Hyperlucidity

30/07/2024

Are we /not/ a nation that deserves a decent quality of care and basic living for all? The very concept of human civilization demands that we do better for each other and ourselves.

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26/07/2024

Call me old-fashioned....but I believe in sacred obligations and accountability, without which no earthly power is legitimate.

Get it straight.

21/07/2024

In case anyone needs this to deal with the social-media pressure that's been freshly unleashed....

21/07/2024

Just a reminder that this page still exists. 🕯️

Uaffiliated with any political party.
Unlimited /by/ any political party.

08/07/2024

When vicious plans are known of, should they not be halted by whatever fiat is possessed? Should people who nurture malice in their hearts and intentions towards others not be publically censured and restrained (as necessary) for it as the true "moral degenerates" that they are?

If this country still stands for personal freedoms, then the freedom to lead one's own civil life without violence from the cultivatedly-ignorant & belligerent must be upheld and defended proactively.

Remedial civics education is also recommended as a general initiative....as too many are willing to ignore or undermine the rights of others based on their own peeves.

Without popular intelligence, self-governance is impossible.

Some prefer it that way.

05/07/2024

Don't just think in two dimensions.
Don't limit yourself.
Don't limit the world that you want to see.

04/07/2024

Tfw when you want to be subtle and diplomatic but things are simply & obviously fubar/snafu to nauseating extremes.....

04/07/2024

Reminder:


Further clarification for those who may be seasonally confused:
DO NOT HARANGUE already-marginalized voters to concede anything to the duopoly. Pressure politicians, not your peers.

03/07/2024

Fa$cist-adjacent partisan bootlickers need to get their wistful feudal-totalitarian cosplay fantasies (fe**om or not) knocked the hell out of modern-day politics, since they are also aiding and abetting the destruction of this particular constitutional republic.

Believe it or not, real feudalism had a better social contract than this current era of neoliberal/corporatist degeneration. Could have to do with the lack of physical insulation from policy consequences. Make karma great again. 🔥⚖️🪶🛞🔥

01/07/2024

Hmm.....anyone else getting the feeling that some people are waiting for the end of Pride Month as if it were the beginning of hunting season....?

29/06/2024

Hypocrisy is not a good look.

Neither is fa$cist or fa$cist-adjacent bootlicking.

People who lack self-respect, either way, tend to try to put others under their preferred tyrannies - instead of dealing with their own personal issues.

Mature human beings respect others' personal & civil rights, and expect theirs to be respected as well. Immature human beings can't tolerate actually-civil disagreement (hint: "civil" can't involve personal insult or invalidation) and try to turn every interaction into a power struggle...which is a sign of personal weakness, but you can't exactly tell them THAT, now can you?

*sigh* This meme may be a useful parting shot to use before blocking/seasonally-muting people who are prone to political harassment.

28/06/2024

The DNC chose........poorly. And doubled down four years later in its refusal to allow voters the sincere representation which they have every right to demand.


The Democratic Party could have prevented "Project 2025" eight years ago - literally without expending any effort at all.

Actually admitting and redressing that coldblooded fraud against U.S. voters is the only way to prevent it now. No voter should ever be pressured to lend their personal credibility to a lie.

28/06/2024

Colour variants for lovely swirly wallpaper. Use as you please. :-)

28/06/2024

Found these in another device gallery….just in case they weren’t posted here already.

26/06/2024

Only people - living beings, not those legal fictions called corporations - have actual and essential rights which deserve respect.

To claim otherwise is anti-human hubris.

15/06/2024

So who's going to be bold enough to say openly what everyone in their political conscience knows....?

We're not supposed to be settling for crumbs from the table of corporate leaders and partisan megadonors. DON'T pledge, DONT promise, DON'T give reassurance to those who are barely trying to prevent maximum damage to the environment and the working class. Have the guts to assert your boundaries and your dignity against the barrage of partisan bootlickers haranguing you to give up and settle for the same old calculatedly-insufficient and unprincipled partisan non-agenda.

Make U.S. political parties bow to voters - who precede them both in historical reality and in explicit constitutional sovereignty.

🔥No service, no mandate - no service, no vote.🔥

08/06/2024

Sorry not sorry....this matters. Amoral AI-pushing tech corporations and their shareholders want to profit from using everything that comes from your mind and imagination - and your work of creating it - without any credit or compensation, legally depriving you - if they can get their way with courts and lawmakers - of your own natural rights of authorship.

