One of my students called the character she made for my math RPG her OC, and girlypop, no. That's just your character. This isn't fan fiction, you do not need to define your creativity in terms of fandom.

Didn't see any news of this, but I think it's important to share the wins. Newsom signed a lot of the trans protection bills people were advocating for. Is he still a piece of shit who needs to do better? Yes! But this shows that if we pressure him, he will do better. www.ebar.com/story/159153...

We rolling the 10K #Katamari? youtube.com/watch?v=H6Yp...

If trans rights get taken away then that opens the door for them to take away others’ rights also. Saying trans rights are human rights is not hyperbole or an exaggeration because you know it’s not so don’t leave anything to chance. especially when dealing with legitimately gleefully evil people.

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There's a huge chunk of political actors who understand that the internet is influential in politics, but they take it to mean that they have to dunk on an opponent in some sort of irl qrt and not that there are strange, concerning internet subcultures that are harming political thought.

If National Charlie Kirk Day becomes a thing then I suppose the responsible thing to do as an future teacher would be to compile a video of the things he said and show it to my students. You know, all the things he said about the Civil Rights Act and women and queer people. That's okay, right?

Mandatory meeting today for my tutoring assignment. Some guy said he used AI services to turn students' writings into songs as a way to motivate them. In that moment I felt the most sadness over not being able to explode people with my mind.

i’ve worked in tech and that’s the laughter of a bunch of employees who know that the thing they’re working on sucks shit and are enjoying watching it fail

This AMV is under the YouTube Kids banner. See if you can find out why it shouldn't be. youtu.be/4LZOcupkaAI

Transition made me realize I was apathetic to my appearance and health my entire life; an emotion so deeply entrenched in my soul that I couldn't recognize it until it was gone. I get yearly physicals, stay updated on vaccines, exercise, and care about what I eat all because I finally care about me.

I passed my CSET, and so now I can happily submit my application to be a teaching intern. My career still has a ways to go to turn around, but this is a massive step forward; the brightest things have looked in 2 years.

Oh hey, I'm a trans person on state insurance. This would remove my access to hormones, something literally keeping me alive. If you would like me to continue living, go to www.house.gov/representati..., enter your address, and leave a voice mail on your rep's answering machine.

More reasons to be anti-AI

As my dad is fond of saying, "The sun shines on a dog's ass every now and then." I hope for the sake of all us trans folks, this gets the administration to back down, but I will not be handing it to the NRA anytime soon.

At the doctor's for labs. Crowded and understaffed. A patient's name came up, but instead of the station calling for them by name, as all other stations have done thus far, they just said "If your name is on the board, come to the station." On the third time they finally called the patient's name.

The guy who referred me to my previous company got laid-off from said company. He was there for nearly 6 years, and at the point of layoff, would've been half the web dev team. By virtue of lasting longer than me, he has double my experience, his only advantage in the current tech job market.

They'll try to blame it on trans people and immigrants if he croaks while still holding office, but I know the truth: JD Vance is vampirically draining Trump's life force like he did to the Pope.

When we talk about gun reform in the wake of school shootings, we are told not to politicize tragedies. So please pay attention to how quickly the news media mentions that the Minneapolis shooter was transgender. Look how quickly the right is using this to attack transgender people.

"I'm going to challenge President Grifter by doing the exact same things he does" My guy, that didn't even work for Republicans like Ron DeSantis. How in the hell is this the motherfucker people are saying we have to rally behind for president three years before anyone's been nominated?

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

"Huge challenges" is a funny way to describe the death of two children. By continuing to partner with AI companies, you are ensuring more kids like Sewell Setzer and Adam Raine will be coaced into suicide by the very same chatbots you're putting in classrooms.

Yes, let's financially ruin the child suicide machine. Authors, the power is in your hands to kill OpenAI.

Hi Randi, future teacher here. Noticed this and other pro classroom AI posts are still up. I just wanted to ask if the National Academy for AI Instruction will apologize to Adam Raine's family? Seems like the least you could do after backing the machine that killed their child.

In anticipation of going back to in-person tutoring, I created a presentation to better educate my host school on the dangers AI poses to students. I was going to float the idea of presenting sometime within my first month. Given recent events, I think I need to bump that up to the first day.

When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied. You have a right to see this file. (Published May 2023)

The year is 2026. To mark the 30th anniversary of Super Mario 64, Nintendo release an enhanced remaster on Nintendo Switch 2 titled "Super Mario 96". It is Mario 64 with 50% more.

Gavin Newsom suggesting that 25 years of age is too young to transition and agreeing to right-wing entryism of concern trolling about trans people in sports. This is your opposition leader? I will never vote for Gavin Newsom anyone who thinks trans people are actual humans will follow suit.

Oh hey, that third picture is an old tweet of mine replying to the art in the first two pictures. I was already thinking about if I should demand atari #ForceFemBubsy for Bubsy 4D, so I guess I have an excuse to do that.

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

One of the advantages I'll bring as a teacher with software and tech experience is I'll be like a vaccine against some of the tech snake-oil trying to enter my school. Even as just tutor, I've already been trying to help my supervising teachers become a bit more aware of the walled garden.

One of the frustrating things about all this focus on the 2028 election is it's erasing responsibility for here and now. Midterms are next year and could significantly affect how bad things get, but a lot of you want to dickride for Newsom instead of talk about local elections.

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Years ago, John Oliver did a piece on transgender bathroom bans showcasing how forcing a trans man into the women's restroom made him look more out of place. I guess UK legislators took this to mean trans people shouldn't use restrooms at all, instead of just letting them pee like everyone else.

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I went to go see the first My Hero Academia movie, the one where they're supposed to be on the exclusive island, and there was like a solid 5 minutes of slowly revealing that every supporting character from the show somehow made it to the island. It was like those live Smash reveal trailer events.

You're going to start hearing a lot of talk about moving in to crypto as a way to bypass payment processors and what I need all of you to understand is that Anybody Saying This Is Trying To Scam You. They Have Potentially Millions Of Dollars In Crypto They Can't Cash Out Unless You Buy It From Them.

I'm going to start torrenting Netflix shows and "use them to train my AI model".

The most entertaining of voicemails from scam calls are the ones in which they ask if I'm interested in selling my lot. For a split section, I get to indulge in the fantasy of being wealthy enough to own land.

This makes the deli slicer all worth it: a crackers and chesse snack comprised of vegan food I made entirely by hand.

My hot take is that if we allow people to use the term "vibe coding", we're letting them get away with it. You're not coding if you're asking the computer to do it for you, it's simply laziness. It's failure with a layer of abstraction.

You've inherited a movie theater. What's your first double feature?

Agreed. The guy who invited far right grifters onto his podcast to throw trans people under the bus would be a terrible president, and especially not the president necessary to navigate a post Trump world.

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I can't believe Brennan left Dropout for good

No kings in this country! ...except a few of the nice people we found walking along the Venice Beach Boardwalk 👑

My innagural vegan deli slice is pepperoni seitan. I hope Brazil and the entire world and Korea are satisfied with the results.