Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Each and every grain of sand laments its seeming insignificance, forgetting that without them the vast Sahara would not be.

You: *a compliment*

My internal monologue: "If I say thanks or smile or accept the compliment they might think I'm agreeing with it which is arrogant and prideful, but if I say nothing they might think I'm rejecting it which is rude and ungrateful, and and"

Me: *runs away*

He doesn't want to come inside.
He was made for this.

If you want to help trans people, and you work in tech: think about how your product handles names and genders. Can users change them? Is it a self-service? Do traces of the old name remain?

Then, fix it. Push back against resistance. Advocate for us.

It won't fix bigotry, or healthcare access, or w/e. But updating our details is a process full of hurdles that we have to go through at a really vulnerable point in our lives, and you can make a small improvement for a large number of us.

"Can you explain this gap in your resume?"

Yes. Life is about more than constant and meaningless toil for 40-50 years and a desolate twilight of failed ambitions. The social contract is broken and the system is a lie. You and I are both trapped in the same Sisyphean hell, where no amount of working harder or longer will ever truly grant the rewards we were promised. The real question is, why are there no gaps in YOUR resume?

“…”

Errr, freelancing. I was freelancing.

Radical graffiti seen around Dover, UK

#ChatGPT and its ilk are effectively a large-scale DDoS attack on not only specific tasks (such as teaching, software maintenance and fiction editing) but on human creative inspiration, sense of self and ability to make meaning of the universe.

notice how they are
- creating work for us rather than saving us work
- automating inherently energizing and rewarding tasks such as making art rather than tiring and tedious tasks such as filing taxes
- flooding social networks with generated content that makes it harder to connect with real humans and build community
- distracting us with questions like “what if this machine is sentient?” which keep us from noticing and acting to prevent the suffering of actual humans

that thing where all search engines have become basically unusable because they’re stuffed full of AI garbage? i fear that’s about to happen to everything.

i don’t believe this is necessarily intentional, but no machine that learns under capitalism can imagine another world.

are there any itch.io curators who will tell me what horror games there are good and don't have jump scares?

Start posting your support of us. Start rising up with us. Start showing up to fight the legislation killing us. Start actually doing shit for once instead of sitting on your hands and shrugging this off cuz we're just a "tiny minority." You think it'll end with us? No, that's not how fascism works.

And it's not just us being targeted either. Black, Indigenous, and other people of color have continuously been targeted. So what are you willing to DO?

We're in a fight for our lives in the US.

If you see someone debating our right to exist? Don't join the debate! That legitimatizes the debate as worthy of discussion. You're not gonna convince them at this stage. Instead, shut it down.

Say: "We do not debate people's existence here."

Intolerance breaks the social pact of tolerating others. So stop tolerating the intolerant. They aren't worthy of it. Shut it down.

Bombard all news sites with intense consequences for posting this anti-trans evil. Make them pay for it. Shut it down.

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