Posts by anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social
(DIR) Post #AZOc8DWwpWunCbDxYm by anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social
2023-09-03T16:21:57Z
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https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/senator-admits-kids-online-safety#trans #transrights #censorship #kosa
(DIR) Post #AZOc8F9GoXACDkA4vo by anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social
2023-09-03T16:30:22Z
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"The section raising the most eyebrows is dubbed the "duty of care." According to the bill, social media companies are required to implement measures to prevent and mitigate issues like "anxiety, depression, eating disorders, substance use disorders, and suicidal behaviors."Although transition has been proven to improve mental health among transgender people and reduce the risk of suicide, Republicans in state legislatures across the United States this year have issued faulty arguments that being transgender “harms minors mental health” and that exposure to transgender content and people is dangerous... Recently, seven state attorneys general co-signed a letter arguing that LGBTQ+ merchandise could be classified as obscene and detrimental to minors. In Montana, a bill was nearly amended to ban “acts of transgenderism” on the internet as harmful to minors. Given this context, it's easy to foresee how they might wield the new bill to target transgender content online.Later, the bill empowers state attorneys general to file suit to force compliance with the bill. For those who have been monitoring the actions of state attorneys general in states with anti-transgender agendas this year, the potential weaponization of such legislation against transgender people is abundantly clear...This is not purely a matter of speculation. Anti-LGBTQ+ organizations have explicitly stated their intentions regarding the bill... [And] In perhaps the clearest example of red flags against this law, one of the biggest sponsors of the bill, Senator Marsha Blackburn, stated that the bill would be used to “protect minor children from the transgender [sic] in our culture.” Even without targeted measures, the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) could have severely detrimental consequences for LGBTQ+ online content. Social media platforms are already known for self-censoring such content. Reports from GLAAD indicate that LGBTQ+ material often faces demonetization, removal, or shadow-banning. Further complicating the issue, some content moderators work in social or cultural contexts where LGBTQ+ activities are either illegal or socially stigmatized. This situation frequently leads to insufficient training, resulting in the unwarranted suppression of legitimate LGBTQ+ content. KOSA would institutionalize such practices, increasing the likelihood of such censorship. Given the risks of legal action from state attorneys general, platforms would likely engage in preemptive self-censorship of LGBTQ+ material."
(DIR) Post #AZiTXjljpnHUmQMQRU by anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social
2023-09-13T01:08:11Z
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Let me sum up my thoughts on the whole #TheBadSpace clusterfuck once and for all here, and then I'll leave the subject be. I think someone needs to do this kind of summary anyway. This message has been accidentally deleted twice now thanks to various interruptions, so it's overly longwinded now, sorry.The first thing I want to say is that the problem TheBadSpace is designed to solve is a real one, and one that absolutely does need to be solved. The fediverse has a real fucking issue with racism and anti-Blackness, one that needs to be dealt with, and despite everything, I *am* glad someone is at least attempting to solve that problem. I applaud Ro for that. I will never deny that there is a racism problem here, and I really want the fediverse to become a safe place for my nonwhite comrades.However, my problems with TheBadSpace are many. A very few of them are core methodological problems, and most are just issues with how it has been handled that reflect poorly on whether it should actually be trusted, but these should also clarify why it is justified to be angry at TheBadSpace instead of silently just pitching in to help, as Ro demands of his critics (lest they be labeled racist).1. The core methodology of putting together a list of centralized "trusted authorities" to vote in some sort of senatorial tribunal to determine who is and is not trusted to federate with a wide swath of the fediverse seems like a fundamentally flawed one to me. Isn't centralization and homogeny the things the fediverse was created to fight? Yes, no one is being "forced" to use TheBadSpace's block list, but since it claims to solve a problem that very much needs solving, many people will use it or already do, and it's hard to deny the high probability, due to ease and inertia, of people simply importing the entire list wholesale rather then picking over it to decide which exceptions to make, which means that "we're not forcing you to use the whole list if you disagree" is a bit of a weak argument. Most admins will use the whole list. Plus, TheBadSpace already has an established habit of putting instances on the blocklist for even federating with instances that are themselves on the blocklist, no matter how distant and attenuated the original block reason is or whether it even justifies guilt by association, and without analyzing the nature of the interactions. That creates social pressure. I shouldn't have to explains systemic and social power dynamics to leftists. I would much prefer a more grassroots, autonomy-fostering approach, a