It would take far more than a month to honor the contributions of queer and transgender New Yorkers.
From the Cercle Hermaphroditos in 1895, the first trans advocacy group in the United States, to the drag balls of the Harlem Renaissance, to the Stonewall uprising, to the Lesbian Herstory Archives, to ACT UP!, founded in 1987 as queer people fought for their lives while the Reagan administration looked away, New York City's history has long been shaped by queer and trans New Yorkers.
To all our queer and trans neighbors: you deserve a City where you can afford to live safely, openly, and joyfully.
Happy Pride, New York City.
I saw a lecturer share an email a student sent, claiming it was AI.
When people commented saying it didn't look like ai, pointing out the imperfect sentence structure and wording, OP said, "they ask ai to write it like that so it doesn't sound like ai."
And I just sat there thinking, when is this going to end? We're at a point where people are claiming a sign of ai is not sounding like ai at all.
I understand why people are suspicious around people using ai, and I hate that it's infiltrating creative fields, but I think some of us are going way too far with our suspicions and accusations.
Every time I instinctively go to write three short sentences building on or re-enforcing each other, or use an Oxford comma, or em-dash or en-dash, or semi colon, or an uncommon word, or a very common word, or contrast ideas, or repeat for emphasis, or write a rheotical question, or answer a rhetorical question, or use dot points, I get worried because they're all "tells".
LLM were trained off real peoples' writing, that's how they exist. I don't understand why we are constantly trying to insist that normal writing conventions MUST be ai. AI uses them because it was exposed to them because they were frequently used.
I feel like I'm losing my mind.
It’s always baffled me that I have never seen anyone, left or right, use a different photo of this guy. I thought it was just the only decent picture that’s publicly available but no there’s a bunch of others
Tom Steyer: “I’m totally in favor of trans athletes in high school. When you understand the vulnerability, the stress, the danger of being a trans kid and you understand almost half of them try to commit suicide. Then you think we’re gonna punish those kids, we’re gonna cut them off from team sport. It’s like, no we’re not”
every zionist cruelly mocking activists “go to gaza” “go to gaza” and when people try they get abducted in international waters then raped and tortured in tel aviv.
The only things left I want career-wise are: 1. Deborah Vance to run me over with her Rolls Royce (and keep driving) and/or 2. For Kayla to do an obituary tik tok about it misspelling my name
Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.
Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.
Today marks the 78th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe), during which more than 750,000 Palestinians were expelled and over 400 villages were destroyed to establish the State of Israel.
Davonta Curtis
Juniper Blessing
Lucas Redbeard Knapp
Aleanna Royal Belcher
Dannielle Spillman
Shyyell Diamond Sanchez-Mccray
Lanessa Rodriguez
Hailey "Spotsie" King
These are the trans people we KNOW OF who've been murdered this year for being trans. Remember all of them.