I cannot understand the reason y’all find the couple sneerable, as I look at that tweet and see something I very much would have done to one of my partners if they asked, and the language used by the bottom as the same language my partners might have used to describe the activity. If anything it’s very much on the tame side, for our standards. Promiscuity is me trying to understand what is it that’s so sneerable in the first place. Is it just “lol sex thing weird”? Is it “you’ll regret your tattoo when you get older”? Me and my girls have done so much more intensely weirder sex things and more risqué tattoos. I expect to be ridiculed for it by like, cishet right-wing men, but to find that type of attitude here was shocking.

Like, “virtue signalling” as in the thing that rats accuse us of doing every time we have a motivation they cannot comprehend such as basic empathy, right? As in the rationalist’s stereotypically verbose euphemism for what previous generations of misogynistic male nerds used to call “attention whoring”? Is that the sneerable thing then, that people like showing off when they do an unusual sex thing? Because if so I have like, years of mastodon flirty banter y’all can go sneer at, if we’re branching out from “nerdy fascism bad” to “kink on main bad”.

That’s very much the language my play partners use online, though? I totally post banter like “that submissive was so blanked out that I took advantage of them by doing X”, to which they’ll reply “implying I didn’t evily manipulated you into doing that in the first place”, and so on. This is so commonplace in my communities that I failed to even understand what could be the problem before you pointed it out. I mean, “I forced my famous domme to mark me as a trophy as her #100 simp”? How would you exactly force (non-kink sense) someone to tattoo you anyway, and if you did and were unwise enough to brag about it, presumably the microcelebrity in question wouldn’t like and retweet it? I took it to mean “I was so into the idea of being marked, I’m glad she agreed to my pestering”, and I would bet money if any of my people talked in that exact wording, that’s what everyone would take it as. I mean, otherwise I would probably have been arrested for the frequency of times I say “bye everyone gonna tie someone up and do unspeakably cruel things to them” and whatnot

Ok I have to say, I despise aella but as a promiscuous woman I completely fail to see what’s supposed to be the problem with this particular form of play. That people like having casual sex? That they have slut pride? What.

I probably passed the 100 mark myself several years ago, I’ve hooked up with girls with much more obvious slut tattoos too, and we’re all antifascist anarchists. Is this community ok with sneering at public sexuality now?

The only thing I found vaguely mid in that X is using a tattoo gun rather than scarification, branding, or at least stick-and-poke. But I don’t kink-shame people for being casuals.

If you’re in Germany I like the Mühle Grande a lot. I use it with any random foam from DM and with Astra blades which cost 10€ for a pack of 100. The blades last me over a year.

Huh, I had missed the part in 2020 when Peter Thiel just flat out stated outright that it only makes sense to be in favour of capitalism if you’re a capital owner.

We live in hellworld, please don’t get my hopes up…

jesus fucking christ I think that IDF tweet is the worst thing that has ever existed

oh no :(

poor strange she didn’t deserve that :(

While you all laugh at ChatGPT slop leaving “as a language model…” cruft everywhere, from Twitter political bots to published Springer textbooks, over there in lala land “AIs” are rewriting their reward functions and hacking the matrix and spontaneously emerging mind models of Diplomacy players and generally a week or so from becoming the irresistible superintelligent hypno goddess:

https://www.reddit.com/r/196/comments/1jixljo/comment/mjlexau/

The problem with FOSS for me is the other side of the FOSS surplus: namely corporate encircling of the commons. The free software movement never had a political analysis of the power imbalance between capital owners and workers. This results in the “Freedom 0” dogma, which makes everything workers produce with a genuine communitarian, laudably pro-social sentiment, to be easily coopted and appropriated into the interests of capital owners (for example with embrace-and-extend, network effects, product bundling, or creative backstabbing of the kind Google did to Linux with the Android app store). LLM scrapers are just the latest iteration of this.

A few years back various groups tried to tackle this problem with a shift to “ethical licensing”, such as the non-violent license, the anti-capitalist software license, or the do no harm license. While license-based approaches won’t stop capitalists from using the commons to target immigrants (NixOS), enable genocide (Meta) or bomb children (Google), this was in my view worthwhile as a rallying cry of sorts; drawing a line in the sand between capital owners and the public. So if you put your free time on a software project meant for everyone and some billionaire starts coopting it, you can at least make it clear it’s non-consensual, even if you can’t out-lawyer capital owners. But these ethical licenses initiatives didn’t seem to make any strides, due to the FOSS culture issue you describe; traditional software repositories didn’t acknowledge or make any infrastructure for them, and ethical licenses would still be generically “non-free” in FOSS spaces.

(Personally, I use FOSS operating systems for 26 years now; I’ve given up on contributing or participating in the “community” a long time ago, burned out by all the bigotry, hostility, and First World-centrism of its forums.)

I hate programming but if I wanted to waste any time programming stuff my idea would be something akin to Yahoo! Directory from before Google, or del.icio.us from the 2000s, but distributed, and tied to a PGP-like web of trust system.

You search for a topic, you get links saved with that tag by people you personally validated and trust first, and then by people they trust, and people you don’t know but added as probably fine, and so on. Dunno how doable it would be to do something like this.

Yes to all that, plus the browser thing: How annoying the browsers are with expired certificates. I mean it has to be super hard to allow me to guess that the admin just forgot to renew the certificate, or it wouldn’t protect me from the very common threat model of… ähm… uh…

(it’s to protect the CA business model, of course.)

small domino: Paul Graham’s “Hackers and Painters” (2003)

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big domino: “AI” “art” “realism”

I see someone else also just learned of this from the bonus episode of the “Bad Hasbara” podcast that’s just been made public

No, I’m with you. Bad feeling about where this is going.

I find it impressive how gen-AI developed a technology that is fine-tuned to generate content that looks precisely passably plausible, but never good enough to be correct or interesting or beautiful or worthwhile in any way.

Like if I was trying to fill the Internet with noise to ruin it, on purpose, I couldn’t do better than this. (mostly on accounr of me not having massive data centres nor the moral calousness to spew that much carbon, but still). It’s like the ideal infohazard weapon if your goal is to worsen as many lives as you can

Seems like everybody got that email, my account is semi-abandoned and still got it. I love the reek of desperation in the morning

I’m looking on the bright side. Yes, they looted Puppet, but now they’re stuck with Puppet

OK so we’re getting into deep rat lore now? I’m so sorry for what I’m about to do to you. I hope one day you can forgive me.

LessWrong diaspora factions! :blobcat_ohno:

https://transmom.love/@elilla/113639471445651398

if I got something wrong, please don’t tell me. gods I hope I got something wrong. “it’s spreading disinformation” I hope I am

yes, but it can only sing Peter