Honestly, I think my childhood trauma came from feeling emotionally distant from my own family. I learned very early to stay quiet about my feelings because whenever I needed comfort or understanding, I felt unheard. So instead of expressing my pain, I started pretending I was okay.
I became someone who cried alone, healed alone, and carried heavy emotions silently. Maybe that’s why I love people so deeply now, because I know how painful it feels to not feel emotionally understood by the people who were supposed to make you feel safe.
And the saddest part is, those family wounds stay with you. They make you overthink, fear being unwanted, and get attached to small acts of kindness because deep down, all you ever wanted was genuine love and emotional safety.
last night ICE beat and bloodied me and my friends. they pushed a protester under the wheel of a truck, crushing his foot. they’re sadistic freaks who revel in violence. i can’t imagine what they’re doing to prisoners inside.
abolish ICE and throw every one of them in prison
Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
I hope they include why the show was cancelled after one of the predators Chris Hansen was investigating was revealed to be a government official and killed himself before cops could arrest him.
Since Pope Leo XIV mentioned this in encyclical, this means if your employer is pushing you to use AI, you can cite religious conserns as a reason to not use it at work
I'm not even 30 and I can tell this is a different climate, a different world, to the one of my childhood. there's no excuse for the boomers/Gen Xers to blithely dismiss the fact
“In practice, however, technology is never neutral, because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise it, finance it, regulate it and use it.”
THANK YOU POPE LEO FOR SAYING THIS.
Time for the “technology is a tool with no inherent moral position” idea to die!
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
Pope Leo XIV on AI:
“Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed. The word [disarmed] is strong I know, but deliberately chosen because this moment needs words capable of attracting attention, awakening consciences, and indicating paths forward for humanity.”
🧵1/2 African folktales were once passed down through generations as community treasures. Today, many survive only through preservation efforts and digital access. 🌍
Laura Gibbs and Helen Nde are fighting to preserve African folktales before more cultural memory disappears 🕳️
From “Preserving African Folktales: Interview with Laura Gibbs and Helen Nde" by journalist Caralee Adams, part of the Vanishing Culture report for VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive.
🔗 https://t.co/TbPdEHzBuK
@aakashgupta those rehabilitation habitats do not seem to replicate the natural environment they evolved for. I wonder if they'd hurt themselves less and be happier in a more naturally enriched environment
Growing up, my boy cousins would play superheroes, then notice us girls were painting our nails & join in. One day 2 of them dressed up as princesses. My brother sometimes had me dress him as a girl, he found it as fun as any other make believe.
That stopped with a quickness the second they went to school.
That's how you know it's socialized. The men freaking out over this have been trained within an inch of their lives to a) view femininity as inferior & b) wrap their entire identities around NOT BEING FEMININE.
Some people aren't feminine, to be fair. I'm hardly the girliest person myself. But if I could dress up as monsters from Zelda dungeons to play with my little bro, men can let their daughters do their makeup. It's seriously not a big deal & you're still a Man ™️
(Also not a big deal if a man doesn't want to, but foaming from the mouth over it screams insecure, not manly 🤷🏻♀️)
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