community-sourced, distributed wiki where information about various fediverse figures and instances is collected by the community to share, and where citations are generally encouraged.2. The practice of blindly importing the entire block/silence/limit lists of those authorities without any differentiation or nuance means that you're not just importing the moderation decisions that were based on safety, but also the ones that were made on the basis of petty drama, bigotry, bias, tone-policing, or just the particular atmosphere those instances tried to curate. It's disheartening that this would be the initial approach, the place to start. It doesn't bode well for the integrity of the people making the list, or their mentality.3. You might argue that the above is just a function of it being incomplete, that they were just importing those big lists first so they could whittle them down, but I think that approach will cause harm and belies a harmful mindset. Harm, because it means that you are still initially accusing innocent people of terrible things without an ounce of evidence --- in this case often marginalized people, transfems, who are basically the most acceptable scapegoat at this point, that everyone loves to ignore and vilify --- and then only retracting that when someone proves to you that you shouldn't have said that, which means those accusations were still out there, and many people will go on believing them or happily resurrect them. Harmful logic, because it is fundamentally still "guilty [if accused by my friends] until proven innocent" logic. Indiscriminately importing a gigantic blocklist that may include people that don't deserve to be blocked over safety, and then when people get upset just saying "tell me who and I'll take the accusation down" is preposterous and unjust, and again doesn't bode well for the fairness or integrity of the people behind the list. Worse, the default where reasons weren't clear wasn't just to put the instances in the blocklist down as needing to be blocked for nonspecific safety reasons, the default assumption was that they were there for "hate speech, bigotry, and poor moderation", which are *very specific* and *very serious* accusations to make when you have no evidence. They should have held off on specific labels till there was evidence for them.4. What this demonstrates is that TheBadSpace doesn't seem to feel the need to publish, or even *have* receipts before posting accusations, and when you combine that with their stated policy of lack of transparency regarding where accusations come from, it removes a lot of people's agency to decide for themselves who should be on the list. If you're gonna claim your list isn't authoritative and people don't have to take it wholesale, you should act like it.5. The specific "trusted authorities" that they chose to base the list on are a small set of instances, some of which --- rage.love and mastodon.art for instance (https://hachyderm.io/@hrefna/111047784022282120) --- are suspect in their moderation policy and general trustworthiness (as further demonstrated by the discriminatory character of the under-justified entries on the block list: https://mastodon.social/@TheGoodSpace/111052271194393071), and many of which *share moderators*, meaning they're not separate votes representing a wide range of opinions at all. And the fact that their moderation decisions are taken as canonical by default (if at least three of eight agree) means that by default all the decisions these trusted authorities make are taken to be infallible, even their biases and petty drama and false accusations, and the burden is on everyone else to push back. The defaults of a system are important!6. The creator of TheBadSpace actively deferred to fucking mastodon.art and *Welsh Pixie* when it comes to moderation decisions and appeals processes (receipt attached), which is a very bad sign, given Pixie is *known* for false accusations and bullshit. That's not a heartening sign.7. Worse, Ro, the creator of TheBadSpace, has spent his time accusing everyone who disagrees with him and criticizes TheBadSpace "racist" and "anti-Black", saying that we're just getting upset that black people are "defending themselves" and "getting better at spotting you [racists]," calling trans women dickheads, tone-policing, refusing to even acknowledge the harm he has caused, and so on. Is this the behavior of someone who's fit to lead a project like this?TLDR, I think TheBadSpace has definitely caused harm, so people's anger and outrage at it are understandable even if that harm can be "fixed," because that won't undo those accusations getting out there in the first place, and I think that there is a lot of circumstantial, behavioral evidence to suggest the people behind it don't have a good mindset and so it won't be trustworthy going forward. And even if we ignore those things and chalk it all up to "you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs" --- as Ro and his defenders do --- there are at least two core implementation problems that should make people pause in embracing TheBadSpace.
(DIR) Post #AZl2u0Qi71isiFNLA8 by anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social
2023-09-14T11:48:14Z
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Well fuck it, one last post, because the dishonesty is astounding.Here's a conversation between Ro and someone who genuinely seems to want to check out TBS: https://archive.ph/lHBEXAttached is how Ro describes that conversation. Notice how he makes it seem like the person somehow — even though that's literally impossible with how Mastodon works — interrupted him while he was trying to give them the information they asked for, when in reality he just refused to give that information and opened with hostility.
