For the overwhelming majority of people who practice it, sports is not about competition. It's about social belonging. Once you understand that, the reason why transphobes want to ban trans women from it even outside of competition and even in disciplines like darts is pretty obvious.

one of the hardest parts of the current moment of everyone throwing trans people under the bus is not internalizing it? like, I think of myself as a pretty confident, accomplished person but I'm noticing myself having a lot more unhealthy internalized feelings of inferiority, etc lately

This is certainly the tism talking but I find so much joy in curiosity and the process of learning that the idea of wanting to outsource thinking to a machine is unfathomable to me

That’s the fun part! Why wouldn’t you want to do that?

Something the Skrmetti decision drives home: "Puberty blockers" should be abandoned as a goal; the goal should be HRT for any minor that wants it; puberty blockers should be a tool for minors who choose themselves they need more time to decide and *nothing else*.

Compromising achieved nothing, here

the older i get, the more fucked up layoffs feel.

i can’t articulate it fully but it’s legit starting to feel like a form of abuse. it’s intentionally terrorizing in a country run by corporations that are actively slashing the social safety nets via literal bribery.

staggering.

There's a poetic irony to an AI company with a billion-dollar valuation collapsing overnight because it's revealed that its work is produced by humans. It really lays bare that the AI hype is entirely about capitalism's attempt to devalue labor entirely, to eliminate workers from the population.

Stop using "felon" as a pejorative.

I have known A LOT of people charged with or convicted of felonies who were good and decent people. When you have 4% of the world's population and 22% of the world's prisoners in a racialized police state, "felon" isn't predictive of anything, character-wise.

The who IP vs AI debate is such a shitshow because it's really two different regimes of seizing and enclosing our collective creative commons. Disney's entire model is taking folklore and transforming it media that they and they alone control, OpenAI's model is just

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

The silicon valley model of consent

honestly all the centrists and the center-left types who supported or hemmed and hawed about the brutal repression of pro-palestine protesters last year should take a hard fucking look at themselves. what trump is doing now he couldn't have done without you.

I have the same advice today that I’ve had for years: never talk to a journalist about DIY HRT