Sebastian Z

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working and thinking in arts&culture, Cultural Economist, performance art enthusiast

 R'Damn / Mainz

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I am an excellent writer with an MA in English Lit, but in the last six months have been repeatedly accused of using AI to produce my work. I am now deliberately sabotaging my own copy so it seems more plausible that I wrote it. I hate living in this timeline.

today in casual misogyny:

Is there a page that features funny ones like these??

#funny #stalls #Gender #gendermainstreaming #whatsnew

butlerian jihad is the moderate position
an LLM is a compiler in the same way that a slot machine is an ATM

defending the opera: haha fuck yeah!!! yes!!

going to the opera: well this fucking sucks. wtf

Meta's own researchers flagged concerns about Instagram's effects on adolescent body image and mental health. Internal communications compared the platform's operation to pushing drugs and gambling. Now those documents are central to a product liability case that could reshape social media.
https://theconversation.com/how-instagram-addictiveness-lawsuit-could-reshape-social-media-platform-design-meets-product-liability-277066
How Instagram addictiveness lawsuit could reshape social media – platform design meets product liability

A lawsuit against Meta and Google avoids the issue of liability for content and focuses on allegations that social media platforms themselves are harmful by design.

The Conversation

"the most dangerous thing for platforms is not racist garbage. It’s unmonetizeable content."
– Ryan broderick

Taken from Cory Doctorow: https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/23/goodharts-lawbreaker/

Pluralistic: Deplatform yourself (23 Feb 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

I don't want a city on Mars.
I don't want AI in every app.
I don't want data centres in space.

I want clean water.
I want a stable climate.
I want bees to survive.

It is 222 A.D. You are the transgender Empress Elagabalus, "call me not a man for I am a woman". Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1776. You are "Public Universal Friend", a transmasculine nonbinary Quaker. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1906. You are Karl M. Baer, a trans man undergoing sex reassignment. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1930. You are Lili Elbe. Transitioning is new and experimental. (to be fair you did get a uterus transplant.)

It is 1966. You are in Compton's Cafeteria with a bunch of other trans people when the owners call the cops to throw you all out. You riot. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1969. You are Marsha "pay it no mind" Johnson. You are in a mob-run gay bar when the cops attack. You throw a brick. There is a bit of a scuffle. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 2026. You are a transgender adult or child listening to the NYT and British Guardian claim this is the first generation anyone has tried transitioning in. Transitioning is new and experimental.