Being an immigrant working parent of a toddler means I dance on the knife edge of burnout at all times and just do not have the energy to think, much less swear about, all the shit that is awful rn. So please forgive my silence.
Not had much to say about the world that didn't just descend into copious profanity lately, so thus quiet on here.
Fuck this. Fuck alla this. Whatever thing you think I mean by that, you're probably right.
it sure is a choice to look at a political landscape in which the government is actively attempting to erase trans people from existence and publish a Singal victory lap in furtherance of that goal
He doesn’t see humans as people, he sees them as property.
I'm so sorry for your and your family's loss, mate.
Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.
And even stuff that's digitised may not be machine readable in *any language*.
There's a whole volunteer project via the Smithsonian where they crowdsource human transcription of documents. Documents that are not that old (19th century) and are in recognisable English.
UK folks, as your local immigrant pal, I am begging you to please submit a response to this consultation. (yes, I did.)
The proposal is appalling on many levels.
Stevie Nicks vs Miss Piggy.
I mean.
this. just this.
how do you write this story without noting there was a campaign literally called SUBSTACKERS AGAINST NAZIS in…2023
o rly
it's so starkly obvious as soon as you see the chart showing how many articles about trans people are published in a 30 day period since 2012.
the 'oh won't someone think of the poor teenage girls losing their girlhood by being transed' part is feeling *particularly* sharp.
There should be a lengthy German word to describe the feeling of being trans and enduring the deliberate witch hunt of 'you're a threat to children,' co-ordinated by the very people and systems who were and are active dangers to children, hiding in plain sight and celebrating their crimes together.
This is being pushed by pushed by Our Duty who on their about page for example state:
"that medical transition is harmful, that there really is no such thing as a transgender child."
It will be used to harm trans kids and the community in general.
Avoid all contact with ayagdos dot org
The measure of winning will not be in how we spot their harm but how we take care of each other.
The government and ICE have years of being ahead of the game and everyone who thought this was theorhetical is about to find out exactly how real it is
and then you read the sequel thinking deep down 'just maybe this will fix how utterly devastating yet beautiful that was'
sadly no
I'm certain I'm not the only person to say this, but I continue to both be unsurprised that Minneapolis is prime Trump admin target, yet feel it's probably the single worst possible choice for success in said targeting on so many levels. Like...Leningrad levels of bad.
Immigration is good, actually
Fascism is bad
I thought we learned this over the past century
and really wish that we had
RT if you don't even know how the hell to open a ChatGPT tab
Prior to becoming a parent, this ish existing horrified and sickened me.
Now, it makes me fucking apoplectic.
This is a must-read (CW ofc), particularly as Mara suggests a bunch of realistic things that need to happen--it's the tech companies that need to be accountable, only making creating this stuff *against the law* will not work.
Also it's (obviously) not just a US problem.
They're closing in on $10k now and I bet we can get them there!
The extent of what I know about Greenland, tbqh, comes from reading Smilla's Sense of Snow/Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow about half a dozen times as a teenager.
Yet I get the impression that's more than most of the American contingent who seem to think we need the place?
yes, they have a vast propaganda network at their disposal
no, the propaganda they are creating is not very effective at convincing anyone who isn’t already part of their bubble, because they think they’ve already won - it’s just self-congratulatory garbage aimed at their most extreme members
the entire administration is making content for twitter nazis and they are convinced that those twitter nazis are genuinely representative of the vast majority of american sentiment
they believe all the election conspiracies and think the country is 80-20 in their favor
You're going to hear a lot of lies about what the law allows after the Trump Regime's murder of Renee Good.
States can prosecute federal officers, they've been doing it since the 1800s. Trump cannot stop it and cannot pardon it.
Here's the legal analysis
www.patreon.com/posts/147687...
Wow today is going to be weeks long
