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Decolonial secular humanist & analyst. Autistic & ADHD, white, Mad. I got hit by a car end of 2020 and my hand doesn't work properly now.
There is no absolute objective frame of reference.
UK based she/her. DMs open.
COVID kills. Wear a mask N95+
There is no absolute objective frame of reference.
UK based she/her. DMs open.
COVID kills. Wear a mask N95+
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· Aug 12
Fascism isn't a disease. Fascism isn't a disability. Fascism isn't a lack of education. Fascism isn't foreign.
Fascism is a defence of established power and privilege through the dehumanisation of anyone that challenges it.
Fascism is a defence of established power and privilege through the dehumanisation of anyone that challenges it.
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in bad faith debate culture you 'win' by coming up with the most ridiculous and insulting things possible while also maintaining Proper Civility
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
in bad faith debate culture you 'win' by coming up with the most ridiculous and insulting things possible while also maintaining Proper Civility
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yesterday I found out that the dominant philosophy/ideology during the collapse of the roman empire is commonly referred to as
neoplatonism
😭😫🙃
neoplatonism
😭😫🙃
if all instances of X are reflections of a higher platonic ideal of X then all instances of X can and should be judged the same way
that's Proper Theory in the liberal sense
that's Proper Theory in the liberal sense
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
yesterday I found out that the dominant philosophy/ideology during the collapse of the roman empire is commonly referred to as
neoplatonism
😭😫🙃
neoplatonism
😭😫🙃
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there's no underlying core of higher truth about how the world should be in the data
there's only descriptions of the world as it has been and is
trying to cut out and ignore the ugly parts will not make them go away
there's only descriptions of the world as it has been and is
trying to cut out and ignore the ugly parts will not make them go away
finding data truly unaffected by racism would require a world without racism to gather it from
and we don't have that
and we don't have that
November 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
there's no underlying core of higher truth about how the world should be in the data
there's only descriptions of the world as it has been and is
trying to cut out and ignore the ugly parts will not make them go away
there's only descriptions of the world as it has been and is
trying to cut out and ignore the ugly parts will not make them go away
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they're the Proper People so they shouldn't have to think they shouldn't have to worry
that's someone else's job
that's someone else's job
I really believe the tech bros build Ai systems to give confident, if often wrong, answers because that works for them. That’s what they do every day. They don’t understand that most people *need* to be correct, that they don’t have thirteen safety nets to catch them if they make a mistake.
November 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
they're the Proper People so they shouldn't have to think they shouldn't have to worry
that's someone else's job
that's someone else's job
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finding data truly unaffected by racism would require a world without racism to gather it from
and we don't have that
and we don't have that
November 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
finding data truly unaffected by racism would require a world without racism to gather it from
and we don't have that
and we don't have that
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currently at 0/800 for 12/3 deadline. please help us stay warm and indoors through December. snow is here and my ESA dog and i won’t make it on the streets.
thank you for any and all help.
thank you for any and all help.
November 24, 2025 at 10:43 AM
currently at 0/800 for 12/3 deadline. please help us stay warm and indoors through December. snow is here and my ESA dog and i won’t make it on the streets.
thank you for any and all help.
thank you for any and all help.
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Why are these uppity students demanding we move the statue of the slaver, why are people willing to vote against brutal austerity, why are the transgenders *at all*, on and on, and the only explanation is: Demons have infected the public via their mobile phones.
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Why are these uppity students demanding we move the statue of the slaver, why are people willing to vote against brutal austerity, why are the transgenders *at all*, on and on, and the only explanation is: Demons have infected the public via their mobile phones.
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I see so many autistic humans afraid to name a need because they’ve only ever encountered punishment for having one.
We don’t resist support - we resist the cost of asking.
We don’t resist support - we resist the cost of asking.
November 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I see so many autistic humans afraid to name a need because they’ve only ever encountered punishment for having one.
We don’t resist support - we resist the cost of asking.
We don’t resist support - we resist the cost of asking.
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the ivory tower world where Jacobin is the far left isn't crazy
it is deliberately disconnected from the rest of the world because it wants to preserve the advantages it has
and deny the fact that the rest of the world doesn't want that
it is deliberately disconnected from the rest of the world because it wants to preserve the advantages it has
and deny the fact that the rest of the world doesn't want that
the people who think they're radicals cos they've fixed their political spectrum at the French revolution in 1789
rather than at US independence in 1766
they're the left of the US mainstream because the mainstream is incredibly conservative and right wing
rather than at US independence in 1766
they're the left of the US mainstream because the mainstream is incredibly conservative and right wing
October 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
the ivory tower world where Jacobin is the far left isn't crazy
it is deliberately disconnected from the rest of the world because it wants to preserve the advantages it has
and deny the fact that the rest of the world doesn't want that
it is deliberately disconnected from the rest of the world because it wants to preserve the advantages it has
and deny the fact that the rest of the world doesn't want that
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You can have more than a truce with your body. You cannot hate or punish your body into being "better" (read: skinnier, prettier, stronger, younger, abled.)
