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nicole

@futurebird Same. Still wrestling with this internally, and have been for a number of years.

Law school led me away from absolutism. Unfortunately, once you accept that absolutism isn’t a solution, the problem is so much harder to reason about.

I think that’s probably why the most-visible free speech absolutists we see today are small children and adults behaving like small children.

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@JamesGleick ChatGPT has absolutely no concept of objective reality, and without that, there is no truth. That is to say, it's not capable of actively creating truth or lies, it's just stringing words together based on a very large dataset it has been fed. That dataset is almost certainly full of stuff that many / most would consider 'not true', so I'm inclined to go with 'inevitable'. (For what it's worth, I'm pretty firmly in the 'parlor trick' camp when it comes to my impression of ChatGPT.)
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food thread 

@Fawn@ohai.social Thank you for sharing!

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@JenWojcik @futurebird 💯 Absolutely the funniest. 😂

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@futurebird @JenWojcik Forgot to add the link. 🙄 Whoopsie!!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanc

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@futurebird @JenWojcik my favorite excanonical gospel is definitely the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. It describes the misadventures of Jesus as a supernatural child, and it’s so hard for me not to read it as the one-shot religious equivalent to Young Superman Whoopsies.

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Lynn Keller

Wednesday, a deer walked into a store in Colorado. The shop owner gave her some cookies. After leaving the store, she returned after half an hour with her entire family.

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nerdybutcute :pansexual_flag:

anytime someone says anything in trochaic trimeter (STRONG-weak STRONG-weak STRONG-weak) i can't help following it up with "I MADE IT OUT OF CLAY"

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There's a housing crisis in many cities. But cars can park free. Why not claim public street-space for those who need it? If you disguise your shelter as a polluting, duly-licensed private vehicle, like artist Michael Rakowitz did...
...the authorities should be fine with it.

More on this thought-provoking art project here:

michaelrakowitz.com/plot-propo

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nicole

@autismsupsoc Oh gods. Printing this out and handing it to a friend. ❤️

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@FabulousLisa @rooster Oh, yes, those moments when leering flips into disapproval are extremely unsettling. It's like, "I'm unhappy about this in two totally different ways right now, but you're a total creep either way."

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Joanna Walsh

lit crit, 1930s style

(le crime de monsieur lange)

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nicole

@h5e Thank you!!

I think we all get (understandably) a little self-obsessive when transition, so I’m sure this won’t sound _too_ strange, but flipping through my selfie photo album at the end of any given day, I’m always amazed how many different people turn out to just be me from different angles and with different lighting! 😂

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So, I have attention problems (coding is actually the only thing I’ve ever been able to focus on for more than 5-10 minutes at a time without chemical assistance), so you’d think I’d be happy switching contexts frequently.

🐖 And usually I am! 🐽

But when there’s as much comms🏓 ping pong going on as there has been at work this week, I can actually get worked up to the point where I physically start shaking, and need to step away. 😵‍💫

Doing that right now. This is that message.

Writing is totally a self-soothing technique for me.

😊 I feel much better now 😁

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@h5e This happens to a lot of us. 🥰 It turns out that forcing trans folk to dress against their gender puts a dampener on some of those folks’ enthusiasm for self-decoration.

Glad you’re having more fun on the right side of the funhouse mirror!! 💕

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@AlyAlyOutnFree Thanks for kicking us off!

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@pauline That _is_ super hot. 🥰

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progress of pauline

You know the planets are lined up when falls on .

I'm Pauline (she/her). I spent my youth getting kiln-fired in , , now in the ; used to be an academic in the humanities, now write code during the day and fiction in the off hours, also some songwriting and home recording with guitars, but there's this whole ongoing struggle to get my singing voice repitched.

My most remarkable life stories all involve other people, and one of the most amazing is that my oldest and dearest friend is also a trans woman. It's been something to figure this all out alongside her as an other half to her Gemini.

Fig.1: restaurant washroom selfie, Fig 2: some hot gender-bent flirtation from Twelfth Night (Viola dressed as Cesario is supposed to be a proxy for the Duke; Olivia has other ideas).

Appreciation to all!

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@anyas5 Hi, Anya! 👋

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@revoluciana Isn't it _wonderful_?

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