THIS. Do I worry about the effects of social media on my 11-year-old? Obviously yes. Do I think she should be banned from it any more than young men falling into the manosphere on Reddit, middle-aged ladies being dragged into transphobia on Mumsnet, or pensioners radicalised by Facebook? 100% no.

Generally speaking: Intentions guide expectations, which then determine whether there is wasted time. More specifically: When someone continually behaves out of alignment with their stated intention, they fail to meet the other person's developed expectations, thereby wasting that person's time.

"If this were happening to any other community" is a way of cutting off coalition between minority groups negatively affected by human rights decay. In effect if not intent, it functions to collude in that very decay by foreclosing on the potential for anything other than isolationist affirmation.

Also: It’s just not true. The same anti trans activists and groups are also spreading Islamophobia, racism, misogyny, running anti abortion campaigns and the rest. This universal targeting of “othered” groups is the point. Thats how fascism works!

I do sometimes worry that all the worried headscratching about youth unemployment might be missing the point. Everyone is always talking about how it relates to the education or welfare systems, no one wants to say "well the economy just produces far fewer entry level jobs than it once did"

evergreen

the collective noun for homophones is a heard

Hereby drawing attention to the decency, integrity, and dignity of Andy Kim

Fyi the cupcake character is one created by Loryn Brantz, who has this to say about Buzzfeed using it without her permission.

Crumbl cookies all taste the same: like pure fat & sugar. They supposedly have “flavors” but you can’t actually taste anything around the sugar overload.

To me this is by far the top explanation for Gen Z nihilism. If you don't brand and commodify every aspect of your life, you're falling behind. If you're not getting one over on the next guy in crypto or prediction markets, you're a sucker. Beyond Marx's alienation of labor--alienation of personhood

we're in the psyop phase of the total failure of ai to do not only what it has promised, but anything useful at all. there are no further developments. the technology cannot advance further. all that's left is sales.

Topical.

Holy carp y'all I found another pirate shirt! This one is a size large. Help me get it into the hands of someone who needs/wants it 🍊🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈 #ofmd

look. is everything more expensive now? yes. but you have to look on the bright side too. now every time you open a computer, it doesn't work

at one point their chests are pressed firmly together and someone pulls away and it makes a really loud fart noise which derails the sex entirely and then they’re just pissing themselves laughing as they try to deliberately make that noise happen again

When people ask for shipping supplies recommendations I do not hesitate to link refuseuline.com Quite literally I just reference this, there are so many options that are better and not evil.

I agree that's a truly great tweet, so I'm reposting with ALT text:

In the fantasy world of total automation, owners of AI can make the world go around without *any* of us, which means that we will exist solely at their sufferance, and will therefore have to act like the NPCs they half-believe we are already, organizing everything we do around their priorities. 44/

All this "well if we can't do it all at once it isn't worth trying" is loser shit and God, I wish the GOP had felt that way about overturning Roe but they didn't and here we are.

Yes, stop circumcising babies (but no, circumcision doesn’t cause autism) but also will someone check these weirdos’ hard drives already? They’re way too obsessed with children’s genitals.

It's amazing how people who have no interest in funding their states and communities nonetheless cannot quit preferring the amenities of better-funded states/ communities. I think we've found the burdensome freeloaders who feel entitled to take without contributing.

it turns out that rich people do not, in fact, actually mean it when they claim that if you tax them, they’ll totally ditch their nice blue state properties and move to darkest Chumblefuck, Arkansas

CF: Marketing. Communicating and messaging are EXTREMELY important in politics and you ignore that at your peril.

Also, Age Verification Laws that people were convinced would “pRoTecT ChilDreN fRoM PoRN” are going to make it to where you can’t access knowledge online without submitting to biometrics & uploading your ID to surveil you. But you know, “listen to sex workers.” 🥱

its fucked up how you can love someone so much that you will never be able to properly express in its entirety and then you just have to accept that and trust that they kinda get it even if you dont have the words

A lot of attention is paid to craft traditions in Western Europe and North America, such as handsewn Hermes leather goods and bespoke Savile Row suits. But the uneven focus leads some to believe that things made outside of these places are low quality. This is not true. 🧵

Eternally relevant:

your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.

The capitalist endgame is serfdom: People born unfree by default, we don't buy products from businesses, we pay them rent for the privileges to exist in this world and work for them. AI boys say they dream of a world where we pay rent for thinking.

Agreed! The *effects* of framing physicality as "inconvenient," as a problem to be solved, usually by somebody with deep pockets eager for deeper profits, are more often than not the causes of far more inconvenience.

censored words in screencaps bug me sorry lol

I have not fully worked out my rhetoric about this, but I am experiencing a pretty profound disgust toward the concepts of "increasingly productivity" or "growing efficiency".

Tax the billionaires and nationalize their shit if they try to run 😊 youtube.com/shorts/1f5iM...

you have been meowed

The people who mock the idea of "six genders" aren't prepared for my take. How many genders are there? I think there's as many genders as there are people. Gender is a spectrum. No two women are the same. No two men are the same. Etc. There's shades of gender, like color.

the JAW Hutt thing is a great reminder that Actor and Voice Actor are different skills and we lost a lot when Disney made it just we got famous actors to voice things

as always i am sympathetic to the fact that male loneliness is a real problem but the solution to male loneliness is robust afterschool and other social programs and shit like accessibility to public parks and the lonely men take industry opposes these things so i don't know what i'm supposed to do

If they want to repeal transfer taxes for new construction in order to stimulate the economy, there's an argument. Repealing transfer taxes for huge landowners to sell portfolios back & forth to each other doesn't seem like it's stimulating any other economic activity to benefit the rest of us.

Remember this... Eire has had gender recognition based on self-ID for over 10 years with no reports of abuse or hatred. The gender critical movement in Eire is minuscule. This is a British problem. A very sick, twisted, British cult problem. It is a disturbing European outlier . This is not normal.

Everybody be quiet and look at this baby toucan.

I made some palettes of the bird robe fabric if anyone wants to use them! I included the hexadecimal codes too, hopefully that’ll make it easier to plug into drawing or stitch programs! I’ll comment with the plain text of the hexadecimal codes so you can just copy them too!

I made this meme some years ago and it just popped up in my phone photo memories and… welp.

Boromir: and why do we not EMBRACE the ring's power?? Aragorn: and what would you have us do with it? Boromir: a lot of editing advice, and also a way to take care of busy work, you know, memos about orcs et cetera Aragorn: Boromir: and difficult break-ups, if you know what I mean

I’m a Professional Fact-Checker. AI Is Wrong More Often Than You Think www.wired.com/story/fact-c...

AC uses less energy than heating, and yet we don’t see people sniffing at the idea of heat in winter. But it’s a lot easier to die of heatstroke than hypothermia.

9 months old and still so true. “ If you’re pushing slop or eating it, you wouldn’t read it anyway. You’d ask a bot for a summary and forget what it told you, then proceed with your day, unchanged by words you did not read and ideas you did not consider.”

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

i cant believe tom steyer is the first dem politician (that ive seen) to proudly and forcefully make this correct and obvious counter argument to the bigotry but im glad he did

Basically, AI companies are hoping to get us all hooked on their products before the bills come due so they can jack up token prices. Pesky people asking questions and pointing out stuff that doesn't work are ruining the whole plan and it's very rude of them.