(DIR) Post #AZl2u4tZVfBaYuuRhg by anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social
2023-09-14T11:48:57Z
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Oh also.... Yeah....
(DIR) Post #AZlkj2Jr8vqbN1kV28 by anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social
2023-09-14T20:41:14Z
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@tomjennings KDE Connect worked for me, but obv you need a Linux computer for that
(DIR) Post #AZm7QeXt5mZBN3W0IK by anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social
2023-09-14T18:39:15Z
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@Dogzilla @CosmicTrigger dude. Who do you think is fighting Cop City rn, protecting a forest from being turned into a fascist pig training ground, at the cost of 61 people being sent to jail and being accused of being domestic terrorists and racketeers? Who do you think makes up the backbone of ANTIFA, which has been protecting drag shows and scaring proud boys out of town around the country? I've personally helped organize a protest that got Gavin McInnes kicked out of a speaking gig, and during that night literally faced down actual Proud Boys. Some of us got maced. And that's just the stuff off the top of my head.And conversely, when's the last time a liberal has actually changed anything, really?Get serious.
(DIR) Post #AZnt02QDCe9cYpGA9w by anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social
2023-09-12T13:50:49Z
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@briellebouquet and then Ro has the fucking GALL to pretend that the only people who have a real problem with #TheBadSpace are racists or racist enablers who are angry at Black people for "protecting themselves from harassment" and "standing up for themselves". Like, no, dude, your list actually is just horrible and fucks over a lot of (often queer, funnily enough) people for bullshit reasons.Like, his latest post with this hashtag says:"The Bad Space is and always will be a community project; far more will be done if we collaborate to make our spaces safer rather than listening to bigots who have gripes because their friends are upset that Black and Brown folks are getting better at identifying them."Way to fucking co-opt progressive language and struggles to shield yourself from any and all criticism, Ro. Fuck you. You released an unfinished project that just blindly important gigantic lists of instances and assumed they were blocked for bigotry and hate speech until proven otherwise, with no receipts or proof or explanation at all, and then released it like that, in a way that hurt a lot of people. So it's not just racists that have a bone to pick with you. "You're racist if you complain because the idea is good, it's just unfinished, why don't you help instead" I dunno man, it being unfinished doesn't excuse the harm it's caused. Maybe don't fucking release something that assumes a vast swath of servers are bigoted for literally zero reason, with zero proof.
(DIR) Post #AZxj1I31ZanFiQOcqm by anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social
2023-09-20T14:31:37Z
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I found this really gut-wrenching but very necessary essay. I managed to read it, too, although I'm gonna regret that (my brain already feels like its been drenched in toxic sewage, thanks ppcs).https://thenewinquiry.com/hot-allostatic-load/
(DIR) Post #AZxj1JL8lisXitsbj6 by anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social
2023-09-20T14:32:41Z
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If you want to understand why transfems react the way we do to vague accusations and insinuations and threats of isolation and slander without evidence, you have to understand that transfeminine people are pretty much the most acceptable scapegoats in leftist/progressive/etc spaces. Such accusations are often made easily, and believed quickly, because people already view us with distrust and disgust, projecting their fear of men onto us, multiplied by our queerness. After all, our rights aren't just up for "debate," the validity of our identities are too, and even the fact that we aren't all inherently rapists and abusers and pedophiles. We are perceived as being men or "ex-men", having had all the privilege of men (white men, if we're white) and still having it, as well as having the same "male socialization", while we are also perceived as "appropriating" womanhood and oppression. We are seen as "double dipping", essentially, being privileged but claiming oppression too. Yet, in reality, we're poorly understood, our experiences so different from any cis person's, and we don't actually have much privilege anymore, and didn't experience male privilege as privilege when we had it, either. Thus we're easy to throw under the bus when a scapegoat is needed, because we have perceived privilege, perceived patriarchal socialization that makes us somehow inherently more likely to be evil (e.g. the idea of "trans fascists"/alt-righters/incels being common), and are a perceived threat to those around us, and yet we are actually none of those things, so we are easy to attack, we take those attacks to heart, and we don't hurt anyone.
