alexschottenpoetry • & Threads 6h It would be really poetic if the cure to militarized Al is just painting decoys on the ground [picture of decoy on ground] ISRAELI MISSILE HITS HELICOPTER SHADOW DECOY ISRAELI MISSILE HITS HELICOPTER SHADOW DECOY AFTER IRANIAN GROUND ILLUSION TRICKS STRIKE

the LLMs can be defeated by POETRY, its only fair the ai can be defeated by ART

Also, remember you have to change the settings on both the browser version and the app. It unfortunately doesn't apply to both if you just change the settings on one.

If you can provide $3k checks for the entire middle class of America by taxing 900 people a little more, not only should you do it, but you should take it as a signal that your monetary system is broken

Because they're petrified of trans people who've transitioned early and are 'undetectable". They want to make transition—if allowed at all—as arduous, painful, stigmatizing, and protracted as possible.

To their petty thinking, trans people represent an existential threat to patriarchal 'norms'.

really tired of conversations about how we need to get people to spend more time offline that don't acknowledge that one of the reasons people ARE online is their access needs aren't being met in physical spaces. This is especially true for queer people and disabled people.

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

"Artists peak at 30", "30 under 30", "by 30 you should" ridiculous. Arts industries capital craves young people to exploit and burn out. It doesn't want older artists thriving and guiding the young. It also doesn't want artists to exist. Stop letting cannibals tell you you only matter on a plate.

I also learned from interviewing @edwincpark.bsky.social that there's no guarantee that people who get Medicaid through SSI will be exempt from work requirements either. Like, these are people who have gone through a lot of paperwork for the government to see them as disabled enough.

“They got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor”—Tupac

For a story in @thesicktimes.org, seeking organizers in any left movement work who’ve taken a break or fully stepped away from organizing sometime since 2020 due to Long COVID. They can be anonymous in the piece and may reach out directly at longdefeat.08 on Signal #LongCOVID #NEISvoid

I keep seeing posts about ai models like "actually they're good at this thing now!"

but once you understand that ai tools are being built by fascists in service of attacks on humanity, whether or not they can generate useable code or do basic searches kind of stops being the main question

Reinfection is problematic “It can be problematic if you are reinfected,” Dr. Rouhbakhsh said. “We know from a pretty elegant study that was recently published in Nature Medicine that each subsequent COVID infection will increase your risk of developing chronic health issues like diabetes, kidney disease, organ failure and even mental health problems.” Such evidence “dispels the myth that repeated brushes with the virus are mild and you don’t have to worry about it,” he added, noting that “it is akin to playing Russian roulette.” That is why “you want to try to avoid reinfection if possible. That should not be the mechanism by which you aspire to get immunity from the virus,” Dr. Rouhbakhsh said. New COVID-19 variants play a role “The virus is constantly changing, similar to what the flu viruses do and similar to all the things that give us our typical colds. They adapt, they have new variants that emerge, and these can cause reinfection,” said Dr. Rouhbakhsh. “Omicron has really been an efficient spreader of disease with its subvariants becoming particularly good at evading what protection we already have from previous infection or vaccines.” Now, at this stage of the pandemic, “we have some epidemiologic data that there are some BQ subvariants of Omicron in the U.S. and that's BQ.1 and an offshoot called BQ.1.1,” he said. “These are descendants of the BA.5 Omicron subvariant and they have some mutations on the spike protein that help it evade immunity created by both vaccines and previous infection.”

Each COVID reinfection "will increase your risk of developing chronic health issues like diabetes, kidney disease, organ failure and even mental health problems.”

"it is akin to playing Russian roulette” with your life.

Avoid reinfections. 😷

#LongCOVID sucks

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A majority of people on Medicaid who self-identify as having a disability are not enrolled through the disability pathway.  That means that the many people with Medicaid with a disability may be forced to work 80 hours per month or lose their Medicaid - which includes  many people with ME/CFS and Long COVID. “Of Medicaid enrollees ages 19-64 with a disability, about one third (32%) receive disability income (SSI or SSDI) leaving nearly seven in ten (68%) adults on Medicaid with a disability who do not receive disability income.” KFF “In 2023, only 10.1% of Medicaid enrollees (roughly 9.5 million people) qualified for Medicaid through a disability-related pathway.” KFF

A majority of people on Medicaid who self-identify as having a disability are not enrolled through the disability pathway. That means that many disabled people on Medicaid with could be forced to work 80 hours per month or lose their Medicaid - which includes many people with ME/CFS and Long COVID.

Whatever happens now, the whole region will be a river of blood for the next fifteen years. I fucking hate this so much and my heart is so broken.

Bro, ICE is still here kidnapping people, now they’ve even got transit vans advertising fake companies.

You know who won yesterday? People who have been protesting & mutual aiding & rapid responding & boycotting: it is those actions that helped shift views on ICE/DHS & with it eject Dem collaborators w regime in NC & shift others running toward the correct position that there is no "reforming" evil.

I have been for some weeks now collecting instances of Bluesky staff admitting/bragging about their use of LLM slopcode in the product and I am, by now, very *very* uncomfortable with this company's code (the PDS, which I've been self-hosting since I joined) running on a computer I control.

Remember when Rep. Greg Gianforte, now the GOP governor of the state, body slammed a reporter into a table?

We probably need to shut down the Montana Republican Party entirely until we can figure out where all this violent rage is coming from.

stores have no idea how much shoplifting takes place, they only know when stock doesn't match records. how much is due to human error, incorrect shipments, breakage, and theft is a guess. literally cannot know if shoplifting is on the rise.

this was a radicalizing discovery for me.

rewatching "she-ra and the princesses of power" before it leaves netflix feb 20th (😡).

the line "wicked people destroy what they cannot control" really resonates right now.

this is a work of art

Hey are you mad that some board game company is giving money to big mummy terf? Wanna get back at them? You can do that by buying board games from a trans-owned shop! That's us! We're doing a board game sale this weekend so you get bargains and trans people get your money for rent and cat food. 🧵

Title: Gender Census 2025. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!

survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets

I am fucking FUMING — but goddamn, I am so proud of this kid for having the wherewithal, the guts, and for refusing to delete the footage when threatened. He was arrested and charged for the footage alone

A pink card with black gothic text that says, "Why did this auction make me so sad?"

Hey, Crew. I've seen a lot of folks expressing feelings of embarrassment at their own reactions to the auction. "I thought I was over this" or "I shouldn't be so sad". But I'm here to say that NO ONE should be sorry to feel deeply about something. And yeah, it's about a show, but not /entirely/. 🧵

My point was encouraging respirator use in general, not bashing other types. I'm lucky if I see a surgical or cloth mask, and another respirator user is literally *maybe* a monthly occurrence.

I used N95 as a simple example most people are familiar with, not as a moral prescriptive.

Ship with fireworks - Patchwork Pirate Bear

Happy New Year, lovely pirate pals!

🎆 ⛵ 🎇

Here's to taking care of each other, and getting through the times ahead, and finding joy & silliness & fun ❤️

#OFMD #OurFlagMeansDeath

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