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moved from anise@quokk.au because fuck ai
I will defend this point(not any of the other ones tho)
Science is inherently bound to our culture in what we value, how we believe truth is produced, what we do and do not accept as valid criteria for classification.
taxonomic classification is useful, but relative to the culture that produced it, which is in large part dominated by “white” culture. A different cultural group might split along different lines.
evola, peterson, rothbard and moldbug on the reading list sure is something
also who the fuck is “bronze age pervert”
e: right, life was slightly better before I looked that up
mullvad donated 5 million to a far-right party, I don’t really know any great alternatives unfortunately but use airvpn via wireguard
we used to call that Mickey
anyone got any recommendations for an alternative vpn?
There’s also massive heatwaves in the Netherlands and Germany, there might be more that I don’t know about
e: in France, Italy and Britain also. Not in eastern Europe yet, at least not where I am currently
They’re fucking awful. I clicked through the xitter thread to someone with a milady pfp and they seemed to be shilling a crypto trading/sports betting platform called ourbit, which gave me a bit of a shock. I haven’t dug deep into it because I am currently hiking in Estonia, so it might have no significance whatsoever, but I think remilia is somewhat connected to urbit so there might be a connection there
e: typo
I looked at their online congregation(because there are no chapters in my country unfortunately) and they seem to be doing a lot of work on prison abolition and making prisoners’ lives more bearable. I might actually try joining them, and I will at least join a few of their meetings and such.
I just today stumbled upon maia arson crimew’s writeup on a tiktok account named based<r-slur>gang and their connection to remilia. and I just… what? What the fuck is remilia. I thought they were a weird nft company for dimes square losers. anyway this post has most likely been posted to a sneerclub before but I wanted to post it anyway because what the fuck
I am on thunder and it is weirdly cropped for me also
when selecting any single person there are multiple things about them that are not average (plays violin/is gay/has 3 cats/…) yet we would still denote them as average people. So it very much does feel like the difference is a moral judgement
wow, he had an addiction? that’s crazy. surely having an addiction makes you evil, surely.
looks cool, might join somewhere next week!
I… don’t think saying looksmaxxing is in some way trans is meant as an insult? The way we tend to think of gender dysphoria is as a diagnosis specifically meant for people experiencing a different gender than the one assigned to them at birth, ie. trans people. A lot of people are now starting to point out that dysphoria is experienced by a lot of cis people as well. Although I suppose the guy in the comic almost definitely exists and I don’t want to run defense for him so: fuck that guy.
OT: Finally had to break with a long-time friend after he started sliding more and more into fascism. Feeling quite overwhelmed and emotionally exhausted right now.
if you like them in a gay way yes
It feels like someone being overwhelmed/exhausted to the point of saying “fuck it, I don’t care anymore” and afterwards rationalising the use of LLMs as the only way they can keep up, while simultaneously falling for it’s addiction. It does demonstrate why relying on one-man projects without chipping in is risky. Unfortunately the companies that rely on it are probably also captured by the bubble so they won’t think so.
the night circus is one of my favourite books of all time ever, very much recommend. If you like that the magicians by Lev Grossman feels very similar in a way I cannot put my finger on, though it does not really fit into this list.