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@CharlotteEowyn It is 3rd century AD, you are no defined gender and a deity who is worshipped.
"Laevius says: Worshiping, then, the nurturing god Venus, whether she is male or female, just as the Moon is a nurturing goddess. In his Atthis Philochorus, too, states that she is the Moon and that men sacrifice to her in women's dress, women in men's, because she is held to be both male and female." (Macrobius (c. 400s AD), Saturnalia 3.8.2)
Nothing is new. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphroditus
@finche @kuketzblog Da sind wir anders gestrickt. Ich glaube, dass diese Firmen sich an Gesetze halten müssen. Keine Missinformationen, Desinformation, rassistische Hetze, Hass, Kinderpornografie oder süchtigmachende Algorithmen. Hier sollte geregelt werden. Und nicht unter dem Vorwand des Kinderschutzes ein Überwachungsapparat gebaut werden. Es kann nicht sein, dass sämtliche Verantwortung auf Userseite sein soll, während sich die Anbieter aus der Verwantwortung rausziehen.
@finche @kuketzblog Wollen Sie Milliardäre machen lassen, was immer denen einfällt? Ja, Konzerne brauchen Regulierungen, damit die sich nicht verhalten wie außer Rand und Band geratene Kinder - deren Ziel ist Profitmaximierung, koste es, was es wolle. Social Media gehört daher genauso reguliert wie der Journalismus. Verbote können nicht immer nur für die Schwächsten gelten.
@kuketzblog Das ist komplett widersinnig, nicht wahr? Die Gruppe von Leuten - Politiker - die tatsächlich die Macht hätten, etwas dagegen zu tun - zu regulieren, wegen Gesetzesbrüchen vor Gericht zu zerren, zu verbieten - machen nichts weiter als sich zu beklagen? Das ist Arbeitsverweigerung.
@reading_recluse Completely going d'accors. Also LLM produced "art" is so dull. I don't want to read it. For some reason my brain starts to shut down when reading an LLM produced text. I forget the picture as soon as I close it. Same with music. AI generated voices are so grating. The artificiality of it all makes me mad. It doesn't challenge me, it doesn't tell me anything, there is nothing intentional behind it. It's just - nothing. And it destroys the environment.
@JustinMac84 @miggi I wish. Our chancellor was a BlackRock-CEO and it shows. He's pretty close to the right-wingers and his cabinett is a horror show.
@GossiTheDog My god, those tech bros are nothing more than a bunch of spoiled little brats with too much money on hand. They are disgusting.
I don't know but I think we should finally stop pampering the rich. They need enforced rules.
@meganmariehart I indeed think that the fediverse is not as attractive for people rely on social marketing. No metrics, no algo. You have to built up your presence by hard work, there are no "brand opportunities". For a lot of people this would break their business, for others this would break their ego.
@EUCommission Then stop taking money from the lobby groups, stop deregulation, start holding them accountable. 155 Million Euros in lobby money in 2025 divided between 733 lobby groups, the biggest spenders are the usual suspects.
All our data go to US tech corporations for whatever purposes while we in turn get the right-wing propaganda by the big players who are all firmly behind Trump whose goal it is to destroy NATO and the EU. What could go wrong, right?
New figures show that the digital industry as a whole is now spending €151 million a year on lobbying the EU, a major increase to what was already considerable firepower.
Corporate Europe Observatory (corporateeurope.org)
@sil Just remember: Those are the guys who think of themselves as absolute geniuses, far above the levels of us ordinary mortals.
Yeah, geniuses. Right.
@QasimRashid They don't seem to be able to grasp that the whole violence and cruelty is the point of ICE. They don't want properly trained officers. They want goons who terrorize people into submission. And they can't imagine how bad it can become.
Playbook of 1933 Germany.
@badastro You definitely can't. No human will ever reach Saturn.