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I'm here now I guess. (he/him). Profile pic by @carniekisses

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janekiller pain@spiderdork.bsky.social · 9h ago

"trans rights are human rights" doesn't really cut it when libs have decided that human rights arent all that important actually "trans rights or else" hits them where they actually give a shit: themselves

Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 15h ago

The reason Kanye is allowed to continue to work & Macklemore isn’t is because the people making these decisions don’t care about preventing antisemitism they care about protecting settler colonialism.

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 9h ago

The thing is, people weren't even asking Ed Sheeran to take a stand for Palestinians. He couldn't even manage to be decent to his own supposed friends.

Elizabeth Sandifer@eruditorumpress.com · 10h ago

The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 11h ago

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Erin Redwing @realizingerin I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone. Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down. My experience was the exact opposite. The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong. Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom. I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise. At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position. I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well. That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have. But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse
Thembo@thembo.bsky.social · 14h ago

Between B*rnie, my ex-wife, the tenant from hell, and general chumpfuckery, this has been a cromulent fuckcrustable of a day. Themby needy drinky.

Staid@staidindoors.bsky.social · 10h ago

Ed Sheeran losing every supporting act and his backing band from this tour is the funniest possible outcome. This is what happens when you refuse to "pick sides" on a genocide.

Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨@unaminh.bsky.social · 12h ago

If over 22000 white kids in the west were killed, you bet your ass something would be done about it and celebrities would speak out. Yes I’m angry, no I don’t care if yelling about a genocide loses me followers! We all have a DUTY to not be weak ass cowards and to speak out about genocide!!

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h ago

American Samoans are nationals, but not citizens. Do you know what this distinction means? Neither did they, and the result was they were prosecuted for voting in a local AK election. The good news is that the prosecutions were dropped, but when you hear about voter fraud, its often cases like this.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 13h ago

For years, Alaska officials prosecuted (& persecuted) a community of American Samoans in the city of Whittier, threatening them with years in prison for the crime of voting. You may have read about this when we covered it in Bolts earlier this year. HUGE NEWS: Alaska just dropped all charges.

Don Hasan@golmia.bsky.social · 8mo ago

One of the most frustrating interactions I had 6 years ago was with some older Democratic voters. I emphasized the reality that "normal" was dead after 2016, and if we tried to go back to it, it'd just lead to worse things. The response I got? "I don't care! I just want to go back to normal!"