Father, husband, geek, leftist, not liberal. Anti-Fascist. Anti-MAGA. Despairing.
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I am one of those guys who should NEVER be allowed to run with scissors or hold elected office. Because whenever I see the fash fulminating about the ECHR I dayream about abolishing the human rights convention and hanging them all from lampposts (because the death penalty would be legal).
If they're so confident they don't need LGBT people & certainly not need us enough to even ask their elected officials to stop antagonizing us, which is the bare minimum effort, they could at least leave us alone & shut the fuck up about it.
It's fantastic that individual real artists are poisoning their work, but I think this may be one area where we can turn AI's ability to quickly churn out glurge by the gigabyte against it. And there's something poetic about AI being used to poison future AI.
Possible valid use case for AI image generation: Churning out zillions of images based on the most common prompts, poisoning with Nightshade and others, posting in places like Reddit's AI fan subreddits to maximize the spread of poisoned images into training data.
It'd be great if there was something like nightshade for text that'd go over a document and make mostly unnoticeable (to humans) changes which mess up the AI, but even if it's just weird shit to put into chats and comments it'd be great. The more poison we spread the better, right?
Anyone got a resource on poisoning text based AI? I love that Nightshade et al are poisoning the image based AI, but I'd really like to know if there's anything similar that could be deployed on text to fuck with any AI trained on that text.
It's really weird how much BETTER he looks without the orange reverse panda thing. I mean, sure, he's visibly ill and showing his age, but he looks like a person.
AdNauseam is a browser extension that hides all ads, but ALSO clicks them. Poisoning your user profile in the databases by making it look like you're interested in everything. Charging advertisers who pay per click. There's really no downside except that it's a pain in the ass to install.
We can but hope!
You're an antisemitic nutbag so you can just fuck right off.
Like the rest of the "liberal media" ABC is owned by billionaires and serves billionaire interests. Which right now means serving Trump.
"Thoughts and prayers"
The Republicans, voters and elected alike, really do seem to think that when the President is a Republican they get to be a dictator and tell all of America what to think, believe, read, see, and value.
Important thing to remember about "Doctor" Frankenstein. He wasn't a doctor. He dropped out of grad school. At best he's Master Frankenstein.
OK, but by standards for the creation of children the monster is ALSO named Frankenstein as he would have inherited his father's name. So it's 100% correct to call the monster "Frankenstein" if you look at it right!
Horsie-doover!
I spent most of my life believing that the word interregnum was pronounced "in-tera-gunum" which is doubly embarrassing because my major was history. I didn't get that corrected until I was 33 years old and a friend of mine laughed at me for how I mispronounced the word.
I'm old enough I remember back when Republicans at least pretended that their gerrymandering wasn't about squeezing as much partisan advantage as they possibly could.
Maybe? I've seen some speculation that they're believers in the idea that illness is the result of lack of virtue so therefore they see medicine as a sort of moral welfare that unfairly allows people to be healthy when they don't deserve, in their minds, to be healthy.
Or agree with him that it's good for the CDC to be destroyed.
"Actually, we can point out that the asylum protestors are the biggest danger to women!" a) Yes, because fascism is always toppled by facts and logic. b) Conservatives think it's okay for "our men" to be patriarchs while portraying the Other as a threat to "our women". Come ON, this is BASIC.
There seems to be a subset of men who are sufficiently misogynist that they'd like to get women out of sex entirely. Obviously that ties in with the whole creepy robot sex doll thing going on, but AI generated porn seems like it fits that pattern as well. They want sex, but they don't want women.
I can't help but remember the line attributed to a lot of male actors that "I didn't pay prostitutes to have sex with me, I paid them to go away after", and Molly Ivins who claimed she'd overheard a Texas lege member complain that the trouble with women is they had all the pussy.
I can totally see that. I've noticed that theres a lot of AI porn content, I mean realistic here not anime, and I can't help but think that somewhere that's related to a desire to get women out of sex on the part of some people. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but
"Tiffany Doe" says she was raped repeatedly by Trump and Epstein when she was 13 and part of Epstein's sex slave operation.
But, the pimp and convicted perjurer who he bribed with promises of a pardon says he was a "gentleman" so he's TOTALLY innocent of all accusations! /s
No, he's talking about sexual slavery that the Japanese Imperial forces coerced Korean women into for the sexual gratification of Imperial Japanese soldiers during the time Japan occupied Korea.
