this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales is trying to use his name to convince Wikipedia editors to deny the Gaza Genocide, recognized by many human rights organizations. Although he's not seizing control, this is an extreme attempt to sway Wikipedia content in violation of its founding principles.

New awareness campaign

Not a lot of advantages are conferred by having had a nightmare childhood except for being 100% immune to nostalgia. Go back to the time of my youth? No thank you. I’d rather you kill me.

Quick question for Newsom voters: what are you gonna do when.i call him Gavin Gruesome? Nothing, you can’t do anything about it

it hurts so much to think about a time 5 years ago when we were all appropriately scared of covid, when it was common to hear sentiments like “we’re all in this together even if we can’t*be* together.” and now here we are. “fuck you, disabled people, whose ranks i surely will never join.” 🫂

looking forward to reading the 5,000 word Wired profile about me where they "reveal" that i secretly hold cryptocurrency and then spend 20% of it quoting that one bitcoiner who really hates me

if you engage in this sort of AI Anthropomorphism in the pages of a prominent media organization (or anywhere else) you are loudly advertising that you don't know how this technology actually works

Bernie: “If you don’t have borders, you don’t have a nation” Sickos: “Yes… ha ha ha… yes!”

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

“Guy with the Nazi tattoo” to the tune of the Mountain Goats’ “Cobra Tattoo”. That’s it, that’s all I’ve got

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong. Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

"purity tests" "circular firing squad" "the left eat their own" are such bullshit phrases. people disagree on politics! that's how it works. deal with it instead of whining about marginalized people correctly pointing out that certain "compromises" only strengthens fascism

Do not trust cops. Do not talk to cops. If a cop stops you ask if you're being detained and leave. Do not tell cops about your day. Do not interact with cops. They pretend to be nice as an evidence gathering tactic. Like they take classes on fooling you into trusting them.

Cops are fucking devious when it comes to PR. They know theyre wildly outnumbered and that if public opinion of them really fell, like "suburban mom and dads now hate cops" fell, they'd be torn apart. So they're gonna put on a good show. These people will beat you to death if told to

Don't fall for it. They know the tide is turning and are doing what they can to save their own asses. Cops are not your friends. Cops literally have no professional obligation to protect you from harm.

“Who’s a little baby kitty?” to the tune of “Solidarity Forever”

But again, it can’t be “you do you” if you doing you raises the risk for me to be dead.

When we say “everyone should mask” we don’t actually expect people will. We know how selfish people are. But we say it because: 1) it’s factually true 2) if even a few people listen to us that’s a few more lives saved and, as the Talmud says, every life is a universe.

Hey everybody look at this disgusting piece of trash human who wants disabled people to completely exit society and doesn’t understand how community care works. “Don’t expect the world to take care of you” is a depraved way to exist in society.

This is a lot of self-pity to say get your fucking shot, test before you go places, wear a mask. This may be "over" for you, but it isn't for everyone.

People who say "history will judge" should check out a twenty dollar bill sometime.

time to block all the fascists working for trump who have arrived here to try to Troll The Libs from these gov't accounts

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Every once in a while you can still find something good on Facebook

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

I deleted a skeet about Dolly Parton and union-busting because this article doesn't say what I remember it saying. However, it's still worth reading, and a reminder that you don't have to believe that anyone who makes art you enjoy is automatically beyond criticism. longreads.com/2018/10/16/l...

There's also a suspiciously high number of Caucasians saying we have to be nicer to the machines but not nicer to people. That's not an accident, either.

trump voters aren't people who have been left behind or hard done by. they're mostly the people who have done pretty well and are enraged that others might possibly have a chance to do pretty well too. 1

I don’t get what “pronounced exactly as it looks” means. As it looks to whom?

I've heard every "we have to hit them where it hurts" argument in the book, and none of them are beating the allegations that people just want to make fun of fat bodies.

You are telling every fat person in your life that they disgust you, that their bodies are comical or degenerate or useless. You are telling every fat person in your life you don't respect them.

Eight thousand iterations of this discourse later, there is no political utility in calling fascists fat. All you're doing is propping up the brutal hierarchy which lets people like them work up from deniable social torture to state violence.

feel like we can do better than “man these guys are real fatsos” when talking about agents of state violence idk

If you find yourself saying things about machines that you would never say about people, I have to assume that it’s because machines aren’t people

Yes, they'll use whatever they can. They'll also say a nonviolent protest was violent. They'll also beat you and arrest you and then say you hit them first (as police traditionally have at protests). I'm not saying some actions won't be used against people, I'm saying that narrative happens anyway.

This is part of why AI shit is inherently fascist.

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

I love atproto and its compostable moderation

this post has 7k likes now and nobody except me just now opting to push back against this wording, so just to reiterate: psychotic is a medical term that suggests scared, confused, cognitively struggling, experiencing delusions and hallucinations. not evil, dangerous, cruel, sadistic, or organized

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

Maybe if i was an ai, the bsky team would care about me

"Banana Runts are the best flavor." "Yeah? Replace banana Runts with 'White People' and flavor with 'race.' Gonna need you to take a good look in the mirror and figure out why you think that's ok."

Let’s compromise. We root out all bigotry against actual people and once that’s done, we can extend it to the toasters.

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

Never has anyone needed to log off more than

In the nicest way I could possibly state this; in the same way swatting mosquitos isn't a gateway drug for murder, being mean to computer code isn't a gateway drug for bigotry. The idea is patently ridiculous, and I hate that we're entertaining it.

💯 “Waffles” is quickly turning into the Bluesky team’s shorthand for “enjoy the camps”