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@nemo Hey, try the anti-cap version of the links :) Bloodywood would thank you (it filters adverts and tracking from Ggl/YTb):

invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=Gsy5s

or *playlist* for all tracks here!
yewtu.be/playlist?list=PL8o2-y

Try both types of link (both are invidious filtering software leavnig the media cleaner):

Wait, what? (screenshot #1)

Do I read this correctly: Artists submit their work for an auction, and if they're selected and the painting sells, they get between 0% and 15% of the selling price.

Oh, they list "benefits" (screenshot #2). Let's see.

> All selected artists will be included in our robust promotional campaigns.

Oh, you'll use my art in an ad campaign for free. Awesome. I'm gonna be famous.

> Artists will receive bidder information from their sold artwork after the Auction.

Do we get their cell number and the name of the school attended by their children? I can't wait to stalk them.

> All artist applicants will have their work seen by local art-world luminaries who jury the work for inclusion consideration.

Sweet, a jury of local randos will get to see my painting.

> Your contribution as an Auction Artist directly supports ArtSpan’s programs, and has a positive impact on our local art community.

Sounds like an ineffective way for artists to give their money to other artists.

You know what, I'll skip this and focus on making art.

artspan.submittable.com/submit

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman 

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts"

– Richard Feynman

Perhaps truest in the increasingly modern-day type of context (unknowing / not knowing at lot in real-time)...

█ "We don't know anything
(we have to trust / take paid people's word for it)
█ don't have much real access
█ Those that do are under a lot of pressure, financial stresses, strong-arming
█ We have old data
█ Systems and people in charge are not transparent
█ Security for not showing is usually an excuse or not worth the risk of being lied to
█ etc

I would include AI in the initial quote sentiment that ignorance is by the masses yes but also of those involved and line managers themselves who don't know really what's going on. (Business Science and Art of Deception)

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SIDE TOPIC:
█Fake scientific papers? Number of papers retracted by research journals topped 10,000 for the first time.

qoto.org/@marind/1118779128478

Believe it or not... *THIS* exploitation is more of what we need more of... in our own ballpark(s) to celebrate ourselves since they won't even pay for it much anyway... 

@mjambon OK- Believe it or not *THIS* is exactly what we need more of...in our own ballpark(s)...
...the Fediverse..
...the areas of people in unpaid sector(s), the justice people etc... we need to do get it together a lot more...

More of something *ourselves* however we can and have access to... share and enable each other where alone we have near nothing... more within our -like-minded- selves...
in the similar-but-less-exploitative / much-more-mutual-friendly-exploitative ways to get money from the richer of us - because anyway there is no money anywhere else (or bad exchange and only bad circular economy) and we are all now political exiles (de-facto their politics pretty much them wanting alienate everyone or follow them).

Now your post might be a small representation of that but:
We are anyway facing starvation

When those outside care less for us and our arts AND politics that al comes with it and the see it... (especially for art I feel it's always been like that and 'too many artist and 'political people' starving right).
Tech is well abused so it's ok pay for that... for now... AI will replace them and leave fewer need like almost all machines have done or killed the human / art of doing... leaving it empty.

So we have not much choice and anyway should work from ourself ( style each other) else face worse positions...

Are you with me on that?

Technically / Financially there isn't much money given from banks down to the likes of well, the many peasants ... the banks choose the waterfalls as the main pipes and where it goes and what people and companies get green light. Anything good we do is neutral at best or mostly against them and they know it.

Anyway I hope you agree and I've been trying to 'promote' people more and more via podcast pumping up others I/ we like to highlight them for 1min (literally 2mins in total)...

Those who maybe rely on job or commercial stuff too much probably should make a start with us / anyone here... as plug can be pulled literally anytime so better start now to be more together if you believe it...

Talk to me to advertise yourself on Fediverse...
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EXAMPLES BELOW: -------------------

1 The Little Prince book
qoto.org/@freeschool/111845561

2 Fantasy website
qoto.org/@freeschool/111845709

3 Gary Ackerman thoughts on AI
qoto.org/@freeschool/111867522

Let me know what you think

and if not sure, slowly think about it - Talk to me about what you think ?

