#NeedsMoreLikes

[teknocholer]

https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/asking-for-a-correction-jk-rowling-podcast-s-pr-firm-mistakenly-confirms-her-transphobia/244678/56?u=teknocholer

[anon87143080]

Wow, a ‘needs more likes’ for a vanished post! I don’t think I’ve seen that before.

[teknocholer]

Unfortunately it seems to have been collateral damage when the post it replied to was wiped out. I’ll leave it here anyway. It’s complete except for the included gif.

[anon87143080]

Seems I missed some fireworks then

[teknocholer]

Or some tedium, depending on your point of view.

[Mitchell]

@anon87143080

Wow, a ‘needs more likes’ for a vanished post! I don’t think I’ve seen that before.

Think there’s a badge for that?
Thanks @teknocholer, looks like we’ve gone boldly were no Boingers have gone before…

[anon15383236]

[smulder]

@anon87143080

A police officer had his head cut off? Oops, on further review he was in fact decapod-ated

[Sally_Mahoney]

Finland invites you for a free masterclass in happiness

In two words, social democracy. There’s a reason that European countries, Australia, Canada, and similar places all rank so much higher than the US and it isn’t a mystery. You’re happier when you don’t have to worry about paying for healthcare. You’re happier when your regulators aren’t fully captured by industry. You’re happier when all sides of government are functional and debating policy, rather than one side trying to burn everything to the ground. You’re happier when women have reprod…

[anon67050589]

Before school shooting in Nashville, shooter warned a friend, who tried to warn police — but was ignored

Yeah shifting the conversation to a semantic argument about whether it’s “really the guns” is just a tactic to muddy the waters and prevent people from reacting like normal humans to their terrible terrible situation and doing something to stop it. Texas Poetry: My father loved guns. When he was angry enough he’d grab my mother and shove her against a wall. Sometimes he’d grab a gun. “This b*** wants me to kill her” he’d scream. Guns never protected me. He got better. He got worse. Good times…

[Sally_Mahoney]

Tech leaders, scientists, etc., call for pause in AI development

You may be right (maybe) but it doesn’t NEED to in order to potentially create major, widespread societal problems in the very near future. Consider just one relatively mundane example: a few Wall Street firms playing around with sub-prime derivatives and similar novel financial instruments that they didn’t necessarily understand caused a major global recession not very long ago. Now just imagine when all the firms are using the next generation of totally opaque and incomprehensible AI to do a…

[Murgatroyd]

Rep. Jamaal Bowman is screaming mad about gun violence,

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[Sally_Mahoney]

Low-volume alcohol consumption has no impact on longevity

“Groundbreaking New Study Shows [substance] Isn’t That Bad For You If You Don’t [ingest] Too Much Of It”

[gero]

Meta fired all the support staff and now influencers have no-one to turn to

“Are you recasting your very sense of personal identity in the terms that marketers use to hock commodities? Well, you should be, because this is the only form of existence that matters in the all-encompassing capitalist dystopia we now live in.”

[DukeTrout]

This Is Fine

I’ve been threatened with a gun by multiple different people throughout my life. If we are going back a ways I have also had people in my family commit suicide by gun. For me the gaslighting and denial is part that angers me the most. I know people who’ve wrecked their life with drugs and some who overdosed but nobody denies that drugs and drug addictions are killing people at least. People don’t gift bags of heroin to depressed people and tell them this is for their protection. Politicians don…

A poigniant metaphor for the inherent harm of firearm culture and how it is a house of lies.

[gero]

Substack CEO grilled by Nilay Patel on the topic of explicitly racist content

For me, a good framing of this same idea came from my anthropology friends. Communities have always had rules. Since we were sitting around fires in caves, we had social rules. Don’t be a dick, or you get kicked out of the cave. Or exiled from the village. Or whatever. Rules for social behaviour are how we got here. It’s why we’re here flying in airplanes and spaceships and nothing else is. Because we build communities and those communities have rules to ensure they function well. This tech br…

[Sally_Mahoney]

Republicans, realizing Anheuser-Busch is a significant donor, are quietly reversing their position on Bud Light

So they realized the thing they’re doing is stupid and bad and they never should have done it to begin with. If only they could see that’s true about every single other decision they’ve made as well.

[anon15383236]

Texas man shoots two women who got into his car by mistake

Guns kill. Guns are for idiots and weak little pieces of shit. Guns are for losers. gun culture is shit. I’d rather be friends with some one who sucks cock in suburban bushes for meth money than a gun owner. Gun people they… they should be ashamed and horrified to talk about their sick sick fucking stupid ugly fucked up little problems and their shitty inelegant unaesthetic tools. People get shamed more for the games they play than their irresponsible gun attitudes. If you think a gun is making…

[anon67050589]

Neurodiversity Think Different

I’ve been pondering this all day, and how to put my response. I have some gut feelings, but they’re hard to put into words. First: there does seem to be an element of heritability (with autism at least), so it’s not inconceivable that families would have traditions of coping skills. Whether those traditions are effective is another question. On the one hand, they may have evolved over many years to address evident difficulties, and to have winnowed out the best ways to deal with things. On th…

[Sally_Mahoney]

AutoGPT will take over your tasks and then your livelihood

Good point. Give a CEO a fish, and he’ll eat for a day; teach a CEO to fish, and he’ll destroy the environment.