Happy Pride I'm going to rank my queer romance books on their cishet representation 🌈🧵

ESPRIT DE CORPS - Kim Kitsuragi is a nice guy. Wish he was here right now.

This man has been doing good for decades, but also, damn, does he know protest messaging and optics. He's got his one-sentence, clear summary of what he's there to protest and he is going to make sure everyone hears it.

Tumblr post: generative AI literally makes me feel like a boomer. people start talking about how it can be good to help you brainstorm ideas and i’m like oh you’re letting a computer do the hard work and thinking for you??? Tumblr reply: There are many difficult things that were replaced with technology, and it wasn't a bad thing. Washing machine replaces washing clothes by hand. Nothing wrong with that. Spinning wheel replaces drop spindle. Nothing wrong with that. Generative AI replaces thinking. The ability to think for yourself will always be important. People that want to control and oppress you want to limit your ability to think for yourself as much as possible, but continuing to practice it allows you to resist them.

what they said ⬇️

I can’t believe how stupid everything is

Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

You know sometimes I save stuff to my memes folder and am like "who am I kidding I'm never gonna have an opportunity to use this where it makes sense" but lo

If you are a BLACK INDIE AUTHOR, reply to this tweet with a blurb about your book and a link of where to purchase it. If you are a reader please repost this! #booksky #blackbooksky #diversebooks #blackhistorymonth

Sure is a bad time to be a person who cares about things.

People, we'll always have Octavia E. Butler and we'll always have Ursula K. Le Guin.

There Is No Safe Word How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.

I hate every single possible thing about this, and I'm heartbroken about all of it.

www.vulture.com/article/neil...

Goddamn man he absolutely nailed it. It is entirely possible.

I don't know if this is an autistic-brain thing, but one of the thing that really freaks me out about the current reality is that I really deeply and fundamentally don't understand why anyone would ever choose cruelty over problem-solving.

The image is from a "Transparency Center" document and lists guidelines regarding acceptable and prohibited content for insults. It mentions: 1. Insults about: Character, such as cowardice, dishonesty, criminality, and sexual promiscuity or immorality. Mental characteristics, including but not limited to accusations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, as well as unsupported comparisons among politically correct (PC) groups based on inherent intellectual traits. 2. Highlighted section: The document allows allegations of mental illness or abnormality when tied to gender or sexual orientation, referencing political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality. It also acknowledges the non-serious use of terms like "weird."

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

"bypassing traditional milestones" is a funny way of saying that most of us can't afford to buy a house with multiple jobs, won't have children because we can't afford them, most of our degrees are useless, and we are the poorest generation among all current living generations

it is legitimately a good piece of creative advice to be like "be as unabashedly into your own shit as hideo kojima is"

I sat with Ted Chiang for lunch at NeurIPS yesterday, and someone working in AI brought up democratizing art-making. It was a candid chat and I know the guy didn't mean much by it—so I was like, hey, can I just say something?—I really hate the word "democratize" being used this way. Just say "automating art-making". It’s more accurate. Ted put it better than me and asked, "Do you say we should democratize marathon running? Why not? If you want more people to run, you don’t give them mopeds." We had an interesting conversation about the impact of word choice and then went to his afternoon talk, which was a full house!

This is the perfect analogy.
If you want more people to run, you don’t give them mopeds.
If you want more people to make art, you don’t give them image generators.
This doesn’t “democratize” anything

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Epic

Blocking Nazis, trolls, and fascists doesn’t make it an “echo chamber.” People need to stop gaslighting us into thinking we have to listen to Nazis and debate trolls in order to be informed.

i feel like i’m losing my mind because the democrats said the absolute bare minimum on trans rights during an election where you couldn’t watch sports without seeing 200 anti-trans campaign ads but now “the democrats are too pro-trans” is an opinion i’m supposed to pretend is based in reality

Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.

no actually I love being back in an era where it's a choice between being well-informed and losing my mind or being blindsided and losing my mind

This Is A Doom Post There are bluebirds in our apple tree this morning and I am sad for them. Sad for the tree, too. The tree is a crabapple tree, technically. It’s an old tree, bursting with fruit. The tree doe…

Wrote a thing. Because that's sometimes how I deal with stuff, by writing shit down. It's not a good post. It's not a hopey-changey post. But it's where I'm at.

terribleminds.com/ramble/2024/...

The University of Michigan Doubled Down on D.E.I. What Went Wrong? A decade and a quarter of a billion dollars later, students and faculty are more frustrated than ever.

At a time when far-right ghouls are banning diversity efforts and aiming to entrench a white Christian ethnostate, the New York Times bravely asks, 'what if they have a point?'
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/m...

The US South is already being hard hit by climate change, the burden is already falling on the Black and the poor and the disabled, none of which DeSantis is. Cheering on our deaths to stick it to a fascist ain't it.