@NanoRaptor parrots fully understand human speech now and still repeat it like they did before.
Notices by Mx Amber Alex (amberage@eldritch.cafe)
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Mx Amber Alex (amberage@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 21:46:42 JST Mx Amber Alex -
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Mx Amber Alex (amberage@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 08:02:49 JST Mx Amber Alex "great instance moderator is in town. go see them."
"but doctor, i AM great instance moderator!"
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Mx Amber Alex (amberage@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Apr-2024 03:41:25 JST Mx Amber Alex @kadse same
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Mx Amber Alex (amberage@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Apr-2024 03:35:21 JST Mx Amber Alex @Mastodon only 1,000? 😭
If it sells out, any plans for a second run?
Or maybe pre-orders to get a more reliable idea of how many you'll sell?
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Mx Amber Alex (amberage@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 20:15:53 JST Mx Amber Alex Gestern übrigens so 5–10x innerhalb einer Stunde angepöbelt worden wegen Masken. Von blöden Sprüchen hinterhergerufen zu gespieltem Anhusten zu in Hörweite zu Begleitpersonen sich-lustig-machen alles dabei gewesen.
Die Tyrannei des Volkes hat sich durchgesetzt und jetzt werden die Opfer dieser Ignorier-Politik mit aller Gewalt bekämpft und aus dem öffentlichen Raum vertrieben. Die Wutbürger haben freie Bahn, an allen Rache zu üben, die sie an die Existenz der Krise erinnern, die sie so hart zu verdrängen suchen.
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Mx Amber Alex (amberage@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 04:08:14 JST Mx Amber Alex The problem with fedi instances run by parties, organisations, clubs, etc. for their members is that unless a strong moderation policy was laid out beforehand, mods can't enforce the rules against common nazi dogwhistles and standpoints wrapped in politeness because there are internal rules about disciplinary measures and any organisation that doesn't have extensive experience holding nazis accountable will get tied up in conflicts about this forever.
Yes this is about the German Green Party.
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Mx Amber Alex (amberage@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 04:38:53 JST Mx Amber Alex Concept: a poster, done in the style of those single-colour shaded war posters, that shows a person wearing a mask and raising their first.
Slogan:
THE GOVERNMENT HATES IT
YOUR BOSS HATES IT
THE COPS HATE IT(mask person here)
STICK IT TO THE MAN
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Mx Amber Alex (amberage@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 19:03:55 JST Mx Amber Alex @siege lofi remains bestfi huh
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Mx Amber Alex (amberage@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 06:16:53 JST Mx Amber Alex @siege that latter is straight into nazi dogwhistle territory. Dog trumpet at that point. That's not even a freezepeach bro anymore, that's a straight-up nazi.
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Mx Amber Alex (amberage@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 07:02:38 JST Mx Amber Alex @arcana @lea @jiub in my experience, a football fan is a fascist who hasn't yet put into words what ideology underpins his hate.
And where I used to live, the non-shitty fanclub shuttered because the openly fascist fanclub outnumbered them and the soccer club didn't care.
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Mx Amber Alex (amberage@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 09:21:12 JST Mx Amber Alex Sometimes you see an announcement of a new ActivityPub-based project, "like [...] but federated", and you just think... why?
How is that better than [...] that already exists?
ActivityPub has advantages, sure. Especially for social media: distribute moderation workload, fewer single points of failure, instance-specific rules, etc.
But it also has downsides. Unlike blockchain tech, which also promises distribution, not every actor is required to have a complete copy of the whole network, but even so, the larger your instance, the more data from remote instances is permanently stored or regularly cached.
For social networks, this is still doable, depending on the scale. Old stuff gets purged, remote stuff not always fetched unless searched for or via follow relationships, etc.
Just now, I saw the promise of "a federated version of Wikipedia".
An encyclopaedia couldn't take advantage of all those measures to keep content down. An encyclopaedia aims at completeness. Having a copy of the whole thing on hand is kind of the idea.
And what does it gain from federating?
I can't think of anything, short of more robustness against downtime, but not with so much advantage over conventional redundancy solutions that it'd be worthwhile.
Not to mention the endless "every bad actor can keep spinning up new instances" problems that would weigh tenfold worse on any sort of encyclopaedia attempting to remain truthful. Actual Wikipedia already is bad enough at keeping fascists out; now imagine a bunch of "banning nazis based on their ideology is censorship" dudes preventing any sort of blocklist for a federated encyclopaedia.
I'm just not seeing the upside.
Not everything has to be federated for the sake of federation is what I'm saying.
