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white people living in the white supremacy capital of the planet will tell you uncritically with their whole chest that they see themselves as uniquely gifted with complex thought and reasoning and everyone else as low iq normies, drones, npcs

all right so i put military technology developed for the surveillance and elimination of state enemies into the hands of the general public so they could use it to have group chats and go shopping but get this—they're all still using it to surveil and eliminate each other????

i think that growing up online and spending so many formative years grinding in the social media panopticon, frantically monitoring your community's unspoken canon of correct interests/behaviors for self-preservation or status, is really really bad for development! (1/4)

make america healthy again is all about eating more fast food and making lists of queer and autistic people but does not include cheaper or free healthcare which is interesting

What a summary of the anti-trans movement: March 23rd: female fencer competes in mixed-gender event, beating several male competitors, finishing 8th March 30th: same fencer films herself telling trans competitor “I am refusing to fence you, because I am a woman and you are a man,” collects $5000

The Fencingtracker.com page for Stephanie Turner, who competed in a mixed gender foil event on 3/23 and finished 8th of 32 competitors The video shows Turner taking her position on the fencing strip-blade ready, uniform on— only for her to toss her mask aside and take a knee. Sullivan approached her, thinking she might be injured, and asked if Turner was okay.
"No," Turner recalls telling Sullivan. "I am refusing to fence you, because I am a woman and you are a man."
The video of Turner and Sullivan went viral after it was posted to Twitter on April 2 by the Independent Council on Women's Sports
(ICONS), a far-right organization which aligns itself with known hate groups such as the Alliance Defending Freedom. It is not immediately clear how ICONS first acquired the video, but it catapulted Turner into the national anti-trans media ecosystem.
Less than a week after the post, the XX-XY Athletics Fund-the non-profit arm of an anti-trans clothing brand by the same name— dubbed Turner a "Courage Wins Champion," awarding her $5,000 and mentorship through a
"leadership program."
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · last yr.

1. You may have heard about the anti-trans fencer kneeling and conceding to a trans opponent. Now, news has emerged that she collected a $5,000 prize for doing so, while saying her decision will "destroy her life." She also called her kneeling "god's will." Subscribe to support our journalism.

I'm a proud mother. Whether I'm walking my son to school or reading him a bedtime story, I do everything to make sure he grows up loved and cared for. And for the sponsor of the drag ban to say that my existence is a fetish is false & cruel. I'm glad we were able to defeat this hateful bill today.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · last yr.

1. Today, powerful speeches from trans representatives in Montana SJ Howell and Zooey Zephyr flipped 29 Republicans, killing anti-trans bills. While some Dems like Newsom abandon trans people, these reps show the power of representation. Watch their speech. Subscribe to support our journalism.

In anthropology, we often refer to this impetus as "the Tyranny of Taxonomy." By virtue of forcing various phenomena into categories that can be quantified, you create the illusion that such categories are "real." Rather than methods through which to think about similarities and differences.

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 2y ago

most people want a quick and simple answer to why AI systems encode/exacerbate societal and historical bias/injustice and due to the reductive but common thinking of "bias in, bias out," the obvious culprit often is training data but this is not entirely true 1/

fed lil mans a grain of sugar and he chilled w me like this for half an hour. hope he had a killer day serving his queen or whatever bees do when they go home

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