Key points to why people double down and maintain the same into the future... *even the same regrettable* history... 

@undefined @strypey Key points to why people double down and maintain even the regrettable results of history into the future...

(just to check off you see what I mean and it's ok if you did - also for me as a list of key points you might add to...)

█ playing army games
█ filling time + solving boredom
█ resources (people had to live and as they grew have to kill more things)
█ monetary gain / wealth / greed
█ prestige / honour in battle / needing antagonists to justify their own existence / reasonings
█ commercial expansion
█ creativity (tech inventions for war)
█ Like to feel superior (not everyone regrets it)

So not just colonisation.
Human tendency and primitive solution (or many other things as names).

And also consider many might not regret it! At all and consider it normal!

Not sure what else you were expecting different - OP seems quite simple answer of conquest, exploiting people and geo-resources and human ignorant tendencies...

Can't those other people running the show, has to be us! 🗺️ 🌍 🌎 🌏

New Tube? newtube.app/

Videos maybe not found on Google YouTube !

█ People kick out local government because it was approving unwanted Chinese electrical battery factory again locals wishes!

newtube.app/user/Believe_it/YA

█ Bluetooth MAC address signals emitted from Vaccinated people?

newtube.app/user/Believe_it/xv

@strypey@mast@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz Yeah maybe they just went for it as lyrics as it's half good in some way of breaking something. An external person could have easily spot it or seen it as too risky.

I also realised they ARE managed / helped by same for Linkin Park guy(s) :) And I thought many more times it was more similar to LP...

Here's the interview they mention it in that I can recommend for some wise word in there and definitely seem politically committed...
invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=ussiA

I'll update this post which part of this video I liked but all good at low res (since it's just for audio mostly)

Other notes:
Not sure it's more angry if the growling (or attempted growling) was one of the main judges of that. And perhaps LP having more softer sides makes it seem more but need to listen again.
It wasn't exactly what came across first time more than 'attempting' (depth way too low like if I was to try it!)

and not even understandable in the part I could hear most System and LP achieve in the yes soft, whiney and angry spectrums... I just couldn't hear it clearly like some genres where you have to wonder what they are talking about or look up lyrics and then you like them even more :) I generally;y go for what I can understand as words. (funny to say that but really some genre eh! ^^)

@freemo Kinda waste of the bench. I would have prioritised actually being able to site on it / being more welcoming...

2024 Bluesky (social) summary list... 

2024 (social) summary list

Hired and trained a full-time team of moderators,
(more here: blueskyweb.org/join)

Launched and iterated on several community and individual moderation features

Developed and refined policies both public and internal, designed and redesigned...

A New Look for Bluesky: The Social Butterfly
Dec 21, 2023

Toward Federation and an Open Network
Nov 16, 2023

Bluesky for Journalists
October 13, 2023

Reaching 1 Million Users
September 12, 2023

Algorithmic Choice with Custom Feeds
July 27, 2023

Our Plan for a Sustainably Open Social Network
July 5, 2023

Purchase and Manage Domains Directly Through Bluesky
July 5, 2023

Moderation in a Public Commons
June 23, 2023

Private Beta Update & Roadmap
June 2, 2023

Bluesky User FAQ (App)
May 19, 2023

Federation Architecture Overview
May 5, 2023

How to set your domain as your handle
Apr 28, 2023

The AT Protocol Developer Ecosystem
April 21, 2023

Composable Moderation
April 13, 2023

Algorithmic choice
Mar 30, 2023

Domain Names as Handles in Bluesky
Mar 6, 2023

The AT Protocol
Oct 18, 2022

Working In Public
May 4, 2022

A Self-Authenticating Social Protocol
Apr 6, 2022

The Initial Bluesky Team
Mar 31, 2022

How It Started: Three Phases
Feb 28, 2022

Announcing Bluesky PBLLC
Feb 7, 2022

Satellite - A bluesky contest
Dec 13, 2021

Silence, often as violence and abuse... 

Silence as violence and abuse:

Examples:

█ People who have power and chosen responsibility but misuse their position or don't fulfil it staying silent when they know of the wrong for waay too loong and don't help improve things also.

█ Those who represent / speak for others, but choose not to put themselves at risk and leave others waiting in vain.

