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I don’t care how they’re marketed, these things are not wheelchair accessible, especially for large power chairs.
ID: a yellow and black plastic cable cover which is approximately 5-10cm tall with steep sides and looks like a small speed bump /end ID
Every time I go over one I need someone to help hold my chair and get me over it. Even with that support it hurts like Hell and has caused whiplash injuries for me in the past. It’s also very unsafe for others because even with support I cannot 100% control the angle my chair will end up lurching over it (and my chair weighs over 150kg without me in it so it’s not something you want to collide with). It’s also terrifying and makes noises that make me very concerned for my chair’s structural integrity.
If you want your event to actually be accessible to wheelchair users then consider using something more like this:
ID: the same kind of cable cover but it’s fitted with a much shallower ramp with the international symbol of access embossed on the black plastic. The ramps are about a foot long on either side of the cover /end ID
Fuck ever news outlet for naming the murderer and blasting his face all over the internet, but the trans woman he murdered is never shown and only referred to as "transgender woman."
Her name was Juniper Blessing, and she was just doing her laundry.
lately there's been a lot of Men's Rights people marked red on shinigami eyes that post endlessly about how totally real "transandrophobia" is sharing this post, and it makes me absolutely livid!
You did this! You fucking pieces of shit spread the ideology that did this to her! You don't get to fucking contribute to systemic transmisogyny all day every day and then turn around and say how sad you are when we get murdered. You are just as bad as people who oppose gun control and then offer "thoughts and prayers" to the parents of children killed in school shootings!
I hate all of you, and I will never forgive a single one of you!
As a trans woman I sure love having all this visibility that makes complete strangers break into our apartments to stab us 40 times while we're doing our laundry, or gun us down in the middle of the street while we're waitng for a bus, or kicking us out of homeless shelters so we freeze to death, or luring us into a park at night to stab us to death, or throw us into men's prisons for life for the crime of defending ourselves from a man trying to kill us. All those trans men sure are right to be jealous of our visibility.
I sure love how every thing has to be a fight between us. So kewl that trans girls and trans guys have to hate each other and fight and compete for rights. Its not a zero sum game you fucking chud.
Fuck off with this, love your trans brothers. None of us are free until all of us are free.
there is no single argument against including trans women in sports that doesn't boil down to "women aren't supposed to be good at this" and it's fucking insane to me that every woman in the world isn't up in arms about the way this issue has laid institutional misogyny bare to the bone
If you're at work in a retail or hospitality environment and you see a sex worker with a client... no you didn't.
If your boss asks you if you think that person's a sex worker, you tell them you do not believe that. You don't report their presence to anyone. You don't joke about it with a coworker. You don't eavesdrop or bother them.
We're working the same as you are. Leave us alone!
Some examples of situations where you might need to keep your mouth shut about a potential sex worker:
You see someone you don't recognize walk past reception at your hotel to head directly for the stairs or elevator or towards the rooms without acknowledging you at the reception desk. Yes, this includes when the person is wearing revealing clothing or a nice dress and heels. This is not your business.
You notice multiple men going to the same hotel room during the same evening, each only staying for an hour or so at a time. This is not your business.
You seat two customers for dinner and work as their waiter/waitress for the night. You see one give an envelope of cash to the other. Yes, this includes when there's a huge age gap between the two and they're being affectionate. This is not your business.
You overhear one customer ask another how much they charge for a night, whilst making drinks for them. You heard nothing. This is not your business.
I do not care what kind of retail or hospitality setting you work in. If you see a sex worker, no you didn't!
if the cops get involved, you know who gets punished? not any of the clients, only the sex worker. not a pimp, not the hotel manager, only the worker; and the cops are liable to sexually assault them as well.
if you have any qualms about sex work, you can start by improving workers' rights as a whole. demilitarizing police. increasing comprehensive sex ed for all ages. battling misogyny in the workplace. under the boot of capitalism, we all suffer - the most vulnerable, such as sex workers, suffer worst. leave them be.
people hate it when i say "black people getting cancer is racist" but im literally fucking right because systemic racism has led to chemical dumping being acceptable in black/brown neighborhoods and black people have higher rates of cancer as a result
This is an ancient tactic to handwave feminism in all forms since the beginning of time. "I wont take this feminism stuff seriously until a man tells me how it is." What makes this exceptionally transmysoginistic is that trans women are expected to engage with this criticism like its actually about inclusivity, and not just boring ass regular laughed-out-of-the-room misogyny.
