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“Good news, factory workers! We are throwing out the old machines and putting in brand new ones that do totally different things. You won’t be any more productive, but we won’t train you and you can’t be sure the machine is doing what you expect it to do. It’ll be great! And if it isn’t, it must be a problem with you.”

This is what companies going all in on AI are like.

True story

If the cool S was a three dimensional object in which a loop has a twist (as I’ve tried to illustrate here—the “ends” of the S not terminating but instead connecting behind the middle of the S), then if you flipped it over onto the other side it would still be a cool S. I think that’s pretty neat

cis people are just biological transgender people that haven’t transitioned yet

May you give yourself the grace and understanding that you extend to strangers

I think part of why I haven’t come out at work is the worry that if I lose my male privilege they will all finally recognize me for the imposter I so clearly am.

I’ve mentioned this before on here, but I got teased a lot in high school for being gay. I never understood it, and so it didn’t bother me. I had a girlfriend. Since I was still trying to be a dude, I was categorically not “gay”. But obviously I was putting something out that the bullies picked up on. I wasn’t conscious of doing anything; I was trying my hardest to seem like an ordinary guy.

Later, lots of people would describe me as camp. No teasing this time, but also people picking up on something I didn’t realize I was putting out there.

I don’t have a point.

class solidarity, class liquidity, and class gassiness.

(We don’t talk about class plasmaness)

“garbage” sounds like something you’d wear

I can’t say the word “phenomena” without following it with “doo doo doo doo doo” in my head

Arepas with bean and cheese filling for dinner tonight. “400 yums” from the bigger kid and “6 yums” from the little kid (who despite the 6 yums ate nearly none of it 🙄)

gamer gate was really a sneak peek of what was coming

“People really like this thing of ours.”
“Huh. Well, I don’t like it, but I bet I know how we could improve it so even more people like it.”
— Every company ever

I’ve visited 23 countries which is not nothing. If you were to colour in those states on a political map, it would look like a respectable smattering. But if you were to instead draw lines of where I traveled, it would lay bear just how little of the earth, even the places I’ve “been” I’ve actually seen. It’s a big old globe.

My dog has become cuter to me since starting estrogen.

MTF stands for mom time first

Recent watches:
Hail Mary - Good, fun, pretty faithful to source material
The Martian - Rewatch and worse than I remembered. Fine, pale in comparison to Hail Mary’s heart
The Fall Guy - Forgettable. Borderline bad.

Is Olivia Rodrigo’s “purple” about dating a right wing guy and seeing his point of view?

gender transition off fossil fuels

operating on the presumption that if I pretend to be a kind, decent person for long enough, maybe I'll become one.