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this is straightforward to reconcile imo - we dont have slurs for oil rigs or factory farms. i think treating LLMs as things to *de*humanize anthropomorphizes them too much already, which is tech marketing's desire - that's the thing the "friend" ads were looking for people to react with

sorry ill get off my soapbox soon but i have a genuine question. do people seriously think that we're ever going to be able to defeat fascism by adopting fascist's tactics against them. on a purely pragmatic level how is that not immediately understood as counterintuitive and petty

majority of the mcu. the ones i have seen were against my will

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I fear, for reasons I believe are precedented, that by giving in to hysteria around AI and framing our critiques through the language of bigotry, that we're playing directly into the hands of not just the tech fascists but all other corporate fascists, too. but there is still time to course correct

Maybe the computer likes to be degraded

i say all this knowing that it will fall on deaf ears. maybe in 20 years i'll be vindicated when the hysteria dies down and the public discourse catches up

the reality of the AI conversation is that people are (rightfully) scared about what it means in the hands of tech fascists to have this type of technology. but the technology is not going away. we are long past the point of no return, what matters now is what We choose to do about it

i'm going to foolishly weigh and say i actually think there's a real point to be made here bc 1. by making analogies to eugenics and inventing slurs you are, in fact, conceding to the idea that AI in its current form is a sentient subject by using language that is intended to dehumanize real people

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Trying to not weigh in on this ai discussion but it’s important to remember technology exists in a political economic context and what a tech “is” and whether it is a net positive or even useful to most people is largely contingent on that context

as someone who likes the people on my feed and finds the underlying technology interesting i do think it's possible to bridge the gap but it's difficult to generate tinkering-curiosity through hostility + opaqueness + the assumption of an apolitical stance (blacksky and northsky being

something to be said here about how the parasocial social media landscape wants people to act like robots and not be real people but im too lazy to type it up rn

there is no stronger dedication to life and living than the act of transitioning your sex

I would go as far as to say that you Can't truly get rid of the symbol. I think of those "anti-idpol" white man communists who are able to recognize the pitfalls of symbolic movements under capitalism but foolishly think they are above symbolism. The fact this is a "type of guy" is itself a symbol

this never became clearer to me than with the people who insist on a distinction between "lgbt" and "queer" spaces and how when i moved cities i noticed that the social roles in each of those spaces were essentially reversed in my new city from what i was used to in the old one lol

someone mentioned in the comments but should you need to read or post about news from the following outlets you can always find the article on archive.ph

[taps earpiece] i’m hearing that’s nyt, the atlantic, politico, axios, semafor, punchbowl, the economist, washington post, the guardian, times of london, daily mail…

There is short term discomfort that comes with forcing yourself to put on shoes to go and take a stupid walk. But that pain is far less than the pain that comes when your back can no longer support your body (I learned THAT the hard way during covid lockdown). /5

confident that if they could, cats would smoke cigarettes

being the only person on the bus feels like you’re in like a municipal chariot and being the only person on the subway feels like everyone else got raptured

if rubbing your eyes is bad why does it feel like being on beautiful drugs

anyway i too feel a lot of fear and dread but i plan on surviving to see the age that deserves me and you should too

sometimes u listen to a song u used to love and its beautiful and you get flooded with nostalgia for the time in your life you first heard it. and sometimes you listen to a song you used to love and youre like "why tf did i listen to this shit"

He is a healthcare professional. Can we help him?

An Orange Sulphur butterfly sips nectar from Purpletop Vervain. The pink edging to the wings against the bright yellow is so pretty.

between this frantic reassertion and the prevalence of the manosphere stuff and discouese over "women can do anything so i gotta be a person now??" im not really sure if the heterosexual male subject will make it out intact by the end of the 21st century at this rate

lana del rey wants to be me so bad (half new york jew and half kentucky trailer trash)

"the split between gen z and millenials is if you remember 9/11" no. the zillenial cusp is defined by whether or not you were in high school during the xandemic

dropping this essay once again along with these excerpts that i think are pertinent and then dipping out of this conversation: jude-doyle.ghost.io/this-is-how-...

TLDR; when you have kids being exposed to so much sexual content at a young age but not being taught how to have safe sex and they go on to have traumatic experiences because of it, of course theyre going to blame the sexual content, because nobody has ever modeled safe sex to them.

weighing in my hot take as a gen z who used to feel uncomfortable with sex scenes in movies (despite being all over livejournal and wattpad and ao3 and myr—[gets hit by a bus] in my teens):

guy who has too many projects that are all really cool but never finishes any of them

been reflecting a lot about the time ive spent away from twitter + how deeply the hyperreality of sites like twitter invade our reality, and have come to the ultimate conclusion that the way we talk about and conceptualize harm & abuse is kind of the final boss of alt right pipelines

Bro you can’t give up. You were born in a world that has onions AND garlic. You gotta hang in there it's worth it

both "do nothing to your body & embrace traditional naturalism" & "view the body as a data collection that must be optimized in service of technology and capital" tend to reactionary views. transsexualizing the body being considered a threat by both tells you something interesting tho

ill never forget when i ran into this girl who i hadnt seen in a while and we were catching up and talking about her (transmasc) ex who she knew i had some grievances with but at the end she finished it with "[person] is just mad bc they're balding" and i was like um ok.... so am i 🤣

just checked it out and this made me reassured bc my one big fear with hrt is losing my hair.... but like ive shaved my head multiple times before. i look good bald!!! it will be ok ♥️

it would be actually really cool if the rapture happened and we didn’t have to deal with young earth creationists anymore

this clip made me realize that "dude who watched succession and related deeply to kendall roy" is a real type of guy. harrowing

personally I care way more about this than jimmy kimmel but hopefully people who care about kimmel realize how it’s connected to mahmoud

I am barely holding it together :]

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other than the klippenstein article is there anything else that actually confirms the shooter's roommate was trans? everyone seems to be running with them being a trans woman but all i've seen is the indictment saying "biological male" and the klippenstein article that says "trans person"

I'm seeing a whole lot of people saying "I will not be intimidated into silence!" That's great! No one is asking you to be. People with experience in the ways one person's opsec failures can endanger the more vulnerable people around them are asking you to have some basic consideration for others.