swlabr

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

??? Zack is a “I think you should leave” character

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 16 points 10 months ago (9 children)

A standout, self-contained example of the general badness of this post is this anecdote (CW: transphobia/misgendering):

A trans woman I follow on Twitter complained that a receptionist at her workplace said she looked like some male celebrity. "I'm so mad," she fumed. "I look like this right now"—there was a photo attached to the Tweet—"how could anyone ever think that was an okay thing to say?" It is genuinely sad that the author of those Tweets didn't get perceived in the way she would prefer! But the thing I want her to understand, a thing I think any sane adult (on Earth, and not just dath ilan) should understand— It was a compliment! That receptionist was almost certainly thinking of someone like David Bowie or Eddie Izzard, rather than being hateful. The author should have graciously accepted the compliment and done something to pass better next time.[15] The horror of trans culture is that it's impossible to imagine any of these people doing that—noticing that they're behaving like a TERF's hostile stereotype of a narcissistic, gaslighting trans-identified man and snapping out of it.

It is baffling that they choose to speculate about/rationalise the offending comment to cast aspersions on the protagonist and “trans culture” as a whole.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 17 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Epistemic status: I have made it through this swamp. I did not read the footnotes. I glossed over the comments. Also as far as I can tell I am a cishet male, which is probably relevant to mention in reviewing this.

So here is where I am at. This post fractal sucks. Davis clearly doesn’t identify with the gender essentialist notion of male, but they also want to hold onto the idea of a biological sex binary. It sucks. I don’t think this is a unique situation- there are plenty of stories about trans kids in conservative/religious households. This particular conservative religion is the robot cult. The oppressive parents are the ghost of 2007!Yud and Scoot.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 10 months ago (5 children)

This circuitous, n-tuple negative tenor pervades the whole piece. It's first and foremost frustrating, but after that just sad.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

AH FUCK it's this person again. I choose not to remember rat names if I can help it but guess I gotta commit this one to memory.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

post begins with Atlas Shrugged excerpt

ah fuck guess I'm reading this one.

69 minute read

at least there's that.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 12 points 10 months ago

I used to instantiate like 100 of them and see which ones would win (or “fight” by colliding with each other

The basilisk will not take kindly to your desecration of AGI for sport.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 16 points 10 months ago (3 children)

On their substack the author claims they are “doing non-ideological […] reporting”, which means they are definitely doing ideological reporting. Let’s see…

next most recent post titled “the dawn of woke ai” says pretty much what you’ll guess it does from the title. It also features the AI rendered POC nazis from a bit back as evidence of “woke”ness… Fun!

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 19 points 10 months ago

Something that Musk commissioned is badly constructed? That’s a first.

insert that clip from the IT crowd but instead of “made in britain” it’s “made by musk”

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Acausal robot gods? In my justice system?

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 10 months ago

sure I don’t NEED to be a utility monster, but I WANT to be a utility monster

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 10 months ago

“SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!!!!

Come to mother baby, let me hold you

In my arms

M'lud I never wanted him to

Commit financial fraud

Why'd he ever have to leave me?

Worm, your honor, let me take him home”

-The Trial, Pink Fried

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