there! are! four! lights!

Julie Bindel and Megan Murphy’s back-and-forth letter writing debate. Start with Julie’s first letter, then read the other 7 parts

Jane Clare Jones’ excellent blog post. I love it, especially this part: “It matters that when we say we are pro-woman, that that is the truth. If that is not the truth of who we are, then I do not believe we will win this political fight. And if that is not the truth of who we are, then it may be the case  that we should not win this political fight, because the harm to the  people we claim to be fighting for will be astronomical.“

This debate between Julie Bindel and Helen Joyce.

“Real feminists don’t need strongmen” by Kathleen Stock, a lesbian perspective on how this is playing out in Europe and the situation where European lesbians find themselves caught between a rock and a hard place

Why Matt Walsh is not that into you by Katherine M Acosta. She’s also done a video about American conservativism, and her entire blog has a lot of info that is relevant to this.

The Radical Notion’s special issue about this

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

The woman who created the video said the strategy for AI was to push it into every possible app, service and program, hoping it would become a neccesary convenience and people would eventually depend on it and become willing to pay for it. But it never became that; all surveys showed that 90% of people wanted nothing to do with AI and CEO's didn't want to hear it.

There's been protests and vandalizing over the build of Data centers, which is a bit louder than filling out a survey, so they know by now a lot of people are ready to fight against it.

That gives me hope, maybe we'll get to experience post-AI internet. I've been refusing to reblog so much art and photography, basically limiting myself to people I personally know took the photos or accounts that swore to research every single thing they post. It's been sad! Artists and photographers missing out on attention they deserve and me missing out on having a blog filled with photos and art.

I imagine in post-AI internet it will be so rare to stumble on a piece of AI art, I'll be able to use tumblr normally again. And if someone does insist on posting AI they get outed and cancelled, and all the AI is like 5yrs old because you can't generate more.

What else do you think might change? We get rid of the AI summary? People no longer go into AI psychosis? Level of literacy goes up? Price of utilities goes down? Global warming levels get sorted out? Finally some stuff to look forward to! Not that I expect they'll give up and we'll just wake up with no AI one day. But any withdrawal of the disease is the reason to celebrate.

"So how did this happen? Despite no legislation to reduce LGB or T rights in the UK in the intervening years, we haven’t just been overtaken by other, higher-scoring countries - our absolute percentile score has gone down.

Despite the framing of Stonewall’s CEO, the reason we have fallen in the rankings in seven years is not because the UK has reversed gains on equality legislation and human rights, but because ILGA Europe change the scoring system, year on year, to target specific ideological aims.

The 2015 scoring criteria are here and consist of 48 individually weighted points, 24 (50%) of which relate specifically to sexual orientation, or general freedom of speech.