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Victor | 26 | Agender | He/Him/His

[moon111111]

[bruzum]

[lastvalyrian]

This is literally what people are talking about when they say AI will be used to mainstream widely held bigotry. LLMs are trained on frequency and probability -> straight relationships are more well represented in the dataset -> straight pronouns and terms become the "correct" normal.

This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).

Combine this with the mass of people inclined to believe (and being encouraged to believe) that if AI says and does something it must be correct

[belvedia]

I have a male character who is a healer. Every goddamn time I have an AI LLM on in a word processor, I will know because that fucking thing always tries to make Aza a woman.

It's a nice way to know there's hidden AI but also... fucking gender essentialist bullshit. There is no reason for it to think he is a woman other than the fact that he has healing magic. None.

AI is not the solution to any problem you have with your own writing. It never will be.

[animentality]

[cherryjams]

‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

[bladespark]

My mother used to make computer cores as a "work from home" side business. As a child I got spending money via un-winding the ones that failed testing so that the magnetic center could be re-used. I got between $0.05 and $0.25 per core depending. Mom got more for the finished ones, of course, though I don't know how much. Her sister was an expert, and did the more complicated kind, some of which ended up in satellites and/or were used by NASA!

They were all done by hand using a kind of treadle-operated frame with a little (crochet!) hook to pull the wires around the cores. The people making them were mostly housewives who did this as a side-job in the 80s and 90s. I don't know if it's still done that way anywhere in the USA today, but the history of computing and space exploration is littered with "women's work" like this.

[zinjanthropusboisei]

Cyberpunk Odyssey retelling where Penelope unweaves the techbro suitors' memory cores at night to prevent their Ithaca IPO

[roscolux]

need to beam this tweet directly into everyone's minds right now

[eucalyptus-sage]

we really went from "women and girls can do anything" to im just a girl i only do girl math im a passenger princess i dont drive i dont eat i just do haha girl dinner im so sillyyyy i wear makeup bc i want to i also try and define all women into categories that are marketable omg what if we were just girls and we were so useless and helpless

[eucalyptus-sage]

also if anyone wants to do some reading about this, it's a genuine phenomenon that occurs within most counter cultures. the main hegemony (capitalism) absorbs any part of the movement, and makes it something that can't cause harm to the existing power.

so yes, these quips start off as jokes, but if jokes weren't impactful then we wouldn't have spent so much time criminializing comedians, historically.

louis althusser came up with the idea of ideological state apparatuses, and there's an explanation of it here. it shows how we are systematically programmed through multiple facets of our everyday life.

these are my own notes about hegemonies

theres also this amazing excerpt from this pdf about counter culture being absorbed back into the dominant culture, which is capitalism

[quasi-normalcy]

I'd also like to point out that interpellation is why all of those debates about who is "punk" or not are so futile. Because "punk" has long since become just another market segment.

[consistantly-changing]

[Image transcripts in order: How do dominant ideologies operate to shape culture?

Operates to:

Limit - limits the range of acceptable ideas.

Normalize - makes ideology seems normal & every other ideology is strange

Privileging - privileging some ideologies over others; ruling class ideologies over others

Interpellation - ideology affects us through interpellation

What is hegemony?

The process by which one ideology subverts other, competing ideologies and gains cultural dominance through the own consent of the governed or dominated.

What is interpellation?

Interpellation functions by “hailing" us into social positions and identities. When we are interpellated, we are called Into being as a particular kind of subject. This process is called subjection. As a part of ideology, interpellation (being hailed into a subject position) also seems natural.]

[The first generation hippies did everything they could to violate the dress code of 50s society: men grew their hair long and wore beards, refused to wear suits and ties: women adopted miniskirts, threw away their bras, stopped wearing makeup - and so on.. But it wasn't long before these items and clothing styles started showing up in advertisements and on mannequins in shop windows. Soon department stores were selling peace medallions and love beads. In other words 'the system' seemed to regard the hippies less as a threat to the established order than as a marketing opportunity. (Heath and Potter 36)

As it turned out, rebellion against mass society is not the same as rebel- lion against the consumer society. What is more, as argued by Thomas Frank, the system co-opts the symbols of rebellion, assimilates them, makes them conformist, robs them of deep meaning and implements them in the market mechanisms.]

[femalepope]

My deepest darkest fantasy is that I collapse on the street and I am rushed to the hospital. They perform a bunch of tests and find out I am severely deficient in some kind of vitamin. Then I start taking the vitamin and I become the happiest cleverest person alive because all my problems were caused by this one deficiency

[caracalliope]

Moreover, everyone gathers around to be tremulously compassionate and discreetly admiring: all this time, you lacked the Vitamin? And yet you persevered?

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[bpwpbshika]

[woman-becomer]

imagine a goat with a hat

STOP-

what hat did you give the goat what is the instinctual hat you gave to this goat

[cykelops]

another history making marvel post I never see anyone talk about is “so is nobody helping blade kill all those vampires”

[cykelops]

found it

[phantomrose96]

Hey kids, you need to start worrying a little less about getting “#mogged” and a little more about getting “#smogged”. This is an Air Quality Index public service announcement.

[crabussy]

-> listening to a jaunty country style song -> hear the lyrics wrong -> pause. frown. go back a few seconds to relisten -> hears the same fucked up lyrics -> check the actual lyrics to see what it ACTUALLY says

-> oh!

[ainawgsd]

On the northwest Belgian coast, there is a little known tradition: shrimp fishing on horseback. The activity consists of what its name describes: fishing shrimp on a horse. In the 15th century, shrimp fishing on horseback was still practised on the North Sea coasts in France, the Netherlands and even the South of England. This activity represented an extra revenue needed for the household. Nowadays there is only one place in which it is still ongoing: Oostduinkerke, a sub-municipality of the municipality of Koksijde.

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[pangur-and-grim]

accidentally stayed up until 2. they got so tired waiting for me to go to sleep

[pangur-and-grim]

[hustlerose]

man, there's so much great art being made all the time. and we have access to so much of it, across many decades of time. i think if you wanted to experience a life-altering, generation-defining, truly powerful and sublime work of art, you could reasonably do so every week of your life and not run out

[lennguine]

float

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Being an adult will have you unironically craving a vegetable

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Being an adult will have you unironically sad about a parasite outbreak in fresh vegetables.