This is the paper that the TPUSA whiner was purportedly responding to. Having actually read the paper, I'm at the point that I'm kinda like 'actually, her failure to cite is her least relevant issue'. She's just straight-up not engaging with the paper and its findings at all.

The thing a lot of the media screeching about newly elected socialist mayors doesn't really grasp is that the nature of municipal politics means that socialist mayors are inevitably sewer socialists and mayors that build useful infrastructure are popular. The attack may yet backfire on the media.

Getting real excited for Demon Viking Watersports Planet because demon vikings presumably have to play some metal as fuck water polo only to be deeply disappointed.

My most woke opinion is that the primary purpose of increasing poor peoples' economic precarity for the ultra-rich is not to expand their own wealth, but to maintain the existence of a class who can be subjected to any and all forms of predation without recourse.

"The sooner you let the people who screwed you over off the hook for it, the sooner we can go back to losing at everything!"

There is no world in which any legitimacy remains vested in this Supreme Court. It is a partisan institution without even the slightest veneer of jurisprudence. The only law that exists is what the President wants.

It's not just that they don't believe in anything that's real, it's that politics as a phenomenon isn't real. Our experience of politics is so disconnected from anything material that the patent absurdity doesn't matter. Fascism flourishes where politics is an abstraction.

Counterpoint: AAA video games shouldn't exist. They're an economic nightmare which drives game companies to be wildly over-cautious because the cost of making them is so high. They depend on terrible working conditions.

Back in my day, we had to get weirdly obsessed with Ranma and picked up delightful internalized transphobia instead. We had to walk uphill through the 'gee, I wish there was a magic fluid that would turn ME into a girl' both ways!

Even if they started Dev at the start of 2025 (highly unlikely), 2 years is not nearly enough time to deliver a novel product at any kind of quality. Games regularly spend more time in preprod. Hell, games regularly spend more time in ideation! This is going to be hot dogshit.

The thing that baffles me most about people who delusionally believe that LLMs are becoming sentient is that they seem to not understand the moral implications of supporting LLM development if that's true. Like, maybe instead of saying this is good, you should be concerned by creating AI slaves?!

Fuck Charlie Kirk. His death does not excuse his life.

Last week, a white racist man was killed in front of his white racist ilk by a white man raised in a white racist family. Now, Black, Latine, queer, trans, disabled, and migrant people are being doxxed, harassed, threatened, and fired. Never doubt that this is a white supremacist country again.

The conservative movement demands that you say bigotry is civility, hatred is love, and oppression is peace. The center appears desperate to agree with them, because centrists are more afraid of conflict than justice. Meanwhile, the subjects of bigotry are blamed through acts of wild contortion.

Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.

It is frustrating that, in the process of condemning the violence against Charlie Kirk, the media is demanding that we pretend the man himself was anything other than the monster we all knew him to be. It can simultaneously be the case that the violence was a bad thing and he was a bad person.

I'm genuinely confused at so much of my feed being filled with "Don't celebrate Charlie Kirk being shot **because** this gives Trump the go ahead to violently crush opposition." Did you mean to add "faster" to the end of that sentence? Like, he wasn't waiting for an impetus. It's happening already

My requirements for any Democrat running for president are simple: 1. Undo/reverse every single anti-trans policy the Trump administration has implemented. 2. Pledge not to further restrict trans people's rights. 3. Support the passage of the Equality Act and make it a priority.

Pritzker: "We are watching. We are taking names." Newsom: *posts in all caps* Dipshit Centrists: "Can't you see that Newsom is the only viable candidate? No one else is standing up to Trump!"

If you're a cisgender american who agrees with Newsom and believes that trans people deserve respect then you won't have a problem with ending your own life at the age of 54. Cutting 25 years out of your life isn't a big deal, right? Life expectancy is 79. Shouldn't be a big ask of y'all.

gender transition is an isekai and your post-reincarnation superpower is to be the most anxious person in any given bathroom

New genre of non-devs asking me to look at crashes I'm seeing: 'here's an incoherent mess from an AI I gave a crash stack to, can we fix this?' Universally, the AI's input is worse than useless and I'd rather just be given the stack and the repro.

i've regrettably just caught up on what has been happening to my friends at @transnews.network: a corporation-endorsed harassment campaign targeted at journalists. Itch's behavior is inexcusable. plainly.

