Flabberghaster

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here's a fun lil exercise for cis people: how many articles would a publication have to print calling for your extermination before you would expect people who care about you to stop giving them money? and how would you feel if their excuse for still supporting them is some fuckass crossword puzzle?

My timely take on BG3 is that I don't care for withersing your character to be a completely different class. I used him to like, fix a bad spell list, but it feels like too much to change your guy from Monk to Warlock. Not a big deal but I just, personally, think it's more fun to stick to one past.

It is a little fucked that people are still going to The Daily Stormer but only for their cute little word games. Like whatever there's no ethical consumption under capitalism and all that but can you find a word game online that's not attached to a propaganda rag dedicated to multiple genocides?

The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.

Since we're talking COVID: Masks work, ivermectin does not. Vaccines massively protect you and help against long-term stuff, but you need to keep up with boosters. You need to keep masking; COVID isn't over because WE DIDN'T STOP THE TRANSMISSIONS in 2020-2021. Also many are still at high risk

When people say "I hate AI", you know what they mean. Retorting with "Oh yeah? Spellcheck is a form of AI. What about classifiers to detect spam and CSAM? What about cancer screening image analysis?" You know damn well that's not what they're talking about. It's playing dumb to obfuscate the issue.

ICE has been in San Fernando Valley, CA every day now for the last couple weeks targeting Panorama City, Pacoima, Van Nuys and surrounding areas likely working out of their new field office in Van Nuys. This was in North Hollywood this morning on Lankershim and Cohasset St. This is just one of many.

I believe a lot of the "AI loses money!" stuff, while true, misses the mark. AI is a technology the ruling class are going all in on because they believe it will give them more power over the working class. I believe this is an investment in class power rather than a direct financial investment.

Derek Powazek@fraying.bsky.social · 2w ago

I actually think the trillionaire saying his AI tool will remake a movie without the Black and trans actors in it should be a bigger story because it’s a perfect example of why the ruling class wants AI to succeed: so they can remake reality without those they deem undesirable - every nazi’s dream.

it’s insanely funny that haus of decline’s content or publicly expressed views haven’t really meaningfully changed in years but within six months of coming out as a trans woman everyone gets mad at her like every three to six months

People heard the chuds derisively say "virtue signalling" all the time and eventually internalized that performances of good values was cringe, but I think publicly demonstrating what you believe in is good and we need more. I think we need to unabashedly normalize being nice and opposing hate.