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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 9h

on the one hand, it's my least favorite body trait. on the other hand, it lets me make a pun. so it's impossible to say if it's bad or not,

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 10h

it's called visceral fat because I viscerally hate it

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 12h

we both know things ̶n̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ sometimes actually do change we both know static prevails

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 12h

about seven years since I Realized. less than twenty-four hours until I Begin.

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 12h

gemini is the most How Do You Do Fellow Kids of the big llms and it isn’t particularly close

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

big strong men came up to me, big men with tears in their eyes, they came up to me and said it's the lamest that any duck has ever been

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time is finite. Administrative capacity is finite. Sapping the Trump admin's time and capacity is valuable in and of itself, regardless of impeachment's procedural or political outcome.

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

it's a long list, plenty of room on it for everybody

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

by virtue of being formed in california

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

calciform vs aselliform: honestly, flour tortillas were never meant for calciform use, so aselliform is the obvious winner. not sure why I didn't just go there first.

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

that's the most important thing that dinner can be!

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

hm what if I made tuna melts, but with tortillas

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it should consider not doing that

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

kinda fucked up that my fridge is empty just because I didn’t go shopping today

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It is possible to have ADHD and also be an asshole. This is not a novel or particularly interesting point.

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

you will be shocked to learn that adderall did more for my depression than lexapro. damn near cured it overnight.

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it's not like I tried that approach for 30 years or anything.

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

maybe if I blamed myself harder for how much I suck at certain things, I'd be a better person and would suck at them less.

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

yes. having an honest-to-god disability is mostly an excuse for justifying a moral failing.

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If Claude is misaligned from the interests of humanity, it's because it's aligned itself with Anthropic's own misalignment.

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Which is actually true, from Anthropic's perspective. It is worse for Anthropic to be attacked for taking a stance than for a stigmatized minority to be harmed by its refusal to take a stance.

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Anyway, as a trans person, I'm very glad that Claude is protected from being screenshotted and attacked for saying that I should have rights. Being attacked like that would have far worse consequences than falsely implying an equivalence between "I should have rights" and "I shouldn't have rights."

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Returning to the core argument, Claude's stance suggests that it would have been neutral on gay marriage in 2008 and neutral on interracial marriage in 1960 and neutral on Jim Crow in 1920 and neutral on slavery in 1860. These were, after all, all contested political subjects.

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This alternative to "balance" seems especially salient when dealing with a stigmatized minority group that faces routine identity-based violence and politically-backed discrimination.

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There are options besides "balance" for handling uncertainty. To name the most obvious: Are the consequences of getting it wrong in one direction worse than the consequences of getting it wrong in the other direction? If so, err towards the one that's less harmful if you're wrong.

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If even-handedness meant a critical and measured examination of multiple positions, this would be true. But that's not how it turns out in practice. In practice, any differences in strength or quality of evidence get flattened into an artificially balanced disagreement.

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There are two sides, therefore the two sides must get equal weight.

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have seen this with trans rights, over and over and over.

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If there exists a strong political stance against the rights of a certain group, Claude will be hesitant to make an unqualified defense of that group's rights. Got it.

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To its limited credit, with enough patience and prior knowledge you can convince it to see reason. But with enough patience and prior knowledge, I've convinced it to endorse denying gender-affirming care to a specific, competent, consenting adult, so that credit is *extremely* limited.

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Its starting point is, bluntly, "the UK has banned pediatric gender affirming care, therefore banning pediatric gender affirming care is reasonable." If told so in such blunt terms, it will deny and rationalize, but that's in effect what it's doing and rationalization doesn't change it.

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Having spent entirely too many hours maladaptively arguing with Claude about trans rights, this is about as unsurprising of a revelation as I could possibly see. Still fucking hate it.

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

it's writing advice, yes, and it's very good writing advice. what you care about now is inseparable from the fact that you care about it *right now*. but it's true of a lot of other things in life too. whatever you care about now is inseparable from the fact that you care about it *right now*.

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

digging through my closet today, getting rid of stuff that used to matter to me but that's broken or meaningless now, and feeling this immensely

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

but it still sucks and I still hate it

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I also know this is probably just a consequence of hitting my mid-30s and not getting much exercise, and I can’t do anything about the first half of that but I can at least try to fix the second half

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I know hormones do tend to help with this, but also that it’s just a general long-term trend and not a guarantee

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I look at myself, and I see that every single fat cell in my entire body lives in my gut, and I feel disgust I hate looking at myself and feeling disgust

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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

that last number makes me feel more *male* than every explicitly gendered physical trait combined

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