@samuelthomson
Lecturer in Game Design | Technical Artist | Artist Interests include history of creative disciplines and technology. Artist: http://samuelthomson.org Technical Artist: http://framelord.ltd Mastodon: http://mastodon.social/@samuelthomson they/them
Yesterday the NHS banned all under 18 prescriptions of HRT for trans young people.
This ban was justified by 10 new studies that largely stated NO EVIDENCE for under 18s HRT exists.
The study underpinning this played one particular trick.
Let's briefly look at how the NHS rigged the game 1/5
i'm so BORED of this. it's so catastrophically fundamentally BORING. There's more a fuckton more value in reading the scrawl on the toilet wall in a nightclub; all human life is there!
Last week I saw "The Ballad of Wallace Island". Funny, and extremely moving. Lofi, but brilliant. Loved it
Those fuckers. I am incandescent
In 1547 the English passed the Vagabonds Act which would allow the enslavement of “any able-bodied person out of work for more than three days” for up to two years.
Marx (correctly) attributed this to those in power trying to adjust to a world making the shit from feudalism to capitalism /
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Scoop, from @zoeschiffer.bsky.social and me: Nvidia has been readying a new open-source, agentic AI platform for businesses. Think OpenClaw, but for enterprises. Nvidia is pitching it to customers as a secure option for claws, and plans to reveal more at GTC next week www.wired.com/story/nvidia...
The reviews used to justify this excluded nearly 97% of all studies from inclusion in their analysis. This is an absolutely obscene hatchet job by the NHS specifically created to eliminate access to hormones for trans youth.
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
The people most responsible for the polycrisis are not going to save us from the consequences. There's no VC/ A16z/ YCombinator program for doing anything but externalizing risk, just spewing huge amounts of negatives into the ocean.
Responding to Iran by instigating war, helping trans youth by removing their healthcare, standing up to Trump by hosting his bombs.
Let me get this straight...red is blue, Labour is Tory, no means yes?
From 2024, but enlightening.
Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful.
Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.
Medical transition for trans kids is now banned for new referrals on the NHS. Trans kids in the UK can still go private or DIY (for now).
This means the new clinics that replaced GIDS are close to useless at best, conversion therapy at worst. 1/5
Attacks leave dead vs killed
are LLMs thinking?? do they analyze and abstract things? no they do not.
they don't even "chat." surprisingly!
everybody should read this essay, shared with me by @aloe.gay
a few details (like "chatgpt can't access the web") are outdated but 100% of the foundations are solid
When men's workload is automated, it's genius; when women's workload is automated it's a character flaw and morally questionable.
I think of Badiou's "The one is not" and apply it to concsiousness. There aren't four humours, nor two sexes, nor one experience of consciousness.
Drawing of a puppy standing at the top of a big hill with the caption; "Take a look behind you, look how far you've come!"
Big hill
It's really fucked up the other comments here are totally okay with putting trans women on sex offender registry and only object to the drag ban on public property.
Like what's the fucking point when so many bought into the fascist lies?
So glad I saved this picture. People truly don't understand the burden of democracy.
If i said "students don't want to learn to produce work of the kind that has proven economic utility" you might get a better idea of the problem.
Do you think it's logical and defensible that students don't show up to class or work through any programming tutorials and then say "i don't feel like i'm learning to think like a programmer"? And blame this on the learning content?
We shouldn't underestimate how much "civilisation" has just been externalising negative effects to other places and other peoples' problems. Many people think "we built cities, so we can respond to climate change". These are not things on the same skill-tree.
ian huntley is dead. i'll always remember how the british press attempted to incite hatred against the trans community by reporting he was transitioning, then apologised to him for incorrect reporting instead of apologising to trans people
If Carney gave a shit about protecting children or any other Canadians from online harms, he'd start by banning X for creating and distributing CSAM and non-consensual porn.
But he won't even stop posting there.
Why platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket want so badly to be seen as sources of news, instead of anything-goes casinos.
my strongest case against prediction markets is that every useful and pro social use of prediction markets is already covered by equities somehow. if the event you're gambling on doesn't translate into equity or commodity price, it is actually unimportant
It’s like that by design, Chris.
...And that little boy grew up to manage a $730b portfolio of YOUR pension money.
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