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While Dark/Magic is my headcannon, Dark/Fire is my OTP. Is it better to be the best ending, or to be the true ending? Social Justice Ur-Priest.
Rob LandleyIf you're wondering why I'm so big into renewable energy (and the electrification of everything), and rooting for Ukraine to completely destroy Russia, it's because fossil fuels are _the_ source of fascism's money.
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@RosaCtrl One of the things that I miss about how 'old twitter' worked (that X doesn't work like) was how, with a little care, you could be on the periphery of a bunch of communities. Like, not in or of the community, but still *actually* connected to it. Whenever we get widespread situations like that, it feels like they get smashed by capital and replaced with toxic mimics (eg replaced by parasocial relationships with figureheads who stand in for the community). Language models seems similar.
I really hate how my group has shifted to doing weekly status report meetings first thing Monday morning. It is destroying my soul.
Cassandra is not doing great right nowAI is the logical extrema of those kinds of problems, where my labor is co-opted against my will to directly undermine my own immediate labor interests and to profit fascists who want me dead.
But the pattern is not *new*. Search engines and other automated indices have, for all the immense good that they do, also taken a lot of creative labor out of its original context in ways that can undermine or subvert the original creative intent.
Trash Panda
swachterApparently my ongoing evolution into full crone includes dropping bangers like "it's reprehensible that a bunch of men stole everything we ever wrote and want to sell it back to you" and "aren't you scared that the most unethical people who ever lived know so much about you" and "we eat three billionaires and the rest fall into line" on unsuspecting grad students who are trying to tell me that AI can be used for good
JPcrush this wherever you encounter it. crime numbers have not appreciably changed - what changed is that SF got a mayor that billionaires were happy with, and the doomloop narrative machine was wound down. rents are up 20% in the last year, homelessness is still really bad it's just been relocated 10 feet outside this guy's line of sight. tech is a scourge, SF is not a progressive or leftist city, it's been ravaged by decades of neoliberalism.
Clayton CubittRepost in the wake of the recent centrists vs Mamdani/DSA discourse
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Thomas FuchsLeft-wing parties in Europe could OWN making human life safe, comfortable AND in harmony with nature.
Instead they’ll be like “well sorry that you suffer and die when it’s 44°C out, but air conditioning is completely out of the question”.
They could frame it as “there’s this amazing thing that will make everyone safe and comfortable in hot and cold times, eliminate all emissions from heating, save everyone hundreds or even thousands of Euros in energy costs each year, and be a big investment in European companies and local tradespeople plus make us independent from Russian gas!”