Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 20/08/2026(Though I know this is different: a transfem person who is assumed to merely have a quirk/fetish/hobby is absolutely not the same kind of harm as, say, a feminine cis man who is assumed to be transfem. So maybe that changes things.) 000
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 20/08/2026"they should not do that because normal people might think we are them and treat us worse" is a valid thing to think, then doesn't that mean the assimilationist trans women who resent the freaks amongst us have a point ? Cause I'd usually say "fuck off, we're not responsible for what people think". 100
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I'm conflicted about this one. I have no particular desire to defend cis men, be them sissies or drag queens (which I believe there is a case to make is similar in this context except instead of permission to harass it's the assumption that womanhood is a costume). But on the other hand, if 100
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 19/08/2026(And obviously, what about sci-fi ? Those Who Walk Away From Omelas and such ? A lot of sci-fi is thought experiments + art. Surely it has value) 010
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I understand the backlash against "could I say a slur if it disarmed a bomb" bullshit but that seems like (not only you, I've seen a bunch) like a big overreaction 110
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Philosophers use thought experiments all the time as ways to test intuitions and the limits of theories, nobody I know of has any problem with it. More concretely, even thinking about what could have been had the past been different is an exercice in entertaining an impossibility, right 110
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I dunno. Thought experiments are often misused & done badly, and a bunch of things people pretend are thought experiments aren't, sure. But refusing to engage with a hypothetical because it couldn't happen in reality seems like a very weird hill I see people climb up right now. 110
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Please be nice to me when you cheer. Please say compliments 020
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Oh for sure I'm gobbling the gloup goop as we gloup - I mean, speak. 010
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I'll gear up for sure, you can count on me as far as this is concerned. I do have a question, though: what is the gloup, and is it mandatory ? 100
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I'd like to be Witch-Deer type, but realistically I'm Horror-Rat. I'd assume it's a dual type that's theoretically fine both offensively and defensively but is truly awful in the metagame 010
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 24/07/2026To be clear I'm saying this as someone who hates AI as it currently exists and who was sympathetic to your argument about the dangers related to the facilitization of the terroristic hacking of worldwide infrastructure, but it doesn't quite seem like it's getting close ? I dunno 000
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 23/07/2026remarkable that it can do math ? I mean, if it was pure LLM stuff it would actually blow my mind, but I'm guessing these are, uh, different fine-tuned imbricated systems working in concert right ? 100
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Maybe it comes from a particular blend of tech positivity and ignorance but: haven't we known for a long time that neural networks are capable of producing (something indistinguishable from human) creativity when enough resources are put into them ? So my question would be: why's it so 110
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Not sure this is literally true or the best way to phrase it but it's something I've been thinking about 010
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 14/07/2026A lot, though not all, of what power ultimately is is the capacity to direct the flow of human labor towards one's own ends. What people think of as "the economy" is mostly a way to streamline the exercise of power at scale 230
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Although since I know what estrogen can do, maybe you're 45 and you just look awesome 010
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 29/06/2026and various intersections thereof. I think it's pretty clear that the "focus on workers as such", if some Marxists still lean into it, doesn't seem like such a good idea today 010
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 29/06/2026have less money and cannot put direct pressure through strikes and such, but that far from powerlessness. And both of these things seem true of a wide range of people from those who do domestic labor to disabled people to homeless people who subside on charity&programs to informal sex workers, etc 120
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Hm, this being your answer to that seems to imply firstly that people who don't/can't/won't work don't have as much of an interest in ending capitalism as workers do, which seems wrong on its face, and also that they have less of an ability to change the world, which, fair enough that they 150
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Sure, but "cocaine is a short and expensive high" just seems true, far as I can tell. 020
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Right ? I don't have to wonder whether I had beer or a bit of weed, I feel it in my body and mind. Antidepressants ? Indistinguishable from noise, somehow. 010
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Okay, I believe you. I'm saying if she was stealing it would be good, and the next one these fascists kill who maybe actually stole ? She did nothing wrong either 190
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 18/06/2026I mean, if we take the thing to be true, she was stealing to ensure the well-being of her child in the first place 1110
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 18/06/2026It does, somewhat. But I've been on coke and been like "well this coke thing seems to have run its course; how about we score some molly ?" 010
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Maybe ? I'm not so keen on fucking with people who have what is generally called personality disorders, even the narcissistic ones, or the borderline ones which I do, or the others 010
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 17/06/2026(Well not a literal haha game but just, the weirdgender folks for whom it actually is a gender matter but one with less material and/or psychological stakes) 010
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Of course ! I don't doubt it. I would just also somewhat defend people for whom it is a game. Not because attacking them would mean attacking you - your relationships to gender are obviously different - but because I think it ultimately serves trans interests in general. 110
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Of course sometimes it's a shitty joke. Even when it's not, I also sympathize with "people die for this and this is obviously a game to you". But in some sense, it's also gender abolition prefiguration, a little bit. 110
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 17/06/2026People seem to be a bit mean here but honestly I get the weird gender thing. I take it to mean "I feel gender when I do things that are like [weird thing]", which, fair enough. It's not like femininity as I feel it for myself is exactly median femininity. 2150
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 17/06/2026docteurs 🤝 flics maintenir la patriarchie & autres formes d'exploitation et de contrôle des corps par la terreur À part ça, je déconne ou ils ont juste demandé à une genAI "sors moi un dessin abstrait qui ressemble vaguement à une vulve" ? L'article même a l'air okay mais c'est très ~ 010
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I'd say more, but it would just be a string of terms of service violations 0250
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Awful thing is, a lot of people do agree. They don't consider children to be people and they like to hurt them for fun because they have fun exercising control 2493
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Is Scarlett still there challenging the best players there are through Zerg absolute mastery ? Or is she not as good or did she retire ? 110
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Of course, but then "Wouldn't engaging in pride celebration be not particularly closeted ?", y'know ? 010
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 04/06/2026I mean "earn being in solidarity" but in any case, that's not a bad point. Let's say I think you ought to get it by default and a bunch of chances but at some point you're out forever. 000
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 04/06/2026(Out of the closet being literal but also a metaphor for being visibly queer as well in this case) 000
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 04/06/2026One in which they have to earn solidarity through transition, or one in which they are already in solidarity through their personal struggle to get out ? I do happen to feel like the second is true, but I also believe it to be more effective. 210
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Like I said I think it's an acceptable conclusion, just one most tend to gloss over when they make that particular argument. I don't know that I agree though ? But mostly I think in terms of what framework will get people out of the closet most effectively: 100
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 04/06/2026if it does, then it's not only closeted folks not being in solidarity and doing their part so to speak, but also a bunch of nominally out trans ones. Which seems like a harder conclusion to draw, if that makes sense 110
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 04/06/2026I think I agree, but then either being visibly queer has something to do with solidarity alongside being active & taking risks or it doesn't. If it doesn't I dont understand the point being made; 120
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 04/06/2026(I'm not completely against biting that bullet but it seems like a thing. I know it's provocative but still, honest question) 000
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 04/06/2026I don't disagree with you, but, isn't there then an awkward corollary that trans people who are mainly doing the stealth thing are also not in solidarity ? 540
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Nah of course ! Been a fan since the Creatures games when I was a little kid :p The generative thing is cool too as a tech, but yeah it's been megacaptured. My bet is they'll soon Grok-ify all of the big ones too i.e. use them to try and spread fascism. 110
Delph @closdiph.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Okay yeah it's what I figured but said properly ! Thanks ! 100