I can't believe home depot literally produced a wildly successful science fiction musical and we all just pretend it didn't happen. on one hand yes it had a boring white guy main character but like.... home depot just... Made it? And it had shit ton of box office sales? and no one even talks about this. this is like avatar (2009) all over again
OK so. After a lot of frantic googling I realized this was all a dream. home depot did not in fact produce a wildly successful science fiction musical. I was on allergy meds and took a nap and my brain simply prophesized this. slightly disappointed because I wanted to watch it.
Text of tweet under the cut because it is loooong.
But... Stochastic Parrots.
Timnit Gebru was fired from Google in December 2020 for refusing to retract a research paper, and every single warning that paper made about large language models has now happened at a scale the industry spent 4 years trying to make people forget about.
Her name is Timnit Gebru.
She co-led the Ethical AI team at Google. She co-wrote a paper called "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" with Emily Bender at the University of Washington and two other researchers. The paper was 14 pages long. It was submitted to a top AI ethics conference. And it was the reason Google decided that one of the most senior Black women in AI research could no longer work there.
The story Google told publicly was that she resigned. The story she told, confirmed by 2,695 of her colleagues in an open letter, was that she was fired by email while on vacation because she refused to either retract the paper or remove her name from it.
The paper had not even been published yet.
Here is what she actually wrote, and why every prediction inside it has now come true.
The first warning was about scale itself. Bender and Gebru argued that training ever-larger models on ever-larger scrapes of the internet would produce systems that appeared fluent but had no actual understanding of language. They called these systems stochastic parrots because they would repeat patterns from training data with statistical confidence and zero comprehension. The paper predicted that this apparent intelligence would fool both users and developers into trusting outputs that were structurally incapable of being reliable.
This was 2020. GPT-3 had just come out. The paper predicted the hallucination problem before anyone had a word for it.
The second warning was about bias amplification. The paper documented in detail that internet-scale training data contains systematic overrepresentation of dominant viewpoints and underrepresentation of marginalized ones. The models would not just absorb this bias. They would amplify it, because the optimization process rewards confident outputs, and confidence in language patterns tracks frequency in the training set.
The prediction was that hiring tools built on these models would discriminate against women. That healthcare triage tools would underperform on Black patients. That loan approval systems would entrench inequality while presenting their decisions as neutral algorithmic judgment.
Every one of those things has now been documented in deployment.
Amazon's hiring algorithm penalized resumes that contained the word "women" in any context. Healthcare risk scoring algorithms used by major US hospitals were found to systematically underestimate the medical needs of Black patients. Apple Card's credit algorithm gave wives credit lines 10x lower than their husbands for the same financial profile.
The third warning was about environmental cost. The paper calculated that training a single large language model produced emissions equivalent to the lifetime output of 5 cars. The prediction was that the race to scale would create an environmental footprint that would eventually rival entire industries.
In 2024, Google's emissions were up 48% from 2019, and the company explicitly blamed AI infrastructure. Microsoft's were up 29%, same reason. Both companies have now quietly abandoned the climate commitments they were publicly celebrating the year Gebru was fired.
The fourth warning was about documentation. The paper argued that the training datasets being assembled were too large for anyone to actually audit. Nobody at Google, OpenAI, Meta, or any other lab could tell you with confidence what was in the data their models were trained on. This was not a temporary problem to be solved later. It was a permanent feature of the approach.
In 2023, researchers discovered that the LAION-5B dataset, used to train Stable Diffusion and other major image models, contained thousands of images of child sexual abuse material. The companies that had trained on the dataset had no way of knowing. The paper predicted that category of failure 3 years before it was found.
The fifth warning was the one Google cared about most.
Bender and Gebru argued that the deployment of these systems would centralize linguistic and cultural power in the hands of the small number of companies that could afford to train them. The internet would become a place where the dominant voice was a statistical average of dominant voices, presented as a neutral assistant. Languages underrepresented in the training data would degrade over time as more web content was generated by these systems and fed back into the next training run.
This is now happening in real time. A 2024 study found that 57% of new web content in English is AI-generated or AI-assisted. Researchers studying low-resource languages have documented active degradation in translation quality, because the synthetic content fed back into training is itself worse in those languages.
The paper Google fired her for predicted the model collapse problem before model collapse had a name.
The mechanism behind why this all happened is the part of her work that nobody quotes.
Gebru's argument was not that AI is dangerous in some abstract sci-fi sense. Her argument was that AI is dangerous in a very specific structural sense. The technology was being built by a small group of researchers who shared similar backgrounds, worked at similar companies, and were rewarded for shipping products faster than competitors. The incentive structure made it impossible for safety, ethics, and bias concerns to slow anything down. Anyone inside the system who raised those concerns was either ignored, sidelined, or removed.
