And by that same token, education in the US as it stands today is also by no means a guarantee of being politically astute. I've seen PhDs and folks with all kinds of graduate degrees fall for easily debunked propaganda because it was in the New York Times.
Literally what even is the imagined utility? Is it that reading the news requires a reading comprehension level too high for AI users and they need most of the content slopped out to make it kindergarten level reading?
Why does my RSS reader need fucking AI? You have to read the output anyway, why would you take that over reading the original you know isn’t being mangled? Other than pure hatred for humanity?
I couldn't help myself
I don’t give af about mass murderers feeling bad for murdering our children.
You *are* a monster for mass murdering civilians.
You want to feel human again? Expose those who gave you the order to murder. Be a ‘traitor’.
Grow a fucking spine. 🧵
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite
The core principle of the abuser is that they do not fucking respect you, and they want you yoked underneath them. They will do this by any means necessary. No ideology is exempt.
I’ve probably said it before but I’ll say it again: the abuser does not care about holding a specific set of principles. The abuser cares about power. This is why you have people who use therapy-speak and social justice language to gaslight the shit out of their victims.
So yes, patriarchy can at once cherry-pick ideas of sexual liberation AND anti-sex ideas to put women down. Transphobic institutions can at once promote the idea of AGP vs HSTS while also promoting academics who think you should be okay existing as a null identity. It’s about control.
“Because that’s how abusers operate, pal,” is me attempting to tell you: the system in place to oppress you operates like an abuser. Abusers are not swayed by facts and logic. Abusers use any tool at their disposable to keep you under their thumb.
It is important to keep in mind that a lot of the natalist panic in the West is in response to a successful feminist push to reduce the rates of child rape.
(Teenage girls are statistically most often knocked up by adult men. I think the average age is around 23.)
Bluesky just sips from the intellectual lineage of crypto grifting, where you gesture meaningfully towards "decentralization" but really, 2-3 powerful players own everything.
and of course, because bluesky never really made a meaningful effort to decentralize the actual graph of the network (instead letting other people do the work for them, which is still ongoing), you would lose 90% of your social graph anyway if the bsky pds goes down
the current state of "decentralization" on atproto is that if you want this result you have to migrate to a different PDS and then you still won't get it because an attack or other outage might knock out some other part of the rube goldberg machine that is atproto
it turns out that when things are actually decentralized they're actually decentralized
Also like. It is true that I can log on to my fediverse account (@bruno@azhdarchid.online, if you're interested) and see all the people I follow and their posts. The only way I know about mastodon.social getting ddosed is by seeing it posted about... on bluesky
speech against the bigotry is not also an equal exercise of free speech, but is a "censorious" attempt by "modern society" to "constrain" the freedom of natural hierarchy. but the irony, of course, is that there is no such thing as "natural hierarchy". hierarchy must be
the right wing argument for freedom of speech to advocate for bigotry against censorship and against consequences takes this form: "freedom" is only freedom of natural hierarchy against modern society and speeking it is speaking forth freedom. in this state of affairs, counter-
the right wing criticism of modernity always operates the same: it identifies the alienation of modern life, but its solution is to respond to this state of affairs with the so-called "freedom" of "natural hierarchies": man over woman, white over racialized, family over foreigner, nation over other
Leftist and radical infighting is generally overstated. Not that it doesn't happen — of course it does — but its extent/severity are often exaggerated, especially the idea it's somehow unique.
Because I've investigated local governments, non-profit complex orgs, cops and the far-right, and...whew.
true crime brain has fucked people up so bad and they get really mad when you point that out. and also that the entire true crime industry is predatory and exploitative
Being 1000% clear, your immunocompromised friends (you have them, right? Well, you do now) weren’t happy with lockdown because we hate people and didn’t want to hang out.
We miss lockdown because that’s when abled people acted like they cared if we died.
Taxing the rich is using what is historically their tool of wealth extraction from the poor to try to get back a portion of the surplus value that doesn't belong to them in the first place. I don't want to tax the rich, I want to remove the means of production from their control.
One of the Sandy Hook families lives in hiding 1500 mi away from their baby’s grave due to people stalking them.
The graves of multiple children have been defaced.
One of the fathers had to submit DNA evidence to prove his son was a REAL HUMAN BEING after Alex Jones’ book said he never existed.
This. N95’s can save lives from wildfire smoke. The scientific evidence of the damage caused by Particulate matter is clear and terrifying.
which ofc means that the needy are the ones racking up the interest and fees that make the whole operation profitable for the credit card issuers
credit cards are an insane thing where if you are a person who needs one to make purchases you wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford they are fiscal suicide but if you’re someone living comfortably within your means they’re a great way to rack up a good credit score & get some cash back on purchases
Yes, Israel is destroying Lebanon's breadbasket. This is why I have been saying that Israel's goal is to destroy Lebanon itself.
No amount of AI literacy can protect us because the problem isn’t knowledge, or how to use the system, it’s that the system exists in a culture that has been radically structured around white supremacy and patriarchy and your precious autocomplete incorporates it into its operations.
Anyone arguing that some flavor of AI literacy will protect women from AI deep fake porn is at best unserious and at worst desperate to protect their automated goon generator. This is prima facie not a literacy problem.