Meta removing the Instagram AI feature after widespread backlash is proof that collective action works. Now we just need to continue that energy and fight back against all generative AI and mass surveillance in all forms.
It's kinda crazy how all world leaders seem to have just decided to give up on fighting the climate crisis and let the poor and middle class burn/drown/starve or whatever while they race to see who can make the most profit off that dystopia for the next decade or so
The problem with AC is that it lets us ignore the real issue. Bad housing, no shade, concrete cities, weak public planning and rising heat are all treated as personal problems. So everyone buys a machine, the outside gets hotter, and the people who cannot afford cooling suffer most.
This argument that the EU can do very little to halt climate change so they should focus (just) on adaptation is actually one of the documented “discourses of climate delay” that climate dismissives use to argue against global efforts to phase out fossil fuels.
there is no difference in queerness between emma dating a man or a woman. if you think there is, its because you see them as a woman. emma is not a woman.
it's a bit confusing when someone's response to the eternal "aces aren't queer" discourse is "you know that aces can experience same gender attraction too, right??" because doesn't that just...reinforce the idea that asexuality alone doesn't count lol
It kills me when I see people recommend A Dark and Drowning Tide like hello?? The colonialism, in the ending she sides with her oppressor, taking from different cultures without proper research (why is the person from fantasy Netherlands called From The Cheese?)
we’re gonna be drinking some dirty ass water in some years from now bc dumbasses are either too busy laughing at ai garbage for entertainment or being ungodly lazy with their college work