2. Yes, doubting lived experience of Black, Indigenous, Asian, Arab, etc. people is itself racist.

Just don't.

And yes, asking for proof is doubting that lived experience. If you think you are the first white person descending on a thread to "just ask questions" – you are wrong.

Instead, go read the threads I link in the next toot, and follow their authors. Then go read through their other threads. There is plenty of receipts and proof, and most importantly context and explanations, in there.

@Wuzzy not to mention: there is no source code available anywhere, as far as I can see:
https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-models/tree/main/models/llama3_1

There is nothing "open source" about this.

So :birdsite: moving from daily outrage to daily outage or what?

Yes, it's a JS-heavy website with a webdesign that makes my eyes hurt. Sigh, can't have nice things, can we?

You can skip right to the signing by going to the relevant Citizens' Initiatives website on europa.eu here:
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/038/public/

Both sites seem to work fine in a Tor Browser, and the signing requires solving a self-hosted captcha (no Big Tech captcha involved, it seems), so at least that's good.

#TaxTheRich #EU

If you are a citizen of any EU Member State, I implore you to consider signing the Tax-the-Rich citizens' initiative:
https://www.tax-the-rich.eu/

The idea is to tax the super rich and then use the money for climate transition. :blobcathappypaws:

This is an official EU citizens' initiative, meaning that if it reaches certain thresholds, it *will have to be* considered by the EU institutions. That's a really powerful tool, if actually used.

So we should use it. :blobcatcool:

🧵⬇️

#TaxTheRich #EU

> It could never work, because the rich can move / have already moved their wealth elsewhere.

Any such issue is very complex. There are always several things that need to happen to "fix" them.

So, if you react like this to any single attempt ­— "this can't work, as there are other issues to solve first" — then nothing ever gets fixed.

That's basically nihilism. You do you, but if you are so certain it can't work, why even bother commenting on this at all? 🤔

@jhwgh1968 what I love about this is that this is basically governments doing collective bargaining with the capitalist class. :blobcatlaugh:

@qurlyjoe oblig.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=mbyzgeee2mg

Revolution might not be televised, but apparently genocide will be mathwashed.

From the team behind "we kill people based on metadata", a new exciting project: "we kill people based on… we don't even know what, it's a 2bln parameters black box that we have no real way of actually understanding."

> The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans
https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/the-pentagon-is-moving-toward-letting-ai-weapons-autonomously-decide-to-kill-humans/articleshow/105420637.cms

@NoraReed 💯

Every guy on here should just read this, tbh:
https://anotherangrywoman.com/2023/01/18/how-to-give-advice-on-the-internet-without-being-an-utter-menace/

@hendric you're not wrong, but honestly I doubt that this is making a measurable difference.

Mansplainers wouldn't check for the advice being already available in replies even if all replies were visible.