livenley
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and when you scratch the surface, people who "care" never actually have a problem with immigration writ large. it always ends up being about specific groups/ethnicities that get the "immigrant (derogatory)" label to make it easier to do a racism.
January 15, 2026 at 10:51 AM
and when you scratch the surface, people who "care" never actually have a problem with immigration writ large. it always ends up being about specific groups/ethnicities that get the "immigrant (derogatory)" label to make it easier to do a racism.
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i could not give one single fuck about immigration and never have my entire life. to care, even in a ‘reasonable’ oh there should be proper checks and balances way is to be, rudely, the dumbest person alive. literally what difference is it to you
January 15, 2026 at 10:07 AM
i could not give one single fuck about immigration and never have my entire life. to care, even in a ‘reasonable’ oh there should be proper checks and balances way is to be, rudely, the dumbest person alive. literally what difference is it to you
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This was my biggest "Oh my god people don't read" moment while going through the materials for the essay, btw. It's right there in "Ain't I a Woman?" It's been out since 1981. I read Smith's article talking about it and had to go look it up myself. This actually happened.
January 14, 2026 at 5:38 PM
This was my biggest "Oh my god people don't read" moment while going through the materials for the essay, btw. It's right there in "Ain't I a Woman?" It's been out since 1981. I read Smith's article talking about it and had to go look it up myself. This actually happened.
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Really fun to be a public feminist in an era when everyone on the left is convinced that gender is a superficial divide that’s only considered unjust by privileged and narcissistic white women, while meanwhile gender anxiety and grievance is used to dismantle American democracy and the world order.
January 12, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Really fun to be a public feminist in an era when everyone on the left is convinced that gender is a superficial divide that’s only considered unjust by privileged and narcissistic white women, while meanwhile gender anxiety and grievance is used to dismantle American democracy and the world order.
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some sentences are so beautiful that they transcend the language barrier
January 9, 2026 at 6:45 AM
some sentences are so beautiful that they transcend the language barrier
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It's so fucking convenient that they get to "fear for their lives" anytime they want to absolve themselves of anything and when we actually fear for our lives because of them and do anything a scared person would do it's justification for our death.
January 7, 2026 at 6:43 PM
It's so fucking convenient that they get to "fear for their lives" anytime they want to absolve themselves of anything and when we actually fear for our lives because of them and do anything a scared person would do it's justification for our death.
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Queerness is a betrayal---of the family, community, and Nation, a desertion of the imperative to "secure a future" for white or Hindu or Russian or anything hegemonic demographic of children. Giving citizens the freedom to exist outside of heterosexuality is tantamount to legalizing treason.
January 5, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Queerness is a betrayal---of the family, community, and Nation, a desertion of the imperative to "secure a future" for white or Hindu or Russian or anything hegemonic demographic of children. Giving citizens the freedom to exist outside of heterosexuality is tantamount to legalizing treason.
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carol x laxmi in pluribus s2
January 4, 2026 at 1:14 AM
carol x laxmi in pluribus s2
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"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"
January 3, 2026 at 2:08 PM
"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"
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Bring back spitting on veterans and calling them babykillers, imo
January 3, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Bring back spitting on veterans and calling them babykillers, imo
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I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.
Musk's Grok AI bot is fixing safeguard 'lapses' after posting of sexualized images of children
Musk's Grok AI bot is fixing safeguard 'lapses' after posting of sexualized images of children
Users on X raised concerns over explicit content of minors being generated using Musk's Grok tool.
cnb.cx
January 2, 2026 at 5:03 PM
I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.
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Worth remembering: some of the most horrific policies in history were enacted through “proper” legal processes. The Nuremberg Laws were passed by a legislature. Jim Crow was law. Apartheid was law.
December 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Worth remembering: some of the most horrific policies in history were enacted through “proper” legal processes. The Nuremberg Laws were passed by a legislature. Jim Crow was law. Apartheid was law.
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History is full of examples of democratic systems producing legalized cruelty. The idea that “this is just liberal democracy at work” has always been how people justify harms they don’t personally feel.
