oh yes that's the point I was trying to make: I think tumblr discourse is being weaponized by the federal government (I can't believe I just wrote that sentence without joking)

I'm not dismissing this analysis but I think it's also worth considering how FBI purposefully sowed discord in the Muslim community after 9/11

the adage that conservatives never actually ban all porn (they just want to ban all porn they don't consume) remains apt

the benefits that LLMs & other emergent tech may provide aside, AI is not a real thing that exists. people don’t like this wave of tech that’s being called AI because it’s an attempt to create the facsimile of a deity: it’s manipulative tech. the wizard eventually got chased out of oz for a reason!

Littler Mendelson, the same union busting firm representing Grindr management is the same firm that’s representing Starbucks management, and Behn’s campaign had those ads going during the union baristas’ strike. This is pretty egregious negligence!!

Initially it was reasonable notion to leave to Twitter, but the network effects of sm weren’t considered: the people who fled here saw it as a moral choice alone & there was no logistical evacuation. People don’t want to leave their social circles behind just to arrive on a app of smug righteousness

it all ends up in the unlistable zone. none of it can be listed.

I thought we admitted last year when the whistleblowers spoke out about management

reasonable estimates of the amount of twitter posts made by bots ranges, but some have it as high as 75%. it reminds me how many onlyfans bots on grindr are dressed to appeal to heteronormative men: people ask why would that be, and I think the answer is that it’s just pretty cheap to do it!

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it would actually strengthen the bond between children and their parents because the nuclear family grinds children down into objects so much that they become resentful their patents

there’s only so much political capital and they’re realizing with the elections last week that they’ve overextended what they had

please everyone welcome our new editor-in-chief dr bronner’s

AI is just computers