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

when you're cute af but you still demand respect

To celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility, Blahaj.zone has commissioned brand new Blobhaj emoji from the amazing @heatherhorns@plush.city!

Our little blobby friends are waving a brand new style of pride flag.

As well as several pride flags to celebrate our wonderful gender diverse community, there are many more pride flags available in the new style!

They have been released under a creative commons license, and if you would like to use them on your own instance, you can grab them from Heatherhorn's emoji page!

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if people truly were irredeemably shit, their hearts devoid of compassion and kindness,

do you really think those "donate to these abused kids/animals/etc.." commercials would ever go on air?

it's not the people. it's the systems, and the few who control them.

Hippotatomus. 🦛🤣
#Hippopotamus #Potato

Industrial voxels

#MastoArt #art #3dart #voxelart

as a left handed person: fuck all fare gates

I'm not sure who needs to hear this but you don't owe anyone on the internet your real name or a profile image that's a real photo of you.

The most important personal principle you have to decide for your life is whether you are pro-authoritarian, pro-oppression, or instead are anti-authoritarian, anti-oppression.
Once you have decided on that core principle, everything else will follow, as long as you actually do follow that principle.

It happened again.

Okay, so that AI letter signed by lots of AI researchers calling for a "Pause [on] Giant AI Experiments"? It's just dripping with AI hype. Here's a quick rundown.

First, for context, note that URL? The Future of Life Institute is a longtermist operation. You know, the people who are focused on maximizing the happiness of billions of future beings who live in computer simulations.

https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/

#AIhype

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The risk to large language models isn't that they'll become sentient in ways that are inconvenient to capitalists, it's that capitalists continue to use LLMs without considering how they've been trained, what biases and hatreds they launder, what the climate impacts of their use are, or how to fairly compensate people who create the stuff that they're trained on.

John Rogers on the money, as usual:

Also, i don't think that habitual line steppers/boundary breakers have ever considered that other people are *watching*

they are watching and making calculations as to whether asking for a thing is worth the endless stream of reply guys that nobody sent for but magically show up, ready to be bulls in china shops

and many people decide against asking for help *because* they do not want to deal with the caucus of boundary breakers

they'd rather suffer in silence

thanks to you!

who decided it was called “emotional baggage“ and not “griefcase” ???