Dess Knight Grief Circle President

if I see one more "why age verification is bad" post that doesn't even bother to mention that locking young people out of huge sections of the public sphere - literally the stated goal and primary impact of this shit - is wrong in and of itself I will simply start hitting people with bricks

I worry a little bit that people who refuse to learn about ai as a part of their anti ai position are going to be extremely unprepared to understand what’s actually scary about it and already have their digital literacy at risk tbh

not that I am some genius in this regard but if you follow ai developments even slightly you might change the things you are most worried about. do people know the extent to which ai is already eating itself and how meaningless this is making swaths of the internet. do people know that there are plenty of random mid-sized companies today buying their employees’ likenesses to create digital clones and using these to make hundreds of videos. I am so much more worried about labor and surveillance and abuse than people becoming lazy about writing emails. and idk man I sort of like and respect people who are willfully ignorant about it as a way of minimizing its force in their lives and I am in some ways jealous but also when I see posts that basically still boil down to “chatgpt will never fool me” I am like 😭😭😭 for one thing not the only thing to be concerned about, for another thing I am really sorry but I don’t think you’re right

Yeah you have to understand the thing that you don’t like so you can best fight it even if it feels like an indignity to learn about it!!!

"no more gnc men erasure!!!" ok but you losers don't even keep this energy for gender non conforming black boys because black people, especially dark skinned black people regardless of their gender, gotta fight to be seen with an ounce of femininity

the way westerners will only listen to you about anything if you use exclusively western sources... its like trying to convince a MAGA person of some obvious fact but you can only use as a source fox news. this is how theyre making us live

no matter how much they hate their governments and their corporations for what they've done to them, they are still the only voices they trust, the only arbiters of truth and reality for them, they will trust their torturer before they trust a foreigner

All hail Big Analysis Papy! (I feel like it’s a bit obnoxious to ask Kris for honey toast first thing instead of saying something about how she knows they’re upset but this is still good!)

my futile wish is for people to understand that "sex scenes in movies/TV don't have to serve the plot and can genuinely just be for pleasure" and "sex-repulsed people are allowed to complain about how rare it is for media made for adults like them to be something they can enjoy completely" are both true statements. unfortunately society hates both sex and people who don't like sex, so everyone gets far too defensive about any sex or lack thereof in fiction to actually have this conversation

Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginner's roadblock to art isn't even technical skill it's frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roach's capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. That's how you build on the technical skill. Throw that "won't even start because I'm afraid it won't be perfect" shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck.

You really start to understand that the “angry black woman” and “mean lesbian” stereotype only exists to shame us for the fact we get reasonably upset about people wanting to horrifically abuse us indiscriminately. Let’s get meaner !

I bring a real 'actually people who are pregnant do deserve some special consideration because they are effectively at least temporarily disabled if not permanently after some complications' vibe to the party that a lot of people don't seem to like

Important, not fun post but I need you to block me if you are transphobic or entertain transphobes--ESPECIALLY transmisogynists and I need you to do it ASAP or I'll do it for you

ALSO, JUST FOR THE RECORD!!!! If you are refusing to stop taking photos of people you look like a cop.