is anyone else annoyed that "ai" encompasses both chatgpt and tools we train to do repetitive tedious work for us. and by the ripple effect of articles like "scientists develop ai to detect cancer early" that make people argue for the merit of chatgpt or become anti-medicine. and by the general state of the world and society
"a lot of people would much rather imagine doing violence to a category of ontologically evil person than actually do anything to address the systemic issues that lead to harm in the real world" is one of those things you can say and it makes a lot of people angrily eager to prove you right it turns out.
ideal living situation is what i call the 'sitcom special' : having all your closest friends live in the same apartment building or neighborhood where you each have your own space but can wander in and out of eachothers homes at will, seemingly always welcome and never at bad times. and also all of you only have jobs when its important to the plot.
when u are holding a hammer everything looks like a nail -> when u are holding a point and shoot camera every sight looks incomparably ephemerally beautiful
the thing with conclave 2024 is you watch it and you're engaged and interested and it's a good movie while you're watching. and then three months later it's still in your brain. you've used every word in the world to describe it from cunty to astronomical.
all people assigned "male" are punished for engaging in things deemed to be feminine or for appearing overly sympathetic to women, but there is a real shift socially when a person stops internalizing this (believing that the punishment is deserved and responds by ceasing/hiding anything feminine, or ceasing/hiding identifying with women's interests) and starts defending their right to the full range of human expression and behavior & openly challenging misogyny itself.
all people assigned "female" are punished for engaging in things deemed to be lowering their value to men, or for appearing overly resentful of mistreatment by men, but there is a real shift socially when a person stops internalizing this (believing that their value to men is their value and that they are "broken" or "worthless" if they cannot provide expected labor or status to men, or believing that their resentment is a result of their own psychology or trauma to be unlearned or recovered from) and starts defending their right to the full range of human expression and behavior & openly challenging misogyny itself.
everyone is punished for gender nonconformity to various degrees, but there is a real political shift when a population stops believing that sexgender assignment is just "accidentally incorrect in 1% of cases" and starts identifying that it is a structure to facilitate a legal and economic class system, and that this system can be overthrown.
assignment enforcement is often a collective societal response that functions to isolate those who challenge their assignment, so it's easy to individualize one's own discomfort with assignment (to believe it's our responsibility to manage our discomfort alone, either through suppressing it entirely or degrading ourselves seeking permission from cis authority to make decisions about our own bodies under their supervision and with a paper trail that can be used against us).
but gender operates socially. by virtue of being social beings connected with each other in a thousand ways, we have the power to influence it collectively.
we are not in this alone. we can and must protect each other.
"we're unlearning propaganda!" you are 25 and should know by now that people living in other places than you... are just people... who live... somewhere else?
Kind of awesome being raised under a rock because I hear about a movie and go yeah I’ll check that out. Never heard of it before. Watch it. Get my DICK blown off. And then am like. Wow…… has anyone else heard about this critically acclaimed film with a 96% on rotten tomatoes that great filmmakers cite an inspiration for THEIR critically acclaimed films……..
Hello, My name is Mosab Elderawi, and I live in Gaza with my family. Life here has become harder than I ever imagined, and I’m writing this with hope in my heart that you might hear our story.
The ongoing war has devastated my family. We’ve lost 25 family members—each one a beloved part of our lives, taken too soon. I miss them deeply—their laughter, their presence, their love. Every day is a reminder of this unimaginable loss.
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btw you will miss this in 5 or 10 years. memory will smooth these circumstances down like a river stone, and you will find yourself longing for a shade of light or a moment of this particular innocence. you don't know about what happens next, and one day that will be the most alluring thing of all. don't leave it all for nostalgia. have a nice night now, whatever night it happens to be.