sex workers: "decriminalize sex work"
SWERFs: "sweaty, you're helping to prop up an industry of female exploitation which hurts women as a whole - a group which doesn't include you for some reason I refuse to explain"
sex workers: "disagree, I just want to decriminalize sex work"
moderates: "oh you poor dears! people are doing violence to you, aren't they? aren't they?? it's okay, you can say it, and even if you don't say it then I'll read it in your facial expression and assume it's so"
sex workers: "uh no, we just want to decriminalize sex work"
weird leftists: "sex work is counter-revolutionary, lumpenproletariat, blah blah blah"
sex workers: "uhh, what. we just want to decriminalize sex work"
the far right: "you're all filthy degenerates. unless you want to perform for me, specifically."
sex workers: "... oh fuck off"
Stack overflow developer survey hilights:
- More developers actively distrust the accuracy of AI tools than trust it
- A majority of developers don't use AI agents
- 66% of developers are frustrated with AI solutions that are almost right
- Privacy, pricing and better alternatives are top reasons developers turn their back on a technology
- Positive sentiment to AI tools has decreased in 2025
"Why does it say the hospital is equipped for stroke emergency? We were there. They denied!"
"Maybe you should contact them that their website is wrong. This is dangerous."
"It wasn't on their website..."
*starts googling a specific question*
"Weird now it says no instead of yes."
I go to take a look and realise with horror, yes: Google AI summary.
Google AI summary made my parents-in-law visit the wrong, unequipped hospital for a potential stroke emergency. 🙃
i would argue that spending over $50 billion on something with so little to show for it is one of the biggest cognitive disadvantages any human has ever had but sure mark everyone is going to be sad if they don't buy your dipshit spy glasses and publicly identify themselves as believing in your historically unpopular vision of the future
this iron maiden promo cassette is indistinguishable from a shareware diskette you'd find at a 1991 grocery checkout
payment processor behavior and how it chills survivor stories of abuse
Something a lot of people (including myself) miss with the whole puritanical "adult content" ban stuff is it also sweeps under the rug people telling stories of abuse. This doesn't come up because the entire stage is built around content written for sexual gratification, but it's just as dangerous.
For example, under the current adult content ban pushed by Visa/MC/etc, it would not be permissible to tell the stories of trafficking and abuse that go on in the Mormon or Catholic Churches; at least not without skipping a lot of the facts and being buffered into respectability.
Where's the line where they'd step in? Well no one knows, that's the problem. Is just telling a story of someone experiencing that abuse enough? You'd have to do the work then find out.
This isn't more or less important than any other aspect of it, but it's one to look out for that is just as insidious and sneaky as the rest.
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Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess