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Having them control the ontology is a losing battle. As soon as you get into an argument and don’t contradict the assumption that a woman is defined biologically, you’ve already conceded ground.

in fact that’s what I often say. But the pushback against “I identify as” seems to be largely because opposition dismiss it as “I think something that’s not based in reality”. That misunderstanding is on them, not me. I don’t, and we shouldn’t, change language to accommodate oppressors.

the “I am…” phrasing is a stronger claim, implying objectivity (which is also still true.) Which is fine if you don’t mind inviting an ontological challenge. It should be enough that I say I’m a woman for you to treat me as one. I don’t need to prove anything. I’m not saying you can’t say “I am”,

I don’t get the hate for the “I identify as a…” phrasing. It’s a true and irrefutable statement about what you believe. “I am a…” could indeed be synonymous for you, like the difference/similarity between “I feel angry,” vs. “I am angry,” but because of prevailing cultural beliefs,

Oh I thought you were saying hedgehog safety was transphobic i was like whaaa

selfie of a woman in an elevator, she has dyed red medium-long hair and is smiling with her tongue poking out slightly. she’s wearing a purple graphic tee with an axolotl drawn on it.

felt cute

and of course claude plays pokémon 😆

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Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code Today, we’re announcing Claude 3.7 Sonnet, our most intelligent model to date and the first hybrid reasoning model generally available on the market.

I don't talk about work much but I'm hyped that our Sonnet 3.7 model is released publicly now, it's a gamechanger especially with Claude Code. Claude is my pair programmer fr

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You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

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hi !

is it not possible someone just posted on her behalf? people often do that when they’re in the hospital or whatever

I’ve reported on homelessness for years and met many, many people who have found themselves in awful situations

Every single one of them had more decency and integrity than this privileged plutocrat

a gray cat lays on her side on a white couch. a darker gray cat approaches and they touch noses.

kitties

legs in sheer tights with small black dots arranged in a sparse grid oriented diagonally, a red and black plaid skirt sits on top under a resting hand

These tights are too cute

😢 I’m sorry

What does this test indicate primarily?

Hugs if you are accepting them

They might not have had to establish that, it could have just happened while they were gone.

Going to be so polite to you out of spite. ❤️

wait where? i've been looking for it

D&D Combinatorics xkcd.com/3015

Speaking as an expert on transphobia and the gender critical movement:

Block them. Hide replies. Report them. Do not "debate" them.

The fact that they are campaigning so hard against blocking and in favour of debate/their right to harassment should tell you - it serves their interests to engage.

Andrew Tate got banned from Bluesky in less than one day.

Another reason things are so much better here than Twitter.

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DeepMind's AI finds new solution to decades-old math puzzle The LLM got closer than ever before to cracking the cap set problem, which has perplexed mathematicians for decades.

Novel ideas, depending on your definition of novel, and idea, are something AI can come up with - thenextweb.com/news/deepmin...

I don't think that inherently implies consciousness, FWIW

If we cannot describe consciousness with any form of communication, then it does not necessarily mean the same thing to each person, and thus is entirely subjective and immune to any inspection or predictive power. To that end, what would a machine have to do to convince you it was conscious?

I would say by interacting with the world and observing what happens, we have an experience that we can combine with our existing knowledge - form some hypotheses - then test them. These are novel ideas, but they all come from inputs we have taken in / been "trained" on.

I would think that applies to people too. Along those lines, "how can we say people are intelligent if we can't define consciousness?"