Alma

All I want for christmas is for the "AI" bubble to collapse and for the whole concept to be remembered alongside asbestos and lead based paint

When ever one of those AI bros tires to tell you that artist are gatekeeping art remember that pros, armatures, hobbyist all stopped what they where doing to provide guidance to a newbie artist over the shared experience that "this one angle is hard to draw"

#SaveSpeech

The call campaign is having an effect! The pressure right now is integral, if you are making calls, PLEASE KEEP CALLING. If you havent called yet or took a break, now is a GREAT time to hop on and add to the pressure!

DON'T FORGET The Payment Processor calling campaign is still going. Even if you can only do it once a week, do try.

Venteidene har bare fortsatt å bli lengre siden ventetidsløftet.
Og Vestre har tydeligvis heller ikke fått med seg de kriminelle etikkbruddene hos Riksen, siden han ser ut til å ha blind tillit til deres "kompetanse"

NRK og Helseministerens inkompetanse på kjønnsinkongruens er faktisk sjokkerende.
Vestre forsvarer lange ventetider med behov om grundig utredning og sikkerhet, som er et bullshit argument.
Forskning viser at lang utredning SKAPER usikkerhet og SKADER pasientene

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

ADHD panic moment:
Is the thing I recently started doing to become more productive actually functional and sustainable, or am I just temporarily more productive because the novelty of a new tactic just giving me a momentary boost in energy/focus?

Went from "You fool there is no bubble" to "Of course there's a bubble...and you're surprised?" REAL quick

She sees your fandom as affirmation, your money as funding for the harm she causes to trans people.

It doesn't matter how you feel about her work, whether it was a formative touchstone or not. If you still buy the merch or hype up Harry Potter, you are complicit.

american oligarchs uniformly abandoned a lifetime of democratic support because it was easier for them to believe that “based meme” accounts run by czechoslovakian teens were proof of a mass populist movement in service to elon musk than face the hard truth that most people hate their fucking guts

DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.

"The Most Powerful Man in Wanting Kids to Die"

Fixed it for you

It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

Dr. Atul Gawande: Hundreds of Thousands Have Already Died Since Trump Closed USAID

DOGE is disbanding after an estimated 600,000+ people died in other countries because of USAID cuts to lifesaving food and medication.

Elon Musk will go down as one of history's' most prolific mass murderers of children.

Anyone driving a Tesla is supporting a nazi.

4 frame comic. A street journalist asks a man with a monocle and tuxedo: sir! why do you think some Americans are being seduced by a fascist idea like sociALiSM? He replies: Americans calling socialism "fascist" is a remnant of the red scare. only heavy and sustained propaganda would make someone see universal healthcare, social welfare or public transportation as "infringing on freedom". most industrialized countries have embraced some form of socialism. even in the u.s., socialist policies and programs such as Medicaid, nat'l parks or labor rights are extremely popular—people just aren't aware that they are socialist. a century spent sabotaging socialist initiatives in the u.s. has pushed the Overton window to the far-right. individualism and racial disparities are obstacles to class awareness and solidarity. it's about time people come together.

It's about time

Twitter had to turn off its location feature within hours because thousands of prominent and "verified" MAGA accounts turned out to be foreign and I think it's hilarious that Elon was the one who exposed them all

This is to access a safe and reversible treatment cis kids with precious puberty receive easily.
This is not care, nor is it science. It's conversation therapy in a lab coat

Does anyone else feel like stress, financial pressure, and political strife have shortened your life? Not in a "I'm going to die sooner" way, but in a "I can only plan to survive a week at a time and there is no future to look forward to" sort of way. It's like...the PERCEPTION of life is shorter.

this is designed to age people out this isn't science it's state mandated conversion therapy

Demonschool be like
Namako: "Faye, no"
Faye: "FAYE YES"

I ship it

I'm assuming the NHS trial will claim blockers don't reduce dysphoria and are therefore bad, which would perpetuate trnasphobic trops.
The expected outcome is for dysphoria to remain unchanged on blockers, because as pubery stops dysphoria is prevented from increasing, as shown in better studies.

Genuine question
How should we measure the efficacy of puberty blockers in the context of a study/trial, if not by dysphoria?
I agree with your points, and I don't trust the NHS at all either. I'm just trying to understand what the alternatives are if we throw out the old framework

It doesn't help that this happened to trans people. Any other group likely would at least have gotten mainstream attention.

Feels like it'd take a Wakefield level scandal (children left with lifelong disabilities from physically invasive procedures) before something would get done

In short, there can barely be said to be a system for accountability in research at UIO. Lots of stuff you're supposed to do to get ethical approval and such, but effectively no means of punishment if you don't. The system as it exists is very good at letting bad actors get away with violations

Have we got it wrong on dysphoria? Abigail Thorn discusses trans healthcare - Trans Writes I would prefer to centre desire and will when talking about transition. To me, transition is more than meeting a medical need, just like crossing the Rubicon was more than Caesar getting his feet wet....

(Also the trial measures blockers’ impact on “gender dysphoria,” which some of us have been saying for years is an inherently pathologising diagnosis easily manipulated to curtail bodily autonomy, but ☕️🐸)

transwrites.world/have-we-got-...

transwrites.world/static/uploa...

This whole thing could apply to Norway as well.
The people in charge of trans healthcare got caught in multiple criminal ethics violations researching trans children, and doing conversion therapy, yet they still have a job and are prepping for a puberty blocker study like nothing ever happened

Google removes a variety of longstanding GMail features if you try to withdraw your default consent (!) to having all your content read and used by Google Gemini via "Smart Features." That's an obvious attempt to coerce consent for privacy violations. Legislatures must act to make this illegal.