If you haven't studied intellectual property law as it relates to the arts and entertainment, you should - because whether you're a professional, amateur, or hobbyist, tech corporations want it to become legal and normalized for all your online-accessible creative work to be utilized by others in open competition against you.

Here's where it gets a little technical - but bear with me:

Intentional competition within the same genre would be a pretty decisive red flag when it comes to proving musical copyright infringement, and publically-released genAI is based upon the full expectation of the direct competition (for both attention and financial gain) of AI-generated output against the finished works that are exploited to composite it - and against their creators' ability to profit from the further continuance of their own artistic work, whether independently or via formal employment.

This is not a matter of "democratizing" art. Being an artist is already accessible - all you have to do is do art, and do it yourself. This is the opposite of empowering individual artists. It is one more face of neoliberalism trying to give more "freedom" to already-existing capital to exploit every naturally-existing resource in the world. There's a lot of investment money riding on this. And every usage of a generative-AI program builds into the investor-desired impression that this is what consumers want and accept.

There is no ethical usage of genAI. It's environmentally wasteful and it's based in plagiarism. It is made to steal from all of us, and if you think that you are using it as a tool, it is using YOU as an economic tool against yourself and everyone else who isn't already safely established as wealthy and successful. It's a fraud, and it's an overhyped bubble that's going to burst.

We need a tipping-point weight of solidarity across the board, whatever anyone's job, vocation(s), or discipline(s) or medium(s) used for expression. Writing is art, music is art, translation is art, acting is art, modeling is art, crocheting is art, cake decorating is art....whatever you bring forth that comes from your own instincts and efforts is art. Nothing AI-generated is art, and it has no artist either. Only human-made works can be registered under U.S. copyright law. People who use generative AI don't have legal rights of authorship over what comes out of it - whatever they might claim or believe by the way they act.

Those people can be extremely smug and taunting. They think they're riding this wave to success over everyone else. But they're cheating themselves of everything that they could be, as well as worsening the state of the world.

This isn't a frivolous request, nor is the concern exaggerated. If we want to force this world to improve for real, it's crucially important now to take a firm stand for truth and integrity, and to refuse absolutely and explicitly to grease the wheels of this AI bus - because the tech-corporatist intention is for all of us to get thrown under it.

"Artists Make Lousy Slaves" - as the poster says. Corporatists have seen a way to get rid of the costly inconvenience of having to deal with conscious and actively-practicing human artists at all....as long as they can get everyone else who doesn't understand or care about taking art seriously to play along with their shiny new thieving toys.

06/06/2024

Fourteen years ago, a baby died of abject neglect because her parents were obsessed with nurturing a virtual child in a virtual world instead of tending to her actual reality.

Generative AI is an addiction for those who pursue it as a goal, as well as for those who use it as a crutch for their imagined debilities and schemes to profit/"succeed" without honest effort or patience or self-discipline.

Instant gratification and easy attention/approval get people's brains hooked on the dopamine rush for which real creative labour is not so reliable.

Meanwhile, the real live human baby is starving.

Get your priorities straight, humanity.
Make better quality of real life, not bloated quantity of lazy surface-cobbled product in delusional bubbles.

[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/mar/05/korean-girl-starved-online-game]

06/06/2024

Fourteen years ago, a baby died of abject neglect because her parents were obsessed with nurturing a virtual child in a virtual world instead of tending to her actual reality.

Generative AI is an addiction for those who pursue it as a goal, as well as for those who use it as a crutch for their imagined debilities and schemes to profit/"succeed" without honest effort or patience or self-discipline.

Instant gratification and easy attention/approval get people's brains hooked on the dopamine rush for which real creative labour is not so reliable.

Meanwhile, the real live human baby is starving.

Get your priorities straight, humanity.
Make better quality of real life, not bloated quantity of lazy surface-cobbled product in delusional bubbles.

Korean couple became obsessed with raising virtual baby while their real infant daughter lay abandoned and unfed

03/06/2024

Since it's 🌈June🌈, 'tis the season for performative support-statements/PSAs and short-term event promotions. But if they're bypassing real artists within the LGBTQ+ community - and digitally scraping-stealing from all artists to whip up self-congratulatory/posturing content - they're definitely doing wrong.

[As a bonus, this can easily be applied regarding any community that gets more public lipservice than functional respect and meaningful involvement/uplift. Creativity is not demographically limited.]

