The ultimate problem here is that there's an entire class of political pundits like this who have cooked their brains on X and get their entire view of trans rights advocacy through an explicitly right wing framing, a result that was the explicit goal of Elon buying and manipulating the platform.

We're in a war of position for the very existence of a highly marginalized group of people! There is no retreat!

"I would rather have Roosevelt in a wheelchair than Reagan on a horse."

this got me flagged on twitter. they don't want you to know applied gender theory

A translator tries to preserve meaning across languages.

An LLM, which inherently and literally does not know anything, can't. Outsourcing this meaning-preservation to a machine which doesn't know *anything* is a mistake.

hey by the way if you want to be fucked up for the rest of the day, I saw a statistic once that the number of gay men in Florida who died of AIDS was something like 10x or 20x the number of Florida votes the 2000 election was decided by

we don't know what world we'd be living in if they were here

sorry if this seems mean but anybody who hasn't taken a single second to consider how this tech will impact the people who get perved on most (primarily women and children)--as well as at risk individuals like mentally ill and unhoused folks--isn't a serious or trustworthy person

tormenting children is an Absolutely Not in functional societies, not debatable. if someone is tormenting children, that person is a fucking abuser 🤷🏼‍♀️ people employed to perpetrate child abuse like this are not fixable. get rid 🚮