Alaia
@alaiab.bsky.social
Que bonito es Barcelona, ojalá se pudiera vivir aquí
December 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Que bonito es Barcelona, ojalá se pudiera vivir aquí
Es posible que por fin esté leyendo cosas sobre teoría monetaria y sobre historia del dinero y la deuda porque quiero hacer worldbuilding para una campaña de rol
December 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Es posible que por fin esté leyendo cosas sobre teoría monetaria y sobre historia del dinero y la deuda porque quiero hacer worldbuilding para una campaña de rol
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makima's appeal is literally that she isn't naked. that's not right. and they're not that big. she is the most clothed girl who has ever existed, and even if she didn't have any clothes on that would still be true.
November 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
makima's appeal is literally that she isn't naked. that's not right. and they're not that big. she is the most clothed girl who has ever existed, and even if she didn't have any clothes on that would still be true.
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chainsaw man like baru cormorant/revolutionary girl utena/helicopter story is so preoccupied with the use of gender as a kind of weapon.
November 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
chainsaw man like baru cormorant/revolutionary girl utena/helicopter story is so preoccupied with the use of gender as a kind of weapon.
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When the planet's dying and your friend would rather get forcefemmed by a flower girl from church than go blow up a building
not sure it's physically possible to scowl more fiercely than Curtis Hughes
May 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
When the planet's dying and your friend would rather get forcefemmed by a flower girl from church than go blow up a building
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por que las cajas de lenzetto van tan bien para guardar mazos de commander?
October 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
por que las cajas de lenzetto van tan bien para guardar mazos de commander?
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the degenerate commander player: heh. i've constructed a turn two infinite combo with 30 years worth of the most powerful cards printed, in a format they were never intended to be played in
the noble draft player: wow, a four drop 3/2 that boomerangs a creature? that'll fill out my curve perfectly
the noble draft player: wow, a four drop 3/2 that boomerangs a creature? that'll fill out my curve perfectly
November 22, 2024 at 2:47 AM
the degenerate commander player: heh. i've constructed a turn two infinite combo with 30 years worth of the most powerful cards printed, in a format they were never intended to be played in
the noble draft player: wow, a four drop 3/2 that boomerangs a creature? that'll fill out my curve perfectly
the noble draft player: wow, a four drop 3/2 that boomerangs a creature? that'll fill out my curve perfectly
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The reason I say "transsexual" is because the cissexist impulse to treat sex as immutable needs pushback, and "transgender" grew into a euphemized term to ignore that we do, in fact, change sex.
"but who counts transsexua--" I don't care
"but who counts transsexua--" I don't care
me scrolling and being hit in the face with “is transsexual okay to say?” in the wild.
oh god not again.
stupidest discourse cycle i’ve ever seen in my life. who gives a shit? it’s all the fucking same anyway
oh god not again.
stupidest discourse cycle i’ve ever seen in my life. who gives a shit? it’s all the fucking same anyway
October 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The reason I say "transsexual" is because the cissexist impulse to treat sex as immutable needs pushback, and "transgender" grew into a euphemized term to ignore that we do, in fact, change sex.
"but who counts transsexua--" I don't care
"but who counts transsexua--" I don't care
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"'Mean Girls' is a forcefemme story where someone who's insufficiently female-socialized infiltrates a group of women to deceive them and ruin their lives"
Rewatching 'Mean Girls' is fun because you keep finding new things to go "WHAT?!" at.
Like what do you mean Janis casually uses 'ax-wound' as an insult?! And Regina keeps saying the r-word?!
Anyway Tina Fey is super weird about women of color
Like what do you mean Janis casually uses 'ax-wound' as an insult?! And Regina keeps saying the r-word?!
Anyway Tina Fey is super weird about women of color
October 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"'Mean Girls' is a forcefemme story where someone who's insufficiently female-socialized infiltrates a group of women to deceive them and ruin their lives"
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When you find posts in the wild and have to check if @shivambhatt.bsky.social reskeeted it.
October 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
When you find posts in the wild and have to check if @shivambhatt.bsky.social reskeeted it.
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Average Tory leadership hopeful: we should re-establish the Raj. Let's have a fifth Anglo-Asante war. I do not think that Romanians count as people on a legal or metaphysical level.
Labour response: after 14 years of Tory mismanagement only Labour can be trusted to strip Romanians of their souls.
Labour response: after 14 years of Tory mismanagement only Labour can be trusted to strip Romanians of their souls.
