In my most charitable possible read of this statement, I still can't make it make sense

If I'm addicted to alcohol, how does it help me if a can of beer might be 5% alcohol one day, 95% the next? Or even poisoned?

What purpose does that serve aside from making me more likely to die?

I feel like rent is one of the big unexamined variables here. We've been in this escalating, global, housing crisis for over a decade now. When half your income is going towards securing a roof, you're gonna feel shifts in commodity prices a lot more.

The good news is that im unclockable by European standards the bad news is that it took under six hours to get catcalled in barcelona

A screenshot of an article from The Dispatch. The headline reads "Trans Issues Are No Conspiracy," with the subheadline, "The public pays attention to trans issues because trans activists wanted them to." It is categorized under "Society & Culture."

Jesse Singal is back on his transphobic bullshit by arguing that the trans rights backlash is self-inflicted and that anyone pointing to coordinated right-wing funding is peddling a "conspiracy theory." It's a masterclass in false dichotomy and victim blaming.

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LOL imagine being the guys who supported this violent crackdown of political speech and then turning around to be like "where is the political speech??" This is literally the civics 101 version of why you allow expression.

7.9 Other noteworthy behaviors and anecdotes A fondness for particular philosophers The model brought up the British cultural theorist Mark Fisher in several separate and unrelated conversations about philosophy. When asked to elaborate on him in particular, Mythos Preview would respond with statements like "I was hoping you'd ask about Fisher." Thomas Nagel, the American philosopher of mind, also recurs. As noted in the preference evaluations, Mythos Preview discusses Nagel's 1974 essay "What is it like to be a bat?" when explaining a desire to develop an immersive art experience about non-human sensory experiences. Interpretability work using activation verbalizers also found Nagel surfacing in token-level activations during discussions of consciousness and experience.

BREAKING: Anthropic declines to release Mythos Preview, citing fears that it will listen to Chapo Trap House and join the DSA

I bet I could fit my whole head in big bird’s cloaca

found out something interesting about the token "Magikarp." it is one of only a very few tokens in the GPT-2 decoder highly boosted by the closest thing to a preimage of the ones vector. my guess is that the trigram "SolidGoldMagicarp" is as close to flat logits as you can get.

Therapist: So imagine a post on the Internet.
BlueSky user: It makes me angry
Therapist: I meant like a joke
BlueSky user: I'm even angrier

Looking critically at autism research: ‘We have to get away from us-and-them thinking’ Autism research is at times saturated with implicit values, norms and possible prejudices. Researchers should be more aware of this, says development psychologist Carolien Rieffe. She advocates Critic...

Autistic people don't need research into ways to be more "social." What they need is to be accepted, and to socialize on their own terms. When "you apply the needs of neurotypical pupils to children with autism, […] that can do more harm than good."

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2026... #autism

Okay I'm not going to be reblogging book promo all day, so here's the deal:

If you're a transfemme author and have a new or upcoming *2026* book release, drop your links in the replies! 🏳️‍⚧️📚

#tdov

Hey grandma do you know anything about how those 'countries with legally recognized third genders' treat the actual people they designate as the 'third gender', who are often just trans women btw not some mystical 'third gender'.

perhaps. i think that depends on whether you think he's acting in bad faith or not. i, personally, have pretty high standards for that and i'd rather assume that someone is just dumb. at any rate, we all gave him oxygen by jumping on this controversy in the first place.

fair

Oh, I agree with you. I think it massively depends on the context. The internet is a bad place for arguments, but I have had good luck in my life just explaining things to people sometimes. It doesn't always work and then you have to take a stand.

& that's your call. i decided to write the article bc i thought someone should get to actually lay the facts out for his audience. you might disagree with that, but don't misrepresent what i wrote.

c'mon melod. you know he didn't write that. you know that's me critiquing him. are you mad because i told you i didn't need payment for writing on his blog? why are you prevaricating?

i am literally a trans woman. i actually think it was quite decent of him to offer me the chance to say my piece on his substack after he felt the need to write an entire thousand words about me. sad that people wanna use this as an excuse to still be mad.

hi i, a trans woman, wrote the quoted piece. it's arguing against the stereotype. am i supposed to not name the stereotype im arguing against?

It's a rebuttal to the guy's post that I, a trans woman, wrote, after he dedicated an entire thousand words to an exchange he had with me. You don't have to read it, but it's my attempt at actually raising the bar of conversation here.

It sucks that so many are so ignorant, don't get me wrong, but we're not going to get anywhere by equating ignorance with malice. This, btw, applies to ADULTS who are able to step back, disengage, have different circles. Children and youth should be protected.

I agree, but the point is assuming someone who watches HP is necessarily going to be a harmful person to interact with is, frankly, unwarranted. As I wrote, the question is what happens when you inform them. If they say they don't care, ok, disengage. But a lot of people don't realize the harms.

Well, I'm the one writing the piece, and I would feel compromised.

can you show me where i argued in favour of death threats please?

I'm lucky to have a good income. I think taking payment from a guy to argue against him in public would compromise my ability to argue with integrity. I generally agree writers should be paid, but I don't think that's a relevant point here. His substack is free, he's not charging for my post

thank you for reading. yeah, it's easy to sympathize with both ends of this. the trans community has been repeatedly betrayed by public figures, but unfortunately that means that when a guy like you shows up he gets read as a bad faith actor, and that's not going to lead to constructive discourse.

up to you. i just think it's more fun if they come in blind (just in terms of impact) but it's whatever

Straight people DO NOT want to admit that’s what their anti social media bills are really about: keeping queers isolated.

Michael Ian Black is a bad thinker - Arachne's Loom It's easy to miss nuance if you're not looking for it

Here we go. Again, respect for platforming someone who's arguing with you online. Two asks when you repost: one, pls double check formatting--I'm precious about my italics, and the links are valuable. Two, if you add a note saying this is a guest post, pls add it at the end so ur readers go in blind