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Autistic queer trans²humanist and anarchist. Big fan of dense cities, code, automation, neurodiversity, and self-organising resilient networks.

Pronouns: they/them, xe/xem, ze/zem

Favourite Programming Language: Rust

Alt-Account Of: @sapient_cogbag@sh.itjust.works

  • "An absolute travesty": GOP bill seeks to legalize so-called conversion therapy for trans minors - LGBTQ Nation

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  • Bioreactionaries make me seethe.

  • Dutch pull out of Eurovision Song Festival due to Israel

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  • More like a genocide tbh.

  • Do you feel sad about the fact that you'll probably die within 100 years (or less) and you (well... that's most of us tbh) can't do much to leave a significant positive legacy?

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  • Well, I take this as a challenge. Both the "dying" thing (I'm young enough I suspect we will reach Longevity Escape Velocity before I'm old enough it wouldn't help me - and if such technology were to be hoarded, I'd advocate actively leaking any such information and enabling mass production nya), and the "doing something positive to change the world" thing.

    So I wouldn't say it makes me sad. Instead it makes me determined and extremely stubborn (I also enjoy myself, though - not here constantly obsessing over death even if I consider it highly unethical and a major violation of morphological autonomy that must be resisted by any means necessary).

  • Piracy Operation COLLECTiVE Dismantled, Uploader ‘Will1869’ Arrested by UK Police

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  • ACAB

  • Trans flag hung in protest in Yosemite National Park: 'Trans people are natural'

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  • I was agreeing with you and stating that the original group doing the "natural" thing were philosophically incorrect but I still appreciate the gesture of their support :p

  • Trans flag hung in protest in Yosemite National Park: 'Trans people are natural'

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  • I'm a trans transhumanist and agree. Though actually iirc there is evidence of animals experiencing some of this stuff even if they often lack the sociocognitotechnological structures to act upon it.

    But my opinion is that "nature" (as much as that is even coherent as a concept which is questionable imo, youd really want to be going into specific systems) itself is fundamentally coercive.

    I consider "nature" itself to be transphobic in structure (even if it is not sentient or has intent, once you can criticise systems for their construction why not criticise systems that are not human created such as biophysical systems nya). That is, the very construction of major parts of my biology - along also with social systems which have a major component - deprive me of autonomy and self determination. For me, as a trans enby who wants and has obtained hrt, then, I have used technological means to seize my agency .. I'm not just talking abojt trans stuff here but yeah :p

    Imo we must tear down this idea that "nature" is something just or good at all or any sort of model for how things should be. Thats not to aay engage in ecological destruction which is a different issue (I won't go into that now but "don't accept nature as it exists and be willing to radically alter or overthrow its tyranny" is not the same as "burn down all the forests/release CO2 and mindlessly destroy all the complex and interesting ecosystems that exist and that we also currently need for agriculture, just for short term profits, often even when better options exist").

    On the other hand, I do appreciate the gesture of support and solidarity for what it is. Even if philosophically I consider it incorrect.

  • Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says

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  • I hate bioreactionaries I hate bioreactionaries I hate bioreactionaries I hate bioreactionaries I hate bioreactionaries.

  • Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff who ministered with a charming, humble style, dies at 88

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  • Irish Freemasons apologise for hosting Conor McGregor interview at Dublin hall

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  • Every accusation by fascists really is an admission, huh.

    The one time there actually was a "masonic shadow government" it was a fascist far right group. Lmao :p

  • The EU beat COVID and ditched Russian energy. Now it must learn to live without US security help

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  • Appeasing fascists doesn't work.

  • In rural West Texas, a measles outbreak grows with no end in sight

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  • Extremely, iirc. According to wikipedia:

    It is extremely contagious: nine out of ten people who are not immune and share living space with an infected person will be infected.[5] Furthermore, measles's reproductive number estimates vary beyond the frequently cited range of 12 to 18,[17] with a 2017 review giving a range of 3.7 to 203.3

    For context the reproductive number (average number of unexposed people a carrier will infect) of the most virulent strains of COVID-19 is 3-8. See: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35262737/ (basic vs effective rate refers to the infectiveness in a naive population vs one which is taking measures and/or has immunity).

    This is also all exponential so small increases in R number have big impacts nya.

  • Italian Students Hang Elon Musk Effigy in Same Square When Mussolini's Corpse Was Displayed and Mutilated

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  • Don't gaslight us. It was a nazi salute. And being autistic doesn't make you do Nazi salutes, we were fucking murdered by Nazis too.

  • Elon Musk doubles down on salute controversy with a bunch of Nazi jokes

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  • Never let the nazis gaslight you or certain american media channels try to pan away and deemphasise what he did in their footage. If anyone tries to claim this was not a nazi salute, just point them to this few-seconds-long comparison video, maybe download with yt-dlp (cw: nazis doing nazi stuff like chanting) nya.

    Also I'm autistic and nazi salutes are not stimming or simple social difference or whatever.

    Stims are usually repetitive and/or simple motions or behaviours or similar (e.g. I stim by jumping up and down or repeating phrases or spinning my arms in circles, sometimes from happiness and sometimes as a way to regulate emotions), and not a complex deliberate action. That salute was a deliberate and non-repetitive action. I could see the bit at the start where he walks around and moves his arms up and down repeatedly being a stim, but the other stuff? And specifically the nazi salute? No.

    Plus autistic people are not on the whole less capable of understanding ethics^1 or empathising (though we may have trouble reading non-autistic social cues or emotional states and thought processes, but if we understand what someone is feeling we experience empathy, though of course there are variations on that just like with non-autistic people, if you want to know more just look up the double empathy problem :p). He knows what he was doing.

    I'm sick of people (usually bad faith actors of course but still) blaming this shit on autisticness and autistic people. Its like people think that being autistic just means being a dick and not caring about other people (of course, there are plenty of dickish autistic people just like there are of any other group of people nya). And its especially disgusting given that Nazis attempted to genocide us.

    I do understand that not everyone understands autism very well but come on.... its such bullshit <.<

    1: some studies suggest autistic people are actually more likely to follow their own sense of ethics even without social pressure when it would benefit them to break it, though these kinds of tests are done in very limited circumstances and I've not really looked at them in that much detail

  • Ukraine says hackers abuse SyncThing tool to steal data

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  • It's a convenient file transfer/sync tool. Copying data has to happen somehow, I'm not surprised someone thought to use syncthing for that purpose ., since it can do that. But its not really different than any other tool here.

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    Germany has too many solar panels, and it's pushed energy prices into negative territory

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  • That's pretty awesome ngl :p

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    Germany has too many solar panels, and it's pushed energy prices into negative territory

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  • Power being priced negative is awesome. We need more of it imo, make energy so abundant that it makes processes that were previously too energy-intensive viable, and enables a massive increase in both residential and grid storage capacity.

    My opinion is that Na-ion batteries are the way for bulk grid storage and apartment/home storage nya.

    They use hyper abundant materials and are now reaching the point of decent endurance, and if you arent bothered by them being heavy (as is the case for grid and residential storage), they're fairly comparable to Li-Ion without the usage of relatively rare Lithium.

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    EU Illegal Migration to Continue to Increase in 2024, Will Play Major Factor in Parliament Elections: Report

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  • Breitbart? Really?

  • Big Tech Won’t Let You Leave. Here's a Way Out - WIRED

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  • Most anti copyright people I see (including me) hate those kinds of laws lol

  • Britain’s got some of Europe’s toughest surveillance laws. Now it wants more

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  • Oh not this fucking bullshit again. Urghhh

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    Why Defederating from Facebook/Meta is So Important

    ploum.net /2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
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