New experience unlocked: trying to figure out what to do with sudden contact with an old friend from HS when you didn't transition until much later and now have to be like 'so... yeah, that's not my name anymore' and weigh just how badly this could go for you.

The Itch/Steam thing dropped off the trending tab. Therefore it's time to remind you again to swamp the payment processors with more calls. If the call volume dies down in under a week they aren't going to learn their lesson. Make them regret it.

The establishment of the Democratic Party is proving itself to be a racist institution willing to carry out a campaign of bigoted slander to defend their indefensible politics. The media will, of course, do everything in their power to launder those racist lies. We saw this playbook in Britain.

US Gov't doing a damn good job of making revolutionary defeatism the easiest position to advocate for.

Tried to explain this to my (also trans) sisters and just got completely baffled stares in response. No amount of 'You don't get it, it's actually good!' got them past the title. It likely didn't help that they know I'll read anything if I'm desperate enough. Even though that's not relevant here.

In 2017, liberals told antifascists that confronting the Alt-Right was "just what they wanted." Despite this, tens of thousands hit the streets, shutting down the Alt-Right + driving them out of our communities. Pundits + bureaucrats always get it wrong. Above all, they want to be in charge.

The whole "do big protests matter" discourse is kinda orthogonal to what is materially important about big protests. The important question is what happens next. Do people go home, content that they've said their bit? Or do they continue the momentum? That question is what matters.

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Damn, I was really hoping Streeting would lose.

The most obnoxious thing about the coverage of the UK election is going to be the insistence that Labour /won/ the election. As if Labour did anything to produce the majority they'll have. That's not what happened. The right split its votes, letting Labour win by default.

Obviously not news to anyone who was keeping up with the political nightmare of the Cass Review, but it's nice to have Yale Law and Yale Medicine say that in an official context.

Half of me is incredibly excited. The other half is prepared to be infinitely disappointed as the studios manage to strip the queerness out of Ranma 1/2, somehow,

I really, really hope that Pride organizers in the UK aren't going to allow Labour access to any Pride event this year. It's just another hate org. Honestly, I can't understand how any queer person would willingly vote for Labour at this point.

The world really goes out of its way to try and kill phonophobic people. Need to see a specialist? Better make a PHONE CALL! Need to get critical services for someone like you? PHONE CALL! WHAT, CAN'T YOU JUST USE THE PHONE?!!

You know, it probably says nothing good about me that it took me until 35 to realize that maybe I needed to be more discerning about relationship advice because most of it comes from neurotypical people. I am not very bright.

Ah, today's gonna be one of those days that being anti-incarceration feels real lonely, huh?

Even with a guilty verdict, I'm still waiting for him to weasel his way out. Nothing else has ever stopped the bastard, why would this? How many time has it been "all over for Trump"? I'll own my excessive cynicism, but... I dunno, nothing good ever happens.

Hi, I'm an "engineer"! My greatest hits include: "What do you mean I'm not an engineer just because there's no test!?" "No, I can't do that in a week. It doesn- Fine! It won't work, but fine!" "Yeah, build's broken again. Nope, you broke it. Yes, I'm sure... You went home. Fine, I'll fix it..."

I have a bunch of lyrics I wrote in the last decade that I'm never going to use, but which someone else may have a use for (potentially only to make fun of). Every time I consider just doing so, I go 'wait, but even if my only requirement for use is attribution, that means people know my name!!'

post a PERFECT album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains

Hi, it me, very stupid. Occasionally, I moonlight as a disaster lesbian.

The thing I think is missing here is the context that it is a cynical strategy that has been reused to attack the left. Most recently, this campaign of libel was deployed against Jeremy Corbyn by the Labour right. This is a battle tested playbook that is best defeated by demonstrating that.

The real sign of the UK's Amerification is that they've now moved past the "one party state, only there are two parties" level of the US and they have a one party state with three parties!

This is my response to the Cass Report

I don't think anything from the sham that is the Cass review is surprising (which is to say - it was garbage before and it is garbage now), but if you want to be deeply infuriated by conservative scum lying through their teeth (not sure why you would, but you do you), it certainly provides that.

From Judith Butler's new book