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Original thread:
https://mobile.twitter.com/DianaMiller5/status/1522278413096132609?cxt=HHwWgoC53deJnKAqAAAA
Note, I am finding these threads on the twitter feeds of ICU nurses who are now dreading the horrors that Roe falling will bring to their hospitals. This, on top of the horrors that they’ve seen and continue to see because of the pandemic. They were already exhausted and hanging by a thread.
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Yeah, I made a video about That BBC Article, at least - about one part of it.
I also posted a thirst trap* on TikTok but you're gonna have to go over there to see it.
*at least I think it is, I've never posted anything like that before, heh.
TERFs don’t care about women
They’d rather erase women who’ve been sexually assaulted by other women just to promote their “man bad men are inherently bad” ideas and their “trans people are bad and predatory” ideas.
Yup.
Note: before anyone starts Googling Lily Cade, know that she wrote an absolute horrific screed on her website that called for the lynching of trans woman and the forced impregnation of trans men and non binary people with uteruses.
I've been on the Internet for a long time and the writing is easily one of the absolute worst things that I've ever read. I mean, it's BAD.
Video Transcription:
Hi, I'm Spider. I'm a non-binary lesbian and sometimes I talk about Queer things while I'm waiting for my tea to steep.
Tonight, I wanna talk about something that involves a discussion of sexual assault.
So if you wanna tune out, now is the time to tune out.
For those of you who are not on Twitter, or who do not follow along with the trans community news and everything coming out of TERF Island, the BBC recently published an incredibly transphobic article perpetuating the lie of the "cotton ceiling" and the concept that trans women will attempt to force or coerce lesbians into having sex with them.
One of the women who was quoted at length in that article is a cis lesbian named Lily Cade.
And Lily Cade is a rapist.
Lily Cade has acknowledged that she committed sexual assault against multiple other women and said that, you know, "I thought I was better than porn serial gropers, but it turns out I was just the female of the species."
So this is not in doubt.
This is a fact. She's admitted it.
But what has happened since that news came out that, or came out again, I should say, because it has been well known for a while.
She is the kind of missing stair that other women in the industry take care to keep the new kids and new girls away from because she will hurt them.
And since that news has come to the forefront again, the TERFS, Gender Crits, whatever the hell they're calling themselves these days, have crawled out of the woodwork to say that she's not a rapist because the UK's definition of rape requires a penis.
Which is true, and that's wrong, but that's a whole other conversation.
And to apologize for, to say that it's not really sexual assault, "Yes, some women are bad, but..."
And I feel like I'm beating the same drum over and over again, but this is what I'm talking about when I say that "Man bad, woman good" allows for women to get away with sexual assaults. Because that's exactly what's happening here.
The assaults that she had committed are being swept away by the people who want to hear what she has to say and want to say that trans lesbians are actually the dangerous ones.
So they're taking the side of a literal admitted rapist because she's a woman.
Because "Woman good."
So, again, this is what I'm talking about and that's why this concept is toxic.
Yes, thank you. That screed was written after the publication of this video, which is why I didn't address it.
Reblogging this for “I’d be remiss not to address it” reasons even though I’m like almost a whole-ass month late to it (I haven’t been on Tumblr much, sorry).
Additional point: Someone the BBC interviewed tried to warn the BBC about Lily Cade. The BBC knew who they were platforming and only took Lily Cade’s statements down once the reactions came in.
The entire article is bad from top to bottom, but they’ve left most of it up and are now bemoaning how the BBC is “perceived as transphobic”. Because they are, because they don’t give a fuck.
Another day, another 2 1/2 waterfalls found. Anderson “falls” (I promise it’s not just a log jam), Mystery Falls, and Misery Falls.
So looking at the map, I didn’t make it to what Micah had marked as Anderson falls. I just followed my ear to the sound of falling water (and that’s how I found those other two). The gray icon is where I went, the yellow downstream was where he marked. The upstream yellow is something I just marked but I think is promising.
Wilder and Diamond were precise writers. But when it came time to Some Like It Hot’s punch line, they were absolutely indecisive. They got as far as Lemmon ripping off his wig and saying he can’t marry Osgood Fielding III because, “I’m a man.” What comes next? Diamond suggested “Nobody’s perfect,” and Wilder said to keep it in so they could send the script to the mimeographer. But then they were really going to settle it. “We have a whole week to think about it,” Wilder said. “We thought about it all week. Neither of us could come up with anything better, so we shot that line, still not entirely satisfied.” Viewers felt entirely differently. “The audience just exploded,” Wilder said. “That line got one of the biggest laughs I’ve ever heard in the theater. But we just hadn’t trusted it when we wrote it; we just didn’t see it. ‘Nobody’s perfect.’ The line had come too easily, just popped out.”
Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder
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“It’s hard to imagine a more extraordinary claim than that some hidden intelligence created a universe of more than a hundred billion galaxies, each containing more than a hundred billion stars, and then waited more than 13.7 billion years until a planet in a remote corner of a single galaxy evolved an atmosphere sufficiently oxygenated to support life, only to then reveal his existence to an assortment of violent tribal groups before disappearing again.
– Lawrence Krauss
This is why they work so hard to remain ignorant, reject science and deny reality: because reality makes their gods look microscopic.
Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than it does on TVs themselves
In the simplistic account of what many call “surveillance capitalism,” the original sin was swapping our attention for free content, summed up in the pithy phrase, “If you’re not paying for the product, you’re the product.”
That’s a comforting frame if you think that the problem with surveillance capitalism is surveillance, rather than capitalism. If you think that some companies want to make money the honest way, by selling you stuff, while other companies are full of evil wizards who want to spy on you in order to deprive you of free will, then the answer is simple: just pay for stuff, and you’ll be fine.
