Cabil
@cabil.bsky.social
26 | he/him | Southasian | Neurodivergent | reblog heavy
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The fact that I can’t immediately tell if a video is AI now actually makes me sick to my stomach. I cannot believe there are people who think this is a good thing
October 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The fact that I can’t immediately tell if a video is AI now actually makes me sick to my stomach. I cannot believe there are people who think this is a good thing
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so many of the small indignities of daily life come from us being denied the ability to tell a rich man in a tech company to fuck off. minesweeper has microtransactions. paid services have ads. the opt out says maybe later. the drive thru is a broken chatbot. your car is an ipad. fuck off! fuck off!
August 31, 2025 at 7:01 AM
so many of the small indignities of daily life come from us being denied the ability to tell a rich man in a tech company to fuck off. minesweeper has microtransactions. paid services have ads. the opt out says maybe later. the drive thru is a broken chatbot. your car is an ipad. fuck off! fuck off!
I think this daily wordle-like is neat
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Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
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October 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I think this daily wordle-like is neat
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Arrived in the mail today 🥹
October 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Arrived in the mail today 🥹
1st book fair haul from my salary 🤧
October 6, 2025 at 8:26 AM
1st book fair haul from my salary 🤧
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Currently at:
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash
October 4, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Currently at:
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash
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Munch munch crunch crunch slurp slurp
September 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Munch munch crunch crunch slurp slurp
Fun simple time waster recommended by Tom Scott gisnep.com/doomscroll/
DOOMscroll
Scroll to survive. How far can you DOOMscroll?
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September 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Fun simple time waster recommended by Tom Scott gisnep.com/doomscroll/
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We are producing a generation unable and (somewhat) unwilling to think, read and write without relying on tech controlled by some of the most evil people on the planet to tell them what to think, read and write and they don’t seem to see the dangers of this dependency even if we point it out
I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?
September 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
We are producing a generation unable and (somewhat) unwilling to think, read and write without relying on tech controlled by some of the most evil people on the planet to tell them what to think, read and write and they don’t seem to see the dangers of this dependency even if we point it out
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Actually let me correct this; this is an inter generational problem. Too many people seem unable and/or unwilling to see how dangerous this building reliance on gAI is
September 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Actually let me correct this; this is an inter generational problem. Too many people seem unable and/or unwilling to see how dangerous this building reliance on gAI is
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You can read or watch low culture without framing them as guilty pleasures or breaks from serious high culture. You can express an opinion without qualifying it as Just Your Opinion. You can do nothing for a while (to whatever small extent is possible, capitalism &c.) without needing to justify rest
September 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
You can read or watch low culture without framing them as guilty pleasures or breaks from serious high culture. You can express an opinion without qualifying it as Just Your Opinion. You can do nothing for a while (to whatever small extent is possible, capitalism &c.) without needing to justify rest
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Sometimes you're looking through old sci fi novel covers, and you have to share one.
September 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Sometimes you're looking through old sci fi novel covers, and you have to share one.
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wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey?
guard: [looking away] fine
wife: did something happen?
guard: [tearing up] no
wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?
guard: [looking away] fine
wife: did something happen?
guard: [tearing up] no
wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?
May 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey?
guard: [looking away] fine
wife: did something happen?
guard: [tearing up] no
wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?
guard: [looking away] fine
wife: did something happen?
guard: [tearing up] no
wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?