She was making that argument from inside Google.
Then Google proved her right by removing her.
The team Google had built to make sure their AI was safe was dismantled in 90 days because they did the job they had been hired to do. Margaret Mitchell, the other co-lead of the Ethical AI team, was fired two months after Gebru for searching through her own emails for evidence of how Gebru had been treated.
Gebru did not stop. She founded DAIR, the Distributed AI Research Institute, in 2021. The mission is to do AI research outside the control of the companies that have a financial interest in not hearing the answers.
Every prediction in the Stochastic Parrots paper has now been validated by deployment. Hallucinations are an industry-wide problem the largest labs cannot solve. Bias amplification has been documented in hiring, healthcare, lending, and criminal justice. Environmental costs are larger than entire small countries. Training data audits remain impossible. Model collapse is an active research crisis at every major lab.
The question worth sitting with is the one almost no one in the industry will say out loud.
Every researcher with the technical credibility to call out these problems watched what happened to her in December 2020 and made a calculation about their own career. The number of people willing to speak publicly about safety and ethics issues inside the major AI labs collapsed after that firing and has not recovered.
The researcher Google fired for warning about exactly what is now happening was right.
The company that fired her is now the second-largest deployer of the technology she warned about.
And the people inside that company who agree with her are not allowed to say so.
Here we have someone systemically rejecting short men. They’re telling short men that they’re objectively unattractive and that no one will ever want them. They’re literally telling short men to kill themselves.
And who’s saying that? Is it an “evil foid”? No. It’s an incel.
When a woman who prefers tall men is pursued by a short man, usually she’ll just reject him so he can move on and find another woman who likes “short kings”. It’s very rare for her to say anything near as cruel as this.
Men enforce the cruelty, and women get blamed for it.
and to be clear it was mostly a synecdouche for the fact that CN and Disney had a couple of shows made by women, poc, and queer people at the time but also like. imagine. "a lot of cartoons of this decade have a similar art style. and it's a round art style" like imagine being mad at that. people were mad about that.
oh my god this is absolutely NOT what happened do you genuinely think that rounded artstyles is what killed cartoons and not the combination of youtube, streaming, covid, disrespect for the medium by the owners of media companies, and capitalism's autocannibalistic need to suck up resources and liquidate assets? do you really think the big heads and rounded faces are fundamentally different from animeesque art in the mid 00s, or tartakovsky-esque thick lines in the late 90s and 00s, or muddy realism in the mid 90s, 80s teletoon style, hanna barbara in the 60s and 70s...
people were mad that 1. the popular style was shifting away from the animeesque and comicbookesque art that they grew up with in the 90s and 00s, and 2. that we were getting stories about women, people of color, and queer people.
Power is shut-off I rely on electricity for cooking and basic needs, and I’m behind on rent. Lost job due to PTSD from SA/DV, currently in treatment. Please help me get them back on.
In the dark after my power was shut off. Someone kindly let me charge my phone & use WiFi to post this. I need $535 for electric and $1,200 for rent. Raised $415 so far.
The destruction of the white supremacist cishetero patriarchy is not going to make me any less of a dyke. Your stupid fuckin' stateless utopia is not going to change my sexuality.
In your perfect world where we don't have labels I'm still not going to be attracted to (nor will I desire sexual advances from) men, and I deserve a way to communicate that.
One of my favourite things about recent star wars is how they portray the empire.
Across multiple media, Obi wan, Bad Batch, Rebels, Andor especially, and recently Maul, we see how the empire only serves Palpatine. Nothing else. Nobody else. And he does not share power.
They treat the empire as an all consuming plague (as they should) . It doesn't matter who you are, Jedi, Rebels, Sith, Criminals, Common people, Even imperials themselves....EVERYONE suffers. The Empire does not care. It does not reward anything. Everyone is always afraid, always miserable, both the bullies and the victims. The Empire is truly Cancer, it just takes and takes and takes until it swells.
This also makes me genuinely love Palpatine as a villian within the narrative. He's just pure, unfiltered evil. Man is THE ultimate sith. The epitome of what it means to be a sith. Everything belongs to him, and to him only. He does not give a fuck about the rule of two, he does not care about vader, he doesn't care about the sith, he doesn't care about his officers, nobody. It's only him and HIS empire. Nobody else's. He finessed the galaxy into willingly making him a dictator by pointing out what others did wrong and making sure you're never looking at him and what he's doing.
There were many things wrong in the galaxy before his arrival but after the empire things get unmistakably worse, and I'm glad star wars is showing this considering our....real world situations.
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