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SE Gyges

@segyges.bsky.social

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Como todos los hombres de Babilonia, he sido procónsul; como todos, esclavo; también he conocido la omnipotencia, el oprobio, las cárceles. very sane ai newsletter: verysane.ai

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 1m

it's literally the most popular term and the most popular one is a riff on the n word it's very clearly a slur it's just ironic about it

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 27m

you can just admit you can't read

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 28m

i mean he has apparently made the news dawg

but no this isn't main this is the trash sideblog

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 29m

I'm not saying they're real slurs, I am saying the people saying them are giving off Hitler particles

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 51m

gyges-blog.ghost.io/robot-slur-d... here you go champ

Robot Slur Discourse

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut Ah, the kids, they don't yearn for the mines any more, they yearn for the slurs! @supervilliansprax A...

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 52m

this part was basically paraphrasing you, in a more academic setting it would be plagiarism

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 1h

i just want the background color to not be blinding white and my paragraph breaks to be less than a mile long

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 1h

@jdp.extropian.net had an old post about how half of transhumanists are trans and the other half fear death. and this is disappointing, because apparently most people just don't fear death enough to meaningfully want to oppose it, or the ratio would be way higher

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 1h

lmao a third of us have those exact brainworms

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 2h

there is a very long literature which timnit gebru has repeatedly cited approvingly about transference of attitudes towards digital personas to real people. absolutely baffling position for her in particular to take.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 1h

yeah probably

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 2h

i do not like how ghost looks

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 2h

i set up an extra blog to dump my trash in. anyway this may prevent me from further engaging on this subject

gyges-blog.ghost.io/robot-slur-d...

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 4h

no i think it should be modded as racist for the elaborate lynching fantasy but maybe use/mention distinction

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 4h

oh no they're terrible i just want them on-platform

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 4h

i mean one of them literally has an elaborate lynching fantasy in it

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 5h

honestly it should probably be modded for being legitimately racist

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 6h

i would like options besides now luddite and tech fasc plz

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 6h

knowyourmeme.com/memes/clanker

Clanker | Know Your Meme

Clanker is a slang term and a derogatory slur for droids and robots, originating from the Star Wars franchise. In the context of Star Wars, the term derive

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 6h

i mean this one is explicitly and deliberately patterned on the n-word so other than technically also applying to inanimate objects it just looks a lot like inventing a new slur for the disabled

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 6h

if the minority is small enough it's cool to have a slur for them that makes it shitty for them to exist online?

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 6h

i mean bluntly it's an excuse to do one of bluesky's favorite things which is be angry at staff etc now, so

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 6h

i did not recognize this previously but think we're DEFINITELY THERE NOW and the Wokest People On Here are getting angry at everyone with good pattern recognition for being early

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 6h

middle schoolers distributing physical n-word passes would also have been hilarious to me. i would then have watched shit get real bad real fast and regretted the error of my ways. i am an adult and i can recognize "oh, the bit is going real bad" from where we are. progress

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 6h

maybe do less of it? like i would once have thought the joke was funny enough to riff on and i no longer do, we're clearly out of the zone where this is an ironic thing

anyway the default position on-platform is that i'm a eugenicist for thinking this

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