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AHED HAS ONLY REACHED €5,005 OUT OF €80,000 !!!

Please go donate on this gofundme link if you can, and if you can't share this post and their link to help more people reach them!!!

These are their Instagram and Tumblr profiles and their gofundme link.

@ahedalshaer

https://www.instagram.com/ahed.samahfamily?igsh=MWhwb2JvdWY2MjVweA==

https://www.instagram.com/ahedalshaer?igsh=MXN4ZzF1Y3o0azdndw==

gofundme.com

Donate to Help Gazans family get to safety, organized by Ahed Alshaer

‏Hello, Please read this as if I'm a member of your family . maybe your sister, daughte… Ahed Alshaer needs your support for Help Gazans fa

"Hello,

Please read this as if I'm a member of your family . maybe your sister, daughter or a friend and as if my family who's under death now is yours.

we are Ahed and Samah from Gaza, specifically the city of Rafah. I am Ahed, 22 years old, I study dentistry at Al-Azhar University in Gaza in the fourth year. Samah is 18 years old. She is supposed to be in high school this year. Her family consists of a father, a mother, 3 brothers, and one sister, the father. His name is Naji, the mother’s name is Kawthar, and the brothers are Jamal, Hamdan, and Hamada.

‏We created this campaign so that Ahed could complete her education outside Gaza and to help the Samah family, in light of this tragic war, live a decent life and get out of Gaza and move them to a safe place away from war and genocide. Samah’s father is diabetic, and you know that in Gaza, medicines are not available at all, and his health condition is deteriorating, and her mother suffers from chest infections, and her treatment is also not available, and you know that in Gaza, the health situation is very deteriorating due to the bombing of hospitals, their destruction, and them being out of service as well, not to mention the pollution and the spread of diseases and insects in the places. In which they sit. They were displaced to tents in the Mawasi Khan Yunis area after the occupation forces invaded their area, bombed their house, and completely destroyed it, and they no longer had a place to go."

"I am Samah, and this is our first place of displacement in Tal al-Sultan in Rafah before we left it while we were besieged by tanks and occupation vehicles. Please help my family so that we can live in safety and leave Gaza."

"This is Ahed, a 22-year-old dental student in the fourth year of university. She was just beginning to realize her dream of becoming a dentist in order to treat and help people by practicing her specialty, which she had always dreamed of entering. She worked hard and succeeded in high school until she was accepted. Until this damned war came and destroyed her future, demolished her university and destroyed it completely. Ahed wants to complete her education outside Gaza so that she can achieve her dream and be able to pay university fees, which she cannot pay except with your help. These are some excerpts from photos of Ahed while she was at university practicing and studying her major."

"Samah is supposed to study high school this year, which is the separating year between the school stage and the university stage, which will direct her to build her future, but the war came unexpectedly and education was completely stopped in the Gaza Strip. I hope that Samah can complete her education abroad by entering schools outside the country. Help her to complete her education and ensure her future."

"Living in tents is very difficult, especially in the summer. It is as if you are living in a furnace or in hell. In fact, there is no electricity, no water, no food, no drinking. The situation is very tragic. Everything is suffering here in the tents or in Gaza in general because of the difficulty of everything. In order to get water, you want to stand in line for hours until you get a small amount of it. There are really no minimum necessities for life in Gaza, so my family and I want to go out so that we can live a decent life without water. Suffering or fear of bombing and death to which we are exposed at any moment.

I will tell you about cooking on firewood due to the lack of gas. It is very difficult and painful, especially since my mother has chest infections and we are in the summer and the temperature is very high."

"I want your help in raising money so that we can help Ahed, Samah, and her family leave Gaza and support them in this war. In the end, I hope that you will help me as soon as possible so that we can travel and complete Ahed’s studies and help Samah’s family get out of Gaza to safety. A small donation from you can make a difference in this campaign.

Asking for your help is the only way I have to rescue my family’s life and future, your help may become our hope when hope is far away from us under these conditions, every dollar you can help with may save a life, bring hope to a tired heart and save a future of a youth one

Please don’t read this as a tragedy story ,, I’m here to ask you to prevent it from getting more tragedy and to help us start our life all over again. I’m here to ask for your help not your sympathy , to ask you to take action whether by donating or by sharing this to everyone you know who can help, please read this with your heart and take action as if it’s your family, your mom, your siblings who are under these conditions."

