If your understanding of yourself as a man is rooted in power and dominance over others, that's shitty masculinity, wherever you claim to be on the political spectrum. Shitty masculinity is antithetical to civic virtue and a functioning democratic society.

Intimate partner violence and sexual assault usually co-occur. In fact, men who hurt their significant others are among the most likely to commit *all* kinds of violence. The idea that men can mistreat women in private and be trusted in public is absurd.

I'm going to disagree with Anil here. Specifically, this ignores the when and the where of Thiel's training in philosophy, much less the how of his training. It also ignores Thiel's personality as significant to how philosophy shapes what the student brings to the discipline. More below.

Part of the appeal of transphobia and especially transmisogyny is that the practice of it (as opposed to the theory) is abuse. Screaming at the vermin. Expelling the vermin from spaces. Laughing as the vermin are crushed underfoot. These are not impulses that can easily be turned to prosocial ends.

They “can’t explain” it because that would involve explaining how an LLM works and that would lay bare the reasons why their products are not fit for the tasks they are marketing them for.

And I really have to wonder what people think "centrist Dem" even is. Let's pick an issue like trans rights. The GOP's policy is monstrous & criminalizing. The left position is trans rights are human rights. What do you think the "center" view is for that? There isn't one!

I was in two intensive week-long workshops this year with neuroscientists, philosophers and computer scientists and not *one* thought LLMs are conscious, or that anything is ‘mysterious’ in a model trained on scifi and Internet chat doing woo-woo musing about self-consciousness. And do you know why?

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13-year-old: it’s like that guy who painted the four faces in different colors me and Cat: Andy Warhol 13-year-old, confused as hell: Andy Warthog?????????!

State governments absolutely overrepresent rural voters in both “blue” and “red” states.

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

I periodically get put on lists here called things like "alt text scolds," which is kind of like being put on a list called "people who insist that buildings have ramps for wheelchair users" or "jerks who won't just be quiet and let me enjoy disrespecting people with disabilities in peace"

Despite the fact that people want to declare July a month for everything else it's ACTUALLY disability pride month. Happy disability pride to my fellow disabled folks.

I don’t care who this offends- if you use AI to make your progressive memes, you’re not a progressive.

psa for cis folks: every single "legitimate concern" about trans people (bathrooms, sports, blockers, etc) is a made up astroturf by the far right. if you buy into any of it, you are an utter chump and a useful idiot for racist pedophiles

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My god, they aren't targeting trans people just to get at other people. They are targeting trans people to target trans people. And they are targeting other people. We don't just exist as a warning for the rest of you, fuck me.

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I am stunned that the constitutional question was so close. I thought it would be 6–3 or 7–2. It is profoundly disturbing that four justices would allow either the president or Congress to rewrite the plain text of the 14th Amendment. This is obviously a good outcome, but the margin is alarming.

Noting here that the mod team now apparently considers alt-right, racist, & Nazi to be slurs. Noting here they are also NOT protected classes according to ny government on the planet, and should not be considered so. Being a bigot is not an immutable feature of existence, it’s a (shameful) opinion.

THERE IS NOT ACTUALLY A WAY TO MAKE A WOKE HAYS CODE AND YOU NEED TO STOP ACTING LIKE THERE IS

The thing about social media age restrictions is that it treats today’s internet as an inevitability we all just have to deal with. The internet (and the WORLD) wasn’t like this until like four dudes were allowed to own & monetize as much tech real estate as they wanted. Fix THAT problem.

I think there's a microgenerational gap between older Millennials/young Gen-X and younger Millennials/Gen-Z on this - being old enough to understand the Matthew Shepard attack, not knowing any out gay adults, not having many queer kids at school - and worse if you grew up in an exurb/rural vs urban.

I do find it a bit upsetting how the world became a noticeably kinder place in many ways as we grew up and that seems to have made some people furious

The center point between a normal person and MAGA is NOT CENTER. It's a harcore republican. Normalizing the central point as the party that's bludgeoning me and my family with a Bible and treating immigrants like trash is not okay. It just isn't.

I know the list is endless but I genuinely think trashing the legitimate congressionally chartered org for celebrating the 250th to instead hijack our national assets and taxpayer funds for his personality cult grifter crap should, in and of itself, be fully sufficient to merit removal from office.

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truth is, you simply can't identify LLM "writing" by any pattern, because any format that was statistically common enough for an LLM to pick up on is, by definition, something commonly used by real writers the only surefire way to identify LLM writing is by what it doesn't have: thought behind it

the owner of my bar just showed me this “report” he wrote for sunday school when he was a kid. i am fucking crying

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Those alt gov accounts that arose after 2016 are grifters. One of the top posts yesterday was @altnoaa.bsky.social posting an AI image of a beluga whale "escaping captivity to reunite with her baby." In response to being told it was AI, the poster said AI is good, actually, for evoking emotions.

Okay. Ai can go bankrupt then. This is not our problem, this sounds like a rich tech billionaire problem.

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Especially because the barrier to entry in visual art is 1 pencil, paper, and practice. If you don’t have time and interest to practice, you don’t want art, you want praise for something YOU DID NOT DO. Anyone honest with themselves recoils from that. Wanting sycophancy is sick.

Do not speak to me of "barriers to entry". Every act of creation is slicing out a thin sliver of light from the existential darkness of the human condition. You not being able to pick up a fucking pencil and risk failing does not even register.

NO. This is just a set up to make taxpayers bail out this shitty industry when the bubble pops. Also a way to help kill the copyright lawsuits against these terrible companies. Hell no. Make them pay and let them die.

Research has shown that dogs are more intelligent than we think. But not all of them.

Also every single one of you saying "i don't care that it was cancelled because I didn't like season 1" needs to go back and rewatch s1 of any random long-lasting and beloved show from the 80s, 90s, or 2000s thru mid-twenty-teens. Like… seriously, what has happened to y'all's memories?

You gotta care about trans people living, folks. I know you think we're weird and icky and gross and do we *really* need all those very rare and expensive *hormones*, but you gotta care for just a second. It's caring about trans people for 1 second, or unending, horrifying fascism. Your pick.

you do have to wonder whether perhaps the outsized reaction cis guys like this have to transmasc folks is the fear of what happens if a framework of masculinity that isn’t centered on violence, dominance or patriarchy ever took root more broadly. they would have no way to define themselves as people

i hate these things so much

in software systems, it is much easier to build something complex than to build something simple. you don’t need React to give someone a `mailto` link!

The fact that Elon Musk is now one of history’s greatest mass-murderers, due to his total destruction of USAID, is still far too little-known. It’s on all of us to shout this from the rooftops. Never shut up about Elon Musk’s genocidal crimes.

accessibility is good and important but also… the internet is better when it is simple. your website doesn’t need 95% of what it has. you just need the thing people are looking for, and you need to give it to them fast.

“Nobody wants to work anymore” is capitalism speak for “it's getting harder to exploit the poor.”

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