Still convinced this was always the plan ever since the highly suspect (likely false flag) terrorist attack that India was foaming at the mouth over. They are trying to emulate their closest allies, the Israelis, on how to handle the occupation and ethnic cleansing of an undesirable “enemy”.
Not entirely, I doubt it. At most one would expect Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and perhaps some of the other Pacific island territories to be freed, but these are places that are literally under colonial occupation and not incorporated into the country proper, even by todays standards, in many cases these are people who can’t even vote. As for the rest, I don’t see it as being feasible to rip apart the current constituent US into several smaller settler dominated states, as this doesn’t address the real issue. Providing equal representation and political agency to the Indigenous as well as preserving and protecting their culture and historic rights is what should be prioritized. This is what was done in the Soviet Union.
South Korean leader finish a term without going to jail/getting executed/impeached forcibly resigned challenge: Impossible.
I’m glad they did, otherwise someone might have assumed it was the great wall of France
Normally I would agree and chalk it up to that, but these are two nuclear armed powers with over a billion lives at stake, yet still, not a peep of interest. The “threat” of Iran possessing a nuclear weapon is constantly fearmongered in the media, yet a conflict where over 300 warheads could be involved seems to go uncovered, the inconsistency is so strange.
I am honestly amazed that nobody seems to care about this at all, considering how big the stakes are and the populations at risk. South Asia is really the worlds blind spot for news. Even as someone who does take an interest in the region, I see hardly any coverage.
It can’t be a solution, because it assumes that just because you have an internationally recognized state, then you won’t be attacked and bombed by Israel.
See: Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Jordan
And in turn you’ve expressed in a very thought provoking and analytical way the things my own reptile brain and tenuous grasp of English have made me feel uncertain to say myself. Great write-up, friend.
One of the obvious things that these generative models exhibit is a clear and distinct lack of intention. I believe that this lack of “human intention” is explicitly what drives people’s repulsion from the end product of generative art. It also becomes “a sort of torture” under which the artist becomes employed by the machine. There are endless sources of artists whose roles as creators have been reduced to that of Generative Blemish Control Agents, cleaning up the odd, strange, and unintentioned aspects of the AI process.
This is a fascinating way of looking at it, and one that I often struggled to put into words before. “Intentionality” is something you don’t consciously associate with a piece of art, but when you think about it, human artists are in full control, and every detail and decision that is made in their art was made at their discretion.
Indeed, the very knowledge that something was generated by a machine immediately also informs you that what you’re looking at was deemed good enough by the human patron of the machine, and not a deliberate, intentional production where every stroke and detail was placed there with purpose and artistic vision. It is a very comparable situation to when someone presents you with a piece of art, and they tell you that they created it themselves, versus when they present a piece of art that they commissioned someone else to create for them. In both cases, the final product fits their specifications and expresses precisely what they wish it to, but in one case, there is no doubt that each and every facet is made in service to that intention, rather than the best interpretation that a third party could come up with to match it as best as it could.
Art can have merit regardless of who makes it, machine, artist, or commissioned work at the behest of a patron. I do not think anyone can really disagree with this. But the difference lies in how we perceive the sincerity of something that comes entirely from the mind and work of human artists with a message, rather than from a machine that is fed instructions, or even an artist who is handed their specifications by someone else.
I think anyone can see even here on lemmy, that A.I agitprop is very frequently met with disdain from some, despite most agreeing with the message and the cause, and I think this is a large part of why.
You’re choosing to misinterpret what I said entirely, I did not say that every human made meme is high effort.
But for a human artist to make an equivalent piece of artwork to what you’ve produced with A.I here, that takes a lot more time and effort, which by itself makes it funnier due to the absurd and amusing meta narrative of someone painstakingly recreating Samuel L Jackson’s image by hand just for a joke.
And I can tell you with certainty that when people make memes that obviously have more effort put into them, it does go noticed and it does add to the humor. Humor is subjective, sure, but there is a reason why “High quality Shitpost” as a term exists. Don’t act like this is only something new being used to stigmatize A.I.
I know I can’t convince you, but I do hope you at least ponder over the idea.
I guess the best way to explain would be the concept and distinction between a regular “shitpost” and a “High quality shitpost”. It is not solely about the final product, what adds to the charm of a human being creating a highly convincing, detailed artistic rendition of Samuel L Jackson as Vladimir Lenin, is the very knowledge that someone was willing to sit there and devote hours, perhaps days, and even money, art supplies and energy to painstakingly produce something that is merely meant to be a joke to illicit amusement among a niche online community.
When instead you see these images and know that it’s the result of running prompts through an image generator until it produces a handful of passable results, and the most amount of human effort involved is likely spent in just curating the best results, this element of “damn, they actually did all this for a meaningless meme” no longer applies, and the charm is definitely diminished.
I hope I’m putting this across in a way that makes sense.
To each their own of course. I found it funny myself, and then seeing that theres like 5 more that look the same just conjured up the content mill flashbacks in my head and soured the mood altogether.
Zionism is the Typhoid Mary of anti-Semitism.
That thread was your justification for using AI to make artwork, I don’t disagree overall. I just don’t think AI generated propaganda is effective for this sort of thing. Maybe to articulate some basic idea you could get away with it, but as artistic propaganda such as this, it just comes across as bland, like most A.I generated content that the average person has to contend with while using the modern internet. We should try and stand out from the content churn, not try and blend in with it.
Idk if this is even accurate, it seems more like they pay lip service to the global south, while materially always siding with the global north.
You can safely assume if it’s posted by yogthos it’s likely A.I. They’ve convinced themselves that it’s effective agitprop.
Average Indian “netizens”
I gotta side with Belgium in this, at least half of their cuisine is actual food.
boo hoo, you can’t buy eggs every day, fuck off.