I'd say that one is pretty clear, actually. Trump wants Korea to stop talking about and demanding compensation for and apology to the sex slaves Japan took during their occupation of Korea. Like with Epstein, Trump is on the side of sexual abusers.
Japan's pursuit of autarky was a major component in its aggressive imperialism back in the 1930s. That didn't end so well for them.
So are you bold "free speech absolutist" right wingers going to object to that? Or do you only care when it's FOX that might be threatened?
@thehill.com You going to applogize to Kamala Harris for calling her a liar when she said Trump planned to use the military against Americans? Or did you hope we'd forgotten?
Little column A, little column B. Fascism is pretty predictable, after all there are only so many ways to try to crush your opponents, stamp out democracy, and rule with an iron fist. So there's going to be a lot of overlap regardless. But yeah, also Russia.
A good point, but TBH I wouldn't be surprised to see FOX promoting Houston as an evil murder city because they're promoting "cities are hellholes run by Democrats" narrative, and all the Republican parts of Texas fucking HATE the cities.
Patriotic Alternative used gasoline to try to burn down a hotel they believed immigrants were staying at, the intent was to MURDER. But they're cool, they're super fine, you can say you think Patriotic Alternative is the best thing ever and face no penalties. see the problem?
lol If the UK is in such a precarious position that grounding two planes for a couple of hours while they wash off some paint is a threat to "National Security" (whatever that means) then the UK has much bigger problems than some people throwing paint on airplanes.
Blah blah. Attempted murder isn't as bad as vandalism. Got it.
Gavin Newsom suggesting that 25 years of age is too young to transition and agreeing to right-wing entryism of concern trolling about trans people in sports. This is your opposition leader? I will never vote for Gavin Newsom anyone who thinks trans people are actual humans will follow suit.
It occurs to me that the people paying multiple millions to freeze their corpses are the people you'd least want to revive in a decent future. "Here we are in the post-scarcity utopia! What we really need are some 21st century techbro rich chuds!" said no on ever.
Congrats you have a super special super nuanced view that totally ignores the fact that the UK has made it illegal to say you support Palistine Action while leaving it legal to support, join, and encourage the white supremacists who actually tried to kill people.
well darn. I hope, at least, that after LA there's no American cities on the list for the planned future. There shouldn't be until (if) we get shit fixed over here.
I'm saying it seems as if there should have been SOMETHING they could do to rapidly relocate it during Seattle WorldCon this year. Maybe I'm totally wrong, but emergencies do happen and you'd hope there's a means of relocating if a city got flattened by a hurricane or whatever.
California is wimping out by only redistricting to create 5 new Democratic districts. Go for maximal gerrymandering in retaliation, not this pathetic shit. What are you going to do after Florida etc redistrict to help Republicans if you've already just done the minimum?
It's taking place in America, a place that is now preposterously hostile towards foreign visitors, so LA WorldCon is already shit. Why they didn't move it somewhere not run by a dictatorial, xenophobic, racist asshole is beyond me.
"Those are our streets" Note the implication that they are NOT streets that homeless Americans can exist on. He draws a line between an "us" and a "them", and puts the unhoused firmly in the "them" category. Those are "our" streets, meaning that "they" can't be there.
If Mormonism involved light sabers I might be interested....
Some are saying they wished they believed in hell so they could hope James Dobson would finally face justice. Belief in hell is a tool by the oppressor class to keep us from seeking real justice in the real world. I don't wish I believed in hell. I wish Dobson had faced justice IRL.
ok Lindsey, let's talk about progress and how that progress was accomplished! We accomplished progress in ending slavery by killing 290,000 slaving white supremacist slime, burning their homes, and taking their property. Do you recommend we take a similar approach today Lindsey?
I would indeed like relief from diesel fuel exhaust systems, in the sense that I'd like to stop inhaling the output of those systems. And when, exactly, did we the people express a desire for lower emissions standards? I don't seem to recall that Mx Zelden. 60% want STRICTER regulations.
If you're ever in a position to stop an organization from switching to Sharepoint, please for the love of all that is good and holy, stop them! It's 24 year old and no one can honestly say it's ready to be put into production, it's not even ready for a beta test, it's ready for alpha testing.
