@WarrenPeace

Comics lover, movie watcher, voracious reader. Black Lives Fucking Matter. he/him

 Elgin, IL
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Joined May 2007
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ABSOLUTELY LOSING MY MIND OVER THIS
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Killjoy McCoy@letsgoayo30 Jun 2022
God, while building billions of suns and scattering them across the universe for eons: “if a man kisses a man, I’m going to be SO angry 😤”
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Mark Peters@wordlust25 Jun 2022
I’m wearing out my “This was one of the legit worst days in American history” tee.
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Grosdoriane@Grosdoriane20 Jun 2022
"How was the left radicalized?" Bro, I'm not radicalized. Literally all of my political views are just extrapolations of the most basic premises of human decency. Universal healthcare isn't "radical." I figured that one out when I was, like, 8 years old. Get a grip.
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Gritty is the Way@Gritty2020219 Jun 2022
time for some French lessons
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J.J.@JJfromKansas18 Jun 2022
Some bigoted dork is asking why not cops reading to kids instead of people in drag and the easy answer is because people in drag aren't afraid to enter a classroom to help children.
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Monica Byrne@monicabyrne1313 Jun 2022
What I had to say about AI in 2018, and pretty much what I say today.
I want to draw especial attention to the treatment of AI—artificial intelligence—in these narratives. Think of Ex Machina or Blade Runner. I spoke at TED two years in a row, and one year, there were back-to-back talks about whether or not AI was going to evolve out of control and “kill us all.” I realized that that scenario is just something I have never been afraid of. And at the same moment, I noticed that the people who are terrified of machine super-intelligence are almost exclusively white men. I don’t think anxiety about AI is really about AI at all. I think it’s certain white men’s displaced anxiety upon realizing that women and people of color have, and have always had, sentience, and are beginning to act on it on scales that they’re unprepared for. There’s a reason that AI is almost exclusively gendered as female, in fiction and in life. There’s a reason they’re almost exclusively in service positions, in fiction and in life. I’m not worried about how we’re going to treat AI s

ALT I want to draw especial attention to the treatment of AI—artificial intelligence—in these narratives. Think of Ex Machina or Blade Runner. I spoke at TED two years in a row, and one year, there were back-to-back talks about whether or not AI was going to evolve out of control and “kill us all.” I realized that that scenario is just something I have never been afraid of. And at the same moment, I noticed that the people who are terrified of machine super-intelligence are almost exclusively white men. I don’t think anxiety about AI is really about AI at all. I think it’s certain white men’s displaced anxiety upon realizing that women and people of color have, and have always had, sentience, and are beginning to act on it on scales that they’re unprepared for. There’s a reason that AI is almost exclusively gendered as female, in fiction and in life. There’s a reason they’re almost exclusively in service positions, in fiction and in life. I’m not worried about how we’re going to treat AI s

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largest rodent@capybaroness7 Jun 2022
a fun fact that i think a lot of people don't know is that the bechdel test is not a serious analytical framework but is in fact a joke from a comic strip
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Imogen West-Knights@ImogenWK23 May 2022
my little while ago friend and i made a list of all possible novel plots and it has kind of ruined reading for me. enjoy x
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Adam Threeze@ChalicothereX22 May 2022
saw this elsewhere and had to repost
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Claire Penis
@ZeroSuitCamus8 May 2022
Jackie Chan movies are so cool. One minute you’re watching a charming goofball ham it up sex comedy style and the next minute the same guy is in the midst of an insane combat ballet during which he finds 14 completely distinct ways to kill someone with a ladder
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i just find it interesting that certain people in this country are now so concerned with its “deeply rooted history” when they are also actively trying to also make it illegal to teach said “deeply rooted history” …
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Olivier🐿️@gloupin3 May 2022
It seems apropos to remember this comic.
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Dems must weigh the political calculus carefully with student debt relief. It would deliver concrete, life changing results to a part of their coalition that’s slipping away, BUT people who would never in a million years cast a vote for them would be mad. Not an easy call!
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Jason Hickel
@jasonhickel18 Apr 2022
People often assume that capitalism is defined by "markets and trade". But markets and trade existed for thousands of years before capitalism. Capitalism is only 500 years old. So what is distinctive about this economic system? Three things (well, more, but three for now):
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Guy Was Secretly Exactly Who You’d Expect
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Rhian Beutler
@rhiankatie6 Apr 2022
Why we can't stop saying gay, a story On the first day of my senior year of high school, a new boy showed up in my AP English class. He had transferred from a prestigious private school to my public school, and I was confused. I asked him why he moved and he shrugged 1/x
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Cheryl Rofer@CherylRofer8 Feb 2022
For all those removing mask mandates, I repeat a graphic I've been using since March 2020. We keep doing this over and over and over.
Graph of new cases against time. Red line: business as usual. Green line: with prevention and precaution efforts. The two lines coincide up to a point labled “Efforts start working,” when the green line starts to go down. Shortly after that is a purple marker labeled “Warning! We are close to” with an arrow pointing to “See? It wasn’t so bad. We overreacted,” which delineates a blue box low in the “new cases” space. The green line goes down in the blue box to a minimum labeled in red “We did it!! Let’s stop this and return to normal.” From that point, the green line turns red and goes up as fast as the other red one. Provenance of the graphic not known.

ALT Graph of new cases against time. Red line: business as usual. Green line: with prevention and precaution efforts. The two lines coincide up to a point labled “Efforts start working,” when the green line starts to go down. Shortly after that is a purple marker labeled “Warning! We are close to” with an arrow pointing to “See? It wasn’t so bad. We overreacted,” which delineates a blue box low in the “new cases” space. The green line goes down in the blue box to a minimum labeled in red “We did it!! Let’s stop this and return to normal.” From that point, the green line turns red and goes up as fast as the other red one. Provenance of the graphic not known.

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jordan
@JordanUhl31 Jan 2022
yeah what can explain it
David Leonhardt
@DLeonhardt31 Jan 2022
Replying to @DLeonhardt
Even if you think the overall levels of Covid anxiety among Democrats are rational, there is no rational explanation for younger Democrats being more worried about getting "seriously sick" than older Democrats. So what can explain it?
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THREAD: Today you will hear a lot of glowing discussion about Justice Breyer. This is a different story--one about how a fraud by Breyer led to one of the greatest increases in human caging in modern world history. What he did to so many families is important to know.
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