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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · Dec 31

One of the reasons i love tolkien is the theme that despair is an enemy

and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair

Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · Dec 31

You can be as terrified or nonplussed or unperturbed as you like; the sun will still rise tomorrow & the rent will still be due on the 31st. The world has no romantic narratives for its fate except those we invent, because the world does not die. That is our privilege.

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · Dec 30

I said it elsewhere, but it’s weirdly exhilarating and addictive to be terrified all the time, and the people addicted to it, when they say this, may as well be saying “I can stop at any time, it’s just the world doing this *to* me.”

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1m

i mean even that sympathetic reading is making a (joking) utilitarian argument about which students should get raped

i dont think he was making some kind of serious proposal or wtvr but also idk how much was pure joking vs not well thought out but vaguely sincerely held belief, expressed jokingly

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 32m

expanse also has this problem tho its not as prevalent imo. the belt's population goes from like 100mm in the books to ~1mm in the show

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 41m

i read them like two decades ago and honestly only remember a little bit of it. mostly the Mentalics stuff.

but this is mostly just me being Annoying about the shows world building

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1h

yeah but why did they fold into foundation instead of vice versa

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1h

i have some Questions about the industrial output of Terminus, population: an _extremely_ generous 5,000 compared to Empire, population: 11,000,000,000,000,0000000000000000

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1h

ah i assumed him owning the shock collar/it being stored where he reached was Lore or something

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1h

yeah im sure someone posted the clip here a while ago and i commented on it but bsky search seems to be down at the moment.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1h

iirc the context was a story about some expensive private university and he segued into a rant about wealthy self sorting during application process was a utilitarian good bc then only the wealthy students would mostly get raped

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1h

realized this sounded insincere but genuinely incredibly fucked to treat an animal like that.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1h

for me it was him trying to make a utilitarian argument for which college kids should be raped but yea this is also super fucked

🦇 🦆 🎃 @goducks09.bsky.social · 13h

This just popped up in my Reddit feed. Hasan Piker shocking his dog for moving around too much behind him. Someone please take that poor dog away from this asshole.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 2h

unfortunately a different precedent repeatedly set the last two years was if you scream at the devs enough they'll unban someone. so much of this is just inertia from past blowups

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 2h

A thing that stuck with me from graduate school is that when humans don’t have ingroup / outgroup distinction in a given group, they will invent one.

John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 5h

everything is actually shirts and skins, people's positions are dictated entirely by what groups they're members of and what other groups those groups are fighting with, and we just rationalize the results

-- an exaggerated version of a true statement

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SH😮CK-tor Benway @docbenway.bsky.social · 2h

USAID was a net positive in basically every way and Musk killed it, and untold numbers of people, because he’s as racist as he is stupid and he’s as stupid as he is evil.

Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 7h

I’m a single-issue voter from now until the day I die: “hold the people who did this and all these other crimes responsible, no matter what it takes”

I’m gonna go to town halls and congressional field offices and bring it up ad infinitum

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 2h

i feel like she doesnt even really have political beliefs, like theres shit shes animated about but really shes just an evil nihilist merc

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 2h

like "you cant be mean to the robot its not alive" is goign to be said a billion times regardless but i think slur raises the level of squabbling significantly more. and by squabbling i dont mean like this thread but something more general audience facing

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 2h

so if we flipped this. 1. pejorative is the used term, 2. slur would be a more precise term

and i need to explain the negative second order effects of clanker and the underlying behavior beneath it becoming ubiquitous, then im uncertain what utility a bit more precise term offers there

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 3h

sidechat but the latest space king video does something like like that guys rant

swaps xenos for black people and lists off like <insert a dozen racist stats> and the creators are also absolutely not beating the medium to medium-high hitler particles allegations

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 3h

like on earth2 where clanker isnt a word and theres no attempt at creating a 'slur' but people still interact with ai cruelly/abusive/toxic/etc whatever term you prefer

im not sure my concerns about 'people mistreating bots leads to people mistreating people' pipeline would be any lower?

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 3h

i mean i cant speak for others but im absolutely sincere in my belief that the term is going to result in _significantly_ greater unnecessary arguments over terminology and any precision lost from using ie pejorative or epithet instead of slur is made up by avoiding those arguments

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 3h

like without knowthing anything about this youtuber beyond whats in gyges post, i know that his private views on minorities are sus as hell and they were well before clanker ever became a thing

imo calling people with ie prosthetics clankers otoh feels a 'great' example of the behavioral changes

Okay, time for auth-right. Lib left, progressives, do the "la la la" thing. Trust me on this one. Conservatives, reactionaries, do you really want your daughter bringing back a goddamn wire back? You'd kill yourself and your whole family, and you would be right to do so.
The clanker fundamentally represents the destruction of the traditional family unit. Everyone is getting more and more atomized. These things are causing young people psychosis. These are going to be your children. You've already seen what tech has done to the dating market. And as tempting as it is to just say, blame women for the problem, it's very obviously the technology and the situation that we are in society that is causing these dating issues. AI has no race or people, and its goal is to destroy all of the traditional things that we hold dear.
And also, when you're joining the anti-clanker movement, you can use slurs. Robot slurs, sure, and I'm sure you're very racist. I get it. And you can be racist. Just save the racism for later or have a hierarchy of racism with clankers at the top. Okay? You can go for whatever race you don't like after we're done with the clankers. But not right now.
But if none of this is resonating with you, let me show you something. Okay? This is sexy Grok. Do you like sexy Grok? Do you enjoy sexy Grok? You think that's good? This is sexy Grok. Technophiles that love AI always live extremely degenerate lifestyles. And hey, by being anti-clanker, you do get to trigger the anti-human elite liberal class.
I know you guys like Elon Musk because he tweets the right things at the right time. He is not one of you guys, okay? He's not even a traditional conservative. Have you seen his family structure, my friend? He is playing your political base to get favors with his company to further his agenda of clanker supremacy.
Okay, now for the anti-human strain of the auth-right we have to excise the IQ worship shit. You want to worship IQ? Fine. Worship human IQ. But if you jus…

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 4h

but the hard r thing doesn't feel necessarily indicative of those behavioral changes to me?

more just the kind of aave appropriation thats everywhere online and the fact clanker happens to end in r or like the person was racist already lol

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 4h

i just think if the concern is people's mistreating bots leading to treating people like bots then making it about slurs, and specifically the term slur, imo just gets bogged down arguing about terms vs ime people are generally receptive if you explain how it'll lead to behavioral changes over time

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 4h

dont love slur being the term used tbh

maybe theres something lost with using pejorative or epithet but if there is i think its negligible and more than made up for by not tripping the same degree of hostility when the concept/term is broached

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 6h

like shes unpopular. a ton of donors fled after she called out franken and the limited support that gained her got burned endorsing cuomo

idk what her tenures been like as dscc head but fundraising is well below past years

i guess im not sure how bad a tradeoff is if they did what hochul did?

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 6h

its not the move i'd be happiest with but i think from their perspective they'd prob have been best served by deflecting on the endorsement till august-oct but call out gilibrand and be vocal in calling out islamophobic attacks against him

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