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Mx Amber Alex (amberage@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 17:14:31 JST Mx Amber Alex @dgold and in turn, pretty much every soapox instance I've seen was a nazi instance.
Soapbox also (by default?) hides posts and accounts from logged out viewers and doesn't expose rules, blocklist, or an about page publicly – all qualities that appeal to trolls, harassers, and nazis.
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Mx Amber Alex (amberage@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 16:26:39 JST Mx Amber Alex @siege oh jeez i hate remembering right 😬
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Mx Amber Alex (amberage@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 16:06:51 JST Mx Amber Alex @siege was that the one with "the terfs are right, my vagina is just a gaping wound"?
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Mx Amber Alex (amberage@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 05:34:36 JST Mx Amber Alex @Sylvhem @zaratustra twitter, not very horny? cohost, very horny? we must be going to different social networks
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Mx Amber Alex (amberage@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 23:53:16 JST Mx Amber Alex A lot of the language in here is clunky. I wish I knew how to describe it better than in terms of passing or not, a more granular description of transition. I can't think of any right now.
And most of all, I wish I didn't have to use "AFAB" and "AMAB". But the very nature of the prejudice at hand is what forces me to, because no matter what I do, no matter how I look, that's always what people will see. They will see a man and a dick.
The most I can hope for in life is to get my appearance changed more than I want to, getting a bottom surgery I'm not sure I want, and living under the radar enough that I am treated with indifference (or pity or mild disgust) instead of open fear and hostility.
And yeah, let's not even get into how trans women who like their dick, who don't want bottom surgery, who are happy to top or use their dick in general, are treated with a universal suspicion a lot of the time. How much tgirl 4 tgirl is because we don't feel safe with anyone else.
The closest experience to this, I imagine, is when a trans man grows a beard, grows a dick, builds up muscle, and is also treated as a threat then. And not only does that not translate over entirely, it's sad that the closest analogue to knowing how we feel is also being treated as a threat.
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Mx Amber Alex (amberage@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 23:53:14 JST Mx Amber Alex I don't know if "full" transition (again, clunky language) trans men get the same "even worse than the cis men" treatment we get, or "just" being seen as the same threat level as cis men. I don't know.
But (again, some parts of the tumblr post I linked earlier resonate heavily with this) a lot of the time, trans women are treated as if we're a worse threat now than we were when we "were" cis men, and that is frankly the worst.
A cis man who behaves in a "feminine" way, who wears make-up or nail polish, is, pardon the crass language, sufficiently emasculated in the eyes of many to appear somewhat harmless. Probably gay and therefore not part of the cis man threat model anymore for most women.
Cross the line into trans woman territory, behave exactly the same way but under a different label, and suddenly you're a predator. You're not "in touch with your feminine side", you're in disguise. You're not "having female best friends", you're preying.
That is… I don't have a stronger word than "depressing".
It destroys you.
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Mx Amber Alex (amberage@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 23:53:12 JST Mx Amber Alex So yeah, to circle back to my first post (and my thread about dating that I also linked, I'd really ask you to read that):
It seems like no amount of downplaying and belittling myself will ever make me safe or accepted (by people who wouldn't accept me without it). So why deny myself? I've grown out of it. "uwu speak" was a way to find people like myself once upon a time, but I feel like I've grown out of it. I'm not who I was, I'm poor, disabled, my whole life is different now.
I don't want to have to pretend anymore, and it has started to feel like pretense over the last year-or-so.
I don't want to have to signal my harmlessness. I don't want to have to wear a high-vis vest that says "won't bite, only wants to play". I'm me.
I'm hairy. I'm horny. I'm angry. I swear like a sailor. I have a bad temper. I am a freak. I have kinks. I don't pass. I dress butch. I'm one of those trans women you would never spot because I dress like a man outside.
I'm not going to wrap myself in pink, verbally, to appear like one of the gals.
And I reiterate, no part of this is intended to tell you you shouldn't uwu, or that it's bad, or that you'll grow out of it. This is about me re-evaluating my habits and nothing else (the universally applicable parts about transmisogyny aside).
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Mx Amber Alex (amberage@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 23:53:10 JST Mx Amber Alex And it's a real double bind because presenting too uwu owo to not be ostracised among queers easily leads to paedophilia accusations from others, because in this society, any sort of child-like (or seemingly child-like) behaviour immediately begets accusations of being sexual and directed at actual children.
And if it's a no-win scenario either way, and if I'm getting sick of it anyway, then why bother?
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Mx Amber Alex (amberage@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 23:53:08 JST Mx Amber Alex Not trying to tell you what to do btw (another disclaimer that wouldn't be necessary for others), this is purely a personal observation and contemplation of my own habits.