'Straight/cis guys never have to worry about being the victims of sexual violence' is, like. Clearly untrue, and depending on context and audience sometimes an incredibly cruel thing to say. But you see the broad social and psychosocial phenomena being gestured at, and often said in a context where it's clearly more overheated or sloppy speech than considered opinion.
However. If the discussion is about interactions with law enforcement or the criminal justice system or what an appropriate punishment for something is I, uh, don't think it's too much to expect that you wait for neurons to connect before saying shit. Especially in an American context lmao.
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there's a particular breed of twitter/youtube account who has been posting RUSSIA IS SO BONED once a week since 2022 and their posting frequency has increased to every couple of hours in mid-2026
France Just Dealt Russia a DEVASTATING Blow
Satellite Imagery Just Confirmed Putin's Worst Nightmare
Russia Just Got Some TERRIBLE News
The Situation on Crimea Has Become Truly Insane
Russia is Now Fleeing the ENTIRE Sea of Azov (75 Ships Disabled!)
Russia Has Gone Completely Insane
Ukraine Just DELETED Russia’s Shadow Fleet
Russia is Threatening to “Use the Nukes” Again (lol)
Russian Society is Completely Unraveling
Russia is Completely Folding Right Now
Russia’s Military Has Begun Abandoning the Front Lines
Putin's Closest Ally Just Betrayed Him
Russians Are Now FLEEING Crimea in HUGE Numbers
Russia's Propagandists are Panicking About Crimea Right Now
Ukraine Just Warned ALL Russians to FLEE Crimea (while they still can)
Ukraine Just Triggered a MASSIVE Fuel Crisis in Russia
Something BIG is Brewing in Chechnya Right Now
The Belarus Situation is Becoming a BIG Problem for Putin
Russia Just Lost Their Most Important Leader (more important than Putin)
Putin's Response to Armenia's Election Was Absolutely INSANE
Putin is FURIOUS as Elite Russian Soldiers Flee Their Positions
Russia is Preparing to Sacrifice 1,000,000 More Men
The Situation in Crimea is Spiraling Out of Control
The Ukraine War is About to Get MUCH Worse for Russia
Putin Just Had His Worst Day of the Entire War
Sweden Just Dealt Russia a DEVASTATING Blow
Russia’s New War Strategy is Already a MASSIVE Failure
Russia Just Made The Most Desperate Move I've Ever Seen
my man I know Russia is struggling but you have to pace yourself, you blow all these titles now and what are you going to have left when the war continues three more months, this is like those Iranians who kept posting AI videos of Tel Aviv in flames back in March, exercise some restraint!
I need all the hyperlexic statistical outliers on tumblr to look up what’s meant by low literacy, it means like, can’t read the notice from the electric company that says they’re cutting you off. Can’t read your doctor’s instructions on how to treat yourself at home. It means “school system failed you so badly that it might kill you”, if you’re reading simple fiction for fun you are already so far out of the window of maximum concern
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It's just not a given that when people say that "they" are responsible for this or that in politics, they are referring to Jewish people. Not even on a subconscious level. I think many simply have a vague sense that there are forces more powerful than them exerting some control over the world, they attribute this to human agency, but they terminate their line of thought before doing any investigation. So the exercise of this agency just becomes the influence of "them."
Reacting to this epistemic vice — which is basically a lack of inquisitiveness — by assuming that it's an instance of antisemitism on reflex instead of on the basis of reasons is just a different kind of vice. This vice, I suspect, derives from overweighting the probability of facing a certain kind of threat so much that it penetrates one's perceptions, combined with the feeling of accomplishment over mapping the sources of that threat. Where the first sort of person wants the satisfaction of explanation without the labor of investigating, the second sort of person is driven by fear into a systematic misapprehension of the dangers around them.
