i haven't seen anything about this on my dashboard, so i wanted to share. ICE gestapo killed another human being on tuesday. he leaves behind three sons and his wife, who he has spent the last 35 years building a life with

there is a gofundme supported by the league of united latin american citizens set up to help with funeral costs, legal fees, and supporting his family moving forward.

it's still actually perfectly fine to do it

and you shouldn't stop yourself from starting just because it won't be a permanent change.

Like if starting a new daily planner gives you an amazing afternoon of planning and four days where you feel in charge of your life,

why not do it?

It doesn't matter that it won't be a permanent change - 4 good days is still worth it.

If you ever catch yourself thinking, "I wish I could pray/stretch/prep/plan/do the thing, but I always get started on that and it never lasts more than a couple of days,"

what this really means is, "hey, I can feel better for a couple of days."

if this post is making you think of things in your own life that you wish you could stick to because of how good they make you feel,

just be aware:

you're not thinking of a list of ways you've failed to commit

emojis in display names/bios: 🌲 (very common among right wingers with environmentalist or agrarian tendencies), ⚡ (resembles SS bolts), ᛉ (the Algiz rune, a common symbol among Nazi occultists), ▐┛(a symbol i've seen among self-styled fascists, not sure of its name/origin), ⚒️ (used by pro-worker right wingers, nazbols, strasserists, conservative socialists, and people of that sort), 🛡️ (tbh I'm unsure of its meaning in right wing communities but I've seen the shield emoji commonly used among them), Σ (symbol for integralism, i think)

acronyms: ZOG (Zionist Occupied Government), GAE (Globalist American Empire), and GNC (Global N***** Communism)

adding random "0”s in the middle of words (e.g. “Hitl0r”) - I think this is one of the many trends started by Bronze Age Pervert, aka BAP, a cult figure on the online right whomst'd've i will mention multiple times here

“actual idealist” (this is a school of philosophical thought developed by Giovanni Gentile, the OG fascist. i have been informed that this is not synonymous with fascism, and it is possible to be an actual idealist without being a fascist. however fascists often call themselves this)

"attaq" (instead of spelling it normally as "attack") - "its explicit attaq on nw evropean heritage" - @ AnimusoftheWest

"bioleninism" (short for Biological Leninism, associated with the neoreactionary/NRx community) - "Bioleninism? more like homocolonialism" - @ 0x49fa98

British Empire nostalgia (particularly among the British alt right sphere) - "The world was a better place when Britain was running it" - @ NxlAnglo

literally anything associated with chadnet.org

“christ is king” (not always part of the *alt* right specifically but almost always signifies a right wing persuasion)

Dark MAGA (a meme format, typically used by people who are more radically right wing than Donald Trump)

"dissident"/"samizdat" (people in the alt right will often refer to themselves in this fashion; in fact, within the community the term "dissident right" is much more popular than "alt right." the term samizdat originated in the Eastern Bloc and it referred to a specific form of dissident activity; secretly publishing/distributing literature that was banned for political reasons (which was very much varied in terms of political content), but in its current usage it has been appropriated and overtaken by specifically the alt right.)

Faustian spirit - "I don't know man, there are people like that - people who have this thing called a "faustian spirit" - who just drop everything to partake in conflicts just because it calls to them somehow." - @ Tinkzorg

Fiume references (references to the Free State of Fiume that lasted between 1920-1924, fascists love that shit. For example if someone describes themselves as a "Fiumean" they're probably fash)

"frens" (sometimes, much of the time it's just an innocent quirky spelling of "friends" but if combined with Pepe memes / "frogposting" it's very likely an alt right dogwhistle) - "Help me find my frens!" - Literally the entirety of right wing twitter

"frogs" (in group signaling used by members of the Frogtwitter community towards one another)

Greco-Roman sculptures (sometimes, tho ppl who use this kinda imagery could also just be vaporwave fans)

references to Hyperborea (according to Esoteric Nazis this is where Trve Aryans descend from or something like that)

"I just want the trains to run on time" (Mussolini reference and one of the better-known fascist dogwhistles on this list)

Julius Evola quotes ("revolt against the modern world," "ride the tiger," "Pagan imperialist," to name a few examples)

