Tofik Dibi: Onthou bij het zien van al die wijsvingers naar de Verenigde Staten of extreemrechts: allen hebben meegeholpen met de empowerment van fascisten. Van ‘links’ tot rechts. #extreemrechts #denhaag #bij1

The entire centrist establishment writing fan fiction about how Kirk's life was dedicated to building bridges while assiduously ignoring the movement-wide conservative effort to incite a pogrom against trans people.

Well.

I keep thinking about how a couple of years ago someone walked into an apartment maybe 20 minutes away from mine and murdered a trans woman named Unique Banks and shot her mom, her boyfriend, and two other trans fems and it barely got a news story and meanwhile Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Banks: We will not let you have smut about furries or fairies or whatever you sick sick sick sickos Also banks: Oh hello Mr. International Pedophile how can we move your money today?

This absolute banger

losing my shit at tom clancy's daughter immediately setting this to her banner after seeing it

You know all those cyberpunk works where a corporation gets to make the law? Well, that day has come, and it came a long time ago, but now many more of us are starting to feel it.

Daily reminder that any and all AI-features should be opt-in only.

I wish the popular idea of the frontal lobe being "fully developed" at 25 would die. The study responsible for this belief ended at 25 girl the implication is that the frontal lobe is possibly always growing and changing!!!

Anyway Gavin Newsome should not be allowed to host a podcast or to run for office. Because what if he regrets it later?

if you’re on the left, the question of “should you be on a platform consciously designed to turn people to the right” shouldn’t be some head-scratching dilemma

wow seems like some people aren't thrilled about AI

Love logging on at ftp://bluesky.biz/ and reading the opinions of these absolute geniuses. "It's awful what Trump is doing. We should be the ones doing that!" "Of course I believe trans people are human beings! *proceeds to describe a hypothetical trans person in a way that would make JKR blush*"

Did something happen today?

twice today, when pressured, Stripe operators have said, plainly, that i cannot use stripe for the purchase of LGBTQ content. not just adult content, but explicitly LGBTQ.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

I get sick of being told “well, we have to take their concerns seriously.” No we don’t! Their concerns are completely made up! We shouldn’t even gesture at maybe taking them seriously, especially when what they want is to take rights away from someone!

It is no accident that the early use cases for "genAI" consumer products revolve around the sexual harassment, abuse, and exploitation of women in power. It is no accident that the technology is immediately embraced as a tool of patriarchy and gender-based violence. www.theverge.com/report/71897...

this should be illegal but i am ok if we replace Jim Acosta with an AI version

this is a good thread but I might actually take it further -- I don't think manosphere shit is actually about getting laid, I think it's literally about male loneliness, by which I mean, men addressing their loneliness via homosocial bonding through misogyny

"cancel culture is out of control," they said. "the dangerous left is censoring you," they said. 😒

Even assuming an LLM stumbled into a revolutionary scientific discovery, it would only be an untested hypothesis. A lack of hypotheses is not science's problem - it's $$ for the research to test those hypotheses that's sorely needed. And, that's being cut to fund LLMs.

I’ve thought about this @bloomfilters.bsky.social quote maybe once a week since she wrote it and it applies well here. As Talia says, this is a real (reactionary! transmisogynistic!) strain of trans politics. It needs to be militantly challenged wherever it finds sanctuary.

Unbelievable how brazenly dishonest they are and how the media allows them to get away with it They're literally trying to ban trans people from using the right toilets and are saying that ban doesn't out people!? Straight up a lie. No question about it

in case you had any illusions about how bluesky might respond to KOSA. they don’t care if they help drive queer people off the internet, they’re already doing so of their own volition to Palestinians. capitalism is incapable of providing a bulwark against fascism

Disabled people are not your enemy. Immigrants are not your enemy. Trans people are not your enemy. We are scapegoats to make people believe they can have a better life at our expense. A better life is possible if you tax the wealthy. If the billionaire class is abolished. If we are cared for.

We HAVE to stop talking about these large language models as if they're alive and can actually say and do things independently. Grok did not "turn into a neo-Nazi" it was PROGRAMMED TO SPIT OUT NEO-NAZI PROPAGANDA. THAT IS MUCH MUCH WORSE!!!!!!!! Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Excuse me?!

They're quite literally saying trans people don't have a right to free speech and yet we're still pretending that "Gender Critical" people, like JK Rowling and Donald Trump, are being "silenced". Fucking wake up

fun fact: if someone trans is telling you about transphobia, and you're just some rando cis dipshit churning out garbage for reuters, you don't have the authority to add scare quotes around the word actually www.reuters.com/world/americ...

This is the exact same reversal of blame as with Skrmetti. Trans rights activists didn’t decide to psych a case forwards to SCOTUS. Far-right politicians targets trans kids with bans and the “centrist” media pushed far-right lies and misinformation for years

One of JK Rowling's TERF friends was just arrested for assaulting a pregnant woman and a 10 year old child. She threatened to post pictures of them on Facebook calling them pedophiles for being at a LGBTQ event. We told you this would happen.

The position of the Supreme Court's majority is that the state may impose its will on transgender people's private medical decisions but our public existence is an unfair imposition on the lives of others

good on the people who did this but i would like supportive press to retire the phrase “trans rights activists” when referring to trans people forever please

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

This is generally a must-listen podcast anyway, but this episode hit really hard. While none of my close friends and family who are teachers worked in the US during the pandemic, the statements that teachers' lives were the trade off to reopen schools still felt so true and validating.

One of the funniest things I've seen I must say

The story of LGBT rights is a story of advances followed by setbacks followed by media with no skin in the game saying, "It's because you were too loud/asked for too much/moved too fast/got too big for your britches/didn't make your case." That never changes--but happily it's never the last word.

As I always say: being chronically ill means being stuck with an administrative job you didn’t apply for, that no one trained you to do, that you don’t have time for, that no one pays you to do, and during a time in your life where you’re…too disabled to work Make it make sense.

Important context to the Supreme Court ruling is that Tennessee only has one gender clinic for kids and it performs 5 top surgeries per year. This entire "debate" is about a phenomenon — large numbers of kids being rushed into hormones and surgeries — that doesn't exist. apnews.com/article/heal...

grateful to once again be having a conversation about the bullying tactics of trans activists

The article frames Skrmetti as a poor strategic gamble by activists. In reality, Tennessee passed a categorical ban applicable solely to transgender adolescents which was framed in sex-based terms. The choices were (a) challenge it or (b) concede defeat in advance and abandon trans teens nationwide.

This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.

counterpoint

Too many people fail to understand the role poverty plays in chronic illness. Money can’t buy health or happiness, but a lack of money can make your health worse & life harder. Universal healthcare & basic income would do more to create a healthier society than all the “wellness” in the world.

"the trans community needs to be more graceful" the president of the united states has directly stated multiple times that kids are getting surprise sex change surgeries at middle school without their parents knowledge. WHAT are you talking about lmao.

Anti-cancel culture is worse than cancel culture and always has been for the exact same reason that the excesses of democracy are always less bad than the excesses of monarchy/feudalism/totalitarianism.