While in custody, most migrants will not have access to toothpaste and toothbrushes. > Similar to belts

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