Lower wages for people under 21 should be textbook discrimination. A 22 year old gets £12.71 an hour and a 17 year old gets £8 an hour for doing the same exact job, in spite of the fact that a 17 year old could be living independently while being forced to work only part time due to being required to be in education. Oh also 18-20 year olds only get £10.85 an hour. Just because. You can join the army you can get married you get have kids. But sowwy you actually get significantly less because we arbitrarily decided so
I used to work alongside kids as a 21 year old and it shattered me to learn how much they were making. These kids were doing pretty much the same job as me other than me having a couple more responsibilities which really weren’t worth me getting £5 more than them. It’s actually fucking disgusting
Chat, is it considered “abusive roommate behavior” to release a raccoon into the living space after you have asked your roommate for months to please clean up their messes (they do not pay any of the mortgage)
For context, when I used to live alone I would do something called “Princess Time” where I would do an initial sweep (to remove any significant hazards) and then I would release a raccoon into the living area and clean. This helped because I would 1) feel like a princess and 2) the raccoon would bring attention to things my ADHD brain had decided to ignore and I’d quickly clean that stuff up.
So like, if I’m expected to clean the house now, I will be doing it in the way that is most effective for me. And anything that has not been cleaned up after months of having sit-down talks and sending reminders and being promised things will change, might be deemed “trash” by the trash panda and thrown away.
We haven’t done since we moved into the house, because I didn’t want to cause my roommate or their cats destress or have their things destroyed by a raccoon
I am a raccoon biologist and one of the few people in the state allowed to take in captive bred raccoons that had been possessed illegally. The raccoon in the photos is Moonshine, but she is currently at the animal sanctuary where I work as I had been quarantining multiple new intakes from an abuse case. I still have two males (Rum Tum Tugger and Electra) left in my home enclosure as we are getting them neutered and then hopefully sending them to an AZA accredited zoo.
I wanna make things very clear that underneath all the whimsy, I am a trained professional.
Nobody talks about this but her art is actually SUPER problematic.
First off, ONE of her guerilla sculptures, the anatomical piece she put up in the walk-in freezer of a rec center in Brockton Bay was APPARENTLY made with unethically sourced materials.
Not only that, but her red mist piece was put up all across Brockton Bay without consulting the city for environmental concerns, and was actually toxic, which hurt the most marginalized people in the city.
Then there's her "underwater" piece on sadness she set up under the harbor, which has the same problems as both of the pieces I mentioned, but also apparently had a widespread effect on the mental health of a LOT of people in the area.
Honestly I can't believe she hasn't been cancelled already. It really says things about people's priorities that they're okay with this, and I'm lowkey judging you all for it
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On two occasions I have been asked, — “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
You have to love how both
people asking stupid questions about computers, and
computer scientists responding by being total dickwads
are phenomena that go all the way back to the very beginning of the discipline.
The discourse around the character of Jax, from The Amazing Digital Circus, is fascinating to me, in that both sides of it feel hypocritical and disingenuous in certain ways.
Spoilers for the entire show.
For those unfamiliar, Jax is a (now more-or-less canonically confirmed) deeply closeted transfem who spends basically the entire show presenting and being perceived as a cis man. Jax is also abusive, emotionally and occasionally physically, and generally bullies female characters the hardest due to having a specific contempt for femininity and associating it with weakness, which is also a big part of Jax's self-hatred, since Jax secretly identifies with femininity. In the finale, Jax "abstracts," which is kinda-sorta the digital version of suicide.
It is not hard to see why a character like this would be a discourse bomb. Presenting trans people as abusive is always going to be controversial, and presenting trans women as abusive and specifically as Unsafe For Women is especially thorny because a lot of transphobic rhetoric leans into the idea that trans women are Unsafe For Women and therefore should be kept out of women's spaces. Jax seems like an implicit confirmation of this idea. Jax is what transphobes believe all trans women are like.
But many (though certainly not all) trans viewers of the show find Jax to be a relatable and complex character, one who represents a cautionary tale and an actual type of self-hating trans person, even though it may not be comfortable to admit this. Gooseworx, the show's creator, is also a trans woman who has described Jax as her "self-insert," one who represents a dark path that she could have gone down.