October 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Average Tory leadership hopeful: we should re-establish the Raj. Let's have a fifth Anglo-Asante war. I do not think that Romanians count as people on a legal or metaphysical level.
Labour response: after 14 years of Tory mismanagement only Labour can be trusted to strip Romanians of their souls.
Labour response: after 14 years of Tory mismanagement only Labour can be trusted to strip Romanians of their souls.
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Actually scratch "incredibly normal looking" cause the most consistent thing I notice about trans women broadly is like... looking younger than they actually are.
part of why I keep harping on "transition doomerism is literally just body image issues going unchecked using dysphoria as an excuse to deflect from all concerns" is that I keep seeing transition doomer girls post selfies and looking like extremely normal women. Just incredibly normal-looking.
October 15, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Actually scratch "incredibly normal looking" cause the most consistent thing I notice about trans women broadly is like... looking younger than they actually are.
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thinking about the time a cool Instagram fashion account asked me to name my favorite products and i didn't know i was supposed to name fashion products, so i said pigeon food because i like feeding pigeons and their followers were like "why the fuck do i need pigeon food for my outfit?"
October 16, 2025 at 5:33 AM
thinking about the time a cool Instagram fashion account asked me to name my favorite products and i didn't know i was supposed to name fashion products, so i said pigeon food because i like feeding pigeons and their followers were like "why the fuck do i need pigeon food for my outfit?"
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i still die laughing at this real canadian oil and gas lobby ad
November 10, 2024 at 2:44 AM
i still die laughing at this real canadian oil and gas lobby ad
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women are nerds. they are always making things and researching things
October 11, 2025 at 4:58 AM
women are nerds. they are always making things and researching things
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Have you considered that the reason for the global fascist resurgence is because every 'reasonable centrist' candidate refuses to stand for anything in a world actively crumbling to ash
I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.
October 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Have you considered that the reason for the global fascist resurgence is because every 'reasonable centrist' candidate refuses to stand for anything in a world actively crumbling to ash
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This is because media companies spend quite literally the past 50 years convincing individuals that copyright as it is today is a neutral moral law of the world in which you have to play, and not a very recent development.
i think the root of this is that at some point ppl forgot that copyright is a _policy choice_ in order to achieve outcomes that are agreed upon as “morally good”, not a moral good in of itself!
I am still agape in horror at the fact that people who grew up on "You wouldn't download a car" became such deranged, bloodthirsty copyright enthusiasts
October 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This is because media companies spend quite literally the past 50 years convincing individuals that copyright as it is today is a neutral moral law of the world in which you have to play, and not a very recent development.
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i think the root of this is that at some point ppl forgot that copyright is a _policy choice_ in order to achieve outcomes that are agreed upon as “morally good”, not a moral good in of itself!
I am still agape in horror at the fact that people who grew up on "You wouldn't download a car" became such deranged, bloodthirsty copyright enthusiasts
October 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
i think the root of this is that at some point ppl forgot that copyright is a _policy choice_ in order to achieve outcomes that are agreed upon as “morally good”, not a moral good in of itself!
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how id react if i ever felt like im standing of the way of yuri too
October 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
how id react if i ever felt like im standing of the way of yuri too
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it's a bit funny that the answer to "why are there so many specialized DIY HRT networks for trans women but nowhere near as much for trans men" ends up at "because the infrastructure for distributing testosterone has already been set up by gymbros"
October 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
it's a bit funny that the answer to "why are there so many specialized DIY HRT networks for trans women but nowhere near as much for trans men" ends up at "because the infrastructure for distributing testosterone has already been set up by gymbros"
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things we know about LLMs and large DL models in general:
- how they are trained (gradient descent)
- the structure into which they are placed (architecture)
- the base arithmetic (matmul, norm, batch norm, and so on)
- how they are trained (gradient descent)
- the structure into which they are placed (architecture)
- the base arithmetic (matmul, norm, batch norm, and so on)
as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"
I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.
We know exactly how LLMs work.
I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.
We know exactly how LLMs work.
October 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
things we know about LLMs and large DL models in general:
- how they are trained (gradient descent)
- the structure into which they are placed (architecture)
- the base arithmetic (matmul, norm, batch norm, and so on)
- how they are trained (gradient descent)
- the structure into which they are placed (architecture)
- the base arithmetic (matmul, norm, batch norm, and so on)