December 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
History is full of examples of democratic systems producing legalized cruelty. The idea that “this is just liberal democracy at work” has always been how people justify harms they don’t personally feel.
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This is why I don’t trust the "Never Trump" Bulwark guys. They’re perfectly comfortable with real people being harmed, so long as the harm comes via a process they can label “liberal democracy.”
December 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This is why I don’t trust the "Never Trump" Bulwark guys. They’re perfectly comfortable with real people being harmed, so long as the harm comes via a process they can label “liberal democracy.”
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Got called “carceral” for this which means it’s time to lay my favorite game: does this person not know the difference between civil and criminal law, or do they simply think that “carceral” is a magic word that delegitimizes all feminist resistance to sexual abuse?
These technologies can and are being used to create lifelike images and videos of actual living women and girls. For what I think are pretty obvious gendered civil rights reasons, it needs to be a recognized civil cause of action to create an AI image or avatar of a woman without her consent.
"And I never say no"
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
December 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Got called “carceral” for this which means it’s time to lay my favorite game: does this person not know the difference between civil and criminal law, or do they simply think that “carceral” is a magic word that delegitimizes all feminist resistance to sexual abuse?
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Some libertarian nerds from the ACLU are going to barely contain their own heavy breathing when they argue that nonconsenual AI porn bots are a core tenet of free speech, and you need to laugh them out of the room.
December 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Some libertarian nerds from the ACLU are going to barely contain their own heavy breathing when they argue that nonconsenual AI porn bots are a core tenet of free speech, and you need to laugh them out of the room.
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It has to be that no one will make these or create the technology that will allow consumers to create these because they are very certain that doing so will get them ruinously sued.
December 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
It has to be that no one will make these or create the technology that will allow consumers to create these because they are very certain that doing so will get them ruinously sued.
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Having an avatar with your face and body created that says degrading things and engages in degrading or sexual actions should not be the price of participation in public life for women and girls.
December 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Having an avatar with your face and body created that says degrading things and engages in degrading or sexual actions should not be the price of participation in public life for women and girls.
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These technologies can and are being used to create lifelike images and videos of actual living women and girls. For what I think are pretty obvious gendered civil rights reasons, it needs to be a recognized civil cause of action to create an AI image or avatar of a woman without her consent.
"And I never say no"
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
December 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
These technologies can and are being used to create lifelike images and videos of actual living women and girls. For what I think are pretty obvious gendered civil rights reasons, it needs to be a recognized civil cause of action to create an AI image or avatar of a woman without her consent.
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funniest thing pluribus could do right now is give carol and laxmi a two season long enemies to lovers arc
December 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
funniest thing pluribus could do right now is give carol and laxmi a two season long enemies to lovers arc
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Also generalizations are totally fine when they’re at women’s expense but when they’re about men you’re actually hurting the entire leftist cause. Right right right
December 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Also generalizations are totally fine when they’re at women’s expense but when they’re about men you’re actually hurting the entire leftist cause. Right right right
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Criticizing men broadly is unforgivable, because there are SOME men who don’t do the things you’re criticizing, but using rhetoric that demeans ALL women gets a pass because it’s completely normalized and actually rewarded
December 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Criticizing men broadly is unforgivable, because there are SOME men who don’t do the things you’re criticizing, but using rhetoric that demeans ALL women gets a pass because it’s completely normalized and actually rewarded
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I think it’s interesting how if you describe gendered expectations backed by significant data you will be demeaned as a man-hater but if you regularly do stuff like casually using sexist language toward women you’re just considered normal
December 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I think it’s interesting how if you describe gendered expectations backed by significant data you will be demeaned as a man-hater but if you regularly do stuff like casually using sexist language toward women you’re just considered normal
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you can’t use generative ai to create a mood board. Robot ain’t got no moods
December 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
you can’t use generative ai to create a mood board. Robot ain’t got no moods
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"let people enjoy things". No. they may enjoy my derision and distain.
December 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
"let people enjoy things". No. they may enjoy my derision and distain.