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Dave W @dave.io · 3h

Let this unexpected enby rep by a Tholian in the TOS Year Five comics tell you how it is.

It's so ACCURATE. even gets the fact that we can set cis folks on fire by getting naked.

look, I don't make the rules, okay.

A three-panel comic page from a Star Trek: The Original Series comic featuring crew members in classic red uniforms and an alien being in a specialized environmental suit.

**Panel 1 (Top):** In what appears to be a medical bay or crew quarters, an alien being sits on an examination table wearing a distinctive metallic and orange-accented environmental suit with a transparent helmet. Several crew members in red uniforms stand around them. One crew member (appearing to be Scotty based on the dialogue) says: “…But creatin’ a walkin’ kiln that’s still cool to the touch?” The suited alien replies: “I’ve impressed myself.” Another crew member asks: “Is she comfortable?” The alien corrects them: “They.”

**Panel 2 (Middle-Left):** The crew continues their discussion. One crew member says: “Och, right. Thanks for those. They comfortable?” The alien responds: “I am at optimal temperature, with full freedom of step/walk/crawl/climb movement.” Another crew member comments: “Bright. Let’s can answer for themself.” Someone adds: “Now the translator isn’t angry monogram Starfruit.”

**Panel 2 (Middle-Right):** Two crew members stand on what appears to be stairs or a corridor. One says: “Once again, I must report the danger this lifeform is putting us—” continuing: “That suit turns it into a walking lifebomb, giving it free reign of the ship—” Another crew member (appearing to be in a command position) responds: “Noted, Ensign.”

**Panel 3 (Bottom):** Close-up views of the suited alien and a crew member (appearing to be Captain Kirk). The alien states firmly: “They. Not it. Never it.” Then adds: “And this ship? It is my shard now.“

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Dave W @dave.io · 5h

Conspiracy theory I am convinced is true.

EHRC: UK human rights commission, beholden to nobody above the Government.

ECHR: European human rights convention we are still bound by.

One sounds like the other to confuse people when they try to get rid of the ECHR.

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Dave W @dave.io · 5h

The EHRC sounds like the ECHR for a very good reason. They would LOVE to get rid of it.

Dave W @dave.io · 22h

Today in for the love of God please hurry up and ban me from this group

"When did your CIS diagnosis turn into MS" / "I feel terrible for the cis. But it's okay. They can still live a meaningful life."

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Dave W @dave.io · 1d

Honestly I find it frustrating that one (1) person appears to agree with me that Palantir is an existential threat to a free society, even before we consider the Thiel / Mosley duo

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Dave W @dave.io · 1d

That's it. You can never move. It's over.

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Illiterate Autodidact 🇵🇸🙂👍🇮🇱☹👎 @cigaretteliker.bsky.social · 2d

The virgin AGI existential risk vs the chad global warming

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Dave W @dave.io · 2d

possible good reasons for this but why can you not only turn it on three times in one year

hey microsoft

microsoft hey

transparent.

Dave W @dave.io · 2d

For example, I can forget that I have willpower to fight through things. I have forgotten it before. I will again.

Green Lantern is a shortcut to remembering that will exists.

🧵 3/3

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Dave W @dave.io · 2d

We’ve spoken about my memory. Obliterated by MS. Barely functioning due to SDAM anyway. I have to find ways to live without it, for the most part. But you’d be amazed at what you can forget.

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Dave W @dave.io · 2d

I know it sounds cheap - a superhero franchise for fuck’s sake - but I value Green Lantern so much.

Green Lantern is (and stick with me) about a space cop (stick with me) with a high-tech space ring (we’re nearly there) which is powered by will.

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Dave W @dave.io · 2d

Meet Louis Mosley.

Louis runs Palantir UK.

Louis has a fairly storied family.

Specifically, a grandfather.

Called Oswald.

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Dave W @dave.io · 3d

Once you personalise truth people can believe what is most convenient and hold it to be truth, or more specifically the new version of truth. People want to believe what is most convenient - this just gives them permission to do so.

Could write essays. Because this is a really fundamental thing.

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Dave W @dave.io · 3d

I know this is about AI but there's a deeper point and it's the underlying truth. Putin's playbook. It's worked a treat. And it's what this is all about.

Destroying the concept of truth. Making people believe that they cannot possibly know an objective truth. Or that objective truth doesn't exist.

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Dave W @dave.io · 3d

The male privilege experience is seriously, genuinely, in the back of your mind, believing you could take a fighter jet off and land it.

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Dave W @dave.io · 3d

And they say the Internet teaches you nothing. Did a bit of digging, and apparently (according to an ex-pilot of the F-16) this is indeed the quickest way to spin up an F-16 "though not the recommended way".

Flawless.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gotB5...

How to Start an F-16 (Bully in the Alley Remix)

Learn a simple way to start the F-16 Fighter Jet. This shows the simplest way to start the F-16 if you're in a rush this is not the recommended way. This is for educational purposes only and is not intended to be replicated. Happy Flying! Bully in the Alley Remix

www.youtube.com

Dave W @dave.io · 3d

My feelings on this have come round from LOL NO to "I'm not around, whatever helps, but this seems like it would do more harm to the grieving process than good"

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d

Being such a responsible company, I’m sure they’ve gamed out the potential societal harms and have a plan for mitigating them. 💀

Are deepfakes of dead people rewriting the past?

While OpenAI's Sora has some guardrails around the likenesses of living people, protections around the likenesses of those who have died appear to be an afterthought.

www.nbcnews.com

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 3d

MARLEY: I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link—
ME: Hell yeah dude you were a blacksmith?
MARLEY: What? No
ME: Oh you made a big chain for fun?
MARLEY: No
ME: Ok well it looks heavy man you can throw it on the chair if you want I’m just gaming
MARLEY: Is that the new Battlefield

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 3d

When white man cannot refute black existence they turned to snide derision. Watermelon once represented a crop that black people could sell and make money on. White man pushed that point of pride to mockery. When black scholars saw that black Africans were once kings, white man mocked “we wuz kangz”

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SirFox @sirfox.bsky.social · 3d

Anyone keeping notes…

We are at “Hiding your neighbors from the secret police” stage of things.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 4d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Dave W @dave.io · 3d

It backs them, even if they're too chaotic to use it. That's allowed.

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Dave W @dave.io · 3d

Bold of you to assume that my herd of cats are capable. I do maintain a calendar best I can, as well as Notion. But they... have little direct input. I try!

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Dave W @dave.io · 4d

Knowing that your place in the polycule is not to be the pretty one is difficult. But it's survivable.

As long as the relationship continues to elevate your world, think around it.

You're the reliable one. Or you're the fun one. Or you're the facilitator.

"Value" takes many forms.

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Dave W @dave.io · 4d

This is interesting because I have actually experienced a dead input. MS turned off my right ear nerves for 3 months. It was horrifying. It was this. I'm impressed.

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