Author, journalist, narrative designer, screenwriter. Geek, gender goblin, feminist killjoy, force of culture. Writer for hire, weirdo for free. They/them.
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I wrote a book about modern fascism as a backlash to LGBTQ rights and women’s liberation.
It breaks down why this happened, how we fight the new misogyny, and how we win.
You might find it useful.
https://t.co/Mwj5UjgC8D
this was already true before LLMs but at this point you really should not think of social media as a place where individual people go to express their opinions. the algorithm defines an optimization target (engagement) and people and LLMs work together to optimize it. we have built a machine for inferring what the audiences of different platforms want to see and hear and extruding textslop and imageslop and videoslop conforming to the shape of that desire as quickly and efficiently as possible
when you read a viral post you think you are reading the thoughts of a person. you are reading the thoughts of the algorithm. out of the churning mass of nonsense constantly being posted, that specific post was selected to ascend to virality by an evolutionary process, and that process is the actual agent in the situation. the individual author barely matters, we are simply approximating the infinite monkey theorem here. at this point it barely even matters whether the author was technically human or an LLM, LLMs are just an additional source of monkeys
Seems important to remember she disowned him, not the other way around. She gave up perhaps the largest inheritance in human history because that's how important it is to be yourself
To judge every member of a community on the basis of a crime committed by one member of that community is, of course, the very definition of prejudice.
After the #Arsenal victory parade, the hundreds of thousands of fans have trashed our neighborhood. Streets full of rubbish, urine and vomit.
Genuinely glad everyone had a good time- and now Arsenal FC needs to organise and fund the cleanup. It’s the right thing to do. RT pls.
The problem with “woke” and its intellectual tradition is the belief that equality is intrinsically good. Drop that and we can talk. Until then, no peace.
@PedanticPerson I’m not playing. Nobody on the ‘woke’ side calls themselves that, or sees it as a coherent ideology. If your opponents make up a term to describe you, and attack you on the basis, you are entitled to ask what they mean by it.
A love letter to #theboys, a show which never rose above, always went too far and left nothing on the table. RIP to the greatest TV adaptation this tv writer has ever seen.
https://t.co/dOCDSOizvI
In other countries, like Spain, they do not have an obsessive national conversation about trans people, a tiny marginalised minority.
Instead, they focus on dealing with the primary sources of male violence against women and girls - male partners, male relatives, and so on.
The anti-trans movement are never going to be satisfied.
They’ve succeeded in turning the UK into a hostile environment for trans people.
That’s not enough, because nothing will ever be enough.
Here they’re seeking to public humiliate - and turn into a target - an employee doing his job.
The complaint?
That there are self-enclosed changing rooms.
She claims that this forces women and girls to change in front of men, which is an insane lie.
Eventually this insanity will fall apart, because it is insanity.
But a cult has been given impunity by our media and political elites, and it will continue to spiral out of control like this.
A cause for national shame.
This is the Rainbow Map for LGBTI+ rights across Europe.
Until 2015, the UK was top.
We've now collapsed down the rankings - and are the worst in Western Europe.
We're now near Albania.
May I take this opportunity to congratulate all the anti-wokers for winning their precious little culture war. Well done, guys, hope the liberal tears were worth it.
‘It was apparentlyinconceivable that violence against women could constitute a crisis – unless, of course, the violence was blamed on immigrants or on transgender people, at which point women’s safety suddenly shot to the top of the political agenda.’
https://t.co/B8ZTvKvCSk