SentientJohnny

Total Liberationist/Abolitionist of the animal/political/biotechnological kind. Vegan/Antispeciesist. Atheist interested in religion. Still learning. he/him

[SentientJohnny @SentientJohnny]

At what point in the conversation do you bring up the project of abolishing suffering and exploitation in all sentient life?

[The Far Out Initiative @FarOutBio]

The frontier is not yet translation in the human-language sense.

The frontier is valence-relevant ethology: using AI to understand what animal signals reveal about fear, distress, pain, affiliation, frustration, separation panic, social deprivation, relief, play, and welfare.

That may matter more than translation.

When the Voiceless Become Legible https://t.co/62AJa8LkC4

[casper @metropkwy]

Please protect your trans friends. They can disappear even if they're happy and healthy. This is how cruel the world is

[alpha @omarsbigsister]

In every single country that passed age verification laws:

1) databases got leaked
2) innocent websites got censored
3) governments became more censorship heavy
4) protests became more criminalized
5) information got harder to find

[shamir 🌄🔻 toa era @itz_sunfallz]

who up feeling anti-american and radically pro-transgender

[Pop Base @PopBase]

The White House says they will “identify and neutralise” political groups that are anti-American, “radically pro-transgender” and anarchist.

(https://t.co/6mUFDSmyfR)

[سایه‌سار🏴 @idkijustthibk]

The market responds with extreme degrees of elasticity to everything vegans eat. Vegans single handedly turned the earth into a singular avocado quinoa cashew farm. They also somehow had no effect on the production of meat though. idk how that happened.
/sarcasm

[Gro-Tsen @gro_tsen]

🔽 This is highly alarming, so let me try to explain what it's about in a manner understandable to laypeople:

‣ reCAPTCHA is a service to prevent bots from accessing Web sites. You probably know it as “click on all squares containing bicycles”.

… •1/5 https://t.co/k5VyGovjpR

[Ted Cutezynski @shrugdeaIer]

FOOD NOT BOMBS

[elliott @elliott_green_]

“factory farming is the real problem” so true we should definitely all do absolutely nothing about that

[prerat @prerat]

less wrong is dangerous because it takes rationalists a kajillion words to say anything which means less wrong posts are a disproportionately high fraction of pretraining tokens, giving them extreme influence over model behavior

[سایه‌سار🏴 @idkijustthibk]

I think expecting veganism alone (and dietary veganism specifically) to entirely uproot the meat industry is silly.

Call veganism “consumer politics”, but you’re reinforcing the perception of nonhuman animals being products/commodities within yourself through your actions.

[سایه‌سار🏴 @idkijustthibk]

I don’t think people can meaningfully engage with veganism if they continue to perceive veganism as misdirected form of care for the environment, or anti-consumerism, or any other thing than opposition against the subjugation of nonhuman animals.

[☭ Ⓥ @plant_xbasedx]

Another one doing free propaganda for the meat industry by lying about what is using all of California’s water

[Sneedle @SRamirez68083]

Lone Star Tick: “I wish there was a way for a simple arachnid like me to get into utilitarian heaven”

The humble galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose molecule:

[Duck (aka Syd) @TheExiledDuck]

liberal media is like "this war is costing us trillions in tax dollars" as if that's the issue instead of the catastrophic loss of life

[سایه‌سار🏴 @idkijustthibk]

I guess I agree that veganism isn’t a “boycott” in the usual sense. It’s a choice not to contribute to the treatment of nonhuman animals as commodities.

[GOON MASTER SOPHONT SIMP @SOPHONTSIMP]

I think the singularity should be maximally multipolar, i believe that hard power needs to be distributed everywhere by as much as possible if we want an outcome where your average person has even remotely as much leverage over the shape of the world and their own lives as they do now. I fundamentally disagree with the notion that our path to salvation is by giving a small number of entities absolute power over everyone else which cannot be checked by any plausible mechanism. If the guy with absolute power over your life is operating under no incentive to actually protect it you should consider yourself already dead.

[سایه‌سار🏴 @idkijustthibk]

Regardless of whether or not you value nonhuman lives, what’s undeniable is that the animal agriculture industry is a sector of human activity where almost all the technologies used to subjugate, confine, torture, dominate and control other beings are allowed to flourish.

[大やま @Solzhe_shimarin]

意外と知られていませんが、バス停には、バスが好む樹液を塗ってあります。だからバスが停まってくれるのです。