Fun fact, US passports did not have a gender marker until 1977, when a rising trend in unisex fashion started freaking the government out.

every day i lament the fact that we are not hitting back at the fascists with all the strength they come after us with. and then more.

I don't give a shit if you think porn is yucky, or if transness confuses you, or if seeing/hearing a foreigner makes you uneasy, GET THE FUCK OVER IT. If you lst the government take rights from those people, ANY PEOPLE, then NOBODY has rights. They'll find a way to criminalize you too, promise.

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

What’s really striking in Saruman’s speech to Gandalf is how broadly (and unusually for Tolkien) relevant it is. Take out the one specific reference to the Elves and Númenor and it is just an absolute classic rationale for collaborating with evil in the confidence you can ultimately direct it.

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One cool thing about unequivocally hating AI is that you will be proven right over and over again every single day

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I just want to live in a country where the leader can’t enrich themselves with our tax dollars, the government does what the people want, and the wealthy have to follow the laws. You know, like a democracy.

“Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.” - Terry Pratchett

I believe in you, little guy

So wait, how many humans could we be feeding instead of powering ai? Let’s do that instead.

Unemployment obviously has its disadvantages, but I am increasingly glad I stopped working at an airport Before this administration started.

"Unalive" "grape" "seggs" This has got to stop. Do people hear themselves? Its like talking to a particularly sensitive toddler. We can't remove serious words from our language just because we're afraid some fickle algorithm will show our posts to less people

He’s already played Frankenstein’s Monster and Heathcliff, let’s give Jacob Elordi the Byronic antihero hat trick and cast him in an Elric of Melniboné show.

I was allergic to strawberry as a kid, but grew out of it, so strawberry retains this kind of exotic flavor to me. But when it comes to ice cream or a milkshake, I like that fluorescent pink shit. ‘Good’ strawberry ice cream is just vanilla with chunks of fruit you can’t taste through the frost.

This lawsuit seems appalling to me, honestly. I feel for people whose student experience was lousy due to Covid but that's not the fault of universities. "I wanted in-person study." I'm sure you did. Nobody gets what they want in a global pandemic

Why isn’t the right excited about technology?

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“In a criminal trial, I would feel morally obligated to convict, however, in a civil trial I could set those views aside,” adding, “I believe it would be to the benefit of the human race for Mr. Musk to be sent to prison.” www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

"If you seized all Elon's wealth it'd only be like $2,000 per American." Do you know what a $2,000 'Fuck Elon' stimulus check would do for people and the country economically, emotionally and morally?

I will only marry a woman who is: -Changing her name from Kitty to Karen -Trading her MG for a white Chrysler Lebanon -Using a machete to cut through red tape -Wearing a long jacket -Wearing a short skirt -Has eyes that burn like cigarettes -Knows what’s best

The Monday Period: Pages 1-4 #garfield #imsorryjon

I’ve also been comparing AI to asbestos and radium—technology that had a bunch of benefits but then turned out to be deadly. The only difference is we already KNOW AI is killing people and they’re shoving it into everything anyway

Every billionaire in the Epstein files could drop dead tomorrow and the world would not only be fine, it would actually improve. The quality of our media would improve. Our environment. Our food. Our health care. Our technology.

monarchists facing consequences for their crimes against humanity is always a nice way to brighten one’s day.

Is this Seekers' Arc coming to an end? Fing out tonight on #CriticalRole! #CriticalRoleSpoilers

every high profile anti trans critic has an origin story that goes "years ago someone asked me to respect trans people and instead I chose to go insane"

i believe that we CAN send people like Elon Musk on a national tour in which they will be driven through the streets nude, weeping, and in chains. i believe in us!

We should view "even the British monarchy are better at holding their elites to account for their crimes than the US is right now" not as proof that we're doomed - but as an inspiring challenge to do an even BETTER job of purging our loathsome murdering-rapist tech CEO and MAGA class.

Attempt to give blood: successful this time! I have done a good today and also will soon spread the malfeasance of my essence to others!

I'm always so confused when someone dismissively describes a series as "monster of the week" as if that's not one of best storytelling formats ever. You get a new MONSTER. Every WEEK!

If i ever see the suffix “-maxxing” in anything you say directly to me, know that i will never ever pay attention to any words you say AND I will also do my best to light you on fire with my mind

genAI is dying repost to make it die faster

The fact that so many billionaire Californians are each dedicating tens of millions of dollars to fighting a proposed wealth tax — rather than using those funds to pay the tax — demonstrates just how much play money they have and evidences the extent of their delusional entitlement

"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls

I'm always saying this

My dudes. My billionaire pals. The wealth tax is for YOUR well-being, not ours.

Rain was so heavy it woke me up a few minutes ago. Like I felt the need to check my door and window for flooding, bad.

Billionaires are money hoarders. No one can spend $1 billion, let alone $100bn, on things they & their families need, or even really want. If they gave away 99% of their loot, this lot would still be absurdly, obscenely rich. Their wealth is socially useless, kept out of circulation for status alone

AI guys insisting on the inevitability of the tech are so irritating. every comparison they make is to something whose utility was immediately apparent. "it does things faster and we can fix its mistakes later and that'll be the job now" does not compare to "metronome that doesn't need winding"

So-called "prison abolitionists" when the titan Atlas is no longer forced to hold the Earth in place: "AHHHH! AHHH, FUCK! AHHHHHHHHHH! WE'RE FALLING, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-"

Historically my forever-single Valentines tradition would be to go see a movie, but there’s not really anything out right now that interests me.

no, it simply isnt. People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.

Ill be clear about why I am so angry and critical about it: Im seeing a good portion of my students who have imbibed the notion that they dont have to read, think or write for themselves because ChatGPT/CoPilot will do their thinking for them, and its terrifying. It should scare all of us.

Hopecore

Happy Colonizer Neck Stabbing Day. Also, the love holiday or something is today.

It's not the cell phones. It's the evil industries that billionaires have pushed onto them. Ban all that shit; destroy the online prediction market and gambling industries. Also pass UBI and universal health care to thwart this desperate jackpot-to-survive impulse.

‪Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.