"Best wishes ❤️❤️"

Unfortunately I couldn't include all the photos. This is all from Ahed gofundme link. You can read and see all the photos there for yourself.

gofundme.com

Donate to Help Gazans family get to safety, organized by Ahed Alshaer

‏Hello, Please read this as if I'm a member of your family . maybe your sister, daughte… Ahed Alshaer needs your support for Help Gazans fa

Please, if you can't donate share this post and link as much as you can so maybe it can reach someone who can donate.

Thank you❤️🇵🇸

Free Palestine - ceasefire now!

There is currently a strike for Palestine taking place from February 18th, 2024, to February 25th, 2024. During this time, I will only be posting about Palestine on this account and doing what I can to spread awareness. If you are able, I highly recommend participating in the strike in whatever way you are able - something is always better than nothing. Staying home from work and/or school, not buying anything that isn't strictly necessary, using your social media platforms only to boost posts about Palestine, etc., are all ways to help the efforts!

Below are various links for ways you can help Palestine, including educational resources, petitions, fundraisers, etc. If you have any to add on, please do, these are just the ones I've found so far.

Palestine Red Crescent Society

Palestine Children's Relief Fund

eSims For Gaza

Decolonize Palestine (Patreon)

Jewish Voice For Peace

Help Gaza Children

Islamic Relief Canada's Palestine Emergency Appeal

Medical Aid For Palestinians

Gisha (Israeli organization working to protect Palestinians' rights to the freedom of movement)

Click to help Palestine daily

Palestine Action

Attend an upcoming protest for Palestine (remember to mask up if possible, COVID isn't over)

Sign a petition to urge governments to invoke the genocide convention to stop the war on Gaza

Sign a petition from Amnesty calling for a ceasefire

Check this list of ways to demand a ceasefire in Gaza

Sign the petition for Canada to take urgent action for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza

Download these posters to print out and put up in your area and/or share on socials to build awareness

Join the BDS boycott

Check out resources and ways to help from Justice For All

Donate to the Gofundme for medical expenses for Hisham, a Palestinian-Irish-American who was shot in an anti-Palestinian hate crime in Burlington, Vermont

The Palestine Academy's Palestine 101

Palestinian literature recommendations

Check out Independent Jewish Voices Canada and their campaigns to help Palestine

Join Palestine Action to help bring down Israel's weapons trade

Shop Palestine (online store where your purchases support artisans in Palestine and in refugee camps in Lebanon, proceeds go to Middle East Children’s Alliance's work supporting Palestinian children)

Donate direct aid to Gaza (run by a longtime activist and volunteer who has been carrying out donations and humanitarian projects in Gaza since 2021)

Buy from the Hirbawi factory (this is the last kufiya factory in Palestine that is still active, purchasing helps support the Palestinian economy, which has not been in a great state for a while)

Spreadsheet listing mutual aid

how c.ai works and why it's unethical

Okay, since the AI discourse is happening again, I want to make this very clear, because a few weeks ago I had to explain to a (well meaning) person in the community how AI works. I'm going to be addressing people who are maybe younger or aren't familiar with the latest type of "AI", not people who purposely devalue the work of creatives and/or are shills.

The name "Artificial Intelligence" is a bit misleading when it comes to things like AI chatbots. When you think of AI, you think of a robot, and you might think that by making a chatbot you're simply programming a robot to talk about something you want them to talk about, and it's similar to an rp partner. But with current technology, that's not how AI works. For a breakdown on how AI is programmed, CGP grey made a great video about this several years ago (he updated the title and thumbnail recently)

I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend you watch this because CGP Grey is good at explaining, but the tl;dr for this post is this: bots are made with a metric shit-ton of data. In C.AI's case, the data is writing. Stolen writing, usually scraped fanfiction.

How do we know chatbots are stealing from fanfiction writers? It knows what omegaverse is [SOURCE] (it's a Wired article, put it in incognito mode if it won't let you read it), and when a Reddit user asked a chatbot to write a story about "Steve", it automatically wrote about characters named "Bucky" and "Tony" [SOURCE].

I also said this in the tags of a previous reblog, but when you're talking to C.AI bots, it's also taking your writing and using it in its algorithm: which seems fine until you realize 1. They're using your work uncredited 2. It's not staying private, they're using your work to make their service better, a service they're trying to make money off of.

"But Bucca," you might say. "Human writers work like that too. We read books and other fanfictions and that's how we come up with material for roleplay or fanfiction."

