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Reminder: fascists want you hopeless. They want you to think nothing matters. They want your expectations of justice to die.

Don't give them what they want. Hope is rebellion. Sincerity is bravery. Expect justice and don't be quiet about it.

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On May 6, 1933, Nazi stormtroopers (Sturmabteilung) broke into this library, looted the building, killed at least one of the occupants, and hauled the majority of its books outside for a public book burning in the streets of the Opernplatz. Joseph Goebbels gave a speech to 40,000 people about "protecting our nation's children".

The photo has become an icon of Nazi German brutality and fascism. It is shown in school textbooks worldwide above the caption "Nazi book burnings, 1933". It is often published in news stories and social media whenever the subject of banning books arises.

What is not often mentioned in those stories is the SUBJECT of the burned books. The building was the Institute for the Science of Sexuality. The first of its kind, dedicated to studying trans people and trans identities, and performing gender confirming surgery for a number of patients. And the books that were burned were trans histories and trans patient records.

Remember, they came for trans people first.

dear missus teacher

please excuse zx3 from life today, he remembered he hadn't listened to neutral milk hotel in a long time and has been rendered useless with Emotions

thanks

signed, your mom

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🔥 🔥 🔥 from @davidgerard and Amy Castor

With a hell of a pull quote:

“Current AI feels like something out of a Philip K Dick story because it answers a question very few people were asking: What if a computer was stupid?” — Maple Cocaine

davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2

earlier in conversation with the SO i described a very high number as "an astrological amount." it took me a good thirty seconds to realize that i meant "astronomical." boy, it's a good thing that nobody caught that verbal blunder and put it on the internet. anyway alexa, do my taxes and send toot

nuclear. FUCKING. secrets.

sold to the Saudis and Putin.

get a rope.

(don't jerk off in the dj booth you'll get) come on my selecta

i think something's wrong with me but i don't know what it is yet. aside from all the stuff that is wrong with me that i already know about. something new has been added.

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I would like to propose a new term for the horrible rich people who keep shoving their asses into the news: HLWO. Human-Like Wealth Object. Pronounced close to “hollow”.

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having VNV Nation and Knower release new albums, both absolutely fantastic, and listening to both for the first time on the same day is an embarrassment of riches. sometimes the world is okay.

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Scientists Successfully Transmit Space-Based Solar Power to Earth for the First Time: gizmodo.com/scientists-beam-sp

(Very much an experimental proof-of-concept rather than a practical demo, but still ...)

today i am dealing with the ever-approaching slow-motion horrorpocalypse by: making hot dogs and mac&cheese while mildly puzzled on Costco vodka and listening to Bunnygrunt.

how are you dealing with the impending collapse of civilization today? wince knowingly, smile painfully, and leave a reply.

RIP, Becky, Queen of Carpet. legit royalty. may you hover in bluescreened footage of the Arch for eternity and may Wanda, Queen of Tile wing you to your rest.

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dear drunk dads: it is ok for you to drag your visibly disinterested family to a concert venue, spend the entire time during the concert going back and forth from your seat to get more drinks, being on your phone when you get back, and generally being a distracting shithead, i guess. but where i draw the line is when you get up and do the floppy-arms-over-the-head, spinny-roundy drunk dad dance. that kind of shit is fine at a Grateful Dead concert and nowhere else. have some decorum for crying out loud. signed, the guy you kept bumping into

P.S. if your kids don't hate you yet, tonight will most likely be the beginning of a downward trend.

always a pleasure to crowdwatch in an audience like this. so far, no appearances of the "Fuck Me And Marry Me Young" t-shirt offered in the merch foldout of original-pressing Sisters albums. on the other hand there are so many black t-shirts that the venue lighting is struggling to illuminate the crowd area. it's like waiting for a Disaster Area concert from inside Hotblack Desiato's stunt ship.

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RT @JeffAHamilton@twitter.com

we only call it "AI" because overloading that word's fictional meaning lets people steal the affect and emotion of years' worth of stories to lend this technology an air of inevitability. It's just marketing sleight of hand. It's not AI!

🐦🔗: twitter.com/JeffAHamilton/stat

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