So you have people saying "Jax is a transphobic stereotype which represents Gooseworx's internalized transphobia and misogyny" and other people saying, "Jax is important representation and you just can't handle any trans character who isn't designed to sell a nonthreatening and sanitized version of transness to a cis audience." And of course, this is heightened by the fact that we are living in a time when there is a lot of heightened visibility of transgender issues as well as heightened fear and hostility toward trans people.
I tend to lean toward the second view, because I believe that fiction is the arena where you are allowed to be dark and messy and problematic and we need outlets for that. There are lots of calls for complex and non-sanitized rep, but if you follow that up with, "but nothing that might promote a harmful stereotype or be used against the group!" then you are asking for something contradictory. Real people do frequently have traits that may not be convenient for a political narrative. Some trans people are mentally ill in ways that make them toxic or destructive, and this is not always easily fixed by the people around them being more validating and accepting. Lots of other characters are validating and accepting toward Jax, and she slaps away every outstretched hand due to her past traumas, which she has not disclosed to the others.
(Obviously, there are cis people like this as well. Perhaps the objections to Jax wouldn't be as strong if there were also cis female abusers who actually got screen time. A few are mentioned, specifically Ragatha and Jax's mothers, but they are not actual characters in the narrative. And the show's only other on-screen abuser, Caine, is a male-presenting but basically genderless AI who eventually redeems himself. Jax does not.)
Ultimately, I do think Jax represents something uncomfortable but real that deserves to be explored in fiction, and the people accusing Gooseworx of transphobia just don't want to deal with that messiness...a messiness that is, for her, coming out of a deeply personal and vulnerable place.
But I started this post by referring to hypocrisy on the other side as well, and...yeah, there is plenty of it. As soon as "trans Jax" was canonically confirmed, basically every criticism of Jax's character, including anger toward her abusive actions, was reframed as "transphobia." Her trans pain is constantly brought up as an excuse or a mitigating factor. Her suffering is implied to be worse than that of the other characters (most of whom also have plentiful trauma, mental illness and abuse in their backgrounds). The conversation is pulled away from the bad choices Jax made and toward obsessively spotlighting and dissecting any perceived hypocrisy or double standard in how other people (characters or viewers) judge her or talk about her and how it must be motivated by transphobia. Which also just rings hollow given that Jax was broadly perceived as a cis man until the finale, and many casual viewers who didn't pick up on the hints still perceive her as a cis man and judge her through that lens. Like, if you are actually highlighting biases in audience reaction here, you're highlighting biases against cis men!
There is a persistent narrative within the fandom (and specifically among Jax fans) that viewers "turned against" Jax once she was revealed as transfem. As someone who's been observing the fandom for a while, I find this narrative utterly unconvincing. I've encountered a lot of people who hated Jax from the beginning and didn't change their opinion once her gender was revealed, and I've encountered a lot of people who were generally sympathetic toward Jax from the beginning and, again, didn't change their moral evaluation after. Sure, some fans were disappointed by the reveal because they're androphiles who are horny for Male Jax and find her less sexy as a woman, but that's a different can of worms. I have not encountered a single individual who was initially a Jax sympathizer and then started judging Jax's abusive actions more harshly after the finale. Not saying these individuals don't exist, but they are not common.
Tldr version: Jax is, I think, a character who deserves to exist, who brings something to the table, who speaks to a particular thing within the human experience that some people recognize. It is also not inherently transphobic to criticize the way the narrative handles Jax, or to hate Jax.
Hey I keep seeing the term "lolcowing" thrown around as if it's just a good time or even morally good and I need you know, from the bottom of my heart, that everyone ever branded that did not deserve the treatment they got and everyone who harassed them were awful.
There is not a "good" or "deserving" lowcow, there isn't an amount of embarrassment that makes it ok to publicly harass or mock them, and no one should be using the term as if it's some synonym for "twitter main character"
The thing I'm warning about in the OP is something I've seen a lot of places, but I do feel obligated to make it known that the post I screenshot was not, in fact, an example.
