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you cannot kill your way to a better world

Fuck this. Kill your rapist. Kill your local corrupt politician. Kill all the rich assholes who are poisoning this world just because they have enough money to get away with it. You'll see how things improve

tributary

you’re not going to do any of that

but also

heinousier-bitch

And what's your fucking solution then? Kindness? You show kindness to the people that hate you and nothing changes. Hell, it even fuels the fire of their hatred. You show kindness to people in power who were already mass killing people and they just keep fucking going. "You're not gonna do that" push anyone over the edge and see them break. Not everyone deserves kindness and the world won't change until people finally take action.

tributary

there’s plenty of hard work you can do to move the needle, and it has nothing to do with kindness. while i think it’s better to calibrate your moral compass by compassion rather than hate, it doesn’t really matter how you feel. i care about what people do and the results they get.

and from that perspective, no, you can’t kill your way to a better world. people keep trying and trying that and expanding the list of acceptable targets and it leads to exactly the world that we have now.

there’s actually a lot of distance between “kill them with kindness” and “kill them all.” acting like it’s a binary option is a lack of imagination. there are plenty of ways to take action that aren’t murder, or rather making calls to violence on social media, and i think you know that.

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Old Sow Between The Trees- Hannalie Coetzee (2015)

puppygirllaika

This forest contains nothing but the pure sweet fat of the log.

hexjulia

so hard not to become the most annoying person on earth if you're a little excitable and just learned a little about a topic literally no one around you has any interest in

cavegirlpoems

tye-wig-music

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood is also exploring whether chemical castration could be made mandatory.

lowercasenospaces

This is about the UK specifically.

cavegirlpoems

See this? This is the trap. This is how they get you. You appeal to outrage and emotion, you make a bold statement like "sex offenders don't have rights" and whip up that righteous anger, get people all thirsty for blood and punishment, right? And that's their foot in the door. Once you've decided that there's a class of people it's okay to do this to, there's no clean line in the sand anymore, is there? Now chemical castration (or whatever fucked up shit you wanna bring into it) is an option on the table. This is how fascists talk, this is how fascists think, and this is how fascists appeal to you to get what they want. Because once you've given them that inch, they can use it to take a mile.

beloved-child-of-the-house

Alan Turing (as in the Turing test) was chemically castrated following a conviction for “homosexual acts” in 1952. He committed suicide as a result.

discodyke-dogthing

The second they convince you that there’s a class of people that don’t deserve rights, they can make you believe that anyone they want you to hate is a part of that group. Why do you think they insist so much that gay people were sex offenders? Trans people pedophiles? Black people rapists?

You cannot keep falling for this shit

manicpixiedreamgalpal

Plane tickets should be free if you really want to make out with someone who lives on the other side of the planet

ivy-michaels

You ever see another trans girl in public and get really sad that you can’t just say hi I’m trans too

whumpshaped

i see your "i dislike characters who talk like theyve been in therapy its more fun when they dont know whats going on" but i raise you "theyve been in therapy for a decade and theyve read all the scholarly articles on the topic they know exactly whats wrong with them and yet they cant logic and reason and rationalise their way out of their mental illness and its driving them insane because they shouldve gotten better years ago and they feel like theyre on square one"

threedollarsdotcom

welcome to radio channel where we play nothing but the sound of your parents car pulling into the driveway

garaks-padded-bra

I just looked outside and the mailman had been intercepted halfway to our door and was sitting with his butt in the grass petting my dog

garaks-padded-bra

eroscestlavie

whenever I go to the restroom and can’t piss immediately I get so mad because all I can think about is that weird sexist John Updike passage where he’s like “the pee got lost inside her mysterious Woman Body”

eroscestlavie

Me drunk as fuck & easily physically distracted knowing logically I have to piss sitting on a bar toilet mad as hell like IF I DON’T PISS RIGHT NOW JOHN UPDIKE WILL HAVE BEEN RIGHT

sistertaxon

this may be corny but like... genuinely happy international women's day to closeted trans women out there

dogpuppy

the-frightening-ghoul

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oywiththepo0dlesalready

cosmonaut775

Hey do y’all remember when Boeing fucking killed a guy last year. And we all said “huh I guess Boeing fucking killed a guy” and then went on with our lives. And everybody knew that Boeing had fully just fucking executed a guy and nothing came of it. Like there was no police investigation no justice no nothing. Like literally EVERYBODY knew that Boeing had full on murdered a guy to silence him and there wasn’t any consequences for them. Kinda crazy.

flamiemoonfox

and there was even less talk when openai did the exact same thing more recently

flamiemoonfox

So for those who are, very understandably uninitiated on this story:

On 23 October last year (2024) the New York Times published an interview with former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji who worked on organising and gathering data for OpenAI until 2022 when he begun thinking about the morality of it. He eventually came to the conclusion that what OpenAI is doing blatantly violates copyright law and decided to leave the company altogether in August 2024.

After he came out with this accusation he was set to appear in court to testify against OpenAI’s data-gathering practices, something which had the potential of being a complete disaster for the company and the generative AI industry as a whole.

That was until 26 November, just days before he was due to appear in court, when he suddenly and mysteriously was found dead inside his own apartment. Investigators concluded that the death was self-inflicted, something which his family has disputed.

There was also “sign of struggle in the bathroom and looks like someone hit him in the bathroom based on blood spots”, and his apartment showed signs of having been ransacked for evidence: “The pin drive is missing. His computer was messed up.”.

Overall it feels pretty clear-cut what happened, that is to say that OpenAI had him killed because he was a legitimate threat to their business, indicating that they are fully aware that the way they’re gathering data is completely illegal.

Sources:

Alys Davies, 14.12.2024, OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment. BBC News

Barney Davis, 16.1.2025, Suchir Balaji’s family demand outside investigation into OpenAI whistleblower’s death. The Independent

Cade Metz, 23.11.2024, Former OpenAI Researcher Says the Company Broke Copyright Law. The New York Times