To say that there are no technical solutions to social problems, you must first grant that these two things are separate rather than inextricably intertwined and each only existing because of the other.

Was talking to a friend about the piece I recently reposted, and made mention of the fact I once drew an idea for a Floatzel/Lugia cross myself a few years ago, although it was more wide than tall. This was made during a period where I was in a strong lugia mood.

A lot of the people dredging up the old allegations around Patricia Taxxon are, both knowingly and unknowingly, helping run cover for the people who groomed her as a teenager into getting into that situation. I think it's important to put that out there, given I know people adjacent to the situation

i think what disappoints me the most about how people have taken to sci-fi for information on technology in the way people take to comedians for political opinions is that the string of development from where we are now all the way back to turing is one of the most fascinating evolutions in science

Look as a sci-fi writer myself, all of these people need to go off and fuck themselves. How do you hold this much resentment in your heart? Where do you find the room? Is it where your curiosity and spirit of inquisition used to live before you evicted them for the sake of your comfort?

"the go the fuck to sleep baby is a they / them going to Bard, feel old yet???"

i'm so tired

genuinely not saying this snarkily but like. you cant have your cake and eat it too when it comes to AI art accusations. you cant bemoan the witchhunts and the moral panic AND say "we SHOULD be vigilant for AI art and name and shame its users tho" like they go together i dont know what to tell u

i'm pro technology, but doing it right, which means as cleanly and safely as practical, and i refuse to accept the richest companies on earth can't afford basic environmental protections.

for 3 adult generations since turing’s work we made stories of terror about the day the machines would arrive. human mass genocide, enslavement, or unfathomably worse we got this

look i just dont believe that the people at google are so stupid that they dont know how to wrap user queries before feeding them to a model. there must be some other explanation

i have like 2 hangnails pls kill me

“when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” —guy about to be TF’d into a nail

Why does Hisami, the largest of the lesbians, not simply eat the other lesbians?

oh no i think my entire personality might be structured around the fact that i'm autistic and i hate myself

if you dont know hexadecimal i feel bad for you son i got 9D9 problems thats 2521

megaabu

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you must escape

The pointing at viewer emoji (🫵) is pretty good, but it's lacking its opposite, a foreshortened hand emoji that points away from the viewer, further into the screen, towards unseen depths, at nothing in particular.

Has anybody else noticed it's really hard to recommend music to people anymore

No, he's got a point

Big and round for a dude whose name escapes me right now

Another big and round for Hiddenman

how are people so fucking bad at seeing the pattern. like jesus fucking christ give some grace to the girl who's been stalked and harassed by kiwifarmers for 5+ years. fix your heart or die

victims of CSA deserve better than what breadtubers give them

huh, i think i have more followers here now than i ever did on twitter

it's interesting how the breadtubers most associated with getting big through anti-rightist videos like hbomb and contra are the ones who moved rightwards the hardest. the more into drama you are the more you turn into Liberal Kiwifarms as the clout eats your soul

the increase in personal security in relationships i've had since adopting this policy has been immense. it's miraculous. it's also good for public safety but i'm not fool enough to believe that's an incentive for most these days

if you see a friend HAL anyone, even a fucking youtube celebrity whose main thing is making music in a genre that bores you, you demand they recant or you refuse to speak to them again. period. that's it. you do this not out of altruism but to save yourself.

this is part of why, in spite of very much not being a transfem separatist, I generally end up living like one. if you're not on HAL awareness mode 24/7 I do not trust you, do not like you and refuse to be around you. few have this strength. these are the ones trapped in an endless samsara of abuse

if you deny guilt, the accusation is delivered again more forcefully. if you are bullied into a false confession, the harassers smell blood and demand greater and greater displays of shame, self effacement and groveling. no out exists save refusing to value their opinion

one of the core functions of moralism is the manufacture of excuses for wrongdoing. it's the means by which the exploiters are converted into social activists and the exploited are converted into an untouchable underclass. each and every victim can be saddled with an unfalsifiable sin

"Nutpicking", the term is? There's always some crazy shit going on in the world, you boost the ugliest, cringiest, wackiest, grossest stuff you can and generalize it out. Propaganda 101.

When I was arguing for marriage equality back in the day, I literally had women with straight faces tell me about their "Gay friends" who "Drank milkshakes out of each others asses" or "Cut off each others testicles and ate them." And they always looked shocked when I said i didn't care.

Something a lot of you smucks don't understand? This is how the anti-gay lobby works. No, I'm not joking. It is a common tactic in those circles to find extreme gay pornography, things like scat or edgeplay BDSM, and then claim that it is represenitive, banking on people's disgust overiding logic.

in retrospect i guess dirigibles are the dirigibles of the sky

WRONG! im a neet

it's so funny that sabine hossenfelder is a "stochastic parrot" parrot

grass grows, birds fly, sun shines- and

"STATISTICAL MIDDLE" "STATISTICAL MIDDLE" "STATISTICAL MIDDLE" "STATISTICAL MIDDLE" "STATISTICAL MIDDLE" "STATISTICAL MIDDLE" "STATISTICAL MIDDLE" "STATISTICAL MIDDLE" "STATISTICAL MIDDLE" "STATISTICAL MIDDLE" "STATISTICAL MIDDLE" "STATISTICAL MIDDLE" i'm going to commit a violent crime

What are you talking about?

They imprisoned a man in glass here

Although there is indeed a high number of R-18 Touhou fanworks, the series as a whole actually has a below average percentage of NSFW fanworks. As you can see from this 2019 data, Touhou actually has a lower rate of NSFW fanwork than Pokemon. A thread 🧵

moral panics about cartoon drawings are loser shit and you don't need me to tell you why

like, there's an absurd amount of people saying she's a lolicon when she's not. no one seems to even acknowledge this. being neutral towards the concept of lolicon media is itself such a huge transgression that people just equate you with being a child predator… even if you're the victim of one.

so… taxxon saying she's neutral on lolicon and that she hasn't heard a good argument against it that's stood the test of time, even if she's not a lolicon and doesn't enjoy lolicon media, is enough to have huge swaths of online leftists telephone gaming themselves into saying she's a pedophile…

"who are we vagueposting about this time" no one. everyone.

i just don't understand why it's so hard for her to apologize for what she did without defending or explaining herself in any way or pushing guilt onto anyone involved except herself or complicating the narrative told by her accusers or acting like she has a right to exist in society ever again