tiffany
@affynti.bsky.social
we’re all worthy of love, btw. writer & filmmaker. harvard alumna. big book luvr. @affynti everywhere. affynti.com
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
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in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies
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Part of the reason I think there isn’t as much pressure around stopping ChatGPT re: suicide/psychosis as compared to stuff like Panera Lemonade is because people are inclined to blame it on mental illness versus the tech, a kind of victim-blaming mentality that fits neatly into just world fallacy
November 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Part of the reason I think there isn’t as much pressure around stopping ChatGPT re: suicide/psychosis as compared to stuff like Panera Lemonade is because people are inclined to blame it on mental illness versus the tech, a kind of victim-blaming mentality that fits neatly into just world fallacy
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Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL
The boyfriend of a friend of my son's has spent several weeks in a psych ward due to Chat GPT induced psychosis. He isn't suicidal but AI encouraged him down a toxic and paranoid wormhole until he became completely delusional. Evil stuff.
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL
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Autumn delight
#palacesandgardens #eastcoastkin #photography
#fall #autumn #japanesemaples #gardens #water #bloomscrolling
#trees
#palacesandgardens #eastcoastkin #photography
#fall #autumn #japanesemaples #gardens #water #bloomscrolling
#trees
October 31, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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"An organized urban wing of the [Underground] railroad called vigilance committees focused on protecting, supporting, and learning from fugitives."
Jesse Olsavsky for @hammerandhope.bsky.social's latest, just released issue
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
Jesse Olsavsky for @hammerandhope.bsky.social's latest, just released issue
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
The Black People Who Fled Slavery Had a Lot to Teach Their Northern Allies
Black-led vigilance committees not only protected and aided fugitives but also learned from the formerly enslaved as they built a movement pedagogy together.
hammerandhope.org
October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"An organized urban wing of the [Underground] railroad called vigilance committees focused on protecting, supporting, and learning from fugitives."
Jesse Olsavsky for @hammerandhope.bsky.social's latest, just released issue
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
Jesse Olsavsky for @hammerandhope.bsky.social's latest, just released issue
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
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One-pager zine inspired by a friend thanking me for telling her about some good things I heard about people doing.
Digitally legible format shown; printable version at link.
drive.google.com/file/d/1YJfs...
Digitally legible format shown; printable version at link.
drive.google.com/file/d/1YJfs...
November 1, 2025 at 1:51 AM
One-pager zine inspired by a friend thanking me for telling her about some good things I heard about people doing.
Digitally legible format shown; printable version at link.
drive.google.com/file/d/1YJfs...
Digitally legible format shown; printable version at link.
drive.google.com/file/d/1YJfs...
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The Ivory Coast is changing the way French is spoken and France is mad about it.
October 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The Ivory Coast is changing the way French is spoken and France is mad about it.
3 hehe
Be honest. How many books are you in the middle of reading right now?
October 25, 2025 at 4:14 AM
3 hehe
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I sincerely know less than nothing about this nba gambling ring dealio. I do know that in a moment when powerful mostly white men are stealing from everybody at scale and with breathtaking gall, it’s odd that these are the faces I’m seeing.
October 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I sincerely know less than nothing about this nba gambling ring dealio. I do know that in a moment when powerful mostly white men are stealing from everybody at scale and with breathtaking gall, it’s odd that these are the faces I’m seeing.
if there are zero “One battle after another” haters, i’m dead.
October 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
if there are zero “One battle after another” haters, i’m dead.
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"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.
September 11, 2025 at 3:35 AM
"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.
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I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today:
Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
September 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today:
Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
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It’s not simply important to denounce political violence because it looks bad not to. It’s the right thing to do on the merits. Even more specifically to this moment it’s important because the forces of fascism are inherently better at political violence than the forces of civic democracy.
September 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
It’s not simply important to denounce political violence because it looks bad not to. It’s the right thing to do on the merits. Even more specifically to this moment it’s important because the forces of fascism are inherently better at political violence than the forces of civic democracy.
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Also, this is what is wrong with the cable news formula. Even when they know nothing, they must fill the air and so they fill it with speculation. We don’t know why this terrible shooting happened. It’s dangerous to speculate motives or politics. Please stop.
September 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Also, this is what is wrong with the cable news formula. Even when they know nothing, they must fill the air and so they fill it with speculation. We don’t know why this terrible shooting happened. It’s dangerous to speculate motives or politics. Please stop.
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imo actions from people in power are seen as apolitical bc they've been universalized as this genuine pure human conduct, so such violence is only 'political' if it comes from otherized groups. tangential but it's the shit logic behind identity politics being exclusive to non-whites or non-cishets
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
September 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
imo actions from people in power are seen as apolitical bc they've been universalized as this genuine pure human conduct, so such violence is only 'political' if it comes from otherized groups. tangential but it's the shit logic behind identity politics being exclusive to non-whites or non-cishets
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Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care
Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – New Mexico is becoming the first state in the U.S. to offer free early childhood education to every family in the state. Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced a universal ch…
www.krqe.com
September 9, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care
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Me, today, almost in tears because life.
September 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Me, today, almost in tears because life.
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
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tl;dr
- I don't think coaching people on how to use ai is an effective form of harm reduction
- I think we should use different messages for the people pushing AI and the people they're pushing it on
- People who know better shouldn't use it or encourage others to use it
- I don't think coaching people on how to use ai is an effective form of harm reduction
- I think we should use different messages for the people pushing AI and the people they're pushing it on
- People who know better shouldn't use it or encourage others to use it
September 8, 2025 at 3:48 AM
tl;dr
- I don't think coaching people on how to use ai is an effective form of harm reduction
- I think we should use different messages for the people pushing AI and the people they're pushing it on
- People who know better shouldn't use it or encourage others to use it
- I don't think coaching people on how to use ai is an effective form of harm reduction
- I think we should use different messages for the people pushing AI and the people they're pushing it on
- People who know better shouldn't use it or encourage others to use it