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talking about stuff like prison reform or the SO registry really quickly makes you realize how many peoples political ideology boils down to "look, just tell me who the bad people are so I know who we should be killing."

And they really REALLY want someone to kill.

Look I don't really care for AI. I'm scared about the increasing over-reliance on tools like chatgpt and Ai assist that repeatedly give flawed or false information, I reject the promise of AI writers and actors that might infect mainstream art. But like...y'all need to change the way you look at this stuff for real. So much popular anti-AI language is so abstracted from any material reality and human truth, making up slurs for Ai bots like that's a normal thing to do, wantonly accusing artists of using Ai like a witch hunt, and talking about the human element of art supplanted by AI in very Christian terms, calling it "sacred" or coming from the soul. You don't have to like AI, but I really encourage you to examine how you feel about it and what it's been making you say. Cause it's apparently making you say ethnic slurs

Should've known this post would've conjured people defending their right to repurpose real life racist pejoratives to talk about chatbots or whatever. Like is that not crazy to anybody else? That so many white liberals are frothing at the mouth to find a socially acceptable reason to put racial slurs on a t shirt at Spencer's?? I'm not even making this up somebody in the tags saw that shit in person what the fuck are we doing anymore

I will always re-blog this. The story of Kitty Genovese’s murder has gone down in history as a story about everyone watching it happen and doing nothing and none of the story is true.

I was in southern Ontario during great eastern North America blackout of 2003. Every movie I've ever seen would have imagined an orgy of looting and senseless violence. Instead, i remember people forming orderly lines, communicating what information was available, being helpful to one another.

I’m tired of “gooners” I’m tired of 4chan terms I’m tired of casual racism I’m tired of all this shit we have to pretend is normal so we don’t upset like the few people who conflate their identities with being edgy, racist and insufferable

It's nuts how common it is to not allow children to be angry, even (especially) in households where adults are angry all the time. As a child I knew my own anger was unacceptable--not just expressing it outwardly but feeling it at all. So now as an adult my immediate reaction to my own anger is often to feel guilt instead of like. Noticing when someone is being rude or unfair or my boundaries are being violated or whatever. fucked up.

god i wish you sex pests had a hobby that wasn't obsessing over and harassing trans women and that "you" includes tumblr staff why tf are you enabling this and letting people treat us like this

it is kind of insulting to be doing the "oh we're just soooo busy with reports it takes us months to respond if ever" bit you have going when you pass over multiple people posting swastikas and openly declaring themselves to be nazis to nuke the same trans woman a second time in under an hour when she hasn't even posted anything yet and then having everyone condescendingly pretend there isn't actually any kind of bias going on while we're being told that making a burner account to block evade for the purpose of suicide baiting and sending racist tirades to trans women isn't in violation of the user guidelines or ToS and so no action will be taken

Also my regular reminder that even when they DO take action on these offenses, it's almost never a ban! An immediate ban is not the only thing tumblr can do about a violation! One user made three different posts credibly threatening the lives of specific individuals and asking others to kill them if they had the chance, and after TWO WEEKS tumblr took down TWO of those posts, and the account that made them continued to exist. Meanwhile OP once had a post marked 'mature content', appealed it, had their blog deleted citing that post as why, and then got an email ACCEPTING THE APPEAL! They banned her for a post they admitted broke no rules DURING the appeal process! They only treat trans women like this.

Do you want Dune? Because this is how you end up in Dune.

A concerning number of people genuinely want to end up in Dune, and this was pretty clear even before ai.