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December 8, 2024

Further Signs of What’s to Come

Filed under: Gender — Tags: , , — DrMundane @ 3:51 am

I have written before that I expected the Republican agenda to be one of trans genocide if they win. 

I (am considerably enriched by some Laphroaig Quarter Cask) suddenly feel the urge to write on this once more, now that the decision has been rendered and we are in for the whole cruel agenda. 

Perhaps it is because the agenda is now stated explicitly. Perhaps the Supreme Court in United States v. Skrmetti will deliver to the states the ability to deny care and thereby commit these murders. 

But new from Punchbowl News comes this story. No less than a commissioner of the FTC (The fucking ftc!) aiming to be the chair intends to engage in fighting against gender care. I think it is clear that this anti-trans genocide agenda will extend throughout every agency in the Trump government. 

They make it clear that this agenda does not just include youths but adults as well. To quote the apparent pitch:

“Fight back against the trans agenda. Investigate the doctors, therapists, hospitals, and others who deceptively pushed gender confusion, puberty blockers, hormone replacement, and sex-change surgeries on children and adults while failing to disclose strong evidence that such interventions are not helpful and carry enormous risks.”

I would be remiss if I did not state that these are all objectionable lies. Beyond that, it must be repeated. They state in black and white that their agenda extends to adults.

P.S.

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Yours,

DrMundane

December 3, 2024

Links you Should Read 2024-12-2

Filed under: AI,Consumerism,Daily Links,Technology — Tags: , — DrMundane @ 12:08 am

Starting with one from Wired this morning.

Sonos appears poised to go down the enshittification rabbit hole, if their fortunes do not turn. A particularly galling quote:

And while the overall speakers per household were actually up to 3.08 from 3.05 last year, with a slowing new user base, how can Sonos continue to make money in what is looking to be a saturated market?

The answer is they can’t! We’ve sold enough fucking smart speakers! Please stop the planet is literally heating up. It’s just emblematic of the omnipresent drive to grow and profit and extract. Even the journalists writing the story take it for granted that this must happen, and will not spend a single line arguing that they actually don’t need to grow year over year. Maybe their business model wasn’t sustainable, and they should learn the hard way why unlimited growth never works. Instead, they will use their new subscription ready app to squeeze the people who have already bought in. They have altered the deal, pray they do not alter it further.

For the next story, Mike Masnick over at Techdirt going over how he actually uses AI. An old post, but it came to my attention again in his newer post.

I must say I am fairly convinced that AI could be useful as a writing assistant. It does make me want to try it. But then again I have enough trouble writing when it only comes down to getting motivation. Adding more steps to my process would undoubtably prevent me from finishing.

I did have an occasion at a dinner party recently to actually talk to someone in education about their usage of AI. I was, at first, taken aback that someone in my real life actually uses AI and they have positive things to say about it. Their argument does mainly revolve around the “time” factor. They are used to having a lot on their plate, and for them AI is useful for creating presentations, simplifying language (write this so a 4th grader can understand), and otherwise helping them create new material quickly.

I mainly listened and questioned on this occasion, and did not get into my more… animated feelings. Still, I actually do hope to get into more discussions on AI in real life, and hopefully I will have the presence of mind to argue my full position convincingly.

That’s it for today, enjoy.

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