I don't think people realize how incredible it is that a movie rendered in nearly real-time in free software on a single computer just won the Oscar for best animated film. If there was ever any proof you don't need AI, this is it.
Seems important that in Fahrenheit 451, books were still “available” in single-paragraph summaries—“read Hamlet in five minutes!”—but the books themselves had been banned for being too difficult. Tech boosters see a warning and think it’s an instruction manual.
People are literally selling gangster merchandise on platforms like @Meesho_Official and Teeshopper. This is just one example of India's latest online radicalisation.
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In the past couple of days, reading literally 100s of responses by men about the Diwali women's dress up thread collected by a man has made one thing alarmingly clear: men don't understand what constitutes sexual harassment.
according to all the incels in the quotes she is taking it a step too far by involving his job but if the guy hasn’t really done anything wrong then he has nothing to worry about. he just posted what was available online and she did the same so i think it’s fair
Posting your pics online comes with a risk and women accept that bec the alternative is living an invisible life which many do anyway. The pic will eventually go away from your tl. But making a whole thread for other men to be able to download from one place is just creepiness
If you see this creep's thread you'll see many deleted tweets. That's Indian women who shared a moment of joy being forced to delete or go private bec they don't want these predatory turds objectifying them. 10k bookmark on a sexual harassment thread says everything about India
We’ve witnessed the steady rise of majoritarianism in Indian society since 2014, but sometimes we don’t fully grasp the extend of its systematic violence, as it has grown gradually, one headline at a time.
You recognise the ubiquity of it when you see conversations like this.