rairun
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How this fits into your personal relationship with your body is for you to decide - it's really no one else's business. But imho we need fewer "allies" and more gender traitors.
December 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
How this fits into your personal relationship with your body is for you to decide - it's really no one else's business. But imho we need fewer "allies" and more gender traitors.
They are afraid the patriarchy that brought them into being will crumble, and in this sense, yes, I do want transgender for everyone. I want everyone to be free of gender as a hierarchy that oppresses us.
December 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
They are afraid the patriarchy that brought them into being will crumble, and in this sense, yes, I do want transgender for everyone. I want everyone to be free of gender as a hierarchy that oppresses us.
I think he's playing into their (justified) fear that we are creating the conditions for their children to be people, not property; they are terrified of women and children having any autonomy over their lives, and that this will bring down the house of cards that is the family.
December 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I think he's playing into their (justified) fear that we are creating the conditions for their children to be people, not property; they are terrified of women and children having any autonomy over their lives, and that this will bring down the house of cards that is the family.
But I actually think that conservatives are on to something, that they're very perceptive of any threats to their hegemony, which is built on cisheterosexism and white supremacy. When Trump says we want "transgender for everyone", I don't think he's really claiming we want to transition everyone.
December 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
But I actually think that conservatives are on to something, that they're very perceptive of any threats to their hegemony, which is built on cisheterosexism and white supremacy. When Trump says we want "transgender for everyone", I don't think he's really claiming we want to transition everyone.
... people's real anxieties could be redirected to. Butler was essentially making the same argument as you, that no straight person wanted to turn people gay, that no trans person wanted to "trans" other people. And you're right that mandatory transitions are ridiculous, no one wants that.
December 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
... people's real anxieties could be redirected to. Butler was essentially making the same argument as you, that no straight person wanted to turn people gay, that no trans person wanted to "trans" other people. And you're right that mandatory transitions are ridiculous, no one wants that.
I think it makes sense. A while ago, before the release of 'Who's Afraid of Gender', I went to a Judith Butler lecture, and I really disagreed with them when they said the 'phantasm of gender [ideology]' was a vague conservative rallying point that could mean anything, serving as a place...
December 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I think it makes sense. A while ago, before the release of 'Who's Afraid of Gender', I went to a Judith Butler lecture, and I really disagreed with them when they said the 'phantasm of gender [ideology]' was a vague conservative rallying point that could mean anything, serving as a place...
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the (trans)feminized, penetrable "boy," is a classical acceptable object of HETEROsexual desire within this regime. nothing new there. what they're policing when they say it's gay to love your wife is that it's "effeminate and ridiculous" to treat your sexual property (women, children) as equals
December 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
the (trans)feminized, penetrable "boy," is a classical acceptable object of HETEROsexual desire within this regime. nothing new there. what they're policing when they say it's gay to love your wife is that it's "effeminate and ridiculous" to treat your sexual property (women, children) as equals
I admit it's kind of fun, but I had got used to a computer that mostly just works, and now I guess I'm back to the Computer-As-a-Hobby times of my youth. Except this time the hobby is fuelled not exactly by curiosity and wonder but by the more immediate desire to say fuck you to Microsoft.
December 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I admit it's kind of fun, but I had got used to a computer that mostly just works, and now I guess I'm back to the Computer-As-a-Hobby times of my youth. Except this time the hobby is fuelled not exactly by curiosity and wonder but by the more immediate desire to say fuck you to Microsoft.
Half the software I use has no proper Linux equivalent, and then you're left dealing with Wine, which works surprisingly well (if you tinker enough), but is still kind of shit if the stuff you do heavily depends on dealing with tons of files (the Wine file picker is awful)
December 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Half the software I use has no proper Linux equivalent, and then you're left dealing with Wine, which works surprisingly well (if you tinker enough), but is still kind of shit if the stuff you do heavily depends on dealing with tons of files (the Wine file picker is awful)
Such a cool photo. Two of my favourites from the past couple of months are also of smokestacks/geothermal activity, but I don't think I'd have nailed them with film like you did.
December 3, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Such a cool photo. Two of my favourites from the past couple of months are also of smokestacks/geothermal activity, but I don't think I'd have nailed them with film like you did.
Because they aren't making those models so that you can prompt them: "Say 'true' if [player input], in such and such context, means the player wants to use the rubber chicken on the pulley". They are training it so they don't have to pay you to write what happens next with your human sensibilities.
