I have fully gamified my social media use. Scrolling the discourse of the day, putting annoying people on my little mute lists like I am doing my MMO dailies

All right people, we have "cis is a slur" for the USian discourse, pack it up everyone

my friends and I are discussing names for Americans - the origin of USian, people's disagreements as to which to use, and one mentioned that yankee mostly refers to the north east and I said: "Yeah, well, if the south didn't want to be called yankees, they should have won the damn war."

I missed yanks being upset by being called USian. What do they prefer, seppo?

The UN General Assembly resolution against torture was rejected by only three countries: the US, Israel, and Argentina, who remind the world that they oppose even the most basic principles of humanity.

Døve samer har blitt sviktet i generasjoner. Nå fratas Tonje Utsi arven, og senest tirsdag må hun slakte reinflokken sin.

Finally getting around to watching Cowboy Bebop 23 years after Firefly: Ah. I see

just guys being dudes

Inviting authors crying about ebook piracy to come to my house and stop me

Walking back into a party I stole all the drinks and snacks from: is this place open minded about innovation yet?

Inviting authors crying about ebook piracy to come to my house and stop me

One thing you quickly learn about conspiracy theories is that a whole lot of them are just someone accidentally figuring out what capitalism is but being a little too racist or something to take the next logical step

I need drafts

Finally getting around to watching Cowboy Bebop 23 years after Firefly: Ah. I see

I was disabled and now I'm on disability for the rest of my life

if you're trans, to a bigot you're in a superposition of (1) man (2) woman (3) failed man (4) failed woman, and your identity will resolve differently from sentence to sentence depending on what is most discrediting to you

A guy living in a commune with his buds in Lindisfarne in 793: if not friend why friend shaped?

Look at the Trumpers, particularly the Nazis amongst them. They correctly understand they are besieged by fancy-gendered commie traitors who think racism is bad and common decency is good. They are very well aware they’ve got this window to destroy as much as they can, and then they are finished.

I’m usually giving counsel of despair so let me offer a hopeful note now: all this is the desperate thrashing of a dying generation, horrified to see up close the consequences of raising their children to believe violence and racism are wrong, and that people should treat each other decently.

Why are these uppity students demanding we move the statue of the slaver, why are people willing to vote against brutal austerity, why are the transgenders *at all*, on and on, and the only explanation is: Demons have infected the public via their mobile phones.

Why are all these rich and important men being accused of committing sexual crimes? It can’t be because rich, important men have always exploited their impunity to force themselves on employees, and social media makes it possible for victims to be heard. It must be Woke Indoctrination, or whatever.

Why is there all this mobile phone and bodycam footage of policemen murdering citizens all of a sudden? It can’t be that video is now ubiquitous and the cops were always violent and racist as a matter of course, it must be that malignant troublemakers are trying to start a race revolution.

just guys being dudes

“But through the power of generative AI, you can put your friends IN frame, laughing too.”

At least the 2008 crash was about a bet that housing would never decline. The next one will be about betting that six companies who sell each other magic beans would never decline

I think people wildly overestimate how much doctors know what they're talking about and want to help you, and will make sure you get care. I feel like medical shows do the same thing to people's belief about doctors helping that cop shows do. I'm so tired of all of it.

Holy shit

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Very cruel of graphic designers to all agree on this being the symbol for AI chat. The humble four sided star deserves better than to be associated with this trash for the rest of my life

Me, unfortunately

Let's talk about writing your villains as tech bros and why I think this is a bad thing www.patreon.com/posts/face-o...

I dare not dream this will reach the levels of the WoT tv show, but now that Wheel seems truly dead I am ready to feel some new emotions about another mediocre genre thing from decades ago

KALDT!

Det er bra at dette er ei offentleg sak no, men kjennes samstundes litt som at dei tok Al Capone på skatteunndraging. Ein viktig del av konteksten rundt dei etiske overtrampa er nettopp at dette spesifikke forskningsmiljøet er i konstant ideologisk opposisjon til si eiga pasientgruppe.

Vi har funnet enda en internasjonalt publisert forskningsartikkel der OUS har brukt data fra tusenvis av transpersoners pasientjournaler uten samtykke eller etisk godkjenning. Tidsskriftet Acta Paediatrica har publisert bekymringene våre i dag. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language. It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.

The adults from our childhood spent decades teaching us empathy, conscience, and a sense of morality, then went “No not like that” when we spike out against against the dehumanization and slaughter of a group they wanted dead

Demi overheard a British woman in Japan. From bigsofttitty.png ep 352 - I crave release

The internet is fucking dying. I'm so depressed

Når norsk transmedisin, altså Riksen (i en nesten total monopolsituasjon), bemannes av transfober, blir det slik. De folkene ønsker ikke å behandle oss, de ønsker konverteringsterapi. Tilstanden i dette forskningsprosjektet er som om abortmotstandere skulle forske på norsk abortlovgivning.

GDI Anno

Me, asleep on a plane, being woken up by the attendant asking if I want a bag of nuts

Sitting on my hands here to not go full reddit atheist