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The Kansas legislature has overridden the veto and passed a bathroom ban with a bounty provision. This bill also directs the Kansas DMV to revoke the driver's licenses of trans people, the first state to pass such a law. www.ksnt.com/capitol-bure...

and in some ways that feels like the ultimate goal of capitalism anyway. To make today's rich people the richest, and the last, humans to exist. To win the game, to kill the whole world and be king of a graveyard. They've forgotten what it is to be people in a community.

I do fundamentally believe that art is important and not because it was made for entertainment but because it was made for humans by humans for human reasons, and that even if machines COULD produce a simulacra of art, it shouldn't. Because that is for our pleasure, to create as well as consume.

ow you might say, well so it goes, twas ever thus. No it doesn't go. No it wasn't ever thus. This is an assumptive lie you have been told by history written by patriarchal, white supremacist winners. It never had to be that way.

every time i start playing around with mill engines i just end up back at dredge and thats why it’ll never be reprinted supposedly there are other lines of text on this card besides “Dredge 6”

capitalists don't innovate, they steal. the internet runs on open source software devs built for free. insulin and MRI tech was meant to be freely available for people almost every major invention was created to serve humanity, then bought up and sold back to us at a markup. commodification babyyyy

Capitalists dont get excited about technology they are excited about the profits that technology brings. The main group of people that are truly excited about the advancement technology can bring human well being and its capacity to remove or reduce certain difficult tasks are socialists

americans will be like “everything is a sequel or remake” and then defund school arts programs

I honestly always need this reminder that accommodations are ok and I deserve them and anyone who calls me weird for it is a fucking cop

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” Yeah it’s called cybersyn Google it

i cried by the end of the first chorus so as a rule i must share please enjoy your dose of trans joy and self love <3

Yeah education is kinda in crisis

You know, AI is kind of the ultimate calcification of tradition. Thinking is too hard, developing your own perspective and consciousness is not something that's really tested for or graded, so aggregate all the existing writing on a topic and tweak it a bit. Regurgitate, recycle, retrench, reify.

Yeah, important to note: LLMs produce the most statistically likely result, so even leaving aside stuff like "The public are wrong about almost everything" which makes the statistically likely result to most questions wrong, even if it got the 'correct' answer it will still never innovate.

You cannot simultaneously hold "Abolish ICE" as a political stance & browbeat people to dedicate their support for blue ghouls like Gavin Newsom who, in conversation with *Ben Shapiro* of all people, said that he doesn't want to abolish ICE.

'Fix your hearts or die' doesn't just mean protect trans folks. It also means that if you let white people continue to harm Black and brown folks, you are going to die with them. It means you are going to kill your community. It means start loving other people or fucking die.

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

a fucking pedophile sexually abused nearly every prospective and actual Olympian gymnast for over two decades, and the political discourse is hyper-fixated on the hypothetical unfairness of trans girls competing with cis girls

I had to

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

I don't believe I've ever seen Ted Levine speak so candidly about his regrets of portraying Buffalo Bill in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. He and some of the crew on the film were asked about the film's cultural transphobia by The Hollywood Reporter. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

“How was your time off, do you feel better?” Miserable, exhausting, when I wasn’t in recovery I was fighting medical systems to cover my bills and dealing with daily life. No, I do not feel better, a little worse if I’m honest.

a) public opinion has shifted on this stuff before and it can shift back b) even if polling is shifting against trans folks evidence is pretty convincing that going all in on anti-trans rhetoric is not winning elections for the GOP c) who cares what polling says trans rights are human rights

There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.

I made the claim that the FBI declared the Black Panthers dangerous, not because they were Black nationalists or supremacists. They weren't. They were dangerous because they preached racial *solidarity*. But don't take my word for it! Listen to Fred Hampton's own words. Turn on closed captions.

A larger political base is mobilized by focusing on SAVEs impact on all women, but I recognized how this is absolutely targeted at queer folks and immigrants Selective enforcement of bad laws is almost always the tactic

You have to think about who else routinely changes their names - trans people, queer couples, and immigrants. The impetus becomes clearer.

There is not law, there is no law, they are not subject to law and the law does not protect you. They say "Republicans are not bound by the law, they are protected and vice versa" but NO, it is CAPITAL. The police protect CAPITAL. You leaders serve capital. The law binds you, serves? Capital.

Fundamentally the problem is financialization and consolidation. (e.g. technofeudalism) when there's no choice, nothing has to be good. If you're designing for the investors, not the users, there's no need to really understand the lived experience of the users, or having a learning organization.

i need to play more premodern so bad this is the time I started playing mtg when I was little. the era of all my friends at lunch tables getting games in between bites, absolutely playing our cards wrong, and combat damage on the stack

I think people usually call this going back to normal, you know, when they kill and kidnap nonwhite people and no one writes pop songs about it.

Every time you speak up - and every time you don't - there are people watching and learning about you and the world you help create.

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹) RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

everyday i become a little more of a radical feminist

And you see this manifest, endlessly, in the way centrists and those to their right (and even many liberals) talk down to and condescend to anyone they perceive as being a leftist or having leftist views. It’s the exact language & style our culture teaches us to shut down and stifle mouthy women.

One of the things language like this does is conveys the way that leftism is seen as feminized in america. Leftists are called “hysterical,” told we “throw tantrums,” and “are shrill and unreasonable.” This is the language of cultural misogyny, used to denigrate and silence women.

We’ve all trained ourselves to see car infrastructure as “normal” — and therefore its costs as invisible. Roads aren’t expensive, they’re just there. Parking spaces aren’t subsidies, they’re just “necessary”. But a bus that runs on demand? That’s “spending taxpayer money”.

It's also worth remembering that this narrative is Nazi in a way that actually pre-dates the Holocaust. Hitler rose to power telling a story of a Germany shackled by guilt and shame (and of course the material concessions fallout) from WWI

It was hard to conclude anything other than that DHS’s basic remit was to guard its authority and make sure it never waned.

Lots of us used a pronoun labeler on here that has gone away, but there's a new pronoun labeler people are using. Labelers can be confusing if you haven't used them before (& even if you have). They can be used in different ways. This thread shows you how to use the pronoun labeler. 🧵

Yall, I am not a warehouse architect. I understand the warehouses are shitty as is and no one should be in them. But if billions weren’t being poured into DHS the point is that it could be poured into making unused real estate better right? Into helping people? We can all imagine this reality, yes?

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

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I like how libs like actively screech at anyone who points this out, and then these ghouls are just loudly and proudly taking credit for building up and funding the fascist apparatus.

I feel like I post this all the time but bear in mind that 1/3rd of employers admitted that they would break the law not to hire us. www.crosslandsolicitors.com/site/hr-hub/...