When men lash out at women and children with incel killing sprees and school shootings, it's accepted as a fact of life that everyone is supposed to just deal with.
But when they lash out at cops and CEOs, it's terrorism. One is considered too many.
a significant portion of bad AI discourse happens because people are not sufficiently rigorous in disambiguating "AI", the cultural object into which the bourgeoisie have deposited all their hopes and dreams for a world where they no longer depend upon the proletariat, and which mostly serves the practical purpose of driving investment, with Neural Networks/Large Language Models, the technologies that exist in real life with actual use cases and actual limitations--or indeed in realizing that such a disambiguation is necessary
thinking about this today
legitimately my first feminist awakening as a ten year old child was realizing that girls were expected to respect “boy stuff” but boys were never expected to respect “girl stuff”
More Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) by Rien Poortvliet (Dutch, 1932-1995).
an american pope feels deeply weird
you should've seen the live crowd reaction where I was standing
If you’re european and can vote please sign!
In any case, share as much as you can
absolutely wild to me that I am leaning on the services of a state I am not subject to because my state, perhaps the most powerful institution in the world, refuses to protect me.
They actually make physical media for a much larger percentage of movies than they ever did in the past. Often with a lot more care than any small release was treated in the early dvd days. Its just if you only watch streaming stuff or the big new recent box office hits you won't see that. It is so ridiculously easy to get physical media for movies that even 5 years ago you couldn't even find. Like yes Netflix is a stingy bastard but so many things are available on disc WITH special features than ever before