Arcadia

Arcadia

@chaoticsmol.dev

🇨🇦 33 𖤐 they 𖤐 catboy weeb and lisp hacker; fledgling chaote + punk & jazz bassist ☾ je suis une anarquista 🏴 Tout tourne autour de l'amour

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i know comparing everyone to christian fundamentalists is a bit passé, but some people truly do believe in binary "you are good or evil" and any drop of "evil" is total and contaminates your soul, even retroactively like "tarnish everything he ever accomplished".. dude phoned it in on a sticker

BlueSky low-key fucking sucks. I spend so much time dealing with shit from people who I should have more or less comparable values to than actual fuckin bigots and right-wingers. This site is actively hurting my desire to engage with other people.

I may need to reconsider my stance on AI now that I see how close all of this has gotten me to fascist liberals.

Fascism is not simply something someone *is*, it is something people do and build. The decades of neoliberal attacks on Labor, including that of American Democrats, helped lead us to where we are. I'd encourage everyone celebrating these wins by hurting people to reflect and learn.

Blue MAGA liberals can't even just be happy with a win without needing to identify more out-groups to attack. Part of what anti-fascists oppose your tactics is because we recognize that you, too, are ultimately fascists.

I think the mistake liberals make with this is misunderstanding the anti-fascist project To root fascist influence out of society, it's not sufficient to get "the one big bad" out of power (often temporarily). You have to attack fascist organizing, propaganda etc Voting doesn't accomplish all that

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Not all fascists are the same nor are their projects. Hitler is a great example. The man was literally in jail before being elected and then remaining in power by stripping democratic controls. Trump-era stochastic terrorism doesn't take place merely from the seat of the white house.

Very practical perspective. I've said before that, if you're buying any version of "they're coming for your job," you're probably actually falling into fascist traps.

lowering your p(doom) 🏳️‍⚧️@transputertouched.bsky.social

Like, I think its ridiculous to center AI as integral to the fascist project, full stop, its actually a huge distraction (not ICE? Not ongoing trans persecution?) and there's no reason to entertain. Just follow your own personal conscience here

I would really love to believe that the technologists among those of us on the side of the struggle against fascism could feel welcome to contribute. Having read people like Clara Zetkin, I really believe that having a nuanced understanding only helps you fight back. Refusing to engage blinds you.

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and I certainly don't mean "engaging with fascists." That's best avoided. Early German resistance to the nazi party wound up being ineffectual because of their refusal to engage in tactics that a deeper understanding of how fascists operate informed. Standing on idealism accomplishes nothing.

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I at this point am like 90% convinced that reusable/shareable skills packages are a bad thing for LLM users. The 10% is that it can show you what's possible; the 90% is that people want to be incurious and just slap something in the only person who can effectively guide your tasks is you

You started off on a perfectly reasonable understanding and then devolved into utter lunacy immediately. Just say you want to feel morally superior to everyone who thinks differently from you.

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn’t a selfie

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn’t a selfie

Siobhán 🪏@shibbi.me

Tired: morality is real because it has to be Wired: morality isn’t real, it’s constructed through active social negotiation Inspired: reality isn’t real, it’s constructed through active social negotiation

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this is about the dogpiling on shibbi, btw. i dont agree with the take (which is fine!) but holy fuck people are insane anti-social assholes here who need to go to extreme lengths to harass a random trans woman for a disagreeable / controversial opinion, holy shit lol.

this site is really cruel sometimes. idk, disheartening.

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404 media should be banned for sparking a harassment wave on shibby tbh

Spent the last week at SecTor as a prelude to an exciting change... Starting next week, I'll be transitioning back into security and moving into a Senior Security Engineer role!

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> frighteningly competent, deeply weird internally, and impeccably pleasant externally > occasionally produce something so uncanny that people see the writhing machinery underneath /goal

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Instagram has readily become the social media platform whose use results in far and away the most psychic damage in my experience

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occasional reminder that "copyright" is a government monopoly over non-rivalrous information, an enclosure of the commons, intellectual landlordism and state-violence restricting freedom of expression, primarily for the benefit large rent-seeking corporations like Disney rather than authors.

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GSC Figure Update! Good Smile Company Kasane Teto G.S. Collection Kasane Teto Punk Style Stay tuned for more information coming soon! #KasaneTeto #goodsmile

Playing with nanobanana this morning to moderately positive effect. Basically wanted to merge the new GoodSmile Kasane Teto punk figure with my OC. Pretty happy with the results but also mildly motivated to pick up 3D lol

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there’s a group of “leftists” on bluesky whose primary form of “praxis” is screaming abusive threats at ordinary everyday people on the internet this is not actually praxis or leftist, and we should not cede ground to their fatalistic and self-defeating behavior