It used to be a common turn of phrase in the United States that kids needed to finish their food because "there are starving kids in China." I wonder if Chinese parents do the same because "there are starving kids in the United States."
Streets of Havana right now.
Full blackout across the entire island.
Hospitals, nursing homes, people's lives....all in total darkness.
For US imperialism.
you lost partially because of your lack of interest in stopping a genocide of the palestinians, who jesse jackson supported the sovereignty of unflinchingly.
once again, they invoke gay rights as an excuse to murder brown people overseas. the same propaganda, wash rinse repeat. i hope the blood money was worth it, van
notice how "the bloodthirsty enemy of mankind" iran has let in a us journalist as it's currently being bombed by us, but our "most moral ally" israel hasn't let in western reporters in to gaza. makes you think.
This sort of thing is shocking until you realize that there isn’t much of a distinction between “flesh influencer” and “AI influencer.” To the audience that consumes this content, a flesh influencer is practically just as unreal as a fully generated one. They will never meet either version; the flesh influencer is just as virtual / intangible. Her curated & filtered experiences are also nearly just as fake.
We don’t seem to realize how virtual & abstract & fake our experiences of other people already are. The fact that men follow this AI girl is just as shocking as the fact that men would follow a real girl who posts like this — which is to say, it isn’t shocking at all, since it isn’t really a fundamentally different type of thing