Laz
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Teacher. Trans man. 40s. This is where I hang out to be very un-teacher-y, so please, 18+ only.
Whenever attempts to hyper-stratify queer identities comes up it's pretty inevitably gentry trying to gatekeep, weird drama or literal grifters trying to start shit for clicks. All worth rejecting, especially if you're trans. Narrowly defined queer communities are always to our detriment.
For younger people who were not there... Know that this country did not come together after 9/11. They went after every brown skinned person they could. Americans didn't know the difference between a Arab and a Sikh. We perpetrated and tolerated violence and misinformation on these people.
Coyote v Acme is the first movie since My Cousin Vinny to capture the essence of what it means to be a lawyer. In this essay I will
Today, one of the largest teachers’ unions in the US announced an agreement with Microsoft that prohibits the tech company from tracking student use of its AI tools. But when asked about what specific steps will be taken if Microsoft fails to follow the agreement, the company president pivoted.
A teachers union and Microsoft just made an AI safety deal. Compliance is an open question.
When asked about what specific steps will be taken if Microsoft fails to follow the agreement, company president Brad Smith dodged the pivoted.
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There's so much 9/11 discourse happening already that I literally just checked what day it is. Y'all, it is the NINTH what is going on
People also seem to conveniently elide the fact that Wikipedia became more widely accepted because it got much better, and consistent.
Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 5h agoBlogging, podcasts, and wikipedia were never considered the equivalent of slop in the pre-AI. They were often low prestige forms of writing with less quality control than big publications, but nobody thought they were thoughtlessly mass produced. They were/are the labors of individual creators.
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Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
Periodic reminder that your "concerns" about trans people are being beamed directly into your head by a small cadre of incredibly rich psychopaths.
Jessica Kant@jessdkant.bsky.social · 4h agoShout out to everyone who said it was just a temporary distraction and not a central organizing principle of modern fascism.
...given who is apparently funding many of these anti-trans campaigns, Dems should TURN EVERY SINGLE TRANS-RELATED QUESTION they receive into a REFERENDUM ON MUSK, his bigotry, & unregulated billionaire contributions to elections. make your GOP opponents defend that! www.advocate.com/politics/ele...
Elon Musk’s PAC makes transgender people its multi-million-dollar midterm target
America PAC is attacking Democrats in four competitive Senate races as the trillionaire prepares to spend at least $100 million helping Republicans.
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IMHO if you're a generally pro-trans Dem & the GOP hits you with anti-trans attack ads, maybe don't make pronoun jokes? I still think the best response by far is to call them "weird" or "genital-inspectors" or stress the GOP wants to insert themselves into other ppl's healthcare decisions
Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 7h agoGina Hinojosa responds to Greg Abbott's ads hitting on her votes on transgender people by saying "My pronouns are mom/Texan and soon-to-be governor." www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u1g...
Haven't heard about the ICE occupation in Memphis? Not a coincidence. It's harder to record the agents in Tennessee than it is in other states.
Memphis has spent a year under federal occupation. ICE would rather you didn't notice.
Watch as these officers arrest an activist for documenting from a reasonable distance.
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Such hubris to forever change the spelling of a word and then discard it from their brand name like it matters not - I will not mourn the fall of the Dunkin' Empire. Anyway the Dunkin' Donuts font & logo generator is here!
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People in my own family argued that the entirety of the Middle East should be nuked off the earth and took real issue with me having a best friend of an Iranian descent. A few years later when she took her own life, my uncle asked me to my face if it was a suicide bombing.
Lizzy Rose Oliver - Voice Actress@lizzyrosevo.bsky.social · 2h agoI lived in a conservative household post-9/11. I can tell ya that the "us vs. them" mentality was VERY much a thing and it was pure evil.
Any answer other than “who gives a shit, republicans are using a dozen kids playing JV volleyball as a distraction from looting the county and covering for elite pedophiles” is cowardly horseshit
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3h agoTalarico: "I oppose trans athletes playing in girls' sports if it endangers safety or fairness"
I was there and it was a deeply unpleasant time to be alive.
Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · 8h agoThere are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.
Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).
Study: Almost half the world’s farmers are poisoned by pesticides each year
Study: Almost half the world’s farmers are poisoned by pesticides each year
Some 11,000 die, with India accounting for nearly 60 percent of the fatalities.
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I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong. Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
Extremely funny how people spent 10 months getting hyped up about this mystery device that was going to solve all our problems and then the moment they revealed the Segway everyone was like "ah fuck"
John @notheotherjohn.bsky.social · 2d agoA weird thing that really happened around the year 2000 was that mainstream news ran and pushed a story for MONTHS that there was a secret new invention that was going to be revolutionary and then it turned out it was the Segway
Refusing to use AI isn’t a recalcitrant position. It’s the moral one. There is too much wrong with how this is happening to just “if you can’t beat em join em” this. It’s a lack of consent machine. An environmental destruction machine. An emotional and cognitive numbing machine.
First time animating a horse did i do everything correct yall?
Brdt-E@brdte.bsky.social · last wk.I had a dream today that race horses grew a hoof on their mouth so they could use 5 limbs instead of 4 to go faster Looked just like this
Welp, I'm down to my last 2 doses! Which means it's time to start raising money for more!!! And hopefully by the time I've lost enough weight, bottom surgery will be allowed in the UK again 😭 Please help a desperate puppy out!! Linktr.ee/Mireaze #MA #TransMA #SRS #HelpMe
I am on my hands and knees begging for this to happen! Even if it’s not actually good that should happen because movies being cynically canceled for tax write offs as a travesty.
Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️@ashleylynch.bsky.social · 2d agoBatgirl fans watching everyone get to enjoy the rescued Coyote vs ACME.
All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.
Accusing AI critics of not doing the reading is funny because usually it’s AI users are the most likely to have not done the reading So what now then