A compliance based relationship with your body is a carceral one.
A compliance based relationship with your body is a carceral one.
November 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
You can have more than a truce with your body. You cannot hate or punish your body into being "better" (read: skinnier, prettier, stronger, younger, abled.)
A compliance based relationship with your body is a carceral one.
A compliance based relationship with your body is a carceral one.
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There is quite a bit of trafficking that goes on through the two main budget U.K. hotels. Men with very young girls. Has been for years. The police do nothing. People don’t believe me when I say this until they see it. Plain sight is where the worst crime happens
How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
More then 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care
Charities say vulnerable young people are being failed by local authorities, the police and central government
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM
There is quite a bit of trafficking that goes on through the two main budget U.K. hotels. Men with very young girls. Has been for years. The police do nothing. People don’t believe me when I say this until they see it. Plain sight is where the worst crime happens
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the things that are normalised within politics and the media are not things that everyone accepts or believes
because they don't actually represent everyone
they represent an elite class that assumes it has the right to own and control what everyone believes
and it's collapsing cos it can't
because they don't actually represent everyone
they represent an elite class that assumes it has the right to own and control what everyone believes
and it's collapsing cos it can't
November 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
the things that are normalised within politics and the media are not things that everyone accepts or believes
because they don't actually represent everyone
they represent an elite class that assumes it has the right to own and control what everyone believes
and it's collapsing cos it can't
because they don't actually represent everyone
they represent an elite class that assumes it has the right to own and control what everyone believes
and it's collapsing cos it can't
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me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you?
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 AM
me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you?
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
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This is what the British state and NHS are doing to trans children.
In a "study", designed by associates of a designated hate group, into which these children are being coerced, because their internationally-endorsed healthcare has been banned on the bigoted whims of a religious ideologue.
In a "study", designed by associates of a designated hate group, into which these children are being coerced, because their internationally-endorsed healthcare has been banned on the bigoted whims of a religious ideologue.
(trying to gauge child mental wellbeing) Are you a criminal? Are you a criminal? Are you a criminal? Do you want to surgically alter your body? Do you want to surgically alter your body? Are you sexually active? Are you sexually active? Are you a criminal? Are you a criminal? Do you want to surgical
November 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
This is what the British state and NHS are doing to trans children.
In a "study", designed by associates of a designated hate group, into which these children are being coerced, because their internationally-endorsed healthcare has been banned on the bigoted whims of a religious ideologue.
In a "study", designed by associates of a designated hate group, into which these children are being coerced, because their internationally-endorsed healthcare has been banned on the bigoted whims of a religious ideologue.
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I really believe the tech bros build Ai systems to give confident, if often wrong, answers because that works for them. That’s what they do every day. They don’t understand that most people *need* to be correct, that they don’t have thirteen safety nets to catch them if they make a mistake.
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I really believe the tech bros build Ai systems to give confident, if often wrong, answers because that works for them. That’s what they do every day. They don’t understand that most people *need* to be correct, that they don’t have thirteen safety nets to catch them if they make a mistake.
they're the Proper People so they shouldn't have to think they shouldn't have to worry
that's someone else's job
that's someone else's job
I really believe the tech bros build Ai systems to give confident, if often wrong, answers because that works for them. That’s what they do every day. They don’t understand that most people *need* to be correct, that they don’t have thirteen safety nets to catch them if they make a mistake.
