1 year ago
might aswell list my other blogs
@hexxeh is the more heavy stuff
@dewlakewood is for more lighthearted stuff
@nxacev is for the cute stuff
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3 hours ago
My narcissistic hoarder mom is kicking me and my sister out because she thinks we’re cluttering up the house! We’ve tried helping her clean but she thinks we’re in her way and chose her material possessions over us.
I’m black, trans, and a lesbian please help if you can id really appreciate it🙏🏽
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here are two pdfs on radical feminism and transfeminism in the 1970s
the first is alice echols, ‘cultural feminism: feminist capitalism and the anti-pornography movement’, from 1983, about how the term 'radical feminism’ came to be associated with one specific strand of earlier women’s movements, and how that strand facilitated the absorption of women’s movements by capitalism in the late 70s: [link]
the second is finn enke’s 'collective memory and the transfeminist 1970s: towards a less plausible history’, from 2018, about some other strands of earlier women’s movements - trans, socialist, anti-imperialist, etc - and what might be learnt from the so-called 'second wave’ in the light of that capitalist co-option of feminism and its contemporary forms: [link]
as ever, please read critically, these are resources and not total answers to all questions or all discourse. but these are papers i have learnt a lot from and think about regularly, and i hope some of u find them useful too
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being a woman is fucking exhausting. everything is created to disgrace our lives. this is horrifying.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/20/deep-fake-nudes/
The website promises to make “men’s dreams come true.” Users upload a photo of a fully clothed woman of their choice, and in seconds, the site undresses them for free. With that one feature, it has exploded into one of the most popular “deepfake” tools ever created.
Far more advanced than the now-defunct “DeepNude” app that went viral in 2019, this new site has amassed more than 38 million hits since the start of this year, and has become an open secret in misogynist corners of the web. (HuffPost is not naming the site in order to avoid directing further traffic to it.) It went offline briefly Monday after HuffPost reached out to its original web host provider, IP Volume Inc., which quickly terminated its hosting services. But the site was back up less than a day later with a new host — as is often the case with abusive websites.
“Hany Farid, a computer scientist at UC-Berkeley who specializes in digital-image forensics and was not involved in the original pix2pix research, said the fake-nude system also highlights how the male homogeneity of AI research has often left women to deal with its darker side.
AI researchers, he said, have long embraced a naive techno-utopian worldview that is hard to justify anymore, by openly publishing unregulated tools without considering how they could be misused in the real world.
“It’s just another way people have found to weaponize technology against women. Once this stuff gets online, that’s it. Every potential boyfriend or girlfriend, your employer, your family, may end up seeing it,” Farid said. “It’s awful, and women are getting the brunt of it.
“Would a lab not dominated by men have been so cavalier and so careless about the risks?” he added. “Would [AI researchers] be so cavalier if that bad [stuff] was happening to them, as opposed to some woman down the street?””
There is so much wrong with AI art generators, this is just the beginning. Until the database is shut down, the generators are forced to purge their unlicensed and stolen art, and they set up an opt-in database like the one that AI music generators use, this will get worse and worse.
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I have cochlear implants and I can only buy parts to fix them or upgrade then from 1 corporation bc of tech exclusivity. upgrades to get new processors for both ears cost $23k & insurance only covers 90% (and it’s “good” insurance)
cyberpunk dystopia is already here for the disabled. fight for universal healthcare, fight against capitalism NOW.
Cyberpunk dystopia is already here for the disabled.
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Precious man (not in black!) sighted ❤ (x,x)
Neil Gaiman: Hi, I’m Neil Gaiman. I’m wearing the first red T-shirt I’ve worn since 1987. Because I’m a member of the WGA. I’m on strike. I care so much for the things that I’ve written but I’m out here right now not working and here until we get a good contract because I care about the future of the WGA, the future of young writers. I want a world in which no AI writes scripts or attempts to. I want a world in which young writers get to learn how to make television. And I want a world in which we are fairly compensated for the things that we put up on streaming.
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happy PRIDE i’m here i’m queer and i believe the land should be given back to the proper indigenous stewards.
Non-Natives reblogging this are great and wonderful
Please remember that “land back” does not mean “indigenous people are mystical elves with innate epigenetic wisdom of land stewardship and they don’t belong in big cities,” nor does it mean “non-indigenous people can’t be farmers.”
What it DOES mean is that “non-indigenous farmers should be paying the equivalent of property taxes to the native governments their land was stolen from.”
It means, “there’s a great deal of indigenous scholarship on sustainable agricultural practices that farmers should be taking into account, because indigenous agriculture was more advanced than European agriculture at the time Europe invaded the Americas and western agriculture *still* hasn’t caught up in terms of figuring out how to produce equivalently high crop yields without compromising the ecosystem.”
It means, “non-indigenous farmers should be in an intellectual discourse with indigenous agricultural scientists and indigenous peoples that still do traditional farming, figuring how to repair the damage western farming practices have done to the ecosystem.”It also means that indigenous peoples should regain the right to sustain themselves on the land according to the practices they want, and they should have free reign to perform their cultural practices and protect their holy sites, as opposed to the current model where if they try to honor their dead on public lands they get violently removed.
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fountain in italy
This is what I tried to explain to US platforms like Patreon when they suspended my account for having a nude statue as the background image: I live in Europe, I can go and see a nude statue within a 5 minutes walk. Children can see them, they’re not in some 18+ container. I will never understand those policies.
As an American, the times I’ve gone abroad I’ve felt free and open in a way that made coming back to the US extremely jarring in a way I couldn’t fully describe. This is an aspect of it—a sanitized, dead culture entirely composed of constant advertisements and guns.
I’m confused how art with genitals in it can even get hand wringing? that’s just in every gallery? How do you even sanitise that without carving out some really significant parts of art history?
correct. now you’re catching on.
anyway this is really what America is like. the right wing is currently weaponizing this against gay and trans people by accusing them of “grooming”. it’s really interesting to me to watch Europeans discover the reasons WHY Americans are all insane. like we didn’t get this way by accident there are extremely powerful stressors acting on us from before the moment of birth that causes epigenetic syndromes, chronic illness and derangement lol
Germans for example are very open about sex in a way that loops it back to being banal, unsexy, a fact of life. That man in a gimp suit is just dressed kinda fun, he’s not hurting you or ‘grooming’ you.
Anyway, everyone above is correct. See a naked statue and maybe you won’t be so neurotic
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