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formidably online. soci/crwr. he/him/他

[Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung]

i think its important to understand the campus sexual assault crisis is way worse than you think. universities suspend just 1/12,400 students each year for sexual misconduct & expel 1/22,900. once you read title ix administrators in their own words, you get a sense why that is:

[max @inightyDAB]

The idea that the name Cho Chang is actually a win for multiculturalism is honestly hilarious

[Shamboooooolic Woooooootral🎃👻💀🦇🕸️🧟⚰️🧙 @BradfemlyWalsh]

A quick reminder that Harry Potter is a book for little kids. It's much easier for a child to be able to pronounce Cho Chang than Cheung Chau or Cheung Chow or Zhao Zhang, FFS. Harry Potter was one of the first kids books to be edfortlessly multicultural, these freaks forget that

[max @inightyDAB]

Unfortunately a plurality of people will defend shit from a butt as long as it’s a superhero they like and that goes for both movies and games

[nazareth reid @2wordsnazreid]

the hypothetical white moderate that malcolm x talked about is now, in reality, also black. this might be the CIA’s biggest cultural victory in its history.

[NomDeNonWayne @NonwayneWayne]

Once again, universities have become broadly incompatible with the arts and humanities. Either universities have to radically change or we need to find ways to extricate the humanities from the university system

[max @inightyDAB]

Not only does feminism get pretty brutally beaten down in many circles, whatever feminism does publically exist is very neolibby and corporate. Also everyone is racist.

[max @inightyDAB]

Trans people especially mtf effectively do not exist in the public view except as the target of fetishization (i.e. ‘femboy’) and bigotry so I guess it’s not surprising that there are a lot of terfs.

[max @inightyDAB]

Watching the Chinese lesbian discourse on here has been surreal lol as someone who is on Chinese platforms a lot, my perspective is that whatever bad -ism or phobia you can find on this western twitter shithole is 300% more normalized on these platforms.

[max @inightyDAB]

Watching the Chinese lesbian discourse on here has been surreal lol as someone who is on Chinese platforms a lot, my perspective is that whatever bad -ism or phobia you can find on this western twitter shithole is 300% more normalized on these platforms.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

2 years ago today, 26-year-old American activist Ayşenur Eygi was killed by an Israeli sniper while serving as an international observer in Palestine.

To this day, no one has been held accountable for this attack. At least 9 other Americans have been killed by Israelis since October 2023.

[max @inightyDAB]

This is pretty funny bc uchicago don’t even got syllabus week most classes beyond intro courses are straight in day 1

[Nick @NickGrunstad]

College life so far is light as fuck. I’m already done with class at 10:50 😂

[Mr Gen 5 @luckyglio]

One thing you MUST NOT do if you’re Sophie Cunningham is TELL PEOPLE to lookup YOUR stats. They are BAD and you SUCK

[The Chicago Maroon @ChicagoMaroon]

All social science Core classes at UChicago will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students and professors.
https://t.co/RDHe1CllOO

[Streetli 🍉 @StreetliTweets]

With one of my favorite quotes ever –

[max @inightyDAB]

“Didn’t read Marx” award goes to these economists

[Superman @thesupermannx]

Two economists mathematically proved that AI will destroy the economy.

Researchers from Wharton and Boston University published a terryfiying paper called "The AI Layoff Trap."

They mapped out the economic end-game of the AI transition, and it exposes a fatal flaw in competitive capitalism.

When a company replaces a worker with AI, it captures 100% of the wage savings.

But that displaced worker is also a consumer. When they lose their job, they stop buying things.

The company gets all the savings, but the loss of consumer demand is spread across the entire economy.

If there are 20 competitors in a market, a CEO only absorbs 1/20th of the economic damage their layoffs just created.

So every single rational CEO has a mathematical incentive to automate as fast as possible.

They can literally see the cliff approaching, and they still step on the gas.

It triggers an unavoidable Prisoner’s Dilemma. If you don't automate, your competitors will, and they will crush you on price.

It doesn't just hurt workers. It destroys the businesses, too.

The economy gets trapped in an automation arms race. Companies fire their workforce to stay competitive, until the entire consumer base is completely hollowed out.

At the limit, the paper concludes: “Firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand.”

And the scariest part?

The researchers mathematically tested every popular fix.

Universal Basic Income? Fails. It raises the living standard but doesn't change the corporate incentive to cut jobs. Retraining? Fails. Worker equity? Fails.

The paper proves that more competition actually makes the collapse happen faster. And "better" AI makes the damage worse.

The only thing that mathematically stops the collapse is a targeted automation tax, forcing companies to pay for the purchasing power they destroy before they automate the job.

[max @inightyDAB]

I can think of a few times zhuge liang lied

[yoshimi battles dracula @nise_yoshimi]

odysseus: its so hard being the smart one

zhuge liang: of course

odysseus: like you gotta lie to people all the time

zhuge liang: ?

odysseus: you have to lie to your wife. or your grieving father

zhuge liang: i don't think y

odysseus: you gotta lie to athena too sometimes

[pokey pup @Whatapityonyou]

I deeply miss the world before AI existed. I’m so exhausted from side eyeing videos, recoiling at tacky fonts, sepia tinted art, the messy blobs and blips of unmatched colors. It’s slowly sucking all the creative life out of the world while it physically destroys it.

[kira-ann (rpm era) @charrlysa]

This is what I was tweeting about yesterday. We can no longer rely on the assumption ai will be visually distinct or bad looking. Yesterday I heard an ai song that was horrifyingly good to where I was shocked it was ai. You must be against ai on principle, not bc of aesthetic

[max @inightyDAB]

Man said nature like golf isn’t one of the worst uses of space ever 😭

[Luka Updates @LukaUpdates]

Interviewer:
"What impressed you about golf? We see you posted a lot. Also LeBron. Do you play eachother ever?"

Luka:
"We played once or twice. Right now a bit harder cause we ain't close, but... Like you're in nature 4 hours, sometimes even 8 hours. I play 36 holes, which they say is not smart, but I still play it... You're in nature, no phone, peace. Something most beautiful."

Source: https://t.co/xkYjDy4G21

[max @inightyDAB]

Losing the New York Times is crazy lmao this toilet rag ran cover for genocide forever and it wasn’t enough

[max @inightyDAB]

This looks so much like AI lmao

[Ybg Dong @femboxd]

I think if you told me this was from a Marvel movie I’d believe you