@inthehands It's definitely executive pressure, and it's also definitely social identity. *And* I think this terrain where our futures are so readily stolen and rented back to us was created in large part by the performative dominance and challenge culture in tech, and the way that shaped our tools and how we use them.
@mattly@inthehands True, I guess we're saying essentially the same thing. There's a bunch of people with power and privilege who don't like what's happening in the country right now. But, they're responding to it by looking around in confusion for the referee they think should be here to call fouls and keep score.
@mattly@inthehands That, and a lot of centrists fundamentally do not understand the nature of the fight. They engage with politics as though it's professional model UN. Meanwhile, their opponents approach it as the exercise of raw power, including state sanctioned violence when they can get away with it.
@mattly I don't know. I guess "gradually, and at great length."
But even that kind of assumes that we have a consensus epistemic reality to draw on and work toward. That's been under attack for decades, and at this point we have more like a half dozen to choose from. But thanks to all the LLMs, we're now hurtling toward a future where everyone has their own custom tailored reality. And I don't know how to handle that
@mattly I guess I just want to have a rhetorical landscape where threatening to kill people (or abandon them to die, same diff) terminates the other debate so we can focus on that
@mattly but if we stop the leopards from eating people's faces now, it won't be fair to all the people who's faces were already eaten! And we'll have nothing to show for it!
@mattly@puppygirlhornypost2 After reading that last bullet point, I suspect the actual goal of the exercise is to teach the words that will make you legible to the LLM. In which case, we need to move that warning to the front. Something like "this is not a place of learning, no great knowledge is imparted here, etc"