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@tillybridges 😳 Whoah. This is an incredible act of public good. What a collection! What work!

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@chrmi @rooster Not sure we even need an adjective. 🥺 But also: yes, absolutely, this. 🥲

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Cute trans girls telling other cute trans girls that they’re cute but not believing that they are too

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#GenderEuphoria 

Every morning, I roll out of bed, and look in the mirror.

Increasingly, I see a middle-aged woman looking back at me.

I couldn’t be happier about that if I tried. 🥰

Miss Puffy Eyes with Your Brow Furrows, Smile Lines, and Hair in Total Disarray, … I‘m so happy to see you today. Let’s crack some eggs and make some coffee. 😘

My hobby is going to expensive restaurants, ordering their popovers, and leaving them leaving a note with the bill, just to let them know that if they warm the milk before they mix in the rest of the ingredients, it might actually work.

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Confession time:

I was a free speeches absolutist teen. I think many young people latch on to this, but I couldn't conceive of anyone doing anything that would protect me-- had a lot of experience being shut down & told to be quiet.

That's kind of where my heart has always been. Even on twitter I hardly ever blocked anyone. Ever. But, part of growing up is recognizing it's just not practical or reasonable.

I'm a reluctant fan of moderation and I came here kicking and screaming. 🧵

@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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@Fawn@ohai.social Thank you for sharing!

@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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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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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

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

@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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@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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Basic models of flocking behavior are controlled by three simple rules: 1) separation: avoid crowding neighbours (short range repulsion); 2) alignment: steer towards average heading of neighbors; 3) cohesion: steer towards average position of neighbors (long range attraction). With these three simple rules, the flock moves in an extremely realistic way.