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futurebird , to random
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Maybe we need to make some space to have conversations about the way that rigid gender expectations can hurt people. I'm not talking about trans people, exclusively (in fact the trans people I know are among the most sophisticated when it comes to processing these kinds of events and emotions)

No, where I see a lot of unprocessed trauma flailing around putting everyone in a bad way is from cis people who have unexamined psychological harm due to their failure to conform to some gender norm. 1/

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@futurebird
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we must end the tyrranical reign of homosociality

futurebird , to random
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I've largely dismissed the strain of AI alarmism based on the notion the a computer will be so smart that the danger it poses to humanity is outsmarting us.

There are real dangers in AI, most of them relate to people using these technologies in improper ways due to having a poor understanding of what they really are... and most important the exploitation & degradation of the human body of knowledge creativity represented by publicly available digital information. 1/

Forbearance ,
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@futurebird There was a book about this that was like "well there can't be evidence because by the time there could be evidence it's already happened". Which is Not Science.

futurebird , to random
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I’m very fond of stories in a universe where some advanced, but long vanished, race of enigmatic aliens has left behind strange artifacts: like puzzle boxes or dungeons for our heroes to explore and nearly get killed in. If not aliens let it be a lost human civilization.

I also like to think about those ancient people who built the ‘Temple of Doom’— for all of those traps to work so well after thousands of years they must have been very clever. What was it like to set them up?

Forbearance ,
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@futurebird Civil Engineer and the Temple of Doom

jeffjarvis , to random
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Works every time. sells. This is the corruption of the attention economy. It is as old as the steam-powered press and mass media.

Forbearance ,
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@futurebird @bjc @jeffjarvis are these drills like fire drills where everyone is all "there might be a fire drill today" and "oh there's the fire drill", or are they just randomly pretending the place is actually being attacked on a regular basis and then sometimes saying "oh yeah we lied"

loren , to random
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let that skink in

Forbearance ,
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@loren now too many sinks in my house

lowqualityfacts , to random
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Incredible.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Forbearance ,
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@lowqualityfacts thaiered: writing system looks kinda like flowers

wired: writing system actually is flowers

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