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Nobody talks about this but her art is actually SUPER problematic.
First off, ONE of her guerilla sculptures, the anatomical piece she put up in the walk-in freezer of a rec center in Brockton Bay was APPARENTLY made with unethically sourced materials.
Not only that, but her red mist piece was put up all across Brockton Bay without consulting the city for environmental concerns, and was actually toxic, which hurt the most marginalized people in the city.
Then there's her "underwater" piece on sadness she set up under the harbor, which has the same problems as both of the pieces I mentioned, but also apparently had a widespread effect on the mental health of a LOT of people in the area.
Honestly I can't believe she hasn't been cancelled already. It really says things about people's priorities that they're okay with this, and I'm lowkey judging you all for it
Back when prediction markets were just a matter of speculation, did Yudkowsky, Hanson and pals ever actually have serious rejoinders for the "it will cause wild insider trading and event rigging" problem?
They pictured it at the high level, like whether there will be a war, the presidential election, or the price of oil. And if you have the power to manipulate any of those, why are you most focused on rigging a predictive market?
There was not a lot of discussion of "what if the markets become about what word will the president say at a teleprompter."
Relatedly, can we call "people breaking the law" a problem of PM? Like there are very concrete laws about not leaking that you are on a secret assassination mission just to win a bet. The punishment is and was real. It wouldn't have happened WITHOUT the market, but I can understand why predictors thought "that is illegal" was enough prohibition.
The illegal part is only part of the story though - they absolutely thought about insider trading, and had a very firm, fully detailed response to it: "good!". They thought insider trading was, in a way, the point of the whole exercise - the market would financially incentize people to take their private information and make it public. It would generate knowledge via the price function.
The fact that the "true price" of the market would only be revealed 0.5 seconds before closing time as harried government employees scrambled to get their stablecoin transfers locked in was, honestly, an episode of real naivete from the early proponents. In their defense, they envisioned the tool as you say as being structured: controlled by deft hands, designed by thinkers for thinkers, with rules that encouraged their goal of knowledge production. But that is only a partial defense, as these were also the same people moving at breakneck speeds into crypto DeFi start-ups and wringing their hands about the tyranny of financial regulations. It was pretty perfectly predictable that the world they were asking to build their tool would use it to feed the mutual demand of grifters for marks and of marks for the illusionary hobby of being a grifters.
(But they were just writing a bunch of blog posts and white papers in the end, you can't hold em that hard to how everything has shaken out. Hanson is imo unrepentant and deserves more flak, but others have noted these issues as they developed and discussed them. And it isn't like prediction markets are all bad by any means.)
Hanson did not just say "good!" though. He said that one could craft insider trading rules modeled on the rules for stock trades (CEOs can trade their own stock, but only in trades fixed in advance to negate their information advantage). Specifically, insiders should classify themselves as "well-informed traders", and the WITs can only trade among each other, or by pre-announcing their trades in advance so that the non-insiders have time to react.
That sounds like the kind of structured markets I was mentioning were in the initial concept, right? But alas, I do not believe your White Paper Self is the only one that counts; your Twitter Self is also real. And Hanson is much less circumspect there:
I can't find the specific post I was thinking of, but I remember at one point he responded to specifically one of the actual cases of Trump admin insider trading with "this is good, the price is now more accurate". For a similar one, he remarks here that political staffers betting on their own campaigns is fine, and manipulating prices is good.
His stance IMO these days is that *firms* can have insider trading that is problematic on the stock market due to essentially principal-agent problems, but prediction markets generally do not have the same issues. And in practice, he spends 99% of his time describing insider trading regulations as a witch hunt and promoting the idea that people should stop worrying about it. I am not saying this as a dunk, he can think this. I am instead claiming that the above paper is an inadequate summation of what he is "trying to do in the world" on this topic.
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