Real quick, why hasn’t anybody come up with a fashion that doesn’t tear when you turn into a wolf? Doesn’t seem like it should be *that* hard, you just have to decide if you want it to unfold/stretch gently into a bigger garment that’s comfortable on a wolf body or strategically fall off.
Clothes are expensive! This is a tax on Lycanthropes!
you see whenever i dont understand someone’s sexuality or gender or pronouns or whatever i go “ohwell this has nothing to do w me!” and move on w my day
I wanna emphasise prev tags and ramble cuz it hits the nail on the head exactly. Exactly!!
What mr CEO is doing is fucking heinous: Revealing private information on a sex worker, placing her at risk of danger; Trying to use sexual language as a gotcha, knowing trans women are more likely to be profiled as sexual predators; Using his platform & disproportionate institutional power to amass extra attention & dogpiling on her; chasing her down, telling her that there’s no safe place that she can run to without being pursued; threatening police on her. The entitlement to do all this just to win an argument and defend himself as an “lgbt ally”. It’s disgusting. And yet, it’s so fucking common.
It’s such commonly accepted behaviour among self-proclaimed “trans allies”, among other queer people, even among other trans people. That’s what trans women have been telling everyone for the past few months, for the past few years, for as long as we’ve existed. A significant proportion of TME people think this is totally justified behaviour when disagreeing with a trans woman, when they would rightfully condemn this behaviour if it were targeted towards a man, a cis person, a white person; y’know, people who are considered by default “more innocent” than those trans women who get 500 callout posts a day.
Self-declared trans ally Matt is perfectly replicating the everyday behaviour of all the transmisogynists and terfs running rampant on his website. This is his response to all of the ignored reports of harassment campaigns and witchhunting against trans women: He’s joining in. He’s replicating their behaviour to a T.
To place him in the broader situation, he’s just one of many transmisogynists, all exhibiting the same kind of vile bigoted behaviour as him. He’s the norm in a transmisogynistic society. But as a rich and powerful CEO with authoritative powers, he’s also spearheading the current wave of transmisogyny, riling up and encouraging transphobes en masse to harass every trans women they see (many of my mutuals!) . This guy’s actions are legitimately dangerous.
An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don’t have any more info. They probably won’t have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:
I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.
Tumblr’s CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and ‘AI’ companies.
A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data… tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)
So I don’t have any extra info yet, but I’m keeping my ears open.
And I just got confirmation from a second ex-colleague that a deal with midjourney has been brewing since months ago. Not any extra details, just that’s a real thing.
Shit, I don’t see any way for this to happen that doesn’t make it an apocalyptic event the size of the porn ban. Fuck.
@photomatt if you’re going to go whole-ass manipulative statements like this, just delete the whole site because you’re going to drive away the userbase and you should KNOW we’ll absolutely leave like we did before.
I am always blown away by the mental disconnect between rich people and the rest of us.
I work for a doctor. He pulls in $70,000-$90,000 a month before tax. After tax, he’s still $200,000+ a year.
I earn $52,000 a year.
Yet his wife will still talk to me and say “oh, we’re not rich.” She drives a Porsche. She wears Carla Zampatti. They live in a new townhouse that cost well over a million.
So, when she gives me recommendations on things to buy and I tell her I can barely afford Kmart, she seems genuinely perplexed.
They are NOT bad people. I’ve worked for them for 12 years now. They are good people with good hearts. But they no longer connect with reality on level and it’s absolutely mindboggling.
And I think a large part of this is that rich people compare themselves to other rich people, not to the regular people.
He doesn’t earn as much as a surgeon. He doesn’t own a mansion or a helicopter (both of which I know a couple of surgeons own).
In comparison, they aren’t as rich.
They were once poor, 25 years ago when he was starting to become a doctor. But that memory is skewed now. Or perhaps they always aimed for the Porsche and the month long holidays in Scotland so the journey meant something else.
But, holy shit, when she shows me something on sale that’s still out of my price range, I feel that gap. And I don’t envy her. I don’t want a Porsche.
I just want to actually afford Kmart without saving up for it.
And since there seems to be some belief that I earn a huge amount, that is AUD.
It’s $34,000USD, rounded up.
And yet, horrifyingly, she’s kind of right.
Like yeah, the surgeon is unfathomably wealthy compared to someone who struggles to meet their basic needs… but he’s fundamentally still working class. He gets his money from his labor, not by virtue of merely owning something.
Does the surgeon make more than he “deserves”? Maybe. Even if he’s a plastic surgeon, I can still squint and kind of see how it makes sense for him to get paid that much. However, I do know that people who get their wealth by merely owning things absolutely don’t deserve it.
And like, the important thing is that it’s a difference in kind… but the difference in scale is absurd too. If her husband worked since Egyptians first started writing on papyrus, and didn’t spend any money, he’d still have less than what Jeff Bezos makes in a week. The pay ratio between Bezos and the surgeon is 60,000x greater than the pay ratio between the surgeon and you… and he literally doesn’t do anything besides own companies. Bezos literally does less work than you.
I don’t like this fact at all.
That last point is an important point to make. There is a big difference between those who are paid large amounts of money for their work and those who make 1000x more simply by ownership of capital.
When i think of who in society probably deserve to be paid the most? I’d say neurosurgeons. It requires a huge amount of skill, dedication, and study. 8+ years of medical school. Many more years of training. But the higher end of neurosurgeon salaries is just under $1 million a year.
Yes that is a lot of money and you can debate if its too much or too little for their work, but the point is they are arguably ~the most highly skilled and intelligent workers in the world~ (qualities that neoliberals say are the most important in society) and yet they are still paid pennies on the dollar compared to capital owners.
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