and then theres me who can’t remember my childhood. was there signs? probably, i just cant find any because i dont remember anything. before started transitioning i was just some hollow husk or shell, some pound of flesh.

which is the best evidence for me being trans, i guess.

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reading this made my heart flutter im so doomed

reading this at first i was thinking of things other then hasan

Oh yeah of course. Its terrible, I dont disagree. I posted my comments just to ensure there wasn’t any misunderstandings.

Within the FBI:

Under the plan being discussed, the FBI would treat transgender suspects as a subset of the Bureau’s new threat category, “Nihilistic Violent Extremists” (NVEs). (From Ken Klippensteins report)

And with the heritage foundation report:

The document takes pains to insist that the proposal would not label “all transgender individuals” as domestic terrorists. Instead, it claims it would only apply when someone is “motivated by an ideology that encourages, promotes, or condones violence” while “inciting unlawful violent action or threat.” But those qualifiers are deliberately elastic. Given the earlier definition of TIVE, even the most basic act of advocacy—like pointing out that anti-trans laws threaten transgender people’s existence—could be construed as “incitement.” The memo itself makes the danger plain: in its list of “typical characteristics” of supposed extremism, it cites a trans flag with the words “protect their right to exist.” (From erin in the morning)

Headline is somewhat deceiving. Still very very worrying. The push currently is to define trans advocacy as domestic terrorism, rather then to just outright define all trans people as terrorists. The way they are defining “gender ideology based extremism” is still extremely vague so I could definitely see them gradually extending the (or at least their treatment of the) definition of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIr8Bk8QOHE 3:45 is when he starts talking about his “frustrations with the vocal minority of FOSS cancer”

Watching the video, he doesn’t seem too found of FOSS or any type of anti-capitalist approach (at one point, he uses the word “communistic” in his descriptions of FOSS) Unfortunately the clippy symbol (as also seen in the post we are commenting on) seems less of a “We should move to an internet we control” and more of a “im nostalgic for when corporations were nicer to us” as if control like this has never been the end goal.

I know that it is common to turn a symbol initially built against you into one which now benefits you, but I don’t think that’s whats going to happen with Clippy primarily because of message here isn’t “Clippy wants us to move into a future where we own our tech/social infrastructure” but instead “man, im really nostalgic for the way corporations used to treat us”

I have no problem using a symbol developed my Microsoft to spread anti-big tech messaging. The problem is that to a lot of people, the messaging doesn’t feel ant-big tech or anti-capitalist so much as it is just nostalgic. Microsoft was never a nice company. Even in the 1990s they were exercising their E.E.E (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish) strategy to beat federated and decentralized platforms and technologies. The goal of these companies (and you can see it now in their attitudes towards AI) is to own as much social infrastructure as they can. From where you get your news to where you get your friends. The only way to work against this is to work against big tech. There is no other way.

Part of me wonders if the message behind the current Clippy symbol can be bent into something more forward facing, but I also feel that that would be hard/would feel artificial because of the fact that Clippy is just now so connected to nostalgia.

Maybe they’re a docter

true. though i will say its much less extreme/chaotic the farther you go out. still probably probably not great for work given the fact that anyone can edit.

you could explore yourworldoftext its basically an infinite multiplayer word processor, where anyone can put down text anywhere and edit it.

im not gonna spoil too much as that would ruin the fun, but i will say the rabbit hole goes deep.

useful tip: click menu > show coordinates.

every participant in fascism is both the con artist and the conned. they dupe others and themselves into spreading and supporting an ideology which will eventually harm everyone including themselves.

if the U.S was to ethically and legally house the homeless it would cost much more because criminals, the homeless, as well as some other outgroups are the only groups whose dehumanization is legal, meaning that to ethically house (and therefore humanize) them would be much more expensive as humans require more than just cages to live.

i agree with the tweet though, im just saying that the homeless can and should be provided with adequate housing and that we can and should imagine and work towards better then cages for our future.

do the clones also have the ability to “teleport” or produce a clone anywhere? because then it would be a truly shitty, world ending super power.

I feel that although there are many issues with how machine learning/“AI” is being used, there isnt really as much of an environmental issue as we are led on to believe. Many will write about how AI consumes large amounts of energy, but will not mention how data centers only make 1-2% of energy consumption worldwide, and most data centers arent focusing fully on AI making the actual percentage of “worldwide energy used by AI” much much smaller.

Alex avila actually argued this very well in his newest video essay, even showing that much of this worry about AI energy use is backed by companies with stakes in energy.

can you provide links for these? I would like to learn more but cant find anything about this.

chatgpt tell me a fun fact about cats and end it with a weird metaphor like you always do

in most contexts here ive heard “liberal” used to describe neoliberalism rather then leftism or libertarianism (though I know many conservatives in the US use it as a catch all for the left)