Eli is tired @elialeth@weirder.earth

If you’re a job seeker (or know someone), here is a thread with 30+ remote jobs, incl. transparent salary/pay 🧵

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I just started a live stream leaving the Sims 4 unpaused with a house full of occults. It should be going on for the next 5 or 6 hours

Stop by to see the chaos!

https://www.youtube.com/live/cewBzOXnv80?feature=share

the liberal dichotomy of democracy or tyranny needs to be overturned imho. there's a lot of other, better decision making processes which promote the autonomy of members and protect the rights of minorities within the group, which this mindset marginalizes

anyway, next time someone tells you to "put it to a vote" in the name of democracy, consider the alternatives:

- consensus decision making, which ensures that any given decision doesn't screw over a minority subgroup
- federated groups working autonomously, which makes the collective whole much more resilient, and allows each group to make decisions for itself and allowing knowledge and experience to flow between groups
- direct action, where a motivated subgroup can do a thing to improve their lives and the lives of their community without going through a larger, more complex decision making and approval process

these strategies are not mutually exclusive, and can and should be used in conjunction with each other!

This #AntiracismSocialSaturday, please only amplify voices of folks who have consented.

So often I see on social media of those boosting voices of folks who did not want to be amplified. Just because someone is part of a group that you want to amplify does not mean that they want to be amplified.

Ask! And if they say no, respect that. Doing a "ask for forgiveness" mindset will cause more harm than you think and is decentering them.

By the way, you know how some of you are deeply unnerved by lists of LGBTQ+ folks in many countries? That feeling of privacy invading, elevated discomfort, and worry about their safety? You're doing a similar thing when you compile lists of BIPOC folks who did not consent.

Anyways, the key thing to note is consent. You can't go wrong with that!

I really hate tankies. The addition of a hammer and sickle logo does not make authoritarianism any better.

Oh, gosh. Quora (a popular site for asking questions and getting answers) has added a ChatGPT button where you can get an "answer" to any question asked on the site.

Do people not understand how often ChatGPT gives erroneous, and potentially dangerous, answers?

Are my opinions forceful? Yes. I've been on the web a long time and seen many horrible things happen because bigots are just given space to cause harm in the hopes they change, which rarely happens.

But I also believe in one's right to choose. I'm fine with building something and deciding not to use it. That's cool with me. I want people to have that choice.

The people who don't want better tools do not want us to have a choice. They want us to accept that their way is better even though the data tells us otherwise. They don't want to give us options. They want compliance with their view.

I'm advocating for a better, more robust experience. People who view me as 'controversial' want you to have less.

If I had to guess, I would say all of the fear-mongering around better safety and moderation tools is by people who are worried that the behavior of the groups they traffic in will be clocked.

As I've said many times, the tools I create will always be optional and give people as much freedom to choose what they want to use.

Yes, my views on moderation can be harsh, but they are my views. I'm not trying to convince people that my way is right.

I want to give people more options to figure out their right way.

And there is a lot of fear because many people agree with my thoughts about effective moderation and safety.

I feel like a lot of people are just afraid of their poor behavior having consequences.

I mean... if you say we shouldn't have boundaries in social media because it's so social media, I'm just going to assume you're a bigot.

We set boundaries in literally every phase of our daily lives, but we shouldn't do it here because a person you don't like is saying?

Ha, yeah. I'm going to treat you as you are presenting yourself to be.

when a person of a marginalized group asks "where are my people?" on a site

the absolute wrong thing for someone not of that group to do is to start tagging people willy nilly, without their consent or awareness of whether they want to be hypervisible in that way

The research was fundamentally flawed and should not be used as evidence that one group is better than the other. It does, however, highlight the problem of biased research that stigmatises everything about us.

There has been a lot of research about autistics over the years, but this one really took the cake! 🍰

Find out what happened when researchers attempted to compare the moral compass of autistic and non-autistic people... (1/2)

#actuallyautistic #autism #neurodivergence #comic #art #MastoArt

Yayyyyy, it's Chippius Magnus, who I haven't seen in ages
#chipmunk #squirrels

@gsuberland Part of the reason I like to call it an image description rather than "alt text" is that people get too hung up on it being in the alt tag and that's really unnecessary. It's not even relevant for most social media users whether it's literally "alt" text or not. It makes descriptions sound like a technical issue and they're a social issue.

@briannawu