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I know of one instance of an LLM encouraging cannibalism.

i swear to god chatgbt "therapy" is going to be my actual breaking point

"god forbid people need 24/7 access to therapy to-"

THAT'S NOT THERAPY

THAT IS A PROGRAM DESIGNED TO TELL YOU WHAT IT THINKS YOU WANT TO HEAR

IT CANNOT PROVIDE YOU WITH THERAPY

*UNEARTHLY SCREECH OF DESPAIR*

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how do you feel about the branding of kinks and fetishes as non-sexual, though? i completely understand that sex is not inherent to or required in those things, but it opens up this "it's not sexual so i'm allowed to involve children and unaware bystanders" loophole in a way that makes me uncomfortable. don't get me wrong i'm not trying to say people with fetishes are scheming or "violating consent" by existing or whatever, but it's an argument i've unfortunately seen be used in a predatory way more than once

you've come to the wrong place buddy because i dont think it's bad for children to see signs of human sexuality either

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Alice Notley

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modern social media should stop offering "sync with your phone contacts to follow them" options and start offering "block all your phone contacts so they never see your account" options

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I'm rereading @thebibliosphere 's Hunger Pangs, which is about (among other things) the developing relationship between a severely wounded war veteran and werewolf (Nathan Northland) and a socially liberal Reformist vampire (Vlad Blutstein).

One day, Vlad drags Nathan to a doctor - the first doctor to show him any sympathy, let alone COMPETENCE - and the doctor says, essentially, "I can't promise to fix everything, but I think I can help."

And gods, I understand SO MUCH of Nathan's fury at hearing "you were right, your previous doctor(s) DID fuck you over and provide inadequate care, and that DID mean you suffered far more and far longer than you ever should have."

Chronic illness patients UNITE for this one soggy wolfboy and his manic nerd boyfriend

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I have excellent news

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ATTN: Pink Floyd fans

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“In order to balance out the extremism of the Republican Party, the media and Republicans themselves need an equally extremist figure on the left. As they rarely get that from elected Democrats, they’ll often content themselves with people vaguely “leftist,” even if they aren’t part of the formal Democratic Party, much less wield any influence over it. College kids are one of the favored stand-ins in this equation, since it’s fairly easy to catch a 19-year-old saying something dumb or histrionic, and comparable power isn’t a necessary prerequisite. The Sydney Sweeney “debate” is this dynamic in a microcosm: The supposed “leftists” here, as Favreau points out, are random social media users. Their combatant on the right is … the President of the United States. Actual Democrats absenting themselves from this argument doesn’t matter. Fox News and Trump can squeeze days and days of content out of covering the deranged Democrats who hate “beautiful women” because of so many years of more respectable commentators conflating institutional Democrats with anyone ostensibly of the “woke left.” Since Democrats could never police the messaging of everyone with a liberal worldview, the right will never lack an eyeroll-inducing left-wing posterchild to prop up and gleefully attack.”

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The Sydney Sweeney News Cycle Proves That Democrats Simply Can’t Win - TPM 

Yep.

Also, Trump is in the Epstein files. Why won’t they release the Epstein files? Is it because Trump is in the Epstein files? Is it because Trump was part of Epstein and Maxwell’s criminal conspiracy to traffic children to be sexually abused? 

The Sydney Sweeney News Cycle proves that the entire Right Wing Cinematic Universe is laser-focused on protecting Trump, and covering up that he is a rapist who is in the Epstein Files

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so a Blorbo is a type of spiritual chew toy, i gather

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it’s the way that aragorn introduced his lifelong friend to a mutual and ended up becoming a third wheel on his own quest to save middle earth. like bro was covered in dirt trying to sleep for an hour while the dwarf n elf were giggling n flirting on their bedrolls forced to witness an enemies to friends to lovers fic in real time

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fuck em up gang

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once you recognise the ubiquitous and inevitable fandom life cycle it becomes much easier to free yourself from it and just keep enjoying things in a more healthy way while still thinking critically about them