been playing a lot of this game & I rly appreciate how it describes all the Nazi generals like “the cream of the Prussian officer corps, a visionary of maneuver warfare. He also did a ton of war crimes and his tole in the Holocaust forever stains his honour” store.steampowered.com/app/809230/U...

I’d put some dollars on robotgirls

in conclusion I am confident that the whole manly thing is at least partly a campy bit, and there is a low but non-zero chance that the author is actually a 52-year-old deep stealth full time transsexual woman doing an online drag king act

okay so I was irresistibly curious and read one of the stories

it’s the extremely stupid, bizarrely wholesome, & wholly un-erotic tale of a closeted trans girl whose MAGA dad accidentally cracks her egg by taking her to Hooters, then fails to notice her transitioning sixpacksite.com/hooters-conv...

Oh fuck thats a good pull

The doubling down is the truly crazy part to me. like girl OP gave you an out!!!

but I guess who would even make that request in the first place if they weren’t the kind of person who doubles down on batshit

OWCH

the thing I find wildest about it is that the Culture novels are EXTREMELY pro gender transition bsky.app/profile/iodo...

yep. he’s a big Banks fan (rather confusingly given his politics nowadays)

absolutely! he’s clearly a big fan

it’s not the /biggest/ reason I wish Banks was still alive, but I would LOVE to know what he’d say about modern day Musk. I imagine he’d have let us know by now

The robot will probably resent this situation even more than you do, and will be sure to let you know it.

It is of course not your job to educate me (as far as I know), but I am curious!

(I can see how this level of adoption and blocklist size might be quite remote at present, which is part of why I'd be interested to see stats on how many people use them and how many people are blocked via them. I have very little intuition as to where those numbers might currently stand)

In what sense do you mean? Because they just never reach a critical mass of subscribers, or they inherently can't produce that outcome even with?

("All xyz followers" blocklists seem to me to have that potential. But there'd need to be real social pressure to subscribe, which I've seen only rarely)

I'll give it a go. FYI I have used blocklists before on Twitter, many years ago!

Here, there is so much less abuse and bigotry that I have not found cause to use them. Which is nice, and a good reason to be here

So I don't have a solidified opinion on this! Just a sense of disquiet, informed by experience.

(I compared vs corporate control of algorithms because I am considering blocklists in terms of "what structures shape what users see and do?" Ethically & politically, they're obviously quite different)

Overall, I would not claim that any of these potential problems outweigh the benefits/freedoms of blocklists, and I am not sure how (or even whether) they can be mitigated while preserving user agency.

Not least because people WILL find a way to do blocklists even if it's not explicitly supported