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June 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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we created the greatest trove of searchable knowledge in human history and immediately started throwing trash all over its floor
June 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
we created the greatest trove of searchable knowledge in human history and immediately started throwing trash all over its floor
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time and time again, the most miserable people i meet are highly intelligent people who have become hyper-preoccupied with themselves, their role in society and their own capabilities
there is tremendous navel-gazing as they search their authentically titanic intellects for their raison d'etre
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there is tremendous navel-gazing as they search their authentically titanic intellects for their raison d'etre
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May 5, 2025 at 1:53 AM
time and time again, the most miserable people i meet are highly intelligent people who have become hyper-preoccupied with themselves, their role in society and their own capabilities
there is tremendous navel-gazing as they search their authentically titanic intellects for their raison d'etre
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there is tremendous navel-gazing as they search their authentically titanic intellects for their raison d'etre
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To me Rowling exists entirely outside of the “should we support/work with artists with troubling views?” debate. She doesn’t just *think* her opinions, she doesn’t just *say* them, she’s a relentless 24-7 activist whose whole mission in life is terrorizing trans people.
there's also people claiming we trans people are "holding allies to a purity test" here and to be clear:
"Don't participate in stuff that actively funds the campaign to exterminate us" is a pretty fucking low bar. One might say it's not even "allyship," it's just decency.
"Don't participate in stuff that actively funds the campaign to exterminate us" is a pretty fucking low bar. One might say it's not even "allyship," it's just decency.
Also, Lithgow is trying to muddy the waters by giving interviews where he pretends that the controversy here is that he's American, not that he's signing off on transphobia.
deadline.com/2025/04/john...
deadline.com/2025/04/john...
April 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
To me Rowling exists entirely outside of the “should we support/work with artists with troubling views?” debate. She doesn’t just *think* her opinions, she doesn’t just *say* them, she’s a relentless 24-7 activist whose whole mission in life is terrorizing trans people.
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The regret rate for gender transition is less than 0.3% (as compared with an average of 14% for surgery in general and 7% for having kids!) but the media loves to find and platform a regretter.
April 20, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The regret rate for gender transition is less than 0.3% (as compared with an average of 14% for surgery in general and 7% for having kids!) but the media loves to find and platform a regretter.
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the "we fucked up a wolf and tried to brand it after a fantasy franchise" company (in which grrm is an investor) exists solely to justify the ongoing mass extinction of countless species: it's ok if capitalism kills off living things because we can always mutilate something else to simulate it
April 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
the "we fucked up a wolf and tried to brand it after a fantasy franchise" company (in which grrm is an investor) exists solely to justify the ongoing mass extinction of countless species: it's ok if capitalism kills off living things because we can always mutilate something else to simulate it
It's ridiculous that past me fucked around and I get to find out
February 25, 2025 at 1:48 AM
It's ridiculous that past me fucked around and I get to find out
Read Love Marriage by VV Ganeshananthan. A fictional diaspora perspective of the war and being tamil. It was a surprisingly heavy read given its easy language. Maybe it was the way it made me think of most things I had already known in new ways.
Born and brought up in Colombo,
Born and brought up in Colombo,
February 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Read Love Marriage by VV Ganeshananthan. A fictional diaspora perspective of the war and being tamil. It was a surprisingly heavy read given its easy language. Maybe it was the way it made me think of most things I had already known in new ways.
Born and brought up in Colombo,
Born and brought up in Colombo,
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Since capitalism is built on exploitation, corporate re-uptake of white supremacism as an official policy *will* move a lot faster than any slow, grudging gestures made toward diversity or equity in past decades. That was an uphill struggle: they're happily rolling downhill now.
February 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Since capitalism is built on exploitation, corporate re-uptake of white supremacism as an official policy *will* move a lot faster than any slow, grudging gestures made toward diversity or equity in past decades. That was an uphill struggle: they're happily rolling downhill now.
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the thing with corporations being legal persons is that they are also the worst persons. even your average human coward might need a little pressure applied to make them bend the knee, but the corporation, it comes pre-bent, tongues out sniffing for a boot
Google Calendar has removed key cultural events from their site including:
• Pride Month
• Black History Month
• Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Jewish Heritage
• Hispanic Heritage
• Indigenous People Month
• Pride Month
• Black History Month
• Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Jewish Heritage
• Hispanic Heritage
• Indigenous People Month
February 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
the thing with corporations being legal persons is that they are also the worst persons. even your average human coward might need a little pressure applied to make them bend the knee, but the corporation, it comes pre-bent, tongues out sniffing for a boot