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Gaaaaaaay transfemme STEM kid; scientist by training, burned out?/former? PhD candidate in chemistry. Molecular dynamics, Photography, supercomputing, you tell me. Anti-capitalist.

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@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar aeva , to random

man what a week. i can't believe it's still wednesday

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@aeva good news, my time traveling friend! you’re in the land of Friday!

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@aeva unfortunately, that means it’s an eternal friday. saturday never comes, I’m afraid.

@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

Lol; absolutely zero fucking lessons will be learned tho.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/feb/23/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-tariffs-epstein-immigration-latest-news-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-699c8bcb8f08fbba809c39a2#block-699c8bcb8f08fbba809c39a2

"Top Democratic officials working on the party’s still-secret autopsy report of the 2024 presidential election loss to Donald Trump found that Kamala Harris lost significant support because of the Biden administration’s approach to Israel’s war in Gaza, Axios has learned."

I fucking told you she punted mate.

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@AnarchoNinaWrites fucking wild to me that someone close to the DNC is paid a lot of money to fuck up, and continue to fuck up, things this badly. They're paying for this advice and it's just shit ass awful.

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@AnarchoNinaWrites I keep making 'jokes' that the chief DNC advisor is Stephen Miller in a fake mustache but honestly, these fuckups are so obvious and bad that I think "active sabotage" is more comforting than "they are just this bad at their jobs, all of them".

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@AnarchoNinaWrites They currently seem like they're aiming to repeat the mistake with Newsom.

@xgranade@wandering.shop avatar xgranade , to random

No, opposing LLMs isn't "purity culture." I've seen this now from quite a few different people, and I disagree vehemently. It is good, actually, to have moral principles and hold to them, even when people with more money than you find said principles annoying.

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@xgranade guessing I missed something Doctorow said... and it sounds like I'm glad I did, because I like that my eyes have not currently rage melted out of my skull.

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@xgranade @dave it would be really nice if highly visible people quit it with the, "you know, you gotta hand it to the nazis on this one..."

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@xgranade @dave also: imagine, if you will, using the term "purity culture" to refer to people (including many LGBTQ people) taking a stand against one of the major tools of christofascists

ffs

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@xgranade @dave the current speaker of the house keeps tab on how often his son fucking masturbates

fuck off with "purity culture" to refer to people who are trying to keep culture alive... while many of the same people are also castigated by the actual purity culture fuckers for "sexual deviancy".

@aud@fire.asta.lgbt avatar aud , to random

are metaphors my strong suit? well, they're not my little black dress

@aud@fire.asta.lgbt avatar aud , to random

"corrupted artifact" in folklore: cool, daemonic, involves souls in a classic 'falling from grace' story, great and terrible power
"corrupted artifact in tech: just some lousy busted zip file