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@dammitrussellwhy

graphic novelsmith and storyboardster. WEBCOMIC: https://www.tumblr.com/cupbearerscomic PORTFOLIO: https://www.russellramey.work/
“If we interrogate the promises of Land Back, we are brought back to an ancestral perspective that the land belongs to no-one but itself. Land Back then becomes a question of unmapping “legal" terrain, tearing down walls, and cutting through fences. It becomes an undoing of the forceful imposition of the capitalist idea of private property and the colonial/capitalist impulse to declare dominion or domination over Mother Earth and existence. To realize Land Back means to end the ways humans have profaned all of existence and imposed their will upon the land and reasserting that the land belongs to no one.”

—Klee Benally, “Profaned Existence,” No Spiritual Surrender (2023)

yo mr white can you sign my permission slip so i can go to the aquarium bitch

jesse. you need money to enter jesse.

yo mr white can i have $5 to go to the aquarium it's for school bitch

jesse. do you want some money for the gift shop jesse.

yeah mr white. can i have money to get lunch there too please. bitch

of course jesse. bring me back a cuttlefish plush jesse

you got it mr white

thank you jesse

EBAY ARE ADDING AI TO THEIR SITE. YOU HAVE AUTOMATICALLY BEEN OPTED IN. GO AND OPT OUT.

you cannot turn it off via the app or mobile site, you HAVE to be on desktop.

To turn this off, sign into your account click on the Hi (your name)! > My eBay > Account > AI training preferences and you can toggle off the permission.

Done.

For my own peace of mind, after opting out at the default ebay.ie URL, I logged out again then logged into ebay.co.uk and ebay.com (because that's how my mind works).

The opt-out was showing correctly on all three, so it only needs done once.

The direct link is https://accountsettings.ebay.com/ai-preferences once you're logged in.

But... why??

What can you even teach an Ai with "personal ebay data"

Also, what's gonna integrate Ai next? My fucking wifi light bulb???

when i say “girl” randomly as an interjection i’m speaking to the omnipresent all knowing being of Girl. asking her for mercy. taking girl’s name in vain

nothing better than the wrong capitalization of Sie

you’re right. after which you will be absolutely fucking obliterated

Ich will das Twink vernichtet

Of course, such a confusion could never happen in English, which is a straightforward language.

Bothering the fuck out of your elected officials works.

Call and write and call and write and call and write. If they're already in favor of what you want, let them know you stand with them and they have your vote. If they don't stand for what you want, tell them they've lost your vote (even if they never had it) but they can sway you back if they [ACTION YOU WANT THEM TO TAKE].

communists complaining about needing to adapt their language to specific situations and specific audiences with specific educational backgrounds and wanting so so so so badly to write them all off completely as hopelessly backwards and impossible to work with….. sweeter than mother’s milk.

no you’re right, it’s not that you lack the emotional and linguistic flexibility to effectively communicate, it’s the People who are failing you…

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Literally the first thing in community organizer training is "you gotta meet people where they're at wherever they're at."

You're gonna have to sit down with people who are so different from yourself and connect to them.

The 65 year old conservative grandma isn't gonna join your budding union if you sit her down and say, "our bosses are underpaying us because they steal the value we generate with our labor. We have to break the chains of power laid on us."

But if you say, "hey it's pretty messed up that you're retirement age and you gotta work 60 hours a week just to pay your bills. You deserve time with your family and to not push yourself to exhaustion," then she might start to open up and work with you.

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