November 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Because they aren't making those models so that you can prompt them: "Say 'true' if [player input], in such and such context, means the player wants to use the rubber chicken on the pulley". They are training it so they don't have to pay you to write what happens next with your human sensibilities.
You don't want to support those psychopaths. You don't want your game to break when you can't prompt them anymore. You don't want to help them destroy the material conditions that allow you to WRITE your story in the first place.
November 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
You don't want to support those psychopaths. You don't want your game to break when you can't prompt them anymore. You don't want to help them destroy the material conditions that allow you to WRITE your story in the first place.
This is particularly true in a video game – if it parses your input wrong? You gain access to the wrong room, you don't ruin anyone's life. And the previous parser was shit anyway.
But yeah, EVEN that sort of use is kinda gross if you're just prompting ChatGPT in the background.
But yeah, EVEN that sort of use is kinda gross if you're just prompting ChatGPT in the background.
November 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
This is particularly true in a video game – if it parses your input wrong? You gain access to the wrong room, you don't ruin anyone's life. And the previous parser was shit anyway.
But yeah, EVEN that sort of use is kinda gross if you're just prompting ChatGPT in the background.
But yeah, EVEN that sort of use is kinda gross if you're just prompting ChatGPT in the background.
Training a machine to parse text, and giving it context instructing it to output a value if the semantic content of the input fit one of the pre-written outputs the dev/writer came up with – I don't see a problem with training it with any materials, if its job is to parse instead of generating.
November 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Training a machine to parse text, and giving it context instructing it to output a value if the semantic content of the input fit one of the pre-written outputs the dev/writer came up with – I don't see a problem with training it with any materials, if its job is to parse instead of generating.
Obviously it isn't the best lens in the world (it was the budget offering at the time), and it's more prone to flare than more expensive ones. But it's an exceedingly good lens for what it is, and I just can't justify the size/weight/price of a better lens.
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Obviously it isn't the best lens in the world (it was the budget offering at the time), and it's more prone to flare than more expensive ones. But it's an exceedingly good lens for what it is, and I just can't justify the size/weight/price of a better lens.
Currently I use a Sigma 18-50mm f2.8 about 80% of the time, and the Nikon one is always in my bag for when I need a bit more reach. It's surprisingly sharp (with a crop sensor, across the whole frame), it renders pleasant colours, the focus ring is fairly nice.
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Currently I use a Sigma 18-50mm f2.8 about 80% of the time, and the Nikon one is always in my bag for when I need a bit more reach. It's surprisingly sharp (with a crop sensor, across the whole frame), it renders pleasant colours, the focus ring is fairly nice.
As an amateur, I've bought and sold quite a few different lenses over 15 years, but the one I still use all the time is the Nikon 100m f2.8 Series E. It's cheap, small and light. I used it with a Nikon FE SLR, then with my first Nikon DSLRs, and now with a Sony mirrorless camera.
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
As an amateur, I've bought and sold quite a few different lenses over 15 years, but the one I still use all the time is the Nikon 100m f2.8 Series E. It's cheap, small and light. I used it with a Nikon FE SLR, then with my first Nikon DSLRs, and now with a Sony mirrorless camera.
Weird(ish) question, but I'm assuming you aren't able to add a Switch rom dump to Itch, right? Happy to buy it there or on Steam, but the easiest way to play on an Android handheld would be to emulate it lol
October 5, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Weird(ish) question, but I'm assuming you aren't able to add a Switch rom dump to Itch, right? Happy to buy it there or on Steam, but the easiest way to play on an Android handheld would be to emulate it lol
hello, how are u doing
September 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
hello, how are u doing
We both agree no one should be working for Raytheon or Palantir, and that this is a more pressing issue. That doesn't mean we have to accept big money encroaching and/or sucking the oxygen out of spaces we used to participate in.
September 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
We both agree no one should be working for Raytheon or Palantir, and that this is a more pressing issue. That doesn't mean we have to accept big money encroaching and/or sucking the oxygen out of spaces we used to participate in.
You're misrepresenting what I said. I said artists put out dozens of colour variants bc they know SOME (i.e. not me) people will buy every single one. How is that different from a whale in a gacha game? How are they not exploiting people's worst impulses, often spending money they barely even have?
September 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
You're misrepresenting what I said. I said artists put out dozens of colour variants bc they know SOME (i.e. not me) people will buy every single one. How is that different from a whale in a gacha game? How are they not exploiting people's worst impulses, often spending money they barely even have?