Notices by azalea (azalea@woem.space)

@Viss WAIT STABLE DIFFUSION????

holy shit

i was like “oh huh, a no-name AI company went out of business, its not much but it might be a sign the bigger ones will get hit” but no its fucking stable diffusion holy shit

@yassie_j @kaia tbh my first thought is either “he didn’t know why you were calling and assumed you were a spam caller” and/or “he thought ‘mobile’ meant text”

@lizzie >big fungus
[bugs bunny image]

“…so basically, ‘slop content’ puts the viewer in a trance, designed to grab the user’s attention and keep them from looking away, or even thinking about anything else”

me [incredibly horny]: im sorry it what

@Moon @ezri @larsfrommars “not letting teens stay out all night” isnt what im talking about though

my main point is that most people base their morality solely on how much disgust they have towards something, rather than the actual impact it has, meaning that when theres a situation that has the same impact but doesn’t trigger their disgust, they don’t have any problem with it

and this carries over to what i can only describe as non-sexual grooming, situations that have the same emotional dynamic to sexual grooming (and traumatize the victim similarly), but contain nothing directly sexual
e.g. objectifying someone and treating them as being a Single Thing, ignoring every part of them that doesn’t fit into what you want out of them, and trying to make them think that your perception of them is Absolute Truth (this isn’t a great explanation; its hard to put it into words and actually get across The Whole Picture™)

telling a teenager “oh you have to come home by [time]” isnt directly part of this, but telling them that they have a Moral Duty to do whatever their parent says is (its not the worst that this type of situation can get, but it absolutely contributes)

sexual grooming is awful because of the trauma it causes to the victim, and people do in fact treat it as bad
non-sexual grooming is also awful, and also traumatizes the victim, but it’s treated as perfectly fine (and even encouraged!) by most of society because they don’t feel disgusted by it
the end result is that the reason people treat sexual grooming as bad isnt because of the harm it causes, its solely because of disgust

@ezri @larsfrommars my flaming hot take is that most people only have a problem with grooming because its sexual

theyre completely fine with objectifying and removing autonomy from minors . they only have a problem when its sexual, because thats what makes them feel Disgust about it (and they just ignore, yknow, the trauma . or, they ignore it until they can use it to say they’re Protecting The Children™)

@eris @mia oh wait huh maybe im egoist-adjacent

i have basically all of this except that i also have an overarching morality/ethics thing of “avoid causing harm to others”/“try to reduce overall harm”, but even that could probably be argued to not be an external structure and thus to be a reflection of my own self-interest/desires anyway

@hanabi @lain “our ‘we want people to not commit suicide on the job’ shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by our shirt”

wet-dry world earlier today: the third timpact

“my son is fine” ma’am your daughter’s halo is so bright it’s lighting up the whole room