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Technology Meta fed its AI on almost everything you’ve posted publicly since 2007

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Next version of Llama:

"As an AI assistant, I am only able to provide radical conservative opinions"

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Asklemmy What’s your “I can’t believe other people don’t do this” hack?

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More than this it's just a good way to build regular hand washing into a routine. You already use a restroom a few times a day at fairly regular intervals, so you only have a few hours worth of microbes on your hands at a time.

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Asklemmy What does this mean on Google Maps?

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"We make more money from cars. We half assed the walking instructions. Good luck and fuck you."

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Atheism Costco, Walmart pressured by Christian groups over abortion pill

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Thanks Christians, now I know 2 more retailers where I can obtain said pill should needs be.

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Tortilla rule

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ExMormon half • 3 weeks ago • 90%

Wiki page collecting LGBTQIA+ resources for exmormons

exmormon.miraheze.org

In light of the conversations sparked by recent trans-exclusionary policy updates, we thought it would be prudent to have a wiki page to collect resources that offer support for LGBTQIA+ individuals. It can be found at https://exmormon.miraheze.org/wiki/LGBTQIA+ We started the page with a few resources, but we would love some help aggregating more resources. If you know of a high-quality LGBTQ-friendly resource, please consider updating the page or commenting/messaging it here. And of course, the primary intention of the page is to help potentially vulnerable and marginalized people feel hope and support. Especially if you have been negatively affected by the church, you're not alone. You deserve love and support.

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ExMormon The Exmormon Wiki: A free, open resource to improve the lifespan, visibility, and accessibility of faith transition and deconstruction resources.

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Me too! I think it needs a name...

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ExMormon half • 1 month ago • 100%

The Exmormon Wiki: A free, open resource to improve the lifespan, visibility, and accessibility of faith transition and deconstruction resources.

exmormon.miraheze.org

A friend and I have finally created a public exmormon wiki that's free for anyone to read and edit! When I was deconstructing, I really wished there was a hub for all of the resources I needed. There is a ton of valuable content scattered around the internet, but it would have been great to have a one-stop-shop. So we made the resource I wish I had. The (brand new) wiki at https://exmormon.miraheze.org is meant to accomplish this purpose. This wiki is designed to aggregate (as a community) our favorite community resources, historical and current events, essays about mormonism, and anything else that would be of value to someone experiencing a faith crisis or deconstruction. This wiki is published in such a way that it can be available to anyone, free, forever. A nonprofit called Miraheze is generously willing to host our open-source MediaWiki site, and a plan for future-proofing the wiki is in the works (see a draft of our ideas and policies [here](https://exmormon.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Exmormon_Wiki:About)). As with any project like this, the greatest support needed right now is content generation and compilation. If you'd like to contribute, here are some ideas for (relatively painless) ways to do so: - If you are posting or commenting with a very in-depth comment (with sources and meaningful insight) in this community, consider adding your remarks to the wiki as a new page (or an addition to an existing page) so that it has a longer lifespan. The creative-commons license of the wiki means there's no copyright licensing issue. - If you've conducted research as part of your deconstruction, consider adding that research into the wiki. Pages don't need to be polished right off the bat; the important part is having resources available. - If you have bookmarks of resources that have been valuable to you, consider adding links to the wiki. - If you've been following a relevant news story or feel passionate about one, add a page about it starting with links to news articles. - If you host or participate in an exmormon community (online or in-person), consider adding its details to the [Communities](https://exmormon.miraheze.org/wiki/Communities) page. - If you are an exmormon content creator, consider adding (objective and fact-based) details about where people can find your content. - If you've wanted to write your own "CES Letter"-type publication but haven't out of fear of judgment or lack of technical know-how, consider adding that content to the wiki. Please feel free to contribute without fear. Just like other wikis, it's free and pretty simple to add and edit contents, and it's really hard for a public user to permanently damage the wiki. If you have questions or concerns, I'm active on Lemmy and my [wiki talk page](https://exmormon.miraheze.org/wiki/User_talk:Halfcoffee). Of course, this wiki isn't meant to replace this community or any other resource. Rather, it's meant to give a long lifespan and improved visibility/accessibility to content that can support someone in their faith journey. Thanks for your attention and time, and thanks for contributing to the wholesome community we have here. <3

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Memes I was made a humerous man...hopefully this doesn't send me south..

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I was mormon. Thankfully my parents paid to traffic me, so I could afford to go to college and cut them off relatively soon after I got home.

