Just as how Satanic Panic of the late 20th century was actually about women entering the workplace and the evils of the Daycare that allow the women to be able to work hidden behind the rhetoric of Protecting the Children, the "Kill a Pedophile" branch of Qanon (by far the most popular) has been about rallying against sexual minorities in public spaces hideen behind the rhetoric of Protecting the Children.
It is a deeply reactionary current of yankee culture and every single one of you that participated in demeaning LGBT+ ppl being visible in public spaces or Protecting the Children from Travis Scott/Balenciaga/Wayfaire helped it penetrate the mainstream. This is true for unquestioningly pushing around whisper campaigns targeting LGBT+ people, especially trans women who are targeted disproportionately by these people. Every time you participate in pedojacketing a trans woman, you're essentially just your reactionary parents banning D&D from public library that you've sworn you'll never become, but with pride flag patch on your denim jacket this time.
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“but what if you abort the baby who’ll cure cancer?!” sir the baby who will cure cancer is an organic chemistry major who works at a Home Depot because you use AI to go through your resumes
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
couple years ago i made a post listing a bunch of silly joke political ideologies and one of them was like "queer sex positive feudalism" and i was blissfully unaware that this basically describes the setting of vast swathes of the modern fantasy genre. Stop That
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it’s absolutely correct to criticize the idea that the USSR, in so many words, “brought civilization” to the indigenous minority peoples of Russia, particularly those of the far east, because not only does it smack of vestigial white saviorism but also ignores that all ethnic groups of Russia produced their own bolsheviks who were active protagonists in the revolution, the greater socialist experiment, and the future of their own peoples as well as all others . thus, it also plays into the western-imperialist-academic construct of indigenous peoples as apolitical monoliths ideologically disconnected from the rest of society and particularly the misappropriation of anti-colonial rhetoric, sponsored by the CIA, that painted the USSR as a “prison of nations”
however, it is good and righteous to say that the USSR brought a higher degree of culture to the backwards german barbarians in a way the Romans never could have
Having to take calls for US-based clients as a Spanish-English interpreter has really made me appreciate how good I have it in terms of living in a country where addresses have a standardized format that makes sense.
What information an address like "471 Peepeepoopoo Drive" tells someone in the US: absolutely nothing unless they're already intimately familiar with the location of Peepeepoopoo Drive relative to other streets or they're able to look it up on a map
What information an address like "Carrera 27 #50-71" immediately tells me (without looking anything up or having any previous familiarity with the place): It would be 5 blocks east and 28 blocks south of my current location, on the street going in the north-south direction, 71 meters from the previous corner. If I'm coming from the north it will be on the left side of the street. You can use your understanding of this system to navigate every single city in my country.
Since I'm already talking about it, might as well explain how it works for anyone curious.
Our address system kinda reflexts the fact that 1) cities in Colombia (just like a lot of latin america) tend to be a lot more gridlike than cities in the US, and 2) We very rarely do street names here, and stick almost exclusively to street numbers.
(Neither of these two things are like. big innovations ofc, I know grid-like city layouts and numbered streets also exist in the US, but they're not anywhere as universal as they are here)
Streets are numbered in a standardized way, where the basic concept is that streets going west-east are called "calles" while streets going north-south are called "carreras", and both calles and carreras are numbered sequentially starting at one edge of the city (ofc there are some special terms for diagonals or types of streets that can't be approximated neatly as cardinal directions, but that's the basic concept). So if you see something like "calle 42" you know it's the 42nd west-east street, or if you see "carrera 15" it's the 15th north-south street.
An address includes three numbers, with one being the street it's on, the next being the street it intersects before reaching the address, and the other being the distance from the intersection. So on an address like "Calle 54 #93-42", it tells you: 1) You're on the 54th west-east street.
2) You need to find where it intersects with the 93rd north-south street.
3) The building you're looking for is roughly 42 meters away from this intersection along the Calle 54.
But the number for distance from the intersection isn't actually a precise measurement: The numbers are fudged a bit to make it so that all odd-numbered buildings are on one side of the street, while all even-numbered buildings are on the other, so if you care to take that into account (which I usually don't) it can even tell you that information.
So it's a system where the address itself gives you the geographical location of the building using a cartesian grid. And if you compare it to the address of your current location, it allows you to immediately conclude things such as its cardinal directions relative to you, and roughly how many blocks away it is in each direction. Which in turn makes it like. Almost trivially easy to find an address even without any directions, even when visiting an unfamiliar city for the first time.
I'd say the system's biggest weakness is, however, that it necessarily assumes the city is a grid. Which generally works bc, as I said, colombian cities are generally pretty grid-like, butttt... none of them are a perfect grid, most cities feature at least a few areas that break the grid pattern, and the address system starts getting noticeably messier the less grid-like the area is.