"Latinx" (no I'm so serious people on the alt right are appropriating "Latinx" and using it as a derogatory term towards people of Latino/a/@ ethnicity)

"millions must die"/"millions must perish"/"millions must ..." (this is a meme in right wing spaces as i understand it)

“no more brother wars!” (usually a white supremacist dogwhistle, white people being referred to as "brothers" in this case)

norwood (I'm not exactly sure what this is supposed to refer to, my best guess is that it's a reference to the Norwood scale but I'm honestly not completely sure. anyway right wingers use it all the time for some reason) - "My Norwood in Hitler" - a few people so far

our guy (in group signaling which originated on /pol/, also commonly stylized as /ourguy/) - "One of /ourguys/, a tiny account, got doxed." - @ 0x49fa98

a fixation on physiognomy (ascribing personality traits to certain traits in appearance) or otherwise treating it like science

"post fizeek" (attributed to fans of Bronze Age Pervert, an intentional misspelling of "post physique")

"pozzed" (this originally was a shortcut for "HIV positive" but in right wing speak it refers generally to the influence of diversity/'wokeness'/'political correctness') - "The Kali Yuga is too far along: it’s not possible to be “normal” anymore. The culture is too pozzed. Especially for Gen Z." - @ CaligulaHorse39

#ProSlaveryTwitter

making raw eggs/raw milk a central tenet of one's persona (more often than not these types of people are far right or adjacent to the far right)

references to Ray Peat (a biologist, dietitian, and cult figure on the online far right, edit: despite not having right wing politics himself)

“opposition activist” - "Opposition Activist. Proud member of the National Globalist Democratic Equity Party (member no. 542)." - @ CityBureaucrat

soyjACKs (the soyjak meme in itself isn't an alt right dogwhistle, but I've only ever seen the soyjACK meme used by people on the far right. its most common iteration is known as "t*****jak" which is, well, quite blatantly transphobic... also huge tw for a suicide depiction in case you're thinking about looking this up) - "Napoleon destroying the Holy Roman ACKpire at Austerlitz was one of the most providential moments in history." - @ MogTheChungus

"TND," "TFD," "TTD" (idk what this means but thank you u/soffocatoredizog for bringing this to my attention) - "TND... TFD.... TSD.... TKD... TTD... TCD..." - @ Oval _ Opal _ (edit: now I know. TND means "total n***** death," and I assume the rest of the acronyms in this family also refer to wishing for the total death of other marginalized groups.)

"vital living," "vitalist" (refers to a specific subset of the right wing online space, particularly right wing bodybuilders, often abbreviated as "rwbb")

"wat means" (attributed to fans of Bronze Age Pervert) - "I keep attracting Catholic girls despite being a fervent Protestant, wat means?" - @ AngloPlayboy

“westernkind” (I presume another way of referring to however the alt right defines "white people") - "Friend of Westernkind. Globalism is satanic." - @ wayotworld

and then all of a sudden you’re a man and you’re ‘the problem’ and you just want to oppress girls and talk over women to validate yourself and make it all about you because all men ever do is take over the conversation and be abusive and use their toxic masculinity to bludgeon everyone around them and like

my favourite piece of "AI art" is something that was not intended to be AI art at all, and was made and posted online as a joke. which is "salmon in the river", from 2023.

this is how the AI apparently understood the above prompt. salmon filets jumping in water.

in this case, not only do i think this is interesting art, but i think it is interesting art only because it was not made by a human. like, this reads to me as art about alienation and commodification, right? obviously we all know that under capitalism products become separated from the labour and processes that created them. you buy a shirt and you don't think about the hands that sewed it, and so on. the commodity form hides its own origins. and food in particular hides not just labour, but life. the animal disappears. like, if you think about how meat reaches you at a western supermarket, typically it arrives on a styrofoam tray, wrapped in plastic, cut into shapes that don't resemble the body they came from. a chicken breast doesn't look like a chicken, and likewise a salmon filet does not look like a salmon. many times people actually find it gross or distasteful to see the animal! the filet is literally the shape that says don't think about it.

so the art, then. the filets are appearing in the river, which is where the living salmon would be. the commodity form is occupying the space of the creature. the erasure itself is swimming upstream. that's sick!!! and the wrongness of it, the visual absurdity, is exactly what reveals how much work the commodity form normally does. We're used to seeing filets in kitchens, on plates, in supermarkets. In those contexts, they look right. they look like what salmon IS! it's only when you put the filet in the context of a living animal that you suddenly see how strange it is and how much has been removed. it's good art!!!