█ People who avoiding answering the truth and further cover up things, not only by not being transparent (or even saying why not transparency) but even adding layers.

█ Self-denial or feeling of shame which becomes hidden violence, even after self fear, it becomes negligent over time and lying to themselves or others as abusive stakes only get higher. Negligence.

█ We all have power and I think we all abuse it when deliberately being non-players... like taking away each others voice in order for it not happen or effect us.

AI = Artificial Increase / pushing up prices... Arbitrary Increase for profit... 

AI helps 'Artificially' increase prices and it's all to maximise profits for them more than us.

To force people to pay more using whatever Tech that will help them.

(Kind of like IBM helping track / count people in the genocide, though no proof my side and speculation probably that there could be such coldness of selling tech for whatever reason.)

I believe already this is arbitrary increase is already happening but with AI make doom quicker...

Basically as demand increases so does price but way deeper than that.

Will be worse IF domestic levels of people accept it into their homes and hand over their data and daily usage habits a bit like Facebook did / does... < = = all priceless survey type stuff for the AI suppliers allowed to see what you're using while you to use their 'services'.

AI = Another Invasion
or
AI = Arbitrary Increase

Arbitrary Increase is mankind's doom,..
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█▄ike your local supermarket when you buy lots of the same item ( 🔔 this tells them it's too cheap' 🔔 )

█▄ike when you're booking your flight tickers for airplanes 🛩️ :kirby_fly: and ticket prices creep up on the sister sites strangely, because they know what you're looking for now and prices go up as time passes and you search more
(They see what you need and push prices up everywhere so you have no choice on all sites which is why you do better to pay quicker than 'shopping around')

█ Clever AI... working behind the screen (for the the company people) to make targetting easier... while people think it's faster for them (maybe for a quick second but not long-term).

█ Sentiments here of 'sale' when it's not really a sale. Also I worked in supermarket and shocking how things increase (and seeing all the old tickets for same products even a month back... much cheaper and "sale" only after pushing up prices!)

tilde.zone/@gemlog/11187479417

@gpowerf Just business in the end... We are expecting that more and more and realising everything was / is mostly just business. Although not doubt using creative people (and being used) for profit etc still mainly just a business. Closes it's door one day.

Does anyone know how to get rid of the 'Log in with Google' pop ups in firefox?
The default advice is to (cough) log into your google account and change a setting. Right. I don't have a damn google account and I'm not getting one just to turn off google?
I tried an addon 'stricly block popups' or similar name, but it was horribly broken - it also began by white-listing every site I hate - including google, bing, facebook, twit and others! Anyhow, even with those out of the way it was buggy junk.
There must be one that works without nuking everything (I log into jitsi with github - no other way except fb or goog).
Anyone?

@gemlog I've already cut down my diet and range of foods to almost absolute basics and making soups from everything just to keep flavoured water... can be done while keeping some existing stuff more as treats... I think probably we need to go to this level anyway like after the war was and things were special from abroad etc...

and great how you're already thinking / doing it yourself. Apples are amazing and many things you mention...

Frozen fruit and berries were in 600 gram bags. Now they are 400 grams, but the bags look the same. And the Weasels *also* raised the price 2 dollars and the shops have the nerve to call it a sale when it's *only* 1 dollar more and for the 1/3 smaller size!
Fine. I won't buy them any longer.
I will redouble my efforts to freeze plums, cherries and blackberries from the yard in season. I will buy clearance citrus and grapes and freeze them myself. They can pound sand up you know where.
Ditto for mushrooms. I normally just freeze a few Pines (matsutake) and eat the others I forage, but now I'm going to freeze morels, chanterelles and sweet tooths as well. King boletes even grow right in my yard.
More foraging. More leaning on friends hunting (I butcher). I'm nearly meatless anyhow.
I will push back!
We have sky high food inflation in canada and the supermarkets are having record profits, but they tell parliament it's just a coincidence.

If you don't spend time thinking about how your plans will fail, then they are sure to.

@gabriel @djsumdog @splitshockvirus @wjmaggos @leo @dibi58 Yep come across these peeps... and all nice.
Noticed this was to followers only (did you want to send it out to everyone?)

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