Gin Valentine

@chekhovsgundam.bsky.social

🏳️‍⚧️ Aspiring kitchen witch, true trans soul redhead, permanent teacher's pet She/her. Australian, but a woman once insisted I had an English accent for some reason.

My eternal frustration with Wonder Woman is that it could be much more credible with only a few small changes. For example, if you give the plane a second set of wings, it's a lot more believable, due to bi invisibility.

The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.

My issue with paywalls that I do think rises above simple personal grievance is that the misinformation news outlets don’t use them & now people’s perception of reality is upside down & I think those two things are connected

i say this as someone who believes sports gambling should be legal: the digital sports gambling industry is the 21st century version of the tobacco industry, crossed with a 90s Boiler Room, selling something more predatory than payday loans or subprime mortgages. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/b...

At DraftKings, AI Targets the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose (Gift Article)

Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.

nytimes.com

if you don't think the computer is alive you just haven't used it enough. you just haven't done it right. you just haven't done enough research and read enough posts by other people who think the computer is alive. if you just used it more you would agree that it's alive

ideally i would love to support minority rights but in this case the minority in question is a minority of the population, so it just isn't worth it, mathematically speaking

Absolutely begging cis people to knock this shit off. "HUR HUR SIUNDS LIKE GENDER AFFIRMING CARE TO ME!" Shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up. STOP I hate mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmjmmmmmmmmmm

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Vale to the man who spent the final year of his life fighting to stop the government from closing the public health service that might save others from the cancer he had. (He succeeded.) Thank you Tim, you’re the best of us. Your footprint in Victoria is deep with your decency. We’ll miss you.💔

Photo of Greens MP Tim Read and announcement of his passing today aged 64