the fool

I'll be honest, I still don't fully understand why people feel like if they're left enough they should get to demean others, as like a treat

What if we just didn't do that

Why would you _want_ to do that

inspired by a true story

You'd think

No see, some Jews own businesses. That's why it's okay to call them names

Real hot take is that the nuclear family is unquestionably bad for everyone but Americans will never give it up because a lot of parents love the power it gives them over their children (not to mention the built in us v them element)

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

I dream of an analog voice communicator like a walkie talkie that uses physical tokens (think friendship bracelet/charms/lockets) to address and secure the connection

Haunted artifacts preferable to technology possessed by big tech

Look, leftists also need people to punch down at

I find it really compelling to think of intelligence at any level primarily working because of how it composes the intelligence of the existing substrates. Cells know how to do things. Organs know how to achieve goals. Maybe we're not "anthropomorphizing" when we assign goals to matter?

YouTube video by Michael Levin's Academic Content "Nothing in biology makes sense without teleology" by Michael Levin

Super interesting stuff! Here's a good sort of overview www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gZw...

Robots Made from Human Cells Can Move on Their Own and Heal Wounds Researchers have created “anthrobots” out of human lung cells that are capable of moving independently and even healing damaged tissue

Wild stuff! Organisms that have the same DNA but behave completely differently from the organism they came from.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/robo...

Michael Levin's work on life as teleology, "mind blindness", seeing evolution as an intelligence (in the "solve the same problem via different means" sense) that works in anatomical morphospace

Bonus: anthrobots, single-celled organisms made from human DNA that can repair brain

I don't think the people giving her the benefit of the doubt are pro-transphobia! They're saying that they don't perceive it as a "denial to deal with transphobia on the platform"

I get why you see it that way, that's also how it struck me at first

Yeah cmon we don't need to pretend it wasn't always a minoritarian government designed to strip the land and resources for the white men who owned it

Just because Nazis are worse than a thing doesn't mean it's good. The Kaiserreich was better than the Third Reich but it wasn't GOOD

*ding ding ding*

*GDR but yes to all the rest

See, this. You don’t have to pretend trans people with a different set of priorities/context/etc are transphobic. Why would you?

Thanks!

Is there something you want from me?

Haha! Nice one

“Unequivocally real” is not the same as “an unequivocal statement”

I’m glad you’re having a good time

Smart. Better to assume power warps us all than trying to be the special ones who won’t

We need a social media that doesn’t expect no mistakes, but instead promotes repair and mending

If y’all can crack that one? INSTANT Nobel Peace Prize 😆

The hardest thing about building social media I think might be that you open yourself up to such a cacophony of opinions and harassment that over time it’s easy to just tune it out and assume you know best because you see so much bad faith

How we end up with Caesars

Do you not know the difference

I’ve spent the whole morning on this but I’m happy to teach a quick remedial

What kind of signal?

*goose honks*

What kind of signal, motherfucker?

I appreciate having more context! I’m not sure it would help the “saying waffles is overt transphobia” folks but to me this really looked… callous and dismissive. Like “trans safety is a joke”. I’m more hopeful from your explanation that’s not the case

I think that people who think it’s a signal of trans hate either assume the guy asking about JS was in good faith or just… haven’t considered it at all?

I’m really not entirely sure. But I think it’s not as obvious he was being a dick to everyone as it is to you?

I mean we’re talking about the interaction so they both come up

The thing is that we don’t all have the same context, so different audiences will see different interactions. Some will see it as harassment, others as an important question worthy of a serious response, and still other ways I’m sure. A kaleidoscope