I will say the accessibility arguments have always been extremely funny to me, especially when it comes to framing artists as the ultimate gatekeepers of the craft while just ignoring how all the raw materials and stuff artists need cost money to access. Painters don’t own the canvas manufacturers.

Entertaining episode, do recommend if you can stomach some of the harder subject matter. I did have a thought that stuck out of me consistently listening to it is how much the author just seems to dislike talking to people. His pushing in favor of stuff other than talk therapy seems to reflect this.

I will say I genuinely hate the Adult Content flag for text posts. I appreciate the warning for images because that’s generally pretty good in terms of letting me skim posts on my phone in public without worrying about having to do an entire alternate feed.

This is also a great demonstration of how kinda not all that impressive the current suite of LLMs actually are, we’ve been able to trick people into thinking that chat bots are real for about 60 years.

Am posting this because it’s a good essay and I do want to say I hear tons of other queer cis guys express a lot of befuddlement around a lot of the expectations placed on men growing up and experiencing a lot of friction there too.

So I'm watching this and the section around 50 minutes in where he's complaining about a dance hall having a "bar simulation". Given that this islikely a public/commercial event space, it's just a normal bar that happens to be serving soda because it's an event for minors.

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Listening to the second episode of the recent incel two-parter that Behind the Bastards did and there's an extended section discussing the Toothpaste Tube effect that I found very interesting. A lot of what's being discussed is broadly applicable to a range of things. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

I will say since I have been posting about objectionable art a bit recently I just remembered that I have seen a couple videos on YouTube trying to argue over whether or not Vladimir Nabokov was himself a pedo or not which I think is kind of bizarre to some extent.

Yeah I feel like people genuinely don’t have like an actual sense of proportionality withe these types of things. Chances are someone was already kinda feeling iffy about it internally and they just had a forum post with some engagement they could use to convince their boss to change it.

there are loads of posts that age horribly but this might be one that is put in a history book for how poorly it ages

You guys do this thing regularly where you try to act like the ideological preferences of a paper have no relation to the types of opinion pieces that it chooses to publish, and it's just so insulting. You really think everyone else is an idiot, huh?

We don't talk about non sexual kinky activities enough and how wholesome and stress-relieving they can be ❤️ I wanna draw more of that again at some point too

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Okay so having made it about 3/4s of the way through this video so far, having just the the Fran Lebowitz quote has me apoplectic. She's quoting Fran like that supports her point when this whole video has been her crying about how all the doors she keeps opening lead to places she doesn't wanna be.

I do genuinely want to know what the issue with just allotting more time for the test would be for everyone if you actually think people are abusing accommodations to get more time on the test? Serious if you think the accommodation is too accessible and that's unfair why not just allot more time?

I do just want to say, looking at the ~320$ a month figure. Growing up in the 90s-00s my mom would spend an average of about 100$ a week on groceries to feed herself and two kids. That was over 20 years ago, that’s barely enough to cover half a month now.

God this was a tough read. Side Note, I see a lot of people accusing “Robert” in the article of diddling his kid in the replies and I think that’s kind of missing the point of the article a bit though I will admit Robert comes across as a bit unglued in the narrative of the article.

Also just as someone who was involved in online Atheism circles around the 2010s we had a lot of that type of material and we didn’t really meaningfully move the needle particularly in terms of deconstructing religiosity.

This was the most fascinating exchange to me. Coates asks whether a liberal going to Evangelical churches and selectively editing exchanges to mock Christians would be "doing politics the right way." Klein says it would if it were done completely differently.

I will say while I have joked a bit about Kirk’s death I do think under ideal circumstances most of us wouldn’t even know who Kirk was. He wouldn’t be a famous person, he wouldn’t be receiving dark money, he should be like a prominent figure in local politics as a crank.

I will say if you look at the historical record there’s been a bunch of high profile cases of police departments being unable to adequately respond in the moment to a situation to stop it then using their own failure as a post hoc justification for funding. (e.g. the 1997 North Hollywood shootout)

I really hate how much Dems love to treat language like it’s a magic spell and if they learn to say the correct incantations they’ll never have to worry about actually doing anything material to actually woo voters. Why actually offer solutions and fix problems when I can mesmerize you with a spell.

Listening to the section talking about the lockdowns and the lack of enforcement and I remembered that there was actually an extremely bad movie that came out during the pandemic called Songbird (produced by Michael Bay) that basically imagines a permanent lockdown dystopia.

I know you guys offhandedly made a joke about how this type of rhetoric isn’t used by PETA but what’s extremely funny is that one of the more prominent “watchdog” orgs, White Coat Waste, was literally cofounded by a anti-abortion lobbyists and a former high ranking PETA guy.

Genuinely the interview here is insane, such a short interview too which makes the questions they choose to ask even worse since they’re all so asinine. Especially the question about Trump’s stated Gaza plans, I’m sure they’re thrilled to be kicked out of their home for Atlantic City 2.0

I did watch about 3/4s of this, I did find the rant from her towards Tee Franklin wild because like most of what she brings up and frames as an outrageous "Can you believe she did X, Y, and Z?!" is incredibly milquetoast shit other popular and well-regarded comic creators have done.

Okay so to follow up on my Gundam comments earlier I just watched the latest GQuuuuuuX episode and Nyaan is very scary, she awakens her newtype abilities and is immediately just using her teammate as a shield and aiming to kill.

I have said this before in other places but one of my big bones of contention with the LLMs is that I feel they’re basically trying to do too many things at once and as a result kind of suck at all of them.

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I will say I do genuinely find the discussions around art from the AI evangelists to be extremely interesting in the sense that it kind of highlights how the medium of “art” is kind of flattened in some discussions. Yeah cool ChatGPT can doodle a cat in a hat but it can’t say make a sculpture of it.