Our rates are about 15% higher and we haven't hit the same milestone, but it's falling here too! Yay vaccines and public health infrastructure
seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/ht...

So particularly if you are new to this and seeing frequent “if you don’t like making [art] don’t be an [artist!]” and thinking “But sometimes I DON’T like it…” and Imposter Syndrome is gathering you close and whispering you’re-nothings in your ear, please push it away.

I genuinely believe video games might be the most exclusionary and difficult hobby to get into, and the community writ large is not doing any favors to amend this issue.

This also doesn't even touch on the issue of accessibility, both as a disability issue but also just as an issue of people new to gaming don't have the same intuition as those who grew up on this shit.

Now, using an LLM to get past the point where you feel like you’re chiseling the words out of stone tablets located inside your ribcage is still a terrible idea, don’t get me wrong. I just worry that in the haste to condemn LLMs, we’re over-romanticizing the human creative process.

While it incorporates aspects of gender identity/presentation, for me it's *way* more behavioral. I've long struggled with the idea that I'm simply weak willed, or at my core a "bad person", but I genuinely believe that, ultimately, testosterone *prevented* me from the behaviors I wanted.

Similarly I know many people for whom testosterone has saved their lives. It is not some fucking devil chemical. But in thinking about my life and the person I've been in my past, it's so clear to me that testosterone was a huge barrier to the life I wanted.

This is doubly important because so many people assume libraries are static, like archives, when they are absolutely not. Their collections get tended and weeded just as any bookstore does, and that takes work and impact that you can help have a say in!

people are tremendously, indescribably bad at identifying their own motivations and beliefs. this is why you can't chase polls. you have to

and bear with me

*do the work of politics by convincing people your ideas are the right ones*

something Dems like Jeffries and Schumer refuse to do.