My unified theory is the internet allowed marginalized groups to challenge institutions that were previously able to ignore them, but many of these institutions just got better at talking the talk rather than making the changes sought by those groups, allowing them to easily be pulled to the right.

To be clear: Chat GPT is really good at reflecting out institutional biases in its output. It’s so good at this that DEI groups should use the fucking thing to audit those values through training the algorithm on the institution.

Unlike human agents, ChatGPT won’t lie about it’s values.

I don’t have student debt but I believe in student debt forgiveness.
I can’t get pregnant but I believe abortion should be legal.
I’m straight and cis but I am pro same-sex marriage and trans rights.
Welcome to It’s Not Always About You 101.

one milkshake to bring all the boys to the yard and in the darkness bind them

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Be at peace with it.
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I have very little patience for doomerism in general, which I tend to think is an embarrassment to every ape that ever threw a rock at a bear to protect the tribe. We are social creatures and the work never ends. Doomerism is a selfish concept that aims to destroy solidarity, and thus it is my enemy

This is basically the experience of scrolling Bluesky

Not enough SF captures the mundanity of The Future. Like Sunday, the day when you remember to recharge your watch, bicycle, books, smoking pipe, headphones, work headphones, keyboard, and car.

"But not your phone?"
"Phones you have to recharge every night."

I dunno if the artist had @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com in mind when he made it, but I think this synthwave remix of Metallica's "Sandman" ought to be Dream's new theme song.
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Most awesomest cover ever! Sandman as synthwave!
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Remember.

IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SPACE TRAVEL!

I want my money back.

"We know things are bad – worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is: ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms.'"

This. I don’t want a smart appliance. I want a himbo appliance, big and strong and gets the job done w/o going all Hal on me.

"sound smart because everyone else is confused" is the blockchain way!

Brahnality: a pseudo-profound but actually meaningless inanity favored by dudebrahs

The Senate's dress code should be those Nascar driving suits where you can see everyone who gave buddy money

And that, ladies and gentleman, is how you do marketing

I disagree with your views on TOPIC

There for I have made a a false equivalence equating TOPIC with something genuinely HORRIBLE.

I now declare that you must support the HORRIBLE thing, or everyone will see you for the hypocrite that you are.

(about 50% of internet debates)