If you want further confirmation of how good you have it, let me tell you the worst possible system that is even worse than the USAmerican one:
On the island part of Venice, Italy, addresses are given by sestiere (i.e. historic neighbourhood), not by street, and are numbered in concentric circles starting from an arbitrary point in each sestiere. So for example someone's address can be "San Marco 3998", and that gives you precisely no information except the neighbourhood it's in. You can add the name of the specific street (e.g. San Marco 3998, salizada del Teatro), but it's not required. Add to this that Google maps in Venice is famously dogshit and sometimes tries to send you directly into a canal, and I genuinely have no idea how deliveries are ever done.
Just to add, the island part of Venice is literally the only place in the entire world that does this, and the mainland part of the same city doesn't even do it like that.
Hey did you draw that evil feminist caricature to warn men how their wives would act once they got the right to vote? Illustrator: sure did boss. real sexy, just like you asked.
In a strange position where I think there are massive, massive social harms to the proliferation of AI (misinfo, deepfakes, predatory 'companions', surveillance, labour rights) but also feel the mainstream arguments against it range from unconvincing (water) to actively harmful (copyright; "soul").
Like, I often hear "plagiarism machine that's killing the planet" but I'm very convinced that the copyright panic is actually harming artists far more than helping them. Strengthening Disney and Getty's IP rights in the name of "protecting artists" is a very bad thing, I think!
People often compare "AI bros" to "NFT bros", rightly so (often the same obnoxious people). Yet in the same breath, many will also essentially say right-click-saving an image is theft. I can't stand the spread of slop either, but I think that argument could set a dangerous precedent in other ways.
Or, you frequently hear "well, analytical AI is good, but generative AI is bad", but there isn't really a hard difference between the two. They often share identical underlying architecture. Like, transformers power both BERT and GPT. Vision Transformers handle tumour detection and image generation.
Moreover, tools classified as "analytical" are frequently used for facial recognition that automates surveillance & discrimination, and tools considered "generative" like diffusion models are also used in medical imaging for anomaly detection and classification. There isn't a hard "one good, one bad".
tl;dr on this one: the loudest AI criticisms are the ones that serve existing power structures, and yet its most serious harms are the ones that don't.
And it's a frustrating thing to see, because it's like, who benefits from the messy conversation around this stuff? The copyright panic benefits Disney/Getty/Adobe/etc. The analytical vs generative framing benefits companies selling surveillance tools. Presenting environmental stats taken wildly out of context benefits people who want to dismiss AI criticism entirely by making critics look innumerate. Meanwhile, the actual harms—like predatory companion apps targeting lonely teenagers, facial recognition enabling police harassment of Black neighbourhoods, algorithmic benefit denial systems destroying families, labour displacement without social insurance—don't have wealthy institutional advocates the way "protect our IP" does.
And then, I don't know, the criticism also becomes weird and individualistic. Like I have a dear friend who is a disabled artist who writes her own code for image gen and gets torn apart for it on the regular with straight up ableist disability porn ("X person drew with their feet, why can't you?").
Like, to be clear I think these companies are by and large straight up evil. Sam Altman releasing 4o is like. Practically criminal. Musk actively removing safety guardrails as a selling point, deploying it on a platform that's already a misinformation vector to generate racism and child exploitation.
But I just worry the current way these things are spoken about ends up actually obfuscating those harms. I might roll my eyes at some rando using an LLM to write their emails, but like I don't buy that they're doing something any more evil than taking a flight or eating meat or leaving the lights on.
And this kind of individualized critique is just the "ecological footprint" thing again, literally invented by BP's ad agency in the early 2000s to shift responsibility from fossil fuel corporations to individual consumers. The impact matters, but I wish it wasn't being discussed on Shell's terms.
AND I think that framing prevents good regulation. If your position is 'this shouldn't exist at all and I won't tolerate anything less than the technology not existing,' it's harder to advocate for 'here are the specific features and practices that should be required/prohibited.'
I strongly look forward to there being less of this shit everywhere. Every product suddenly has an AI feature nobody wants. LinkedIn AI-generated posts. Google AI overview and its wrong answers. Facebook flooded with Jesus made of shrimp. That viral UberEats fake Reddit post from the other day!!!
There's so much marketing hype; all the hype and some of the hate are often doing the same work of avoiding talking about its biggest dangers. I'm sick of AI bullshit everywhere, afraid of its worst applications, and also disillusioned with the way it's being talked about in many of my circles.
Anyway, one of these days I'm going to do an effortpost about Ethnically Ambiguous Homer Simpson. A truly fascinating look into training data and messy slapdash attempts at mitigating AI bias.
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