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You Should Know half • 2 months ago • 94%

YSK how to spot Love Bombing

Why YSK: some very dangerous people and organizations use love bombing as a strategy to manipulate and recruit people. Love bombing is often an early warning sign for a traumatizing relationship, so it's helpful to be able to spot the signs. **What it Is** Essentially, it's when someone showers you with love and attention. It often includes a lot of reassurance that you belong with someone or in a group. It can include gifts, flattery, praise, and it usually includes a lot of excitement about your future together or with a group. The catch is that the love bomb goes away, and you become devalued after the love bomb. This is usually followed by a "discard phase", where if you try to confront the behavior, you are rejected and made to feel at fault. After you've become upset by this, they will often start the cycle again to keep your loyalty. There are some really key warning signs to look out for: 1. They give you gifts, especially random gifts 2. They want all of your attention 3. They're desperate for commitment from you 4. You feel pressure to not tell them no 5. They constantly talk about how much they love you, how special you are, etc. 6. You feel flattered but uneasy around them 7. They want to know a lot about you very quickly 8. They emphasize how much better everything is when you are with them **Where can I spot it?** Love bombing is very common in abusive and manipulative relationships. It's also often noticeable in cult recruiting, when members are trained to shower you with love and affection. **What can I do about it?** It can be good to seek help from a mental health professional if you're already hurt from the effects of love bombing. If you're in crisis, consider contacting a local crisis or emergency line. If you notice signs of love bombing, there are some strategies that often work to keep people safe: - set firm boundaries early - stay grounded (i.e., take their praise with a grain of salt) - ask, "what might they want from this interaction?" - end a relationship if it's not working - give as little information out as possible at the start of a relationship - ask an objective 3rd party how they feel about your relationship with this person or group **More resources** https://health.clevelandclinic.org/love-bombing https://www.choosingtherapy.com/love-bombing/

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Memes I was made a humerous man...hopefully this doesn't send me south..

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I was threatened by local leaders and family if I didn't go on a 2 year mission in another country, then when I got there, they:

took my passport immediately and locked it in a building I couldn't access
required 12 to 16 hours of work a day, with discipline if productivity dropped
refused to provide adequate food or medical care
restricted my communication with my family
assigned me a companion to surveil me 24/7 and report disobedience to leadership (and assigned me to surveil someone else)
disciplined me when I was physically and sexually assaulted by other missionaries

I didn't want to call it trafficking for a long time. I figured maybe God just had a weird way of doing things. But my spouse works at a recovery center for survivors of violence (including trafficking) and helped me realize that's what it was.

A pretty big misconception is that trafficking has to look like selling slaves, and I agree that's an egregious thing, but it can be a lot more broad than that.

There are a lot of resources at https://humantraffickinghotline.org/en if you're curious. My mission experience checked just about every box for labor trafficking, and I've heard very similar stories from a lot of other people who have been missionaries.

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Memes I was made a humerous man...hopefully this doesn't send me south..

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The church in the ad is particularly harmful. I had to fight to get out of it, and only after they took 10% of my income for years and trafficked me. They want money, power, and control, not increased numbers at their services.

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Programmer Humor Update Faker - Fake a system update

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Cries in Linux

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linuxmemes CrowdStrike effectively bricked windows, Mac and Linux today.

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Anecdotal, but my spouse was in surgery during the outage and it went fine, so I imagine they take precautions (like probably having a test machine for updates before they install anything on the real one, maybe)

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Privacy Privacy in academia?

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I don't know about usual, but there is a huge wall between private/ personal and public/ professional for me. Nothing personal ends up under my own name if I can help it. Basically, I'm using my name as if it were the name of a business, and I use an alias or nickname otherwise.

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Not The Onion half • 2 months ago • 99%

Zoom exec calls in-office work mandate a ‘success’ — despite working remotely himself https://www.kron4.com/news/zoom-exec-calls-in-office-work-mandate-a-success-despite-working-remotely-himself/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17585420

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Memes He is totally thinking of me

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Surprisingly little discourse for a nearly 1:1 vote ratio lol

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Lemmy Shitpost how do you guys use lemmy?

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half 3 months ago • 100%

Honestly I pretty much just use Lemmy to see the good old fashioned memes. Like everyone is saying, mastodon is the one if you want to follow people.

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Technology Mozilla is trying to push me out because I have cancer – CPO

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half 3 months ago • 83%

Is there a Lemmy equivalent of r/wooosh

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Lemmy Shitpost What a Hobby

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Poor explanation. No images of non-birds for comparison.

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Science Memes Elsevier

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We (I'm a CS researcher) already kind of do, I upload almost everything to arxiv.org and researchgate. Some fields support this more than others, though.

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