Late night Kirara doodle! #jjk #kirara #kirarahoshi

hi i bring legs and heels to your TL

I find it frustrating that the left has been characterized as more prone to scolding when the right’s entire culture is built on an openly insidious kind of scolding

the funniest thing about 'does the left even like technology' is that I genuinely see technology as a set of tools we can appropriate and use for the cause of liberation, but because I don't fetishize the idea of some day having robot slaves, for some reason my view is presumed to be tech-negative.

"Trans people are less than 1% of the population! Their rights are important, but we have bigger problems right now!"

Hasan kind of exemplifies everything wrong with middle-class USian white left tbh. Politics as aesthetic, all style and no substance. People who have no connection to any workers’ movement or anything like that but think that the hammer and sickle looks cool and that Stalin is unfairly maligned.

The reason FlightRadar going down at this moment is especially concerning: Earlier this week, U.S. Air Force officer Maj. Claire Randolph spoke at a conference about how the previous war with Iran was difficult because “Twitter randos” tracking planes posed a challenge to U.S. military “OPSEC”

mass transit is technology fiber optic internet is technology they just also happen to be infrastructure, which republicans hate

The marketing behind AI is basically all threats. It's interesting to see who this works on. I tend to rebel like "fuck you, I won't be scared just because you say so."

They also did it in Charlottesville. I know a lot of people thought her death would move the political needle but they are just going to call her a race traitor in their little groups just like they did white protesters during the height of the Civil Rights movement. These people love to hate.

i'm enthusiastic about renewable energy and high speed rail, for the record. technology! love it

every now and then I think about the fact that the right tried to turn Charlie Kirk into a saint and the kids instead turned him into one of the biggest memes (derogatory) on the entire internet and it makes me smile

They’re lashing out with increasing desperation and vulgarity because they already know that their time is limited.

I just for the life of me can't figure out why a large chunk of people are inherently hostile to new technology shaped by companies that actively support an anti-science, anti-humanist mass murder autocracy

It's interesting that the people proudly using LLM agents are very extremely obviously exhibiting a mental health crisis, disrupting basic activities of life, and they can't perceive it anymore. They see it as lifehacking, to have their actual life continuously interrupted by intrusive thoughts.

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I don't remember where I got this but I like this version better

Like, autistically, dating boundaries make a lot of sense, except that virtually nobody practices what they preach because there's all that will-they-won't-they, handkerchief dropping and unspoken niceties the very acknowledgment of which is a social faux pax.

the bluesky bubble is insulating 38 year old tryhards from the reality that this man has become a figure of inherent comedy for the young zoomers and gen alpha crowd, much in the same way the concept of Barney the Dinosaur was enough to make millennials lose their shit

I think that fundamentally this is just intellectual cowardice, because like, you just said you disagreed with it. Adding on 'but it would be arrogant of me to say I disagree' isn't actually being humble, it's avoiding having to voice and argue the position you just said you hold.

A million people can be wrong. If you can clearly state why and how you think they are wrong, and you refuse to do so because 'well it's a million people, isn't it arrogant to imagine I'm smarter than them,' then you've abandoned intellectual principles in favor of the populism of cowards.

especially if you have a gun

secret life hack they dont want you to know: you can just ask for something from someone and theyll give it to you most of the time

Nothing prepared me for how cartoonishly evil the ruling class can be except for all the children's media I've watched where the bad guys stare directly into the camera and say how cool it is to be evil and violent just because

these guys all act like somebody is holding a gun to their head and forcing them to post here. if you like twitter so much then go post over there and leave us alone

I feel like I keep on talking about widespread cultural anti-intellectualism, but like, I just keep on running into it, y'know?

As a Leftist, this is technology I am pretty excited about! I think more billionaires should keep trying!

most fucked up part of being a trans woman is the realization that passing is literally 60% class signifiers

Guy whose job it is to coverup the Epstein files: Hey look over there, transgender for everybody

"Crime is only crime when minorities do it; when privileged people do it, it's a legitimate exercise of power" etc. etc.

it's fucked up there's a dedicated far right propaganda channel lying all day long about everything and no one in power has done anything to... even hold them accountable? like idk maybe there should be some consequences for lying non stop???

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades. It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

If you use AI to design a board game, or do the artwork for your board game, I will never buy it, never play it, never review it, and I will side-eye your company for all future projects. If you brag about doing it, you're a weapons grade douche bag, that doesn't deserve a place in our industry.

Labeling is a thing queer folk often avoid because we know how much wrong labels can impact a life. But it isn’t wrong to call people whose entire career are built around destroying trans rights “anti trans activists.” In fact it’s important to let them not hide as “just a writer/journalist.”

This isn't conjectural btw, they have openly explained the use case for the OGL was to culturally monopolize the ttrpg market

...isn't D&D or D&D shape, enables the continuity of this state of affairs, where TTRPGs are one of the most hostile to new ideas of all creative mediums: in spite of how thoroughly unexplored they remain.

The damage is incalculable because D&D's cultural footprint was that of squashing the entire space under its homogenizing boot. Induced failure of the imagination. And every motherfucker who keeps scamming and killing with indifference those of us at the periphery, refusing to cover anything that...

An industry boom that decimated the creative potential of the medium by making every mf a D&D designer. Also, he didn't "kill" past tense: continues to kill. I cannot market my game because 98% of the outreach channels I should reach won't cover a game that ain't about killing people in a dungeon.

Hello. My name is John Titor. Don't ask me about the future. I only need to source a computer system with a working graphics processor that isn't dependent on any LLM systems to function.

But what if you never had to think or create, but could still 'create thought and art' regardless? What if instead of engaging in all the thinking and creating you've been told your whole life is without value, you could simply press a button and be able to sell 'your work' regardless?

There's a peculiarity to someone looking at an empty page and saying, 'I can't write. I can't draw.' It's not that the desire to create isn't there, it's that the person has been taught not to create- that their writing and drawing is 'bad,' that only the 'great' can create.

The irony of the 'anti-AI rhetoric is elitism' line of argument is that you fundamentally cannot separate the widespread adoption of generative statistical modeling from widespread cultural anti-intellectual and anti-creative resent, elitism, and profiteering.

"But It'll never be full. Because the hole was there first. And it built a girl around itself so it would have a place to hide." I HAD to sketch my fave gal Morgan! Getting to voice her in my play through has been the greatest treat! I adore her and Of The Devil so much aaah ❤️! #ofthedevil

worth remembering: "AI", as in machine learning, is a LOT older than the current round of chatbots, and it was pretty popular among tech enthusiasts (which leaned left!) for years it wasn't until it was redefined to mean "bot that replaces artists" that everyone except billionaires turned on it

genAI is dying repost to make it die faster

Pre the OGL the RPG scene was chaotic and messy, but bursting with ideas. Post it, we got the d20 glut. "It's not that I want them dead. It's that the world would be a better place if they'd never existed" - S*M*A*S*H*, "I Want to Kill Somebody"

Every complaint about D&D's oversized presence in the hobby is his plan working as intended. Every shitty KS 5e cash grab is his baby. He has done more damage to the hobby as a whole than anyone else I can think of. We saw the effects quickly.