im not gonna lie, i would endure the issues that come with being monolingual (unless you wanna include rusty German and a proficiency with classical hebrew and koine greek lol) to go somewhere that accepts queer/trans people enough i can eke out a respectable living. I just want a job that pays the bills and a decent roof over my head. i am skilled with languages, so i can learn what I need to. I love learning about and immersing in cultures that aren’t my own - if i could leave tomorrow, I would.

Hrmbumping

damn colombia is based???

im honestly even skeptical the AI bubble popping will make AI go away. I think we’re more likely to see a 2000s situation where the bottom falls out, the actually dominant companies remain, and we find ourselves dealing with the one or two companies appointed to carry it forward. Consolidation, not outright destruction.

which depresses the unholy fuck out of me

the way power and capital are all in on it conceptually - it just does too many things that serve them - they want the skilled labor elimination, they want the information control, they want the thing to mature enough to be an entertainment replacement.

i frankly half expect, a decade from now, seeing AI companies buying out entertainment companies and industries and just shuttering them so that people have to use their product. e.x.: buying up instrument creators so you have to either be wealthy or capitulate and use a LLM to do that labor for you.

the future is bleak, and the way they want that technology to develop, and the sheer amount of money and “were forcing this down your throats” that’s happening in several places and in several sectors of the economy - i absolutely despise i have to talk to an AI chatbot to apply to certain jobs now, but that’s psychologically conditioning the workforce to accept and use it at the point of a gun, and it’ll work over time if it is allowed to continue.

I am pretty sure tech is about to devour itself entirely, leaving everything even more consolidated and what’s left even more entrenched in our lives, with more power to influence and demand presence in the zeitgeist, no matter what the average person wants.

Like, yall, we need to be thinking really hard about what that technology is intended to do and the logical consequences of it persisting. Do not sit and hope the old normal will return. Historically this has never fucking happened. The .com crash did not kill the internet, it just heralded the end of it as a frontier.

humbumping

I keep coming to the edge of regret but tbh nah, that day is one of the few moments this year i have any pride about what ive done. If this is the cost of standing with a good cause FINE

But i really need some relief

Thank you. I already really dont consume sugar, but if I can find a way to source those supplements i will get them. Appreciate the advice

i hate this country, but i especially hate what has happened to it in my lifetime.

trans women in the future-ssr should be a caste of state funded priestesses that make sure the science of dialectical materialism is steadily refined and managed for the good of all

They are all so beholden to money, and this is what the money wants. they may well understand history, but everyone actually deciding what to do is holding, because they think they can weather it - and the deal politicians actually take is to be the face of policy and discourse, but there’s no substance here. It’s a paycheck and a cushy life… to be another showman, more or less.

it’s really shocking how much entertainment is the face of everything. People are convinced the government is real the same way they used to believe in santa claus, and the people behind all of this probably really do think they can ride it out. they’re generations deep on holding power so they may be right.

one can only hope the ground shifts out from under them like it usually does cyclically.

yeah, i think so

people have to believe they can and should or need to divest themselves from what is and that they’re empowered to build what can be and it takes a certain critical mass of desperation/alienation and at least a bit of awareness of where the problems one faces truly comes from.

things must get worse still, but we’re reaching a point where possibilities start emerging that felt impossible before.

as governing bodies retract and certain services disappear for example, people can start building power by stepping into the void to help people make ends meet with food, necessities, transit, work. The kinds of vacuums being created can create real bases of power and potential.

one also just has to keep in mind that… you know… they’re watching and probably won’t fail to react to any such collective labors

lol you rubes. only having a Dual Core brain

i have a Six Core brain

If you’re on the left, your list of enemies is inclusive of everybody in this little circle, and if Zohran was a true outsider that was any kind of threat to the system instead of yet another sheep-dog liberal, he wouldn’t even be getting cast as the villain. That’s the thing I think people don’t realize. If you’re truly a threat to this system, you dont become a spectacle to root for. you dont become an underdog. Or, if you do, it won’t be on the backs of mainstream discourse. You won’t be allowed to actually be dangerous using their platforms. that villain shit is actually a valued role in society-as-theater lol.

Him being allowed more or less the same position AOC had tells me his job is just to keep leftist political momentum as diffuse as possible and still attached to the system electorally and monetarily as much as possible.

things dont start getting better until we divest ourselves from this system and its circuses. there’s no way through this that isn’t capitulation or assimilation/commodification otherwise.

“All the right people hate him” really set off something in my mind about how performative politics really is. There’s nothing of substance here. Anybody mad that this guy is the democratic nominee might be annoyed it’s not their guy, but this decorum shit has always been lib meat & potatoes bullshit, there’s… acceptance here. he’s being given space as a contemptible extremist, kinda like AOC tbqh

Like “All the right people hate him… but something is really off here.” is how I articulate my feelings right before I remember that yes, even this bullshit is meaningless entertainment

which makes me feel like Zohran is for sure a political dead end, with no silver lining beyond a kind of nihilistic resignation to cackling at something that still has life and death consequences just because it really is this farcical and detached from reality

the title is pretty great; the sun and moon represent the eyes in some old literature, and the eyes are in formation to conjunct from the right reference frame lol and hypatia was an astrologer/astronomer certainly

that’s all i got, it’s awooga for sure tho

somebody make a website called like Ratfinder.pig and just let people post alerts on a map or something fuck this app shit

In my experience, parasitic bloodsuckers understand, but do not respect, consent or personal space.

i saw the thing this is from earlier and now i can’t find it, can anybody serve it up?

the associative power of the human mind is wild. You can pair unlike or mutually exclusive ideas and over time the two become conceptually inseparable to most people. that’s kinda how so much stuff ends up going too, because it’s such a useful tool for the power hungry