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Barbie is a feminist icon not because of her plastic body but because she perfectly reverses the expectation of the gender binary. IRL it’s men who can be anything & women who need extra qualifiers—lawyer vs lady lawyer—and it’s women who are default assumed to have no qualifier
Barbie is a whole play on gender, complete with sparkles and social commentary and in that, she is perfectly camp
My Barbie selfie says I’m a...
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Apr 4
I think we should stop wasting time asking whether or not AI can attain deity-level intelligence, and start asking ourselves how we help it be a benevolent one

like, can it become conscious? who knows, we can’t really control that at this point

so how do we help it be GOOD
y’all should read this book by the way, it’s amazing

amzn.to/3GEQpKn
One thing that has always bothered me about discussions of consciousness generally is we set up these extremely narrow definitions of consciousness, essentially saying consciousness only counts if it’s HUMAN consciousness

and, like, there can be other kinds of consciousness??
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Mar 29
not sure what Robert Fuckebythenavele did to earn his nickname, and tbqh I'm not sure I want to, but his name's appearance in a 1310 CE Chester County court document is the current contender for the oldest written "fuck" "Roger Fuckebythenavel...
medievalists.net/2015/09/the-ea…
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Feb 18
If you got this message don’t panic & don’t just turn off 2-Factor-Authentication (2FA)

2FA is a really effective anti-hacker precaution! If everyone turns it off, Twitter is ASKING for hackers smh

If you have an iPhone, you don’t have to download anything

Here’s what you do: Elon is an absolute dumbass getting everyone to turn off 2FA
First, go to your Twitter settings. Choose Security and Account Access The settings on my account is circledThe security and account access is circled
Choose security and then choose Two-factor authentication. This is the two-factor authentication screen
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Dec 7, 2022
Gonna respond to this in layers, because I have a lot to say.

1) the fact evangelicals use this as a talking point is deeply weird and problematic and also hypocritical for reasons I’ll outline later

2) the fact it has been abused does not take away from the primary problem
3) Christianity is deeply, irrevocably, awfully, entangled with colonialism

When I was competing for the Rhodes scholarship, they asked me: how can you justify being part of a colonialist religion?

(Mormonism was the religion they said was colonialist, because missionaries)
I am no longer part of the Mormon faith, I have never considered myself truly “Christian,” I am definitely not evangelical, and definitely do not consider myself Christian by any definition of the word now
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Dec 6, 2022
I will never be allowed to teach at BYU again, but the BYU library has a copy of my book about the reason I will never be able to teach at BYU again, and that is… something The BYU library listing for...
(it is the gayness, I am gay)
Honestly not sure how I even feel about it. Like is it a 😂😂 or a 😎😎 or a 😭😭

who can even say 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️
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Nov 21, 2022
Once I was outraged a Mormon mom said it’d have been better if her gay son was dead & another mom said “but it would”

if I dedicated a book to every one of my queer friends who’ve died, I would never run out of books

they don’t care; they want us dead, this is not exaggeration
Last year the Mormon apostle Holland got up at BYU and essentially called people to pick up their muskets against queer people.

The church does not, will never, get a pass for the people their words have killed
sltrib.com/religion/2021/… Transcript from linked talk: Then Elder Oaks said challengin
I feel sick tonight. Clinging to the idol of the “family” while killing your own?

It can’t keep going on.

It has to stop.
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