"Erm, she didn't have to change anything about her platform to get Liz Cheney and a bunch of Bush-era Republicans on board!"
So close to understanding why the left wasn't super duper thrilled about what she ran on. So close.
In my experience, the gays who were active in the gay rights movement support trans rights now.
The gays who stayed home and scolded the activists for stirring things up are the ones who are now trying to ditch trans people.
Forever reminder that wearing a well fitted respirator protects you against more than just COVID
For instance seasonal allergies
Or a dying empire trying to save itself or perhaps condemn the world with eugenics
If you stopped regularly masking
Now's a good time to start
Mask Against Fascism
Palantir effectively declared war against the global majority. Eugenics, genocide and racial caste are clearly at the heart of its ideological project. AI and mass surveillance are merely the weapons to materialize its project against humanity
Idk maybe the answer to “we’re outright monsters and we’re going to act like it constantly” should be something along the lines of “we’re good people who believe in democratic governance and we’re going to act like it” instead of “yo fuck them kids, more money for wars and me personally”
Note what the Republicans did: they promised their voters exactly what the voters wanted, in great detail with full operational plans, and delivered on all of it immediately.
Maybe Democrats could try something like that? Like… make a plan? Let people know the plan? And then do the plan?
“We would like to do wars none of you want and also we’re going to keep reducing the services we offer, also stop asking about why all our personal financial transactions look like insider trading” wasn’t a winning platform, who coulda thunk it?
Democrats just out here scromiting into the microphone that it’s not fair how they lost the last election by taking unpopular positions on foreign policy and offering nothing domestically. Y’all could actually stand for something, but nah - scromiting all the way to that juicy speaker’s fee.
The main thing with elections is that you have to convince people to vote for you, you see. If you can’t do that part, you are definitionally not so good at elections.
I’m excited to watch Cory Booker absolutely fail to become president.
Maybe instead of complaining about the last election the Democrats should consider running candidates who people actually want to vote for? Who actually align with the electorate?
"Of course, we have to teach our students about AI technologies. Teaching about AI technologies
should be just like how we teach ‘no smoking’ or the causal links between lung cancer and cigarette
smoke; yet, we do not teach students how to roll cigarettes and smoke them." - I love it.
I hate Al and I refuse to use it Peter, if you don't use Al a bunch of super rich men will lose a lot of money I already said I hated Al Harry, you don't need to sell it to me
Not even kidding: considering the ethics work you do, please consider keeping/reactivating it. Your campus is absolutely lovely but my own experience suggests that doesn’t keep horrible folks from elsewhere from showing up.
And it’s formed the basis of entire academic fields
I believe the frame that minoritized scholars are helped by unethical tech is a trap to avoid. We better fight the system of inequities ourselves & not buy into industry frames trying to sell their discriminatory, polluting, and exploitative tech as "inclusion".
bsky.app/profile/iris...
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
At a time when mass surveillance and autonomous weapons companies like Palantir are openly announcing their plans for violent world domination, it is crucial that our attempts at “big tech reform” don’t actually give them more power—ie via government mandated age verification/identity software
Similar on-campus incident with my office last spring for me too 💜🫂 campus hasn’t been the same since but slowly moving towards being there more as security stuff gets in place
Like the world is falling apart and let me tell you it fucking sucks to be a trans woman who is an educator right now but also idk I’m pretty I’m vibing I’m resisting
Sometimes you do look in the mirror and it’s like “oh, right, I’m pretty now” and you do need to let that carry you for the next few days
Yeah, we’re honestly not going nearly hard or militant ENOUGH against big tech and it’s starting to feel like anyone trying to carve out a “middle path” on AI and surveillance tech is less peacemaker, more collaborator/willing lackey of the fascists
One of the most important things you can do to build trans community is to not be creepy as shit to other trans women.
I fled Utah after living there for 15 years due to the constant attacks on trans people, even the University of Utah hospital capitulating in advance of expected bans.
Moving took every cent I had and I worry it still won't be enough, not when hospitals keep treating us as expendable.
*Nathan Explosion voice* I'M EATING CHIPS
And uh... every picture my wife takes of me... I'm eating tortilla chips? Hmm.
I mean they're good, is the thing.
One of the standing problems here is that I can't not just make goofy-ass faces or fake-serious faces, like I am constitutionally incapable of taking a selfie the right amount of seriously
I should post more selfies.
I mean, I'd need to TAKE selfies first.
But the theory lines up.
TBH the standing members of my group didn't need a formal policy, but we're bringing in new undergrads and master's students in the fall and we're trying to account for how much undergraduate CS education in particular has turned into "here's how to use Claude"
I need to start writing this stuff down and charging college presidents $10k to read it
As always, I am pushing the controversial "students should learn things" point of view