Danny Ockilson - he/him @danny@justweb.dev

always the same dudes who think "there is no clear incentive to run a community" if it's not solely about profits are those who think [any kind of relationships] are owed to them solely on the basis of having pretended to be a Nice Guy for 10 minutes.

The thing about engaging in the delicious pilpul of the intelligence conundrum -- oh I feel it, I feel it, I'm an AI dork from way back -- is that it is an excellent distraction from seeing the extractive capitalism that has made and continues to make our lives -- our *privileged* lives -- bereft of meaning.

Oh, oh, let's debate Turing & Searle & Hofstadter & Minsky! Let's be angry, let's be slow, let's be open, let's be, let's be, let's be . . .

let's be not seeing the forest for the trees.

“Millions paid in bonuses to UK Silicon Valley Bank staff days after rescue”

Fuck these people. Honestly what the fuck? I know SVB US also paid bonuses days (earlier than usual) before they were shut.

@MnemosyneSinger Agreed. To say what we're seeing is not Nazism just because not all of them are wearing Swastikas is like saying that it's only "Nazism" if it comes from the Bavaria region of Southern Germany, otherwise, it's just Sparkling Christofascism.

"Stop overusing the word Nazi"

No, you stop facilitating Nazism by pretending it's a phenomenon unique to 1930s Germany.

When you say shit like that you are downplaying the monstrous actions of Christofascists who are in power and copying directly from the Nazi playbook as we speak. You're basically saying "well sure they're bad but not as bad as Nazis."

That's you giving yourself an excuse to do nothing. That's you letting Nazism fly under the radar because "it can't happen here."

It is happening. And if you're waiting for people to be put in literal gas chambers before you are willing to call it what it is, you're gonna be way too late to stop it.

Politician should not be a career.

@strandjs "Don't light yourself on fire to keep everyone else warm" was the adage relayed to me. Thanks for speaking out about this, John. Moreover, cheers for admitting that your perception was wrong in a public forum. Much respect.

If you see someone debating our right to exist? Don't join the debate! That legitimatizes the debate as worthy of discussion. You're not gonna convince them at this stage. Instead, shut it down.

Say: "We do not debate people's existence here."

Intolerance breaks the social pact of tolerating others. So stop tolerating the intolerant. They aren't worthy of it. Shut it down.

Bombard all news sites with intense consequences for posting this anti-trans evil. Make them pay for it. Shut it down.