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Garden variety patriarchy. Ew.

Stop posting about the bullshit machines.

A bigotry of TERFs?

Why do you keep reposting the same stories over and over again?

Pure theft from actual artists.

Cass Review full of 'stigma' and should not guide trans youth care, say experts A newly published study has argued the Cass Review into trans youth care, published in April 2024, is full of 'stigma' and 'misinformation'.

Cass Review slammed AGAIN. This time by Australian academics.

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Sounds like you don't know anyone with a chronic illness who has to ration their energy for personal care tasks.

Uh huh. Hugboxing or total candour. No shades of nuance between those black and white extremes, huh? Humans are squishy and messy, and not amenable to thinking in dichotomies.

You don't have any idea of the emotional stakes for the other person. Perhaps they're well aware of the shit day they're having and how they look, and your candour is what destroys them. You could always aim for situational awareness, and quiet kindness.

It's about how you say it, when, and in how much other company: not everyone is looking for unexpected candour. If you're not sure if someone wants some candour about their appearance and personal care, you could ask first.

We’re quite deep within the Singularity right now, though it’s turned out be the Singularity of Stupid (SoS), which effectively prevents the original concept of the Singularity from happening.

She wrote on Doom Patrol?! To the Batpoles!

Excellent choice in beeru.

The young people who would have been most likely to lead the domestic anti-fascist fight in 2025 were repeatedly arrested, beat, jailed, mocked by elites and non-elites over the past 5 years. This was bipartisan. I find it interesting whenever some people ask 'where the young people are' now.

Gambatte.

What I call Serfdom of the Self is when our identities, attention, and even emotions become dependent on digital systems we don’t control. We hand over more of our inner lives to these systems, and in return they decide the conditions of our existence.

Wow. You posted something without AI in the title. Good job!

Theft from writers and theft from artists are the factors, right?

If you build technology that will completely shatter the global economy, money and profitability doesn't matter anymore. Only control. I think that's the hook.

It's theft from artists, right?

What a nightmare. No matter how competent the robot, this is a nightmare.

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Is it theft?

Sounds evil and directly dangerous. What happens when the nazis get this tech?

learn your history, besties

"Hand crafted code made by a human"?

Remembering Chevalière d'Éon for Pride. A transgender woman in the 1700s who was also a spy and who turned double agent, extorted an entire monarchy to get her gender marker changed, and lived her life as a woman in a time when such was thought impossible.

We have always been here.

Current evidence shows we are definitely NOT "after the nazis". They're here right now.

Once again, you sound like you're arguing, but actually you're just shit-talking around the point. It's not about nebulous claims of confused authorship, it's about clearly mistaken claims that being the one who starts a text machine built from other people's writing is the author of its output.

of a desperate attempt to escape from a rational world and the boredom of consumerism.' "Consumerism leads to social pathology? Hard to believe? •It paves the way. Half the goods we buy these days are not much more than adult toys. The danger is that consumerism will need something close to fascism in order to keep growing. Take the Metro-Centre and its flat sales. Close your eyes a little and it already looks like a Nuremberg rally. The ranks of sales counters, the long straight aisles, the signs and banners, the whole theatrical aspect? 'No jackboots, though,' I pointed out. 'No ranting führers' Not yet. Anyway, they belong to the politics of the street. Our "streets" are the cable TV consumer channels. Our party insignia are the gold and platinum loyalty cards. Faintly risible? Yes, but people thought the Nazis were a bit of a joke. The consumer society is a kind of soft police state. We think we have choice, but everything is compulsory. We have to keep buying or we fail as citizens. Consumerism creates huge unconscious needs that only fascism can satisfy. If anything, fascism is the form that consumerism takes when it opts for elective madness. You can see it here already? 'In bosky Surrey? I don't think so.' 'It's coming, Richard. Maxted pursed his lips, as if to shut out all 105

This, from JG Ballard’s 2006 novel “Kingdom Come” (about a massive shopping mall in suburbia) is so prophetically on point it hurts