How, exactly, is Speaker Johnson claiming he can stop California from redistricting?
Trans people: can we have rights? GOP: no because you're mentally ill freaks and we want you to die Centrists: No because I don't want my kids to be trans, and because you asked us we're voting GOP Democrats: No because asking us is purity politics and that makes fascism your fault, how dare you
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If we'd approached another person like that, I'm pretty sure it would legally count as assault.
Wait, what? Double jeopardy doesn't apply? The government can just keep dragging you in front of grand juries until they get one willing to indict?
Vote Blue No Matter Who goes one way only. We must vote for the worst right wing scum they nominate. They reserve for themselves the right to vote against any nominee who is too progressive.
Then Lt/Vice governorships after the 615th Lady/Gentleman (Jennie Gordon wife of Wyoming Gov Mark Gordon), then we could go by state legislatures, city mayors, city council members, county government, we can derive the exact rank of any spouse of any elected official!
We can now know the exact numeric ranking of any spouse of any elected official in the USA! No more wondering who gets seated first at important dinenrs or whatever! Which would mean Jennifer Newsom is the 555th Lady since we'd start on the spouses of governors after going through the US Congress.
I just had the most important thought of my life! If the spouse of the VP is the 2nd Lady/Gentleman, then that means that Bryon Noem is the 18th Gentleman since Kristi Noem is 17th (god help us) in line of succession. After that we'd need to rank by Senate rank, then House, etc...
The way some fandoms get oddly insular and start freaking out when people haven't read the same stuff they have is just plain weird though. I personally love Pratchett, but I'm damn sure not going to say everyone must or should read him. Or even know who he is.
Hell, Campbell had a massive NEGATIVE impact on the so-called Golden Age in that he was a major gatekeeper since he edited the then biggest SF magazine and he used that position to promote his white supremacist, misogynist, and generally xenophobic bullshit.
But that to the side, yeah the way some people (mostly fans) act about a handful of white dudes who wrote SF back in the 1940's and 1950's is just plain pathetic. Heinlein, Asimov, Campbell, etc have almost nothing to do with modern SF beyond some history that only historians need bother with.
While I can definitley agree that the whole idea of some Established Canon of Great Authors is weird and counterproductive, I'd assume at least investigating the current high selling authors in the genre a person aims for would be handy, or am I just wrong on that?
It did really seem weird that a white supremacist like him would marry a woman of Indian descent.
I'm with you. I'm squicked out by the obsquious servile way they talk, ugh. Anyone who LIKES being talked to that way is not a person I'd say should be anywhere near any power of any sort.
There's a shocking number of nurses who are deeply invested in quack nonsense. The problem is that they see the way the medical establishment sucks, they see the failures of real medicine, they see the godawful cost of making medical care a luxury, and they conclude that therefore quackery is real.
I think it's less capitulation and more the zillionaires who own the universities using Trump as an excuse to do what they've always wanted to do. Same with the other big orgs. They're not cowed, they're complicit.
Given that it seems like Peach, Mario, and Bowser are into some role play stuff and fake her kidnapping on the regular, I always assumed constitutional monarchy and she was bored.
I got to Star Control 2 late, but loved it. Dunno if I somehow missed the marketing or what, but when it was the hot new thing I hadn't heard of it. Same with Wasteland. It would have been right up my street but I never saw it until decades after it was released.
I went the first 37 years of my life not even knowing what a perogi was until I spent a summer in Pittsburgh. Now I can't imagine going a month without. I hope Dershowitz never gets another perogi in his life...
JFC. I can't tell if they're genuinely so dumb they don't know what they're talking about, actually insane, or just lie for fun. Maybe all three.
Well, in the UK Labor is taking the second option and agreeing with the Tories and Reform UK, so the Democrats have an example of what not to do. Sadly, I have the suspicion that they'll decide Labor has the right idea and that the only way forward is to throw trans people under the bus.
So, trans men are barred from using men's toilets because by law they're women. But they're also barred from using women's toilets becuase they might cause distress. It'd be more honest if the UK would just pass a law saying trans people are forbidden from existing outside their homes.