(DIR) Post #AZxj1KGvIt6Ec6uknA by anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social
2023-09-20T14:36:00Z
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Asking us to be quiet and nice and passive about the threat of this, before we know maybe it's a mistake, is just tone policing, and it inherently threatens us with the stick of masculinization and degendering too — something many other kinds of marginalized women face, like black women and lesbians — because we are also saddled with the burden of "real women are nice and quiet and meek, so if you are aggressive and assertive and loud, you're not a real woman."
(DIR) Post #AZxj1LGxaEitiVwIUK by anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social
2023-09-20T15:06:35Z
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Alright back to my chronic pain and brain damage void, bc I feel like I can't even comprehend my own writing rn. Have fun y'all.
(DIR) Post #AaP9tPu2EGNghze3yy by anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social
2023-10-03T20:56:39Z
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@Wolven in case anyone wants a sense for what this book is about or how it's written (like I did), I especially like this excerpt (it's already linked on that page but I figured I'd call it out): https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/against-technoableism-excerpt/
(DIR) Post #AaPCACHCLQvzHJbnpw by anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social
2023-10-03T19:53:54Z
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@mira no but see if you engage critically with the history of Marxism as a movement that means you'd be criticizing all examples of Actually Existing Communism (as if it ever turns into anything but state capitalism lol) which means you must not truly want communism at all because every time it comes around you criticize it! /s (A real argument I've heard)
(DIR) Post #AaPCADUhohKj3Uw6Wu by anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social
2023-10-03T19:59:22Z
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@mira if you think the Soviet Union was a horrible State capitalist authoritarian atrocity then you must not actually be a leftist because that's the most successful example of leftist governance we've ever seen, so you just hate leftist success!What's my definition of successful? When there's a high literacy rate and a high rate of factory production and a large amount of area conquered!Huh? That's "hitler made the trains run on time" level logic?But the USSR was communist!
(DIR) Post #AaPCADuEHnkYKesUJU by anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social
2023-10-03T20:00:15Z
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@mira it's just another cult. Marxism is honestly among the most Christian atheist ideologies ever invented up there with humanism.
(DIR) Post #AaPCAF5bsyRo0FD5gu by anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social
2023-10-03T20:03:00Z
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@mira it's got the self-sacrificing resentment driven morality, it's got the Manicheanism, it's got the inevitable march of history toward a particular glorious end (eschatology), it's got It's religious books and scholars, it's got the same hyper altruistic submission, it's got the hierarchical authoritarianism
(DIR) Post #AaSaVJzgOBBzj8l8a0 by anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social
2023-10-05T12:39:03Z
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@Wolven I'm working very hard (when I have the capacity) to make my app just use the default system theme (without flashing the wrong one) but as a fallback I'm making the default dark, because dark mode may be visually confusing for those who don't like it but light mode is outright painful immediately, bc it flashes at you
(DIR) Post #AaThZDn8HjXGUCeibQ by anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social
2023-10-06T01:20:36Z
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as an eighteen year old virgin girl i think its very hard to find a girl who's actually interested in free software. i've had girls jokingly ask to "netflix and chill" but when i tell them i dont use netflix since netflix requires proprietary service as a software substitute to stream content, they stop talking to me. and worse if they do stay they think im weird since i blocked google ip's in my host file and we can't even watch youtube. i cant ever seem to get girls to come over to my place and i cant text them either. once i get their numbers since ive added custom roms to my phone and refuse to use sms since its a security concern i require all of my friends to download a free and open source messaging app and i share with them my public gpg key so we can verify that our conversations are secure. none of my friends are willing to do this. and i cant use sites like Bumble since its not only proprietary software but a major privacy vulnerability. how come its so hard to find another girl concerned about software freedom. i feel like im going to be a virgin forever
(DIR) Post #AaavQZZaUKExCg4kZE by anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social
2023-10-09T13:09:47Z
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Stirner's critique of Randians would be that they are pious slaves to an arbitrarily constructed and proscribed notion of what their interests are which is just as alienated from themselves as the altruistic notion of duty, so they are no better than the people they look down on. He'd find them ultimately ridiculous and sad.Likewise, Stirner would ridicule and disdain Rothbard (as everyone should tbh), because Rothbard subjugated himself to the notion of property above all else, and spent his whole life building castles in the air based on that notion.