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this kind of attitude is genuinely frightening to me. the idea that humans have some special *humanity* inherent to us is most useful to people trying to justify violence to some kind of dehumanized Other. like who the fuck show up to a post about a trans allegory, one infamous for its visceral depiction of transmisogynistic violence, and start fantasizing about which fictional minorities they want to to kill. trans women are women you're ALLOWED to hit. we're women YOU'RE allowed to hit. do you fucking get it?

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Not to be atheist on main again, but like: I really do think this wing of tumblr, as a whole, is getting way too comfortable with being reflexively pro religion. I've been to mass, as a child and as an adult. I'm grateful I was not raised religiously because I can say this for certain: the things that get taught in mass are often hateful and deplorable, and it it is not uncommon for children to develop a deeply harmful relationship with those teachings.

I simply do not doubt that a great many lesbians required to attend mass during their formative years would have developed traumatic guilt and self loathing as a result.

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「 FUTURISTIC FLOURISH 」 🔺 commission for keromeiji

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now that ICE is going to be the most rapidly expanding large hiring force in the united states how many people do you think are going to justify working for them and complain about how nobody respects them

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Sometimes the things that "middle-class" imperial core ppl casually say make me feel like that one painting of the bolshevik soldier in the throne room of the imperial palace.

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The fact that rationalism (online ideology) is like, not explained anywhere, like there's no wikipedia article or anything for it, and yet it's out here on the minds of movers and shakers in silicon valley and shit is kind of wild.

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i firmly believe that someday transhumanity will be as achievable as gender transition and i desperately hope that happens within my lifetime.

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Source: Eden: It's an Endless World! エデン

by Hiroki Endo

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average tumblr understanding of geopolitics

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"AI is just a plagiarism machine", you assert with total confidence, as if informing me of an established fact. Naturally, since you have settled all centuries-old philosophical questions about the nature of consciousness and the nature of art, all emerging legal questions about intellectual property and its relationship to new digital technologies, and all technical questions about generative AI models and how they do what they do (which even their creators don't remotely understand—this is what the field of "AI interpretability" is all about), you are justified in your unshakable conviction.

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So strange how xenophobia and isolationist blood and soil nationalism has been normalized by certain sects of the left.

I would say it's strange, however unfortunately it's becoming a lot more common for leftists to just not work through why they think right wing rhetoric is bad.

Instead of doing the work of unlearning bigotry and going "yeah it's wrong when this action is done full stop", a lot of them have gone "actually it's only bad to do that to people I like and is fine when it's done to people I don't like" which is literally the same thought process right wingers have.

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Found a bunch of old newspaper printouts (mostly from 1919, some from 1929 or the intervening years) that I printed for the heck of it like 6 years ago. And I decided to make a project out of it!

This was kind of aimless but it was still fun! I might do this again, maybe with more purpose? Could draw from a single month and create a kind of conspiracy board mockup, see if I could fabricate a narrative of imagined connections. Gonna think on this

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a story with that cyberpunk theme of “are you really human if you modify your body to gain power“, except the body modification is just strength training.

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I crave immortality more than anything. It would fix all of my problems. Whatever pain I have would be truly and utterly temporary. There isn't much I wouldn't give up to live forever.

When you're anything like me, you'll find it really weird how most media, good or bad, takes an anti-immortality stance. Immortals are almost always villains. Immortality is portrayed as something that strips you of your identity, turns you into a monster, or more often than not, reveals the "monster you've always been within" or something cruel like that. The means of achieving immortality is always sacrificing yourself or someone else.

To me this stance reveals something deeply disturbing about the author's feelings about existence in general. It reads to me like "Existence itself is a curse, wanting more of it is wrong."

A few months ago I made a post where I basically asked the question, what's so bad about making everyone live 1000 years? It's not like anyone is forcing you to live that long, giving everyone ten times the potential lifespan can only be a good thing. And a really common answer I got was like "I don't even want to live the remaining 60-50 years I already have, 1000 is way too much" and like.. that's so sad.

That also leads me to another thought that like, we treat wanting to die as a mental illness and a sign of depression for 70 years of a person's life and then at some point we all just decide that actually, it's fine for a person of this age to talk about their death and funeral, about how they're tired of living and such.. That's deeply fucked up to me. It's unfair.

If I could live forever I would, and I hate the thought of aging and dying eventually.