But time and again, we learn that companies spy on you — and abuse you in other ways — whenever it suits them — even companies that make a lot of noise about how they don’t need to spy on you to make money. If a company has the power to abuse you — because of lock-in, or because someone else is making you use it — and if the company can make money by abusing you, it will abuse you.
Take Microsoft. It’s making a lot of noise right now about how it will beat Facebook to creating the metaverse because people trust the company not to spy on them (this is the same claim they made about their failed search-engine Bing, but whatever).
https://venturebeat.com/2021/11/12/why-microsoft-may-beat-zuckerberg-to-the-metaverse/
Microsoft doesn’t spy on you to show you ads, it’s true. But Microsoft’s work-from-home (AKA live-at-work) suite, Office 365, offers your boss a full-spectrum, asshole-to-appetite surveillance of everything you do:
https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/25/the-peoples-amazon/#clippys-revenge
They’re not spying on you to show you ads. They’re spying on you to sell products to your asshole boss who values the ability to strip you of your privacy and turn your lockdown life into a dystopian cyberpunk hellscape. This is a profitable angle, and Microsoft just announced a suite of expanded surveillance capabilities:
https://winbuzzer.com/2021/11/08/microsoft-365-to-add-increased-employee-surveillance-through-microsoft-edge-xcxwbn/
Microsoft is not a privacy-respecting company. It’s a company that makes tactical decisions about spying on you, and when it is in its interest to do so, it has no compunctions at all about invading your privacy.
Same goes for Apple. Yes, the company has done genuinely great stuff to head off mobile surveillance to block ad-tech (and, not coincidentally, to block commercial rivals like Facebook). But they also sold out every one of their Chinese customers by removing all working VPNs from the App Store and backdooring their Chinese cloud servers.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/apple-removes-vpn-apps-from-china-app-store/
Apple has a tactical commitment to your privacy, not a moral one. When it comes down to guarding your privacy or losing access to Chinese markets and manufacturing, your privacy is jettisoned without a second thought.
No one is giving away free Iphones in exchange for ads. You can pay $1,000 for your Apple product and still be the product. The idea that there is virtue in paying because it incentivizes better corporate ethics is absurd on its face.
The capture of the regulatory state by capitalism is why companies spy on you: spying only makes money if all costs (breaches, loss of agency, etc) can be externalized onto society, and if companies can manufacture consent by cramming an “I agree” button down your throat. In other words, they spy on you because they can get away with it, because the state permits them. We don’t have a federal privacy law with a private right of action, we don’t have statutory limits on terms of service. Even where you do have some rights, we let companies take them away with “binding arbitration” waivers that confiscate your right to sue them and join class actions.
Which brings me to Vizio. Vizio is a surveillance company that incidentally manufactures TVs. A Vizio TV nonconsensually spies on you and shows you ads, and it does so despite the fact that you’re paying for it. Vizio’s latest financials show that the company makes more money from spying on you than it does from selling TVs.
https://investors.vizio.com/news/news-details/2021/VIZIO-HOLDING-CORP.-Reports-Q3-2021-Financial-Results/default.aspx
As Richard Lawler writes for The Verge, the division that handles ads and surveillance booked $57.3 million in profits, while the hardware division’s profits were $25.6 million.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/10/22773073/vizio-acr-advertising-inscape-data-privacy-q3-2021
Vizio is a dirty company that breaks the law with impunity. The company doesn’t even bother with the pretextual “consent” that other firms secure prior to spying on you:
https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/6/14522582/vizio-ftc-lawsuit-tv-viewing-habits-tracking-privacy
And it uses software lifted from free/open source projects, flagrantly violating their licenses and stealing from the commons:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/20/vizio-vs-the-world/#dumbcast
The company gets away with this because our justice system treats corporate crime as a feature, not a bug, and allows firms to use the proceeds from their misbehavior to buy their way out of accountability.
Which means that “paying for the product” can’t possibly address corporate misbehavior, because the more money companies have — either through sales or spying — the more power they have to fight off a reckoning for their abuses.
“Paying for the product” isn’t just hollow, it’s actively harmful. Under conditions of gross inequality and high levels of debt, “paying for the product” excludes those who lack the means to pay from access to the digital world. If Facebook charged for access, people who couldn’t afford it wouldn’t dig a hole and pull the dirt in over themselves. They’d land on a billionaire-subsidized platform — a social media version of Prageru — where moderators would delete comments that criticized corporate power. This is even worse than widely recognized issues like, “The truth is paywalled and the lies are free”:
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/08/the-truth-is-paywalled-but-the-lies-are-free/
There’s nothing inevitable about an ad market that requires surveillance. Contextual advertising — advertising based on the content of articles, rather than data on the readers — is far more profitable for publishers than behavioral ads.
https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/05/behavioral-v-contextual/#contextual-ads
The catch is that they’re only profitable if the true costs of behavioral ads — privacy invasions, breaches and worse — are priced into the model. In other words, data is only “the new oil” if someone else pays for the oil spills. Otherwise, it’s the new oily rag.
https://locusmag.com/2018/07/cory-doctorow-zucks-empire-of-oily-rags/
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I’ve been doing therapy at cast centers, actually. I’m on medication, and I love myself now, or more than I used to. I don’t think I love myself at all, but I’m now with someone that makes me realize that I have some redeeming qualities, I suppose, and when someone tells you they love you every day, it makes you really think about why that is, and I think it makes you love yourself a bit more. So, yeah, I love myself.
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