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🐰Orion The Witchiebun 🧶💜

@witchiebunny.bsky.social

A purple-loving bunny. Artist. Writer. Gamer. Disabled AuDHD Enby Polyam Demi Native Philadelphian POC transplanted to New England. I block AI and AI defenders on sight. Be Kind.

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Seanan McGuire@seananmcguire.bsky.social · 3d ago

The trouble with book tour is that I can't properly promote and shout about upcoming events when I'm on airplanes and running from one location to the next. Fun fun fun. But! Come see me tomorrow night in Redmond, WA for fun, and the kind of exhaustion that comes only from too much travel.

Brick & Mortar Books@brick-mortar.bsky.social · 3d ago

Hey, October Daye fans! 🕯 A reminder that @seananmcguire.bsky.social will be joining us for an event tomorrow (9/29) at 6:30 pm. No tickets/registration required - just show up to celebrate the twentieth book in this renowned series! #booksky

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 7d ago

This is what happens when you get loud and demand Dems not drop trans people. We CAN get orgs to realize this. But we can’t stop with Kaptur. She’s the worst but not the only one. There is NO acceptable anti-trans vote or statement or ad from a Democrat. None. GET LOUDER!

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 7d ago

The Congressional Equality Caucus has released the following statement in response to our story indicating they will not back candidates who "scapegoat transgender people." Kaptur does not appear as of this morning on their endorsed list. Several who took the same vote as her still do, sadly.

🐰Orion The Witchiebun 🧶💜@witchiebunny.bsky.social · 2w ago

I am somewhat critically low on my pain relief. I'll manage for another couple of days but after that I'm dependent on Ibuprofen. paypal dot me slash witchiebunny exists if anyone wishes to contribute to that. No pressure AT ALL. Please take care of yourselves. I have some options still!

🐰Orion The Witchiebun 🧶💜@witchiebunny.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's amazing - for years I struggled to put my preferred design style into words to find where to purchase items I *wanted* to wear, partially because I had no idea what clothing I might truly want to wear might look like. The moment I realized I could make my own clothing...I knew. :D

samantha@commiesamantha.bsky.social · 2w ago

translation: telling trans people 'enjoy the camps' is not an actionable form of harassment but multiple people yelling at that person for saying it constitutes harassment and they will be suspended. oh hey look at that, /accidentally/ you've created a ruling which says only the trannies get banned

For context here, a user was responding in a thread to other users (unrelated to the original post) when they used the phrase "Trans rights or Trans camps. You chose the camps and you're blaming Dems" followed by profanity. > is this user toxic? undeniably yes. Follow Are they threatening trans users directly? No. Trans folks in the US have been targeted repeatedly. That's awful and you have my sympathy. Within the context of a single post we wouldn't consider it a direct threat or targeting a protected category. Ie send trans folks to concentration camps. More broadly, does repeatedly attacking someone in a thread count towards harassment? Yes. Harassment is brutally hard to moderate though. It's a combination of behaviour + content, and the second you publish the details of the rules, people change their behaviour to avoid enforcement.
Hayes Madsen@solfleet.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you aren't familiar with Peter Thiel and his idea of Transhumanism, it feels like it's becoming increasingly relevant to the goals of the AI oligarchs www.techpolicy.press/digital-euge...

Digital Eugenics and the Extinction of Humanity

If we are to combat the AI industry’s push to build digital gods, we have to understand the ideology of the antihumanist project, writes Dr. Émile P. Torres.

techpolicy.press

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 2w 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
Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 3w ago

Straight talk time: Doomerism is BORING. It's the same fantasties rehashed over and over again, just louder each time. And with each iteration it seems that new audiences are being reached, and a new group of people needs to be talked down from unnecessary fear. >>

Parkrose Permaculture@parkroseperma.bsky.social · 2w ago

SCOTUS REFORM NOW. Alito is utterly detached from reality. Thomas is corrupt. Roberts is a Christofascist.

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 2w ago

Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

___, (slip op., at 9) (internal quotation marks omitted). As for the equities, the Government has a strong interest in enforcing the rule, and implementing it will also “en- hance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail” in order to better detect election fraud. 91 Fed. Reg. 54972. On the other side of the balance, the plaintiff States invoke the practical ef- fects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elec- tions. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not enough to convince me to deny the application. First, as the District Court acknowledged, the States dis-