The funny thing is that arguments made against LGBTQ people is "we were fine with it until you shoved it in our face," which is a thing LGBTQ people never did, and broadly the public do not hate LGBTQ people. They really are trying to shove AI in our face, and everyone really does hate it.

This is tech/marketing people leveraging decades of science fiction media presenting "AI" as generally encyclopedic and infallible. People think they're getting JARVIS, when what they're getting is the machine version of that annoying dude in your dorm confidently spouting bullshit on every subject

American Protestantism is a dead-eyed, grinning husk with nothing animating it but hysterical fear of death and a sadistic desire to inflict punishment.

“there’s no real difference between an acetaminophen scaremonger like RFK Jr. and an anti-trans obsessive like J.K. Rowling. Neither are doctors, both have been poisoned by a steady stream of online propaganda and disinformation” When science is thrown out the window, everyone suffers.

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

Yep, this is exactly what I'd have expected. Great article from Ken.

one thing that is true for everyone reading this: unless something changes dramatically the number of people who agree with you on what basic facts constitute "reality" will shrink every year for the rest of your life

From D. L. Mayfield:

a lot of people in korps writing spaces write their cop antagonists as loudmouth bigot fuckfaces and not infrequently, some stop for a second going, "am i making these people too despicable??" no. no you are not. in fact we've all been kinda lowballing it

Believe trans people when we tell you the 'science' behind the Cass Report is as solid as the 'science' behind paracetamol causing autism.

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The reaction Disney fans are having makes think maybe the Harry Potter fans are just bigots who don’t care after all.

*taps sign*

It is so damn obvious the trans sports issue is a drummed up nonsense moral panic masquerading as “common sense” - but if you look deeper for two seconds you see how the whole point of sex segregated sports is to defund women athletics & to build and propagandize the western idea of women as weak.

...dear Dem politicians & pundits, 1) the sports debate was never a serious issue, it was merely a wedge to launder in anti-trans policies (see: juliaserano.medium.com/trans-people...), 2) they are now going after trans ppl's *rights to exist* – that's where the battle is now! take a side in that!

"...we have to take into account biological factors such as muscle mass..." MUSCLE MASS CHANGES WITH HORMONE THERAPY! Please learn something, anything, just the most basic things about trans people before weighing in on these "concerns" or you just end up looking like an easily duped fool at best.

Being nice to trans people really did turn out to be a load bearing part of liberal democracy ey

This is entirely true on so many levels I don't think I could possibly detail it exhaustively, but you really can't oppose trans people's human rights and still have freedom of expression and bodily autonomy, the idea that people are entitled to self determination goes right out the window....

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After the 10 Sept. Charlie Kirk shooting, ISD & CIS (Center for Internet Security) analysts found a spike in Russian-linked posts online. ABC News reports these used fake quotes, news and images to stir anger among a wide range of US audiences. Read it below. www.isdglobal.org/isd-in-the-n...

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right winger getting cancelled vs. trans person getting cancelled

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

Thus to all tyrants

Hell yeah Tim Russ! Standing for Treks values ❤️❤️ makes me even more excited to hear him in the next Star Trek Khan episode.

It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Hey if you hate censorship and want to do more than just doompost online, you can actually do something: Being annoying! Hoards of people have been blowing up the phones of payment processing companies to pressure them not to bend to the whims of puritan groups. stop-paypros.neocities.org

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The ACLU has a petition up for this that still needs signatures: action.aclu.org/petition/mas...

Wir sehen gerade im Kontext von Kriegen und Konflikten eine immense Flut an Propaganda und Desinformation. Seid vorsichtig, was ihr teilt. Falschinformationen können gefährliche Konsequenzen haben. Ein paar Hinweise für den eigenen Social Media-Gebrauch 👇

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the average cis person would have to be admitted into a psych ward if they suddenly had to manage the regular stress of day-to-day that we all face with the added pressure of being a tranny and having the Entire World focus on trying to kill you almost every day

The reason I want more people to make games is because it's a very fun game to play. In the same way I recommend cool games, I want to recommend cool rules to play. Rules are very fun toys! TTRPGs in particular bring that front and center. It's fun to play with rules and it's fun to play together!

Du wohnst seit Jahrzehnten in deiner Wohnung. Sie ist barrierefrei. Dein soziales Umfeld ist vor Ort. Und dann kommt Post vom Amt: „Zu teuer. Ziehen Sie um.“ Immer mehr Menschen berichten uns genau das.

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Warhammer Is for Everyone — Why I Won’t Participate in the Warhammer World Championships At a recent Age of Sigmar tournament, I had the incredible honour of winning a Golden Ticket to the Warhammer World Championships — the closest thing our community has to the Olympics. 1/5

Only way to do it if you love your kid.

in a recent interview George Lucas explained he had Yoda speak in such an odd way so that the audience, mostly kids and young people he assumed, would pay attention, which shows that George Lucas does understand how to communicate to kids and just cared more about having trade disputes in his movie

How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?

i think this undersells George a bit because his actual thought process was more, "Obviously the Vietcong are the good guys how do i depict in space the discrepancy of force available to heroic insurgents versus an industrialized power?" the death star is the U.S. Air Force

If I had access to the kind of money the likes of Musk and Rowling had, I'd build a suspended monorail and houses and third spaces and do so much instead of being a bigot, why rail against people's human rights when you can rail? www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXtA...

Gonna be honest, pretty fucking exhausted by constantly having to protest for my right to be legally recognised as existing. Cis allies, please get out and protest. Your voice and opinions given more weight than ours. And I'd like to just be able to have a nice weekend relaxing lol

When Clive Barker was working on the MUMMY remake for Universal in the early '90s, he had a trans character in the script, and when the studio vetoed it, he basically said "I really can't stress how much I don't need to fucking make THE MUMMY" and left.