"Purity culture *is* pedophilia and rape culture. It inherently sexualizes children, keeps them ignorant and controlled, and victim-blames them when they are abused."
A thread 🧵
half my timeline is just people smarter than I am posting "dawg" "chat is this good" "woof" and/or horrifying graphs
When you’ve lost LINDSEY GRAHAM
I am so serious when I say that there is a direct line to be drawn between Evangelism having no meaningful concept of the future save death and American conservatives having zero awareness of or interest in the future consequences of their actions
Opening bell, immediately trading halt
Please no, we already had a record breaking flood this year
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It is absolutely insane that the US appears to have targeted desalination plants first – putting them onto the board. Iran seems to have already retaliated against one in Bahrain. This is one of the most obvious ways this could spiral.
He declared all of Lake's actions over the past year to be null and void, including the layoffs of more than 1,000 journalists and staffers. n.pr/4sy0uhE
One of those game ads where you're supposed to solve a puzzle to save an endangered cartoon king
One of those game ads where you're supposed to solve a puzzle to save an endangered cartoon king
Those who claim to rule can't actually solve a single problem on their own, goddamn. Fuck off out of here with your absurd predicaments, tyrant.
don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
little hesitant here bc I don’t want to downplay how much safer you are if you’re white, but folks this woman was Norwegian. her whiteness didn’t save her. if you think you are completely safe from this regime due to who you are, you’re wrong.
Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.
So… I've been writing for about 18 years on the idea that if you somehow manage to make meaningfully conscious machine minds & then you treat them as tools, then you're enslaving those minds, and that's pretty messed up. And this ties into something else I've re-upped recently: LLMs can't say "No."
…You don't get to open up philosophically loaded words like "consciousness" and "sentience" and "souls" without actually thinking through what they mean if they apply; it's not all shiny fun happy times of "gee whiz bang! honest to gosh AI!" There's real implications to that label, and I know that…
Challenge for people who believe Claude *is* conscious and use it anyway: Explain how you’re not a slaver.
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
this is not incidental!
to be a liberal/pluralist of any kind requires accepting that other people will see things differently than you do and that you have no sanctified monopoly on the One Truth.
this is what illiberals hate about liberalism. it’s the starting point for many.
brianmcginnisnc Brian McGinnis' wife has NOT been allowed to see him in the hospital. He is currently awaiting surgery for severe injuries. Legal counsel has also been denied access. A Marine veteran. A firefighter. A father of four. And his family still cannot see him.
so apparently Brian McGinnis has been denied access to both his family and legal representation since a sitting senator broke his arm
I hate the future
The southern Baptist who is associated with NAR wants to talk about misguided religion?
You all say Donald Trump is anti-immigrant, but did you know his wife is an immigrant? *drops mic, saunters triumphantly back into the Nazi bar*
there's a lot going on right now but did you know a massive amount of the world's fertilizer flows through the middle east, and did you know that that fertilizer needs to be shipped to the us *right now* for planting season, and uh did you know we are at war with iran
Out: Vote Blue No Matter Who
In: PRIMARY THAT FUCKER OR YOU'RE A SUCKER
Obama is the only president to date born when there were 50 states
I feel like we typically see these sorts of completely outraged opinions from federal judges a couple times a year across the whole country, maybe a little more often in last few years. Now, in cases stemming from Trump's immigration crackdown, judges are ringing the alarm bell several times a week.
It's worth keeping in mind that Kansas has a strict voter ID law, so this law has essentially instituted a poll tax on all trans people in the state because they have to pay to get their ID replaced.
We've renamed the DOD the Department of War. Our troops are Warfighters. No of course we're not "at war" you dumb lib