02/06/2024

Have the talk. Get help.

And make and share AUTHENTIC creative work and thought, like self-respecting human beings.

You deserve it. We all do.

02/06/2024

Back in the day, y'know, they'd call 'em fakes an' cheaters right out.....yaller-bellied, swole-headed, slimy-souled, slippery-brained, lazy-ass cowardly cretters in fancy-ass delusions.

Back in the day.....

31/05/2024

Not fond of the oppressive pseudo-presence hanging around here these days....if this were an actual community and it were a physical person, it'd properly be getting ridden outta town on a rail.

Can't be injured, right? No sticks and stones? How about we just tell it how much it sucks and should never have been made.

23/05/2024

There is, as of yet, no required legal recourse for US citizens to personally opt out of corporations' AI data-scraping operations. Seeing as the United States does not value its own citizens enough to protect their rights within its own borders.

That means that corporations have to be publically dragged kicking & screaming to recognize the most basic of natural personal & expressive rights. No machine nor any of its owners or operators has the right to read and glean from my creative output in order to compete & intentionally directly against me as a creator. There is nothing accidental or unavoidable about it - exploitation is and always was the object of these engines.

Generative AI is a massive theft of creative and intellectual labour, and everyone who uses it or promotes it is complicit in the theft and deliberate devaluation of actual people's skilled & conscious work.

There is no compromise with AI save in the remedial destruction of all currently-available generative-AI programs and their illicitly-compiled "training" datasets.

[Assistive AI is a different matter, and justified for those who actually need it. It is not ableism to require people to do their own creative work in order to be considered artists or creators.]

There is no honour nor decency in using generative AI programs, and no credible excuse for it. It is an intrinsically malicious software in its intended relation to creative humanity - that is, to parasitize, marginalize, and destroy it as a demographic. It deserves no respect and no tolerance in civilized society. Still less do its amoral owners and acolytes.



Shun it - reject it - destroy it. Reclaim your humanity, and have solidarity with genuine learning, development, creativity, and imagination.

22/05/2024

And politicians will not bother trying to meet your standards - or your needs - if they know that you will vote for them anyways.

17/05/2024

Okay, fam.....*winces*....can we all get on one page enough to debunk and forcibly dethrone the VERY FALSE IDEA that super-rich entrepreneurs/CEOs are necessarily smart enough - let alone wise enough - to be trusted with globally mass-consequential decisions??

We all live on this planet, you know....and we should all be involved in the choices that affect it and affect our own survival as a species.

Rich people are not statistically more intelligent than others*, even if they can afford to attend the most prestigious schools. Studies have shown that acquiring significant wealth tends to atrophy empathy and moral intelligence. Being able to buy companies and hire scientists doesn't mean one's qualified to create policy, even if one claims to be a philanthropist. And the unintelligent worship of material wealth and those who happen to have it is offensive to humanity.

Got it? Great. Tear down the lies. Either we have a global plebiscite on solar engineering (and anything else so literally top-down of its ilk), or it shall not be allowed.

Shall not be allowed. By whatever means. Wealth does not deserve to rule the fate of the world.

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*....Cf. the attached observation from a Russian dairyman:

"The most important men in town would come to fawn on me....
They would ask me to advise them like a Solomon the Wise [...]
And it won't make one bit of difference if I answer right or wrong -
When you're rich, they think you really know."

17/05/2024

🔥✏️🔥

15/05/2024

It's a concept.....nothing wrong with having personal standards.

14/05/2024

If you're going to use this misbegotten corporate bullcrap generator for anything in the way of searching, let's make "algorithmic disgorgement" trend higher than a fake kid in Africa with a plastic-bottle plane.

10/05/2024

This snippet of non-thought was harvested in the wild - I'm sure that the donor didn't notice. It came out as a brilliantly unbrilliant preemptive defense of the obviously-genAI image in question, o'er which all save I were bovinely lowing their low-grade aesthetic amazement & appreciation. 'Course I don't really want to insult real cows - most of these responses were probably farmed bots anyhow. Digital astroturfing to cheerlead and normalize the digital rot....the aggressive techbros are elsewhere, of course, not engaging with these common uneducated marks or the bargain-basement scammers who prey on their easily-impressed gullibility.

We need more cultivation of natural human intelligence. :-I

What is shallow is shallow.