Posts by bennett@veganism.social
(DIR) Post #AY8PdCOIkdckAn3f8q by bennett@veganism.social
2023-07-27T23:18:12Z
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@clive great essay -- the exact same mirror has given me the exact same sensation of corporeal extension
(DIR) Post #AYyZW1bgRBrJqD8ds0 by bennett@veganism.social
2023-08-21T14:16:39Z
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Last boost: corporate appropriation of buzzwords is the enclosure of our language, and the closing off of radical possibilities for escaping corporate power. Even calling a company by the name it chooses for itself is, in some ways, an accommodation to their power over our language. I take some small comfort in how Facebook/Google/Twitter are still widely known by those names rather than Meta/Alphabet/X
(DIR) Post #AYyZW2R5M4yYPdBgzQ by bennett@veganism.social
2023-08-22T02:18:39Z
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on this topic, looks like "slaughter-free" is on its way towards being a euphemism for "we bleed the cow regularly and feed its blood both to our product and the open market"so that stinkshttps://agfundernews.com/cultivated-beef-co-omeat-begins-generating-revenues-but-not-from-meat
(DIR) Post #AZ2KAUhiqtCX2B4u6S by bennett@veganism.social
2023-08-21T12:35:07Z
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#KOSA advocates say the bill won't require age verification, but..."Mullin told Ars that without age verification, it's still unclear what standard that platforms could use to avoid liability. Further, Mullin is concerned that platforms are not being size-gated under KOSA, which means any platform of any size could be liable and thus feel pressured to verify users' ages. Until these points are clarified, Mullin's not sure how KOSA wouldn't lead to a future where the whole Internet is age-gated."#Tech #Kids #USpol https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/the-kids-online-safety-act-isnt-all-right-critics-say/
(DIR) Post #AZGffrTf3A0NtKjq64 by bennett@veganism.social
2023-08-29T01:51:32Z
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the USDA-approved claims of "climate friendly beef" can go on food that's still twice as carbon intensive as any other meat, and dozens of times more carbon-intensive than plant-based protein sources like nuts & beans. Don't buy beef, and don't buy beef propagandahttps://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local#ClimateCrisis #Food #Greenwashing #Beef #regenerative #agriculture
(DIR) Post #AZGfftqQFVOtEVP2qu by bennett@veganism.social
2023-08-30T18:12:06Z
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related: Abolish the USDAhttps://newrepublic.com/article/164874/abolish-department-agriculture#Food #ClimateCrisis #AnimalWelfare
(DIR) Post #AZISkFcKKYikpWTSxE by bennett@veganism.social
2023-08-31T17:32:49Z
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@Wolven man wtf
(DIR) Post #AaRKIOZ1jPzjeaHv2e by bennett@veganism.social
2023-10-04T22:02:54Z
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@lowqualityfacts @futurebird
(DIR) Post #AcqZeSLyfiElWLZJyq by bennett@veganism.social
2023-12-15T21:40:08Z
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been looking for a way to express what @robhorning does here, the critique of AI "art" that doesn't depend on a liberal, individualistic view of intellectual property.What we're seeing here, in generative and other forms of AI, is a form of *enclosure* "the point is not that individuals’ property rights have been violated; the point is that 'AI' is a process designed to do what capitalism has always done: reorganize forms of social cooperation into structures designed to allow capitalists to better exploit them.... Becoming data comes to seem like the primary means of social participation, if not the point of it"https://robhorning.substack.com/p/fake-totalities