no, in fact, you are just another human body, whose flesh shall go the way of all flesh
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"here is what hormone replacement therapy actually does to the human body" vs "male testosterone is magic man juice that makes me into ZEUS"
i am also struck by how rapidly these discussions move away from the material details of ordinary human bodies and into something more like debates about idealized and abstract Male Form vs. Female Form, which are supposed to reside somewhere in plato's realm of ideas
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d agoit's interesting how many men get satisfaction out of knowing that other men can beat elite female athletes. like ok, maybe the best high school boys team in the country can beat a WNBA team, but YOU can't
I wonder how many degree programs in agriculture colleges at land grant universities this policy will collapse. I don’t think agricultural entomology pays particularly well, but good luck getting rid of screwworm without students helping keep university entomology programs running.
1. This is bullsh*t & an epically stupid policy completely detached from any empirical evidence: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 2. We could simply avoid this entire issue by <all together now> Funding. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Fitting the character limits and discussing an upsetting topic tend to inhibit nuance and diplomacy. I consider abrasive or imprecise replies on Bluesky more likely to be about phrasing than anything else, absent better context clues.
why do I often put scare quotes around "vulnerable" and "at risk"? because people are *made* vulnerable, and people are *put at-risk"—these are not stable categories. we all live in a state of risk, some more than others, and risk is not distributed evenly. we can all be made vulnerable.
It's like the "ideal" or modal person is non-disabled with no "pre-existing conditions", and everyone else is assigned a fractional (<1) value on the basis of their deviation from that "ideal". That's quite reminiscent of eugenicist logics.
Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA@arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 2d agoSo. This "underlying health conditions" / "pre-existing health conditions" framing is understandably upsetting b/c amid the COVID public health emergency, it became a way of discounting the morbidity or mortality of chronically ill & disabled people. The people behind MAHA leveraged this framing.
They think they're being clever eugenicists by saying that people with "underlying health issues" don't matter, but >75% of U.S. adults have a chronic condition (including 60% of age 18–34). So what they're really saying is "nobody matters, it's okay if everybody dies from inadequate regulation."
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d agoBreaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.
Here's the proper framing on this. "Following the intentional dismantling of most of the US government food safety surveillance program, a company that prioritized profits over providing toilet facilities for its farm workers has murdered 2 Americans with a preventable parasitic infection." 
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d agoBreaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.
This is a big part of why we should think hard before signal boosting bullshit
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3d ago“Conservative” politics in America have simply become a competition for who can say the most outrageous and provocative shit, while successfully baiting more famous people into beefing with you publicly. It’s almost as if this is the logical outcome of nominating a Reality TV star for president.
humans aren't naturally particularly good or bad. the great labor of each of our lives is to *make* ourselves good, and help the people around us do the same so that someday together we can build a better world. Being awful to random people online constantly just drags you & the world the other way
@gigercat.bsky.social · 6d agocontrary to what much of this site believes, your actions (in addition to, and more than your intent) matter and will modify who you are. treating people online like shit will eventually make you a worse person IRL. in order to be good you have to practice at being good.
On a political level this process of cultural atomisation that fragments shared bonds of understanding and trust between people is something authoritarian regimes want in order to prevent the emergence of mass collective action against them.
I’m not sure whether this is just a psychological difference or AI bros fundamentally don’t understand the nature of an artistic experience, but: I don’t want a personalised film/book/podcast. I want to see/read/hear the same one as everyone else, so I can read reviews or discuss it with my friends
if you want to know why people don't like "AI" it's exactly this kind of shit. Shoving in a profoundly disruptive instrument of functionally sheer malice for unclear gain. It's corporate making everyone go through a buzzword salad, but a direct attack on our shared sense of reality
Every single other voting bloc needs to step it up. White people most especially better fucking not make Black voters save us from ourselves again while they’re fighting off all the other racism and disenfranchisement right and left.
Jeff Yang@originalsp.in · 5d agoThank you, 87% of Black voters.
Take control of the metaphors and you take control of the system. Unfortunately, the metaphors that have organized a successful build out for this industry motivate further displacement of agency. The story demands an independent, rational agent emerges, so that what everyone thinks to build.
“Intelligence” is a frame that works like ideology. Once you lock into that story, you organize your observations around it. These metaphors make sense to the story, so advances affirm the myth, despite compelling, grounded and contrary explanations for the resemblance to self-directed behavior.
The “losing control” narrative creates the loss of control. Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to it, as a way of diffusing responsibility, but the self-perpetuated intelligence myth has them convinced they have no choice.
Anna Mills@annamillsoer.bsky.social · 7d ago"They don't realize the debate inside the companies is if AI will be advancing itself past our control in two years or four." www.pacingthefrontier.com
I knew the world would break a bit, once we were all connected, but the ongoing infopocalypse is wild. I wonder how many people died to a hammer, before we built a house.
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Here is a friendly graphic to help you differentiate between an detention facility and a concentration camp... The difference isn't hard to recognize. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. Concentration camps are brought to you by the letters I, C and the letter E and sponsored by the US Congress.
Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 6d ago"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
*joins you in standing, having produced what looks like a pocket Bible* I have citations here from my personal copy of condensed essential entries from Fanlore, TVTropes, and the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index that provide further explanation and context to anyone interested in further exploration —
*standing up on the plane* healthy participation in fandom demands the ability to engage with a text from two different directions simultaneously, in which it is BOTH a piece of media in the real world of which you are obligated to permit public critique, AND an imaginary landscape where you are God
Mo Ryan@moryan.bsky.social · 6d ago*standing up on the plane* No, getting together a TV couple with will-they/won't-they romantic chemistry is NOT a mistake. You may be listening to conventional wisdom about the TV show Moonlighting, but as has been comprehensively shown by an array of critics, that program's problems had nothing t-
This is a first. Just how toxic Twitter has become to warrant this.
This can’t be reformed. It’s not a training issue. The agents who murdered Pretti and Good, and who shot Sosa-Celis have been agents for more than 8 years. I’ll be voting for candidates who support dismantling DHS and abolishing ICE.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last wk."Tonk" is a Border Patrol slur that refers to the sound a metal flashlight makes when used to beat a migrant in the head. And that's the word that Border Patrol agents under the direct command of Greg Bovino were using when bragging about their arrests in Los Angeles last year.