Genjibear

The Amy Acton thing is making me remember when I was a teenager and knew a family with a 13yo who went to court against her step-father for abuse while her mother told everyone she was lying because she was mad her mom got remarried. The girl dropped the charges partway through the trial.

Her mom then used that to prove to everyone that the girl had been lying all along. I have two thoughts when I think of this: first, I am so so so fucking sorry to that daughter who had to deal with that, and second, he had another daughter and I hope they got away from him before he hurt her, too.

I saw a different post about how in rural areas kids often play on coed teams and it doesn't matter and I live in a city and my kid sometimes plays on co-ed teams as she gets older because they don't always have enough people for teams. She's also had a trans kid on the team before. It was fine!

I saw something earlier where a journalist was suggesting preventing people from using AI/refusing to buy AI things is wrong because AI lets people who can't afford to hire people the chance to make creative works. I have thoughts about this.

I sympathize with creators who can't afford to pay for expensive things like artwork. I think there should be ways to help people afford services. But I do NOT thing using unethical AI that was trained on stolen data and continues to put other artists out of work is the way to go.

I saw something earlier where a journalist was suggesting preventing people from using AI/refusing to buy AI things is wrong because AI lets people who can't afford to hire people the chance to make creative works. I have thoughts about this.

Generative AI was trained without consent or recompense on work of real people and using it is, in my mind, not different from stealing an artist's work without paying. It is also causing real people to lose work and not be able to survive on their art, so it's exacerbating a problem.

I saw something earlier where a journalist was suggesting preventing people from using AI/refusing to buy AI things is wrong because AI lets people who can't afford to hire people the chance to make creative works. I have thoughts about this.

My perspective: saying "I want to use AI because it's too expensive otherwise" as if that alone is the deciding factor, is equivalent to saying, "I want to steal someone's work to use because it's too expensive to pay for," or "I want to use slave labor because I can't afford to pay for it."

We need a law that prevents billionaire heads of social media companies from using their businesses to push their political agendas, including algorithm adjustments to push certain political viewpoints. Like I'm fine if they go on TV and say "I support..." but no using your algorithm.

My expectations are low going into senate races, if I'm honest, because I think there is hinkiness afoot. I think the house probably goes democrat because that would be really hard to rig believably, but the senate is such a long shot they could get by with it. BUT I sincerely want to be wrong.

I'll be honest, if the only thing anyone has on Graham is that he was gay, I'm shocked. I have long suspected Trump had blackmail on him, and that it must be about more than being gay, and that Trump wants his sister because he can control her with the same blackmail.