Once again, Western countries and their vassals will always treat the symptom and not address the multitude of causes (because it leads directly back to them).

A society dumb enough to not read into how they’re being exploited but smart enough to build railroads and crunch numbers as an accountant is exactly the kind of society needed for bougies. So an 8 or 9 hour literal work shift for kids + homework + projects is the best they could offer, which isn’t exactly going to inspire confidence in students, so of course stimulus before, during and after class will be sought after if it means coping with this shit.

Effective protesting is when internet users set their profile picture to Clippy en masse, that ought to scare Microsoft and their contemporaries!

Get a grip, lib.

The reality is that apps like TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, etc… have marketing teams and entire institutions practically advocating for their use across the planet. In some parts of Asia and South America, you literally cannot get by without WhatsApp in more urbanized areas, for example.

This is the result of US imperialism. They have just enough data centers and server capacity to run hundreds of Instagrams if they wanted to, unlike the Global South (excl. China).

do you really expect to be CC’d along with hundreds or thousands of others about ICE raids, never mind about literally any event involving injustice? And how about footage of said event? Where’s that going to be stored? As an attachment? Google Drive link?

When censorship of one of its worst kind is unfolding in front of you, where genocide is referred to as “water slide”, you instead blame the people for self-censoring? Get real.

this consent ain’t gonna manufacture itself

And the indigenous reclaiming or reappropriating words and phrases totally never happened in history, ever. “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is fundamentally different from “between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty”. Notice how the Euroanglo-Zionazis never utter the former phrase.

Understand that the former phrase is more than just a reappropration to the latter, but a call for the liberation of indigenous land from occupation by settler-colonialists. It’s no dogwhistle, and it is very crystal clear what it means: not one inch for Euroanglo-Zionazis.

Likewise, it’s very crystal clear what Euroanglo-Zionazis mean with their Lebensraum ass phrase: total wipeout of indigenous land and its people in favor of Euroanglo-Zionazis.

How’d you come to that conclusion? Are you saying that “From the river to the sea” is distinct from “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”?

if this post upset you that much that you felt the need to backseat mod, then you’re a zionazi, it’s that simple.

wait till they find out the motivations that led to the creation of lemmy lol

Yep, pretty much, I didn’t feel like putting it into words, so thanks for this. I’d add that arguably, when students “play the game”, they get the same flack, or worse, than job applicants who exaggerate or straight up lie in their resume the same way companies lie about free unlimited PTOs, job security, a clear career ladder, etc.

Using morality or honesty as an argument against students who cheat is an attack on students, a distraction from the fact that this shit doesn’t work the way it was advertised actually, which has been internalized and normalized in many societies, left uncontested, which is big bad.

in short: captalism lol. slightly longer: captialism. lmao.

“I am often left with a choice between soliciting participation where students are merely the deadpan voice boxes of hallucinatory AI slop, or silence,” the Philadelphia teacher despaired. “Which am I supposed to choose?”

ChatGPT isn’t its own, unique problem. It’s a symptom of a totalizing cultural paradigm in which passive consumption and regurgitation of content becomes the status quo," Nathan Schmidt, a university lecturer and managing editor at Gamers With Glasses, told 404.

Seems to be easier to blame students for understandably responding to rote-practice, monotonous factory-work oriented slopfest curricula with slop, rather than actually addressing the core issue at hand.

Well said.

Countries that gravitated towards the Western tech ecosystem (whether willingly or otherwise) always get enveloped with seemingly no way out… the only way out is if they stopped rubbing shoulders with fucking Western digital landlords and move towards coming up with state-owned solutions…

but nahs screw all that let’s just make WhatsApp and Instagram de facto mandatory to conduct most forms of business in West Asia and LATAM

On discussions around here about recommendations to alternative social media platforms and other digital services, there seems to be a growing presence of believers of European platforms, the platforms are vouched for not on the merit that the alternatives to US services themselves are good, functional and are independent of any state/private sector interests, but simply because the platforms are European, which is framed as “secure” and “sanitized” from any of that potential “bad stuff” we’ve witnessed (AI slop, helping the state to suppress activism, on one hand allowing freeze peach, which really just emboldens neonazis, on the other censors anything going against the interests of the West, etc).

https://www.wired.com/story/protonmail-amends-policy-after-giving-up-activists-data/

I’m having difficulty to articulate this but… why move from one doghouse to another if all you cared about was the color of the roof?