November 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
they're the Proper People so they shouldn't have to think they shouldn't have to worry
that's someone else's job
that's someone else's job
there's no underlying core of higher truth about how the world should be in the data
there's only descriptions of the world as it has been and is
trying to cut out and ignore the ugly parts will not make them go away
there's only descriptions of the world as it has been and is
trying to cut out and ignore the ugly parts will not make them go away
finding data truly unaffected by racism would require a world without racism to gather it from
and we don't have that
and we don't have that
November 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
there's no underlying core of higher truth about how the world should be in the data
there's only descriptions of the world as it has been and is
trying to cut out and ignore the ugly parts will not make them go away
there's only descriptions of the world as it has been and is
trying to cut out and ignore the ugly parts will not make them go away
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an elite culture disappearing up its own arsehole in search of the absolute divine truth of reality while everything it built crumbles around it
the more problems they see the more they detach from the world in favour of the hypothetical realm of ideals
the more problems they see the more they detach from the world in favour of the hypothetical realm of ideals
November 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
an elite culture disappearing up its own arsehole in search of the absolute divine truth of reality while everything it built crumbles around it
the more problems they see the more they detach from the world in favour of the hypothetical realm of ideals
the more problems they see the more they detach from the world in favour of the hypothetical realm of ideals
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neurotypicality is a myth as in an ideal concept that cannot exist in material reality
but it is also a social construct that does exist in material reality
because nothing is just one thing
everything is lots of things
but it is also a social construct that does exist in material reality
because nothing is just one thing
everything is lots of things
some people think that's how brains work
it's a relic of the natural philosophy of Newton's era that still dominates some areas of academia
the ideal rational actor has access to the instruction manual and therefore never makes mistakes
it's a relic of the natural philosophy of Newton's era that still dominates some areas of academia
the ideal rational actor has access to the instruction manual and therefore never makes mistakes
October 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
neurotypicality is a myth as in an ideal concept that cannot exist in material reality
but it is also a social construct that does exist in material reality
because nothing is just one thing
everything is lots of things
but it is also a social construct that does exist in material reality
because nothing is just one thing
everything is lots of things
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education as a mark of moral purity is a colonial concept
the enlightened civilised few with the 'natural' right to take ownership and control of all it surveys
conspiracism has become the only available explanation for the fact that their destiny has not manifested
the enlightened civilised few with the 'natural' right to take ownership and control of all it surveys
conspiracism has become the only available explanation for the fact that their destiny has not manifested
Yeah.
White men with college degrees are the biggest supporters of many of the most extreme RW conspiracy theories.
They need them to defend the belief that they are inherently more deserving than Others.
www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/n...
White men with college degrees are the biggest supporters of many of the most extreme RW conspiracy theories.
They need them to defend the belief that they are inherently more deserving than Others.
www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/n...
Who are conspiracy theory believers?
www.socsci.uci.edu
September 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
education as a mark of moral purity is a colonial concept
the enlightened civilised few with the 'natural' right to take ownership and control of all it surveys
conspiracism has become the only available explanation for the fact that their destiny has not manifested
the enlightened civilised few with the 'natural' right to take ownership and control of all it surveys
conspiracism has become the only available explanation for the fact that their destiny has not manifested
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We understand ourselves as neurodivergent because this gives us tools to cope with a world that is hostile to people with our different natures, not to be cool, this shit don’t make you cool.
I hate how as more people receive neurodivergent diagnoses or self diagnose, the culture still has this mocking idea that people are neurodivergent to be trendy. We don’t receive social benefit from being neurodivergent, at least not mad people. We’re mistreated & at the bottom of the ladder.
November 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
We understand ourselves as neurodivergent because this gives us tools to cope with a world that is hostile to people with our different natures, not to be cool, this shit don’t make you cool.
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differences of interpretation don't happen because people 'can't read'
they happen because meaning is always subjectively defined
but the models of language that insist that there is always one and only one correct answer make these differences impossible to resolve
they happen because meaning is always subjectively defined
but the models of language that insist that there is always one and only one correct answer make these differences impossible to resolve
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
differences of interpretation don't happen because people 'can't read'
they happen because meaning is always subjectively defined
but the models of language that insist that there is always one and only one correct answer make these differences impossible to resolve
they happen because meaning is always subjectively defined
but the models of language that insist that there is always one and only one correct answer make these differences impossible to resolve
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Person centered therapy was a big part of my mental health recovery and one of the things that really stuck in my mind was my therapist saying it was like I was looking for the manual that had all the right answers, and explaining how it can't be that simple.
The LLM is intended to be that manual.
The LLM is intended to be that manual.
“‘You think you are talking to an objective confidant or guide, but actually what you are looking into is some kind of distorted mirror — that mirrors back to your own beliefs,’ said Matthew Nour, a psychiatrist and researcher in neuroscience and AI at Oxford university.”
The problem of AI chatbots telling people what they want to hear
OpenAI, DeepMind and Anthropic tackle the growing issue of models producing responses that are too sycophantic
www.ft.com
June 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Person centered therapy was a big part of my mental health recovery and one of the things that really stuck in my mind was my therapist saying it was like I was looking for the manual that had all the right answers, and explaining how it can't be that simple.
The LLM is intended to be that manual.
The LLM is intended to be that manual.
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It’s nice just to celebrate that fuck, I’m here after everything & as hard as it is I keep going & I’m standing. So yay. Pat yourself on the back for that too.
November 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
It’s nice just to celebrate that fuck, I’m here after everything & as hard as it is I keep going & I’m standing. So yay. Pat yourself on the back for that too.
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Very intense airstrike by warplanes on Gaza City.
November 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Very intense airstrike by warplanes on Gaza City.