I mean they were largely ineffectual and powerless when they existed. The Democrats never pushed hard for any real protection, and they've been complicit in the last 75 years of re-monopolization by refusing to enforce antitrust laws. Democrats being merely better than Republicans is insufficent.
You know what this means? It means that from now on every removed pro-slavery monument must be destroyed, not merely relocated. Melt them down, grind them to powder, and recycle them to be used as toilets in majority Black schools.
Well, they make vague gestures in that direction. But while some Democrats do focus on this the Democratic Party as a whole is anemic at absolute best. The CFPB was underfunded, defanged, and all but powerless. And the other agencies are also defunded, powerless, and prevented from doing anything.
I think Democrats should offer voters a broadly defined anti-fraud platform. Yes, obviously, start with Trumpβs influence peddling, but donβt stop there. Online fraud is massive, almost every phone call you get is a scam, and the solution has to be federal or it just wonβt work.
He also sticks tacky gold colored/plated garbage everywhere. The Oval Office looks terrible.
That only applies to right wing homophobes. Anyone refusing to sell to a rich right winger will be sentenced to decades in prison and fined 100% of their money.
And? On a separate note? All that "vote blue no matter who" bullshit was proved to be a lie when the Democrats stabbed Mamdani in the back. Don't fucking tell me I'm not voting hard enough for filthy right wing "Democrats" while the Party tries to defeat Mamdani.
Don't spread falsehood. Democrats don't lose because of wicked leftists failing to vote. And Obama killed the public option in secret and claimed he was fighting to preserve it.
And no universal single Payer. Also thanks to Democrats' tireless work. Do better.
That is transmed shit. That only those who "do" transition are to be considered trans at all. And also cannot forget shit like being disgusted by closeted people huh that the closet is a position of privilege. Unironically some of the most transphobic shit I have read.
JUICEBOXES WILL NOT REPLACE US
Hey now, I'm desperate and poor. You could DEFINITELY pay me to hate read either of them or both. Poor and desperate as I am, I'd ask for a minimum of a few thousand, but you can pay me to read that crap!
"chair of urban warfare studies at the modern war institute at west point" just wanted to type that out to see if blood comes out of my eyes and finger tips, will keep you posted
Similarly, never deny that the Epstein Files exist after spending 8 years promising to release them!
oops I did it* again *wrote a cartoon www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
One of my absolute faves. I also can't help but notice that "the last of the great mages" doesn't specialize in anything, nor does their student. So maybe specializing in a particular bit of magic is an easy but ultimately not so great path?
Seriously though, WTF. How did this dudebro get through years of DoA without realizing it was LGBT friendly? Like, dude? Did you not notice the large LGBT cast and storylines about LGBT characters?
Shades of Captain Rebecca Sugar ordering that the ship be made even more gay!
Quiz time! You're going to take the first class mage exams and your speciality is creating magical duplicates of yourself. When is the best time to create your duplicates for the first test? A) Immediately after you're locked into the test area B) Just before that C) 4 years ago
Nope. Fuck that shit. Delay the deposition until the case has gone on at least as long as the longest case where Trump took Amy measures to slow things down. Or reject it and any other civil suits he files because he's immune to all prosecution so it's unjust for him to be able to sue
So yeah, Mayor Pete, maybe you have a point that could possibly be made and people could discuss in 60 years, or 100 years, or 1000 years, when trans people are no longer hated and discriminated against. Until then? You're a jackass Pete.
Maybe. But it damn sure isn't time to have that sort of conversation, or admit it has the tiniest, slightest, hint of validity or importance in a world where trans kids are hounded to suicide and trans people are widely discriminated against and hated.
MAYBE, at some point in the future when trans people are fully accepted, there is no discrimination, there is no bigotry, and there is no threat to the lives and existences of those trans people, MAYBE at that time it might be valid to discuss how and if being a trans woman is an advantage in sports
Some people are unhappy and always will be and deserve to be.
My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
Finally, the doctrine that the highest purpose of a corporate board is to maximize shareholder value flatly contradicts the existence of the corporation as a privilege granted by society in exchange for it benefiting society at large. We need the social contract to explicitly apply to companies.
The only reason that Democrats are yelling at us and abusing us and threatening us to force us to vote for Newsom *three years from now* is because heβs transphobic. Thatβs it. This is such incredibly bullshit nonsense.
I'd be interested to see commentary from that group as well!