Because definitionally they believe 'the diagnostic criteria for transgender is dyspgoria. The cure to dysphoria is HRT. Take the medicine.'
And I think this message was helpful to me, to read "take the medicine, you need HRT to feel better." - I'm a trans female. This message doesn't apply to like more than half of all trans people, and for some odd reason they also use it to exclude those trans people. Euphoria is also diagnostically trans, and HRT isnt the right treatment for most trans people. Youre valid.
He's been credibly accused of raping several women and confessed to it without apologizing, took a 6 months break, and now he's posting again.
He used one of his videos to talk about it and basically said "it could be worse" by pointing at other content creators doing poverty tourism and bad journalism. Of course Andrew is a better journalist, that wasnt ever my concern.
I'm pretty sure the people who still use Twitter use it for the drama. Mastodon and Bluesky just aren't as spicy to them. Hell, Mastodon takes setting up to even get anything interesting.
My initial position was that AI art would be exciting when a more carefully curated training data is used.
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But after some talking with friends, I think we're living in a world that has minimal respect for copyright already, except when a corporation has a problem with it and wants to bring down the hammer of the law.
It does hurt and its easy to be emotional about artists' livelihoods being threatened by AI, they aren't the only laborers threatened by job loss to automation, but this one hurts the most.
So now its just up to AI and artists to make interesting art with it. And for artists to adapt to this environment that has automated art tools.
I think Slovene got it best. The character is just shamelessly drooling over something on her phone, and her family can tell she's a big pervert. Hehe.
Because definitionally they believe 'the diagnostic criteria for transgender is dyspgoria. The cure to dysphoria is HRT. Take the medicine.'
And I think this message was helpful to me, to read "take the medicine, you need HRT to feel better." - I'm a trans female. This message doesn't apply to like more than half of all trans people, and for some odd reason they also use it to exclude those trans people. Euphoria is also diagnostically trans, and HRT isnt the right treatment for most trans people. Youre valid.