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Yogthos

Text2LIVE: Text-Driven Layered Image and Video Editing text2live.github.io/

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a drone flyby of a waterfall

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78 years ago today, the Red Army liberated Auschwitz. Let us remember the comrades that made this possible.

Robert Burns

@yogthos My family played a small part in WW11..an uncle in the R.A.F..Dad as a corporal sapper in the Royal Engineers..God bless the armed forces.

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McDonald's president who made $7.4 million last year says proposal to pay fast-food workers $22 an hour is 'costly and job-destroying' businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-

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Scientists have created an AI system capable of generating artificial enzymes from scratch ucsf.edu/news/2023/01/424641/a

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BuzzFeed shares shoot up 146% as it announces that it will cut 12% of its workforce replacing it with ChatGPT generated content.

This is the reality of automation under capitalism. Instead of automation being used to reduce labour and create more free time it's used to create unemployment.

Meanwhile, the contradiction of this approach is that businesses need people with disposable income to sell things too.

Capitalism is a self destructive system.

forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/202

BuzzFeed shares shoot up 146% as it announces that it will cut 12% of its workforce replacing it with ChatGPT generated content.

This is the reality of automation under capitalism. Instead of automation being used to reduce labour and create more free time it's used to create unemployment.

Meanwhile, the contradiction of this approach is that businesses need people with disposable income to sell things too.

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gjd :blobcattea:

@yogthos short term gains (for me) for long term pain (for everyone else)

Maybe(oz)

@yogthos Hard to believe it went so far so fast...

I can't wait for AI web-browsers to post comments (on BuzzFeed), or generate videos and follow friends on TikTokGram.

Once they can write their own code correctly, we can get rid of computers ; or computers will get rid of us. Idk. :)

Robb Montgomery

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I thought the Buzzfeed business always was to recycle content from others. This move just makes it less costly to produce crap content that has the appearance of not being crap.

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How the Arizona attorney general created a secretive, illegal surveillance program to sweep up millions of financial records.

New records obtained by the ACLU shed light on the scope of a mass surveillance program keeping tabs on Americans’ financial data.

scheerpost.com/2023/01/27/how-

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In U.K. cost-of-living crisis, some workers struggle to feed children. As inflation hits the pockets of families who already had little to spare, food banks say they are getting much busier and seeing more people with jobs.

nytimes.com/2023/01/25/world/e

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Emmy is an implementation of the scmutils system for math and physics investigations in the #Clojure and #ClojureScript github.com/mentat-collective/e

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China Sets New ‘World Record’!

Fendouzhe Deep-Sea Vehicle Reaches Deepest Point Of The Diamantina Trench At Over 10,000 Meters eurasiantimes.com/china-create

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Household wealth optimism collapses, global survey shows: pessimism highest in US, Britain, Germany and Japan.

Fast-growing economies saw much higher scores - albeit lower than last year - with only China bucking the trend with a one percentage point rise to 65% despite the economic disruption caused by its now-relaxed "zero COVID" policies.

archive.ph/ZubKG#selection-821

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A good interview with Chris Hedges on the state of the empire youtube.com/watch?v=-00-aPQzDZ

Heretical_i

@yogthos Hey Merica! Nice little park you got there... Be ashamed if someone STEPPED on it 😎

Only in a society where there's little time to actually go to a park...

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In Confidential Memo, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Celebrated Unemployment as a “Worker-Discipline Device” theintercept.com/2023/01/24/un

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cat reaction time is between 20-70ms, which is fast enough to avoid a snake attack

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enchantedsleeper 🌈⭐

@yogthos Someone needs to make a version of that with arcade fighting game sound effects.

"K.O.!!!!"

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