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I think a lot about the ways in which some ideas are dangerous. Not because they can't be "good" in some ways, but that their use actually shapes larger narratives and therefore leads to specifically oppressive ways of understanding social relations.
And most of my anxiety and emotional distress is seeing those narratives be shared innocently and feeling unable to express how this idea is only going to end badly.
Controversial opinion, but I think the Coming Race was far less racist than HG Wells' work. It's heavy on the Orientalism - but the anti-humancentricism is actually quite comforting...
Also important to note that Orientalism was central to the rise of Nazism and the idea of the ubermensch. Specifically the exoticisation within Orientalism.
Does anyone have access edit a PDF to add in image descriptions that doesn't need me to buy Adobe Acrobat?
Accessibility shouldn't cost extra. #a11y #accessibility
Controversial opinion:
Six Feet Under is incredibly overrated. I don't think I liked a single character, and the ridiculous love / sex triangles were so tedious. And the toxic masculinity and lack of compassion is so frustrating.
Everyone says the ending is amazing, but honestly none of it made sense - is Claire really going to marry Ted? And why couldn't Brenda and Nate have an open relationship? And what is the obsession with the church and getting married?
All of them need serious therapy.
If you want to understand the whole OpenAI thing, this article is super helpful because it explains that OpenAI is not a real research organization or tech company like the ones we know: It's a cult. It's basically Scientology 2.0.
Quote:
"The consequences are what you might expect when a crowd of bright but rather naive (and occasionally creepy) computer science and adjacent people try to re-invent theology from first principles, to model what human-created gods might do, and how they ought be constrained. They include the following, non-comprehensive list: all sorts of strange mental exercises, postulated superhuman entities benign and malign and how to think about them; the jumbling of parts from fan-fiction, computer science, home-brewed philosophy and ARGs to create grotesque and interesting intellectual chimeras; Nick Bostrom, and a crew of very well funded philosophers; Effective Altruism, whose fancier adherents often prefer not to acknowledge the approach’s somewhat disreputable origins."
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/look-at-scientology-to-understand
When it comes to talking about "lived experience," why do so many people confuse having actual experience of being disabled and caregivers of disabled people?
Support matters, but it's not the same as actually experiencing it as a part of your daily life. Conflating the 2 can result in serious harm.
I mostly quit social media for mental health reasons a couple of months ago, but since then I've been feeling more and more isolated. I've signed up to newsletters, and asked friends to keep me updated.
What I've found is that newsletters don't actually include events anymore and that my friends have ended up messaging me less (because they don't see my existence often enough?).
I don't see any other option than restarting on social media which will harm me. 😩
tante