Well, what's the difference between plagiarism and original writing? The answer is that plagiarism is taking what someone else has made and simply editing it or mixing it up to look original. You didn't do any thinking yourself. C.AI doesn't "think" because it's not a brain, it takes all the fanfiction it was taught on, mixes it up with whatever topic you've given it, and generates a response like in old-timey mysteries where somebody cuts a bunch of letters out of magazines and pastes them together to write a letter.

(And might I remind you, people can't monetize their fanfiction the way C.AI is trying to monetize itself. Authors are very lax about fanfiction nowadays: we've come a long way since the Anne Rice days of terror. But this issue is cropping back up again with BookTok complaining that they can't pay someone else for bound copies of fanfiction. Don't do that either.)

Bottom line, here are the problems with using things like C.AI:

It is using material it doesn't have permission to use and doesn't credit anybody. Not only is it ethically wrong, but AI is already beginning to contend with copyright issues.

C.AI sucks at its job anyway. It's not good at basic story structure like building tension, and can't even remember things you've told it. I've also seen many instances of bots saying triggering or disgusting things that deeply upset the user. You don't get that with properly trigger tagged fanworks.

Your work and your time put into the app can be taken away from you at any moment and used to make money for someone else. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people who use AI panic about accidentally deleting a bot that they spent hours conversing with. Your time and effort is so much more stable and well-preserved if you wrote a fanfiction or roleplayed with someone and saved the chatlogs. The company that owns and runs C.AI can not only use whatever you've written as they see fit, they can take your shit away on a whim, either on purpose or by accident due to the nature of the Internet.

DON'T USE C.AI, OR AT THE VERY BARE MINIMUM DO NOT DO THE AI'S WORK FOR IT BY STEALING OTHER PEOPLES' WORK TO PUT INTO IT. Writing fanfiction is a communal labor of love. We share it with each other for free for the love of the original work and ideas we share. Not only can AI not replicate this, but it shouldn't.

(also, this goes without saying, but this entire post also applies to ai art)

imagine how prosperous the fanfic community would be if people wrote fics instead of using character ai

We've seen a lot of GIFs of the new Captain America: Brave New World film, and seen people saying they're excited for the film. While we can ultimately not be in control of your personal media consumption, we will say in no uncertain terms this film is a BDS boycott target, and this blog will not be complicit in Zionist propaganda.

And no, pirating but watching as usual and making fan content as usual is not boycotting. This movie cannot be allowed to exist in any space outside of one exclusively criticising it for it's pro-genocide, pro-Israeli stance in a time where Israel is murdering Palestinians en masse.

And in case it needs to be said, Anthony Mackie is fully complicit and proactive in the Zionist propaganda of this movie. He is not an innocent party in this film's creation, he is an active participant. Like Chris Evans before him, he is a Zionist, and should be criticised as such.

We will not reblog material from users who are creating content for this film from now on, and we certainly will not be reblogging anything from this movie that is not discussions of its explicit Zionism and of the boycott efforts organised by Palestinian groups.

A movie is not more important than people's lives. Your feelings about a fictional character is not worth facilitating and promoting Israeli propaganda. And the actors involved in this film should not be allowed to work without being reminded of them working with a woman who chose to be an IDF soldier despite being exempt, of creating propaganda for the IDF and Mossad. None of them should ever be allowed to recover from this. Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Liv Tyler, Harrison Ford, Tim Blake Nelson and everyone else who chose to work with Shira Haas are all facilitators of genocide, and should never be allowed to be remembered for anything else but.

Some recolored Wanda Maximoff panels❤️

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Please, don't get used to the scene

Fellow journalist Hamza Murtaja rose, joining his brother, the martyr Yasser Murtaja.😭

This is how they eliminate the press in Gaza. They targeted our headquarters and our tools, and today they are targeting individuals, but that will not stop us from covering the crimes of this occupier, and we will continue to report this barbarity even if it costs death.

Today, I am trying to collect support to build my house, which was destroyed by the occupation, as well as to buy my family’s daily needs in light of the extremely high prices, and my inability to provide basic requirements. We are fighting to survive, and we do not know whether we will survive or return to this unjust world.

gofundme.com

Donate to Support Siraj's Family in Rebuilding Their Home, organized by Ahmad Abudayeh

hi, my name is ahmad and I'm raising a fund for my cousin Siraj and thi… Ahmad Abudayeh needs your support for Support Siraj's Family in Reb

My next goal is 50k and I am working to achieve it by next Thursday. We ask for your support and attention to alleviate this injustice and great pain that is falling upon us.

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