AND YET if human artist had made this image, i don't think it would be very good art. filets swimming upstream as a commentary on commodity food culture is fine but it would feel very on the nose in a banksy, makes-u-think kind of way. this would be a human saying "here's what I think about how we relate to what we eat." like imagine this as a political cartoon, right? immediately the exact same image would make me want to fucking roll my eyes. it would be kind of insufferable!! and to me i think that's because it is making an argument. the artist has to be visibly making a point and the finger is always wagging. we live in a society, bottom text. UGH!

whereas, when an AI produces filets in the river, it's not making a claim. it doesn't think and it doesn't care. it is just outputting based on what it's been trained on and based on the prompt. it's saying "here's what salmon actually means in the aggregate of human visual culture." it says something in and of itself that an AI image generator was asked to create salmon swimming in a river, and it produced filets. boneless, skinless, ready-for-the-pan filets, floating serenely through the rapids. and that's because the AI was trained on us. it was clearly not primarily trained on, e.g Coast Salish art like on carved salmon with eyes and spirits or more generally on cultures that really focus on holding the sustenance and the creature together. instead it was trained on an aggregate blob of the internet, including the very massive and alienated western commercial relationship to food. our images, our photographs, our stock photos and food blogs and recipe sites. and in that corpus, salmon is overwhelmingly a filet. when you throw everything into the pile and ask "what is salmon," the commodity form rose to the top.

thus when the model produces filets in the river, it's not really making an error in the same way we would; it's just accurately reflecting what "salmon" means in the aggregate, and putting it in a context that makes it seem incredibly absurd. it literally works as art because it's not A Guy saying eyy, look what you've done, it's just showing what we've done, without commentary or judgment and without even knowing it's showing anything at all.

but then ALSO. was this really an "error" generated by an AI? or was this a human who prompted it to make a picture of salmon filets in a river and posted it as a glitch for internet points? i don't know!!!

and at first this bothered me, because I've been so hard on arguing that the image only works because it wasn't made intentionally. like, that the lack of human intent is what gives it evidentiary weight and what transforms it from trite political cartoon into Good Art.

but i literally think that's still true. if a human made this, if someone deliberately prompted an AI to produce filets in a river and then framed it as an accident for heckin reddit updoots or even legitimately to make a political point, then what they created is a piece of art about the difference between intentional and unintentional meaning. they used the AI as a medium, but more importantly, they used our expectation of AI failure as a medium. The art isn't just the image; it's the image plus the caption plus our willingness to believe it.

Q. You want to raise every boy as a girl? Yes.

Q. Why? A boy will learn to hate girls as long as he is raised in such a way where he is treated as better, and superior to, his girl peers, whenever he is cruel to girls. So, instead, we raise boys as girls.

Q. What if they say they are not a girl, and want to be acknowledged as boy? Then you know they are a boy, so you must make sure to understand them as boy, and not a girl.

Q. What does it mean to be 'raised as a girl'? That's up for you to decide. The only difference is that you should not raise boys any differently than you raise girls, since you raise every boy as a girl.

Q. Girls and boys are raised in specific ways for specific purposes, so it does not make sense to raise boys as girls. If you raise every boy as a girl, then there is no being which is not raised as a girl, so anyone raised as a girl necessarily must learn to do anything and everything to grow up, without restrictions on tasks, labours, or interests.

Q. But boys and girls are different. All two girls are different, and raising girls in one specific way destroys this individuality in favour of moulding girls to serve the same master. Still, the girls resist to live life on their own terms. If girls can be raised such that they know they can do anything they want, including not being girls, so too will boys raised as girls.

Q. Why not raise every girl as a boy? Because if a girl does not exist among boys, then the girl is made.

Q. Why not raise girls and boys as themselves? The self must be made in a world where girls and boys can first and foremost be themselves. One step towards this goal is to raise every boy as a girl.

Q. The way people raise girls is cruel, so why would you raise boys with that cruelty? If you raise girls with cruelty, then you should stop being cruel to girls.

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