i am the boner of my blade

at this point the comments on ai images trying to warn everyone the image is ai are part of the humor of the post to me

like this

EU QUERO

I love how he went the extra mile and made an outfit that definitely fits with the Jojo aesthetic. Like yeah, I totally wouldn't think twice at a Jojo character wearing a leather outfit covored in mirror.

you can’t all be puppies one of you has to be an anteater or something

Guess what? Even the anteaters are puppies.

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Not only did I miraculously survive the first assassination you all know about, I also survived the assassination attempt on that other impostor too

The plot thickens

hey man. i didn't see you at the ambient red lighting and horse store. you ok man?

This is the kind of post that is baffling until you see the next post and it’s a store with a horse in it but everything’s red. except. there is no second post

chillin at the ambient red lighting and horse store.

THE WHAT

truly the absolute worst thing about the generative ai boom is the mass vandalism of search engines it has enabled (note, not caused--the 'cause' is the economic structures of the internet that incentivise mass producing SEO slop and have for years--but certainly these technologies have accelerated them hopelessly)

thanks, google ai

oh hehehe this a funy post *cant like or reblog because blocked by op* You know what your post is actually immature and not funny at all. So its mordecai and rigby talking about cum. Whatever

serenely remembering the moment when isabel fall published "helicopter story" aka "i sexually identify as an attack helicopter", which instantiated harassment from her clouty new-wave scifi friends that radiated outwards into transmisogynist scifi normies and became so severe she wound up in inpatient. people took up the cause of the story in the name of "free artistic expression" and "speaking difficult truths", which was not incorrect but which was kind of missing the forest for the trees in that specific situation: the age-old game of "kill the baby trans girl out of professional jealousy, farm clout off of doing it". the roles could have been completely reversed - the transmisogynist acquaintances could have been writing edgy outsider lit and could have been encouraging mass harassment against her for being a tenderqueer sellout (i swear to god i have seen this shit too). effect would have been the same.

when trans women in FSF talk about this shit, they usually talk about it from the angles of "censorious tenderqueers tried to kill someone over a story" or, in the most sympathetic voice i've seen out of someone in journalism, "public pressure functionally forced this exciting trans writer back into the closet". but they generally miss the degree to which it was intimate, personal transmisogynist violence, which bled into and intersected with the logics of mob justice, of "community safety" (remember, part of the substance of the accusations was that she was a stealth nazi, which frankly knowing a little about both the accusers and IF herself I can say confidently was not just vacuous but knowingly vacuous, them lying through their teeth), and again, professional jealousy.

i have seen people who crowed the loudest about what got done to IF do it to other people. it's the easiest thing in the world, and it happens all the time, and you can do it whenever you want - try and have some weird tranny rival or inconvenient tranny ex-friend killed - and it engenders no moral stain, no whispers, no reputation. i think they don't even have a conception that they're hypocrites. why would they? nothing that happens to anyone like that is real. human life is cheap if it's in the wrong body. everything they hold is stolen, everything they are is negotiable, for everything they do someone else surely deserves the credit. why not you? don't you deserve it more?

itch getting knocked offline for a bit by a phishing report from Funko triggering their registrar to take them down is bullshit but a lot of people are over focusing on the "AI" thing. these sorts of stupid nastygrams have been a problem for decades and are going to be a problem whether the company is using an LLM or just searching for any use of the word "funko" in a page or whatever. for example, here's a 2015 article about the problem, over half a decade before you could get this kind of processing out of language models.

the root problem is that firing off spurious takedowns costs very little, abuse isn't penalized, and hosting providers are incentivized to fold in order to avoid legal pressure. blaming AI does nothing helpful here.

“Radical diffusionism” is the idea that everything was invented by one culture, which then spread across the globe. This idea was very popular during the Victorian era, especially in Europe and the United States, all of whom were playing a game of “who can have the biggest globe-spanning empire.” The idea of Radical Diffusionism is, needless to say, very racist, but that is not how the Victorian era British Empire saw themselves. They were traveling to far off places, bringing culture, education, and technology to barbarous and underdeveloped lands and backwards peoples. A thought begins to emerge: What if this has happened before? What if, a long long time ago, there was an empire just like us who brought culture and technology to everyone on earth? Only to fall one day as all empires do. 

Enter Atlantis! The ancient, enlightened civilization of philosopher kings who were swallowed by the waves! Plato wrote about them, so therefore they must be real. Atlantis was a quick and easy shorthand for “The ancient culture responsible for everything cool.” What was Atlantis like? Well, it depends on the writer. Atlantis has a curious way of resembling the exact political system a given writer supports. Atlantis is a vessel, a big jar labeled “the ideal civilization” which a writer could fill with whatever they liked. 

Blavatsky filled Atlantis with two important things: Anticolonialism, and established understandings of European race science, read: She wanted to keep the concept of an Aristocracy, and Antisemitism. 

The Final Years of Mme. Helena Blavatsky, today on Patreon.

A cosmic version of this is the Erich von Dänikin “aliens did it” worldview. The Pyramids and Stonehenge and the Nazca lines and every other giant project in human history (not to mention many features of the natural world) are proof that aliens came to earth and either seeded humanity or interbred with with our ancestors. This manages to be both racist and self-diminishing; normal primitive uncultured pathetic human beings are incapable of doing anything momentous or significant, the only answer is a magical high-tech civilization that guided us and is waiting for us to achieve our true destiny of (insert your personal social or political theory here) and join them among the stars. You get this weirdly desperate vibe when you meet a real Chariots of the Gods?-head. Yes we are fucked and everything is Bad but any second now the rapture return of the overbeings will happen and all the bad people will be punished and all the good people will be elevated. So naturally I don’t have to participate in the world or work to make it better— aliens gonna fix it. I’ll just kick back and give knowing looks whenever bad shit occurs. Any minute now. What you have to understand is that paranoid thinking is comforting. There is a plan, someone is in control, none of this is random and there will be some kind of justice in the end

new character i’m working on she’s cute

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