You can't win with people who refuse to engage in communication. Inscrutability of reference, indeterminacy of translation. The gap between people. Language is a cooperation; if one side decides to deliberately misunderstand then it doesn't work.
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Nobody deserves to suffer. I repost things so that you can see them and you can spread them. We're in this together. I love art I will post my vogon poetry. That is a risk you take by following.
In both cases, at least in my experience, antifascists were able to parse the true meaning of these slogans with little or no explanation.
This is the new comic sans. It's how we know you didn't do any work.
merritt@merrittk.com · 13h agowhen did all AI art start looking like that. it feels like we've entered into a new phase of this shit
I'm judging this entirely based on the cover! (It's a positive judgement) I'm posting the image comics link here cause it was a lot cheaper than I imagined for 1-7 collected. Now I have to find out if my local shop can order it for me. Thanks for highlighting this! imagecomics.com/comics/relea...
SFSX (Safe Sex), Vol. 1: Protection TP
From notorious kink writer TINA HORN and featuring a diverse group of artists comes SFSX (SAFE SEX), a social thriller about sex, love, and torture.
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i think about this comic cover every day. i think maybe it is the most powerful image to ever exist
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: that pandemic destroyed us in worse ways than the obvious. Cooked roughly everyone’s brains.
Uncle Marvin’s Hightop@ladidadi56.blacksky.app · 18h agoLike, I’m convinced most of the American population lost their minds in March 2020 and ain’t been right since.
I’d argue that Pres. Obama winning the presidency cracked their brains, but the pandemic blew them right up.
Like, I’m convinced most of the American population lost their minds in March 2020 and ain’t been right since.
SO MUCH OF THIS! I'm starting to feel like Frank Grimes working at the Springfield Power Plant.
Uncle Marvin’s Hightop@ladidadi56.blacksky.app · 18h agoLike, I’m convinced most of the American population lost their minds in March 2020 and ain’t been right since.
yep. also we don't really know everything that's happening. wouldn't be shocked to discover mass graves around the concentration camps when this is all over, as just one example.
Ok - Now what@ok-now-what.bsky.social · 13h agoAnd to be fair... like, there are still armed authoritarian goon squads disappearing people into squalid prison camps and gunning down innocents in the street with no legal recourse. That's on the upper end of Bad Predictions!
I miss the days when platforms would at least pretend to be anti-Nazi.
Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook
An investigation found that Meta has been paying prominent neo-Nazi accounts to post on Facebook through its invite-only monetization program.
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Okay, so my new GP is going to get me on progesterone, and she's recommending pills. Thoughts?
I love a little poetry in the weekend. <reads poetry> Gotdamn that poetry got hands.
Good question! chat? ftr, I've been on estrogen for almost 6 years, and no prog
Tilly Brown 🏳️⚧️@quod-matter.bsky.social · 13h agowhat's the difference between it and estrogen bc i'm not on le hrt yet (religious parents) and i wanna know my options when i get out of here
ABBA fan who loves taxes not because they help build public services that everyone can enjoy but enjoys them solely because it made ABBA dress fucked up for years
Conservative activists have their senators openly gaslight them about Senate procedures, too. Really unifying when you think about it.
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 18h agoBy UNANIMOUS consent, the Senate adjourned for recess until Monday, September 14 without passing the SAVE America Act. Nobody objected to the request, or asked for a roll call vote.
New Mountain Goats album is very good, their best since Bleed Out. Darnielle is a hell of a lyricist. 'Shallow Grave' and the title track 'Days' are standouts.
Ideas about the world are built on evidence and previous information gathering. Sometimes people get ideas wrong based on incorrect information gathering and then other people base their models on trusting erroneous research. Plagiarism breaks these chains that allowing evaluation of flows of info.
One of the difficulties with the plagiarism argument around AI is that most people understand plagiarism more as a kind of cheating/theft/corruption (which it is) but with AI pressing the idea that "everyone is doing it" the idea that there's a level playing field undermines the "fairness" concept.
The thing is fairness is only a small part of why plagiarism is a serious problem. Plagiarism is inherently reality distorting. Academic standards around citation are only partly about mutual respect. A huge amount of the point of them is tracing ideas and explanations of the universe.
