@mervi.art
Artist, illustrator, sorcerer, poet from Finland. Raised by cats. Very leftist. Art, meditation, journaling, comics, poems, movies, tv, politics, life stuffs. No ai/nft. 🏳️⚧️ they/them Web: mervi.art Patreon: patreon.com/merviart YT: youtube.com/@merviart
“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.”
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.
The reboot of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” is not moving forward at Hulu, Variety reports
There was a demo for free Iran in the central area of Helsinki. Besides the Iranian flags, for some reason, they had US and Isr flags. It was confusing.
Can’t believe nobody wanted to read the articles nobody bothered to write
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In Kenya, we spoke to the data labelers powering U.S. AI companies. They include someone who had to watch porn all day, annotate it, then had to flirt and sext with people over an AI chatbot. The users thought they were sexting an AI. It was actually a person.
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
“The Yearning for Adventure” giclée art print Hark! What was that?! Our feline friend has heard mysterious noises emanating from out in the garden. Were the sounds an ‘it’ or a ‘them’? She thinks she sees shadowy shapes dart across the lawn and slither vthrough the shrubbery. The poor cat is trapped indoors. All she wants is to leap through that window into a moonlit landscape of wild curiosity filled with unknown and unseen excitements - and perhaps an exploit or two of good old mischief.
“The Yearning for Adventure”
Available as a giclée art print in my Etsy shop!
You can find it here:
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Kun oma poliittinen ura, osaaminen ja puoluevalinta perustuu vihalle ja vittuilulle, niin ei niillä avuilla yhteiskuntaa pyöritetäkään. Nää ihmiset on kuin lapsia, jotka käy rikkomassa toisten lasten lumiukot ilman aietta rakentaa tilalle omaa.
This is what AI is made for.
One line
then another
Shapes and colours forming worlds and beings
Just like those who painted cave walls in times before you and me
there is need
will
astonishment
The outcome is overshadowed by the joy and magic of creation
#poetry #poem
CJEU press release: Member State legislation which does not permit the amendment of the gender data of one of its nationals who has exercised his or her right to freedom of movement is contrary to EU law A Bulgarian national was registered at birth as being male, with a name, personal identification number and identity documents corresponding to that sex. She currently lives in Italy, where she has begun hormone therapy, and now presents herself as a woman. She instituted proceedings before the Bulgarian courts seeking a declaration that she is a female person and to have her civil status data amended on her birth certificate. Despite the medical opinions and legal assessments confirming the gender identity claimed, her request was rejected. According to national legislation, as interpreted by the plenary assembly of civil chambers of the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation, the term ‘sex’ must be understood in its biological sense, excluding any amendment of the particulars relating to sex, name and identification number. The public interest, based on the moral and/or religious values of Bulgarian society, thus prevails over the interests of transgender persons. Hearing the dispute, the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation has doubts as to the compatibility of that legislation with EU law and has referred the matter to the Court of Justice. In its judgment, the Court holds that EU law precludes legislation of a Member State which does not permit the amendment of the gender data in the civil status registers of one of its nationals who has exercised his or her right to move and reside freely in another Member State. The Court emphasises first of all that, while the issue of identity documents falls within the competence of the Member States, they must exercise that competence in compliance with EU law...
Huge trans rights ruling from the EU's top court - if someone moves to another EU country and transitions, their home country can't refuse to amend their registration details to match their lived gender identity
the widespread adoption of genAI has just made me want UBI more. I don’t think we get original, human-made art and writing unless people have time, security, and stability
Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”
“The Times has preyed upon not only trans families, but on its own readers who understandably lack a detailed understanding of trans issues and rely upon honest brokers of fact.”
Quoting OP: “there was a new study published … in Nature showing that state-level anti-trans laws increase suicide among trans kids up to 72%.”
Between denying them care, ignoring CSA, & shrugging off mass murdering shooters as “normal”, we kill more of our children than any other rich country. Why?
Kanteleliitto tekee esimerkiksi vaikuttamis-, koulutus- ja tutkimustyötä. Liiton ansiosta kantele on yhä käyttösoitin eikä museoesine.
Kanteleliitto täyttää ensi vuonna 50 v
Juhlavuosi vai ei?
Tukekaa Kanteleliittoa, pidetään meteliä 😉 ja autetaan pelastamaan kantele, kansallissoittimemme❣️🎶
First they came for the trans people, and I said nothing because I wasn’t trans. Then they were like actually I’m pretty sure you are trans and I said no I’m not and they went okay well show us your penis then and I said what no get out of my face and they said that one’s a girl get her
Important to remember that most consumer-facing "A.i." is monstrously flawed and the billionaires who push it don't care, so if you sign a deal to sloppify yourself, there's a non-zero chance that your sloppergänger will eventually tell some kid to kill themself.
For a moment I thought tomorrow is Friday.
Merivirrat: tyrehtyy
Sukupuuttoaalto: etenee
Kansanmurha: käynnissä
Länsimaat: sodissa
Rikkaat: rikastuu
Työt: Pätkissä tai kiven alla
Terveydenhuolto: romahtaa
Hyvinvointivaltio: romutuksen alla
Ihmiset: siis kyllä täytyy olla älylaitteiden syy mix nuoret on niin herkkiä ja ahdistuneita nykyään 🤔
In memoriam all the posts I’ve started writing but discarded eventually.
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.
If you put waterfalls in your game and there are no caves behind any of them, your game is instantly worse than it could have been
I don't make the rules
Witches!
Hey cis women, the anti-trans push is coming for your menopause and abortion meds, your ability to use the bathroom without bounty hunters spying on you, your ability to play sports without genital checks, and your ability to wear “non-feminine” clothes. You might want to stand up for ALL women now
They truly want you to believe this shit is inevitable and actually better than human endeavor but the one surefire thing that can stop it is not agreeing to the first two things. That’s all! That also means not willingly feeding it. It’s not difficult to avoid using it!
Uh oh.
The space between thoughts is too much and too little. Somewhere in there hides calm, waiting to be found. Another breath before getting lost.
#poem #poetry
graphic that has four photos: upper left is two sheep eating a pumpkin together, lower left is a black and white goat, lower right is a beautiful dark brown pig running on snowy ground, and upper right is a dark brown mini horse with snow on his nose. Text in the middle says "help us get 100 new monthly sponsors by march 31st!"
We have a huge goal we want to reach by the end of this month, and while it seems awfully ambitious you all have helped us accomplish seemingly impossible tasks in the past so we know you are capable of miracles! We would like to add 100 new monthly donors by March 31st. donorbox.org/mmfs-donate