Whoever wins the WH will help determine critical questions: who reaps the gains of AI, whether the tech can be used for mass surveillance, and how much power a handful of tech companies can have over US society. Not great if prez is bedfellows w/ tech oligarch and ppl who don't believe in liberalism

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Tommy is not actually a registered voter in Michigan. Tricia McLaughlin is the former DHS spokesperson who kept telling the public that everytime ICE shot someone, it was because they were weaponizing their car against the masked security agent

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like to use a very low-stakes example, it is legitimately Problematic to sexualize other people without them agreeing to it, but being sexually attracted to somebody inherently includes doing this, and “simply don’t experience sexual attraction” isn’t a real solution

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there is some part of us, i think, that wants to make the experiences of desire, romance, and sexuality rational, logical, and unproblematic, and the fundamental issue with this is that the problematic parts are in many respects inherent to the experience

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For anyone who didn't get the reference, it's about the time Naomi Wolf discovered live on air that her book, based on her PhD thesis work at Oxford, was completely, stupidly wrong. There were no consequences. She has her Oxford PhD, and her supervisor and examining committee are doing fine.

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