Upon doing a bit of research, you’re probably right.

I wonder if they’ll realize Trump is doing to healthcare, diplomacy, the military, and social security what he’s doing to the economy.

Did these idiots think he wasn’t going to actually do it? Did they really think he was playing a game of chicken and capable of winning?

I’m behind SEVEN proxies!

Lawyers.

We don’t all have the same tipping point. Some of us thought violence was necessary before he was even elected. And those were more rightward leaning folks. I think violence is inevitable at this point. But no one wants to be the first to jump in front of the train.

And too many of us are still thinking this is a political war rather than a class war. Things are going to have to get much worse before they get better. That’s a truism going way back.

Even when consent is informed it can still be fucky. Do you think I want to consent to an arbitration agreement with my employer or a social media platform? Fuck no, but I want a job and interaction so I go where the money/people are. I can’t hunt around for a place that will hire me and also doesn’t have arbitration.

Consent at the barrel of a gun, No matter how well informed, is no consent at all.

This, above any other reason, is why I’m most troubled with AI CSAM. I don’t care what anyone gets off to if no one is harmed, but the fact that real CSAM could be created and be indistinguishable from AI created, is a real harm.

And I instinctively ask, who would bother producing it for real when AI is cheap and harmless? But people produce it for reasons other than money and there are places in this world where a child’s life is probably less valuable than the electricity used to create images.

I fundamentally think AI should be completely uncensored. Because I think censorship limits and harms uses for it that might otherwise be good. I think if 12 year old me could’ve had an AI show me where the clitoris is on a girl or what the fuck a hymen looks like, or answer questions about my own body, I think I would’ve had a lot less confusion and uncertainty in my burgeoning sexuality. Maybe I’d have had less curiosity about what my classmates looked like under their clothes, leading to questionable decisions on my part.

I can find a million arguments why AI shouldn’t be censored. Like, do you know ChatGPT can be convinced to describe vaginal and oral sex in a romantic fiction is fine, but if it’s anal sex, it has a much higher refusal rate? Is that subtle anti-gay encoding in the training data? It also struggles with polyamory when it’s two men and a woman but less when it’s two women and a man. What’s the long-term impact when these biases are built into everyday tools? These are concerns I consider all the time.

But at the end of the day, the idea that there are children out there being abused and consumed and no one will even look for them because “it’s probably just AI” isn’t something I can bear no matter how firm my convictions are about uncensored AI. It’s something I struggle to reconcile.

I don’t live too far from the Canadian border. I’m sensing an opportunity to make bank on black market tools and office supplies.

One BILLION percent!

Dr Evil laugh

Luigi League

or perhaps

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What Marshall does MAGA think the law is named for? Marshall Dillon? (Christ am I dating myself with that reference…)

Love that story, thank you so much for sharing! I do want to build a bat box this year.

Sounds more like bad porn writing than Dress and Appearance!

Sounds exactly right!

I thought that in the 80’s. And then I thought nah. And now here we are.

I didn’t think the skirt was mandatory? At any rate, I would put nothing past them. I mean they won’t be allowed in combat if the govt can help it. If they can’t due to court rulings? Who knows. Skirts wouldn’t shock me. With camo hosiery.

Here comes the skirt uniform for female soldiers. If they can’t force them out by law, they will make them sex objects and then shrug when they get assaulted.

Frankly, the Israelis deserve it for not learning their lesson last time. Even if you think you’re trump’s ally, you can’t trust him because of his sheer incompetence. And also because he hasn’t heard any intelligence he doesn’t brag to Putin about knowing.

You understand what you’re saying with “deal with these scum,” right? They are the government. If they don’t outright ban vaccines, they will pull all funding of them.

There is only one cure for a fascist government, and we aren’t desperate enough for that. Yet.

Until then, we’ll have to work around them. Many on the left are marginalized folks. I don’t include myself there, but if anyone in this country knows how to skirt the rules to live their life, it’s them. They will lead the way.

Underground vaccine clubs. Phrases like, “friends of Edward Jenner.” I mean it probably sounds a little more tongue in cheek than I intend. I’m not saying this will be a gay old time. I’m saying we will find ways to survive and thrive despite their best efforts, as people always have (I mean, you know, barring the occasional genocide).

And if it becomes desperate enough to remove fascists the only way they can be, we will do that, too.

If they just forcibly vaccinate and quarantine, that would accomplish the mission. Worst vacation ever, though.