the computer is not alive and you need to get into actual religion or something if you think it is because silicon valley is a terrible place of worship

god people pulling the "um, being anti-AI makes you a bigot" thing reminds me of thorne melcher crashing out over NFTs a few years back. it was fine to be anti- garbage tech back then and it's fine now, you can't trick me with word games lol

I refuse to even discuss AI sentience until we as a species achieve human rights

chat, is saying you want to destroy a computer program the same as genocide?

Roko's Basilisk is just being anti-abortion for atheists

one thing that is genuinely thrilling about AI proponents is they might be the softest targets since, like, young-earth creationists. making extraordinary claims that are pretty immediately disprovable, with no training in philosophy but grand aspirations at giving it a good swing anyways

If you take the statement "I sunk my teeth into a juicy apple" and replaced the word apple with newborn baby, it sounds pretty bad. Sit and have a think about that, baby biter.

doubly so if, for instance, you work for a technology or social media company

anyone who invokes anti- or post-humanism (both things I'm totally fine with) but who focuses their love and defense of the non-human on, for instance, the machine that gives you imperfect answers in a perfectly obeisant tone, and not the non-human things devastated by that machine, can fuck off.

it's not enough to have your slop funded by venture capital money being lit on fire. you have to feel morally superior while eating your slop. rich fascists are attempting to give their for-profit machine learning models more rights than actual humans and it's a war crime to criticize them

truly hilarious that this is an attempted attack on ai critics. yeah being mean to chatgpt is eugenics. saying sam altman shouldn't be able to steal the entirety of human creative output for profit is genocide. words don't fucking mean anything

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the reason bigotry is bad isnt because it treats ANYTHING as a mere object, its bad because it objectifies PEOPLE. if you treat an inanimate object as an inanimate object, that is acttually what we would like to call "sensible"

angrily slapping a person who bumped into you on the street is harmful and rude. angrily slapping the top of a wardrobe you bumped into is fine. the reason why both of these can be true is because of an advanced logical principle called "different things are not the same"

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

I mean yeah the fact that liberal journalists seem literally to be trained to not see patterns of behavior, read between the lines, or have a theory of mind that allows a high-status individual to act in bad faith is... a problem, lol

if you think chatbots are alive or self aware then i think you would be easily fooled by a tunnel painted on a brick wall

The innocent Jewish man who died in the Manchester Synagogue attack on Yom Kippur was *SHOT BY POLICE* while they were trying to catch the perpetrator.

When Chris Smalls was rl being tortured by them a couple months ago it was crickets so try to be loud about everyone, not just Greta. Even in searching its hard to source all of WHO they have because it's just articles about Greta.

oh yuo say you "hate ai" ??? now replace "ai" with "women". not so funny, is it??

zero prevent surprised to read they are roundly abusing greta thunberg while she’s in detention but making her kiss the israeli flag is just sick. what sick people.

*That's* what makes it galling, because at that point it starts to read like transphobic freaks protecting and enabling one another. It starts to seem targeted.

A lot of people are being almost willfully dense about this, including Jay et al, but like... it's not purely about Jesse Singal, it's about Singal against the backdrop of incredibly ban-happy moderation. It's about how seemingly there's one rule for normal people and another for transphobic freaks.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

i genuinely recommend this — we are so lucky to have a thoughtful & engaged viewership, and we play these games with as much care as we can afford. i’ll probably talk about foucault at some point, jack will go off on a tangent about some arthouse horror, and we’ll really try to play the game too

in abt 15 minutes, jack and i will kick off our annual tradition: playing a horror game thru the month of october & engaging critically with what scares us, what we like about the genre, and what makes horror game classics tick. it is one of my favorite things & you should come twitch.tv/katbamkapow

it's against the terms of service to not be jesse singal's friend. it's against the terms of service to tell jesse singal no if he asks you for nudes. you might be hiding something. we all owe each other transparency, but we all especially owe jesse singal transparency

cracking up at how republicans just fully stopped talking about charlie kirk lol. dropped him like woody. they can't even keep up the pretense of outrage long enough to pretend to care for a whole month. zero attention span, brains like a kennel of angry dogs with a window to a busy street

Its crazy that a decent answer to “why is trans healthcare behind a multiple century waiting list specifically in Scotland“ is that JKR lives there

"deliver votes! for TUMRP! or we'll burn down your cities while blaming you for it" is i guess the deal but I don't know if that's registering with voters

feel like a big giveaway that this militarized ICE stuff is about punishing blue states more than anything is that (so far) nothing significant has happened in philadelphia

i think bluesky needs to decide what they're making. if they're making a protocol, like some of their developers say, they should shut down the social media app that's causing them so many problems. if they're making a social media app, they have to engage with it like adults.

It'll never be lost on me that a particular subset of the liberal commentariat in both North America and Western Europe were deeply infatuated with this woman up until the very moment she decided to talk about that one issue you're still basically not allowed to talk about lol.

Like this isn't a criticism of blacksky, really, but it's worth noting that the biggest alternative app view with its own labeler is still downstream of decisions made by bluesky moderation. What decentralization?

Also, re: 'composable moderation':

this is a state sponsored terrorist operation being laid out on an american and every one in ICE needs to be treated as if they are terrorists after trumps regime is over

Does anyone know of any legal or medical advocates in Michigan for homeless queer people? My friend is effectively getting kidnapped by a hospital and his partner is struggling to find out his rights and how to keep in touch while he's involuntarily committed in another city

🙋‍♀️ Paranatural UPDATE! Mr. Garcia fails to keep control of his class. www.paranatural.net/comic/chapte...

*jd vance crying in therapy voice* and then i saw a black woman on television

One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.

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like yalls religion is a big part of why we're in this shit. can you at least.... admit that?

really bums me out how little I see usamerican christians acknowledge that their religion is mostly run by evil fascist perverts

looking into the article, important part to it is this was initiated by italian unions, making it possible to organize such action at all. which reinforces for what and why such union restrictions exist in america. keeping labor down doesn't just generate wealth, it also suppresses other movements.

It's not JUST the companies. Everyone saying yes has to be run out of town

American intelligence officials have now confirmed to CBS News that Netanyahu ordered the drone attacks on the Sumud flotilla while it was docked in Tunisia, an attack launched from Israeli Navy submarines off the Tunisian coast.

So cool and normal that Europe still has normal relations with Israel www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.

Viva la Palestina