Ill and disabled people will be made ‘invisible’ by UK benefit cuts, say experts
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The govt refuses to do impact assessments of the proposed cuts to benefits because they're focused on getting people in to work (I doubt there has been an assessment on the liklihood of it succeeding either or whether getting into work gets you off means tested benefits or out of poverty).
As someone taking the opposite path from the below image:
I navigated it most of my life by constantly and obsessively managing my threat presence. It felt like a constant battle with the toxicity of other men. I had my guard up not because there was some threat of women assaulting me, but because watching their guard go up around me felt like being stabbed in the gut, like a lifeline getting cut off.
It took trauma and ego death for me to really start building an actual community for myself. I had bits and pieces I had gathered carefully and with great effort, but all that toxicity kept me from knowing what to do with it.
Now, even later, transition has been a massive weight lifted. (For those in the closet or eggs cracking: people clocking you doesn't make much difference here, if they put up that anti-creep guard around you they're a bitch anyways)
I feel like I can breathe. Connection is so much more casually there. I can see it in people's eyes, I can be in a crowd of strangers and I feel drastically less alone.
Unfortunately, those years of malnourished pain don't just disappear. I still have all of those threat management patterns, I feel like I'm scarred and sometimes even bleeding from that. There's a caution in me, afraid that people will misinterpret, that this wonderful person I want to make friends with will abruptly shut down on me and then disappear from my life if I relax too much, if I'm too open... I still feel like I'm emotionally walking on tip toes...
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This is fascinating to me... and addresses a lot of the nonsense people claim.
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Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought
Oh, and another thing: They don't just predict the next word.Jeremy Laird (PC Gamer)
DWP caught using evidence from TWENTY years ago to punish claimants - Canary
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Personal hot-button:
I go off when presented with historical revisionism, even minor stuff with good intentions.
Like people arguing that the modern definition of a word has always been and the old definition as false.
Or my favorites (sarcasm) that I see all the time is the expanded proverbs treated as the original, claiming that people are misquoting when they're using the actual provably original quote. Yes, the expanded ones are better... but they're not the original!
For example I commonly hear people "correct" the proverb "blood is thicker than water" to claim that it's a shortening of "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb." I get pissed every time I hear that.
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I'm all for people having negative views of AI, there's alot that's wrong. There's alot that's debatable (albeit those debates are painfully heated).
What I am tired of is the misinformation, especially the "AI is useless and you're deluding yourself if you think it's had any positive impact on your life" crowd.
I try to avoid getting into fights about things like the ethics questions, I will say I absolutely agree with shaming it's use in art, especially anything for-profit. And I hate that I feel the need to make a post about this because I know how visceral the response is in so many.
It's my values that we shouldn't take a tool away from people based on falsehoods.
If you want to say AI should be eradicated because it "steals" artist's works, have at it, let me know if you want to chime in on IP law topics and questions both for and against. (Not a lawyer, just a special interest in IP law a ways back).
If you want to call out it's environmental impact, fire away. (Let me know if you want me to tell you about how that's not an inherent problem but instead a corporate/capitalist one!)
If you want to call out it's negative impacts on education and skill building? Oooh boy, show me that thread because I'm on your side!
Propaganda? I can tell you it's baaaaaaad
But for the love of god don't flood my feed with "It's wrong 60% of the time" or any other variation of "it's fundamentally useless". Let alone pushes to shame all AI users.
Like I said, it's in my values to not deprive people out of falsehoods and to think about broader consequences. It's not a simple situation.
I sometimes wish I could just throw away some of my values because I have lost someone I love dearly over this... but I can't just throw it into the fire because people are upset, because people are pointing their hurt at a tool.
Just please... try and temper your hurt some so that it's not blindly lashing out? Just consider that other people are hurting too and sometimes hurt people hurt other people.
OH MY FUCKING GOD! NEW DYSTOPIAN CORP-SPEAK JUST DROPPED: "Revenge Quitting"
It's their term for quitting a toxic workplace...
Link provided purely for receipts:
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‘Revenge Quitting,’ Employers’ Worst Fear, Expected To Peak In 2025
"Revenge quitting" is the inevitable result of a workplace evolution that’s been brewing for years, and business experts predict why the trend will boil over in 2025.Forbes
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Stepped out of the shower today and had a moment appreciating myself, most of all appreciating that I actually like my hair now.
I'm not conventionally attractive, but I don't think of myself as ugly any more.
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100%, but it's even worse b/c they're doing the passport checks on domestic travel now, and anyone with the "X" vs "M" or "F" is gonna get sent to prison, so air travel isn't an option.
And, troopers in Ohio are randomly stopping people, so I'm not sure it's a safe state anymore.
@boB Rudis 🇺🇦 I haven't heard anything of people being arrested over passport markers, only of their passports being confiscated? Do you have links to any stories on this?
And Ohio notably isn't on that map.
I'll grab the links. Atlanta airport started requiring passports for domestic this week, which will mean they will do "X" checks (there's an EO forcing the passport change). We have turned trans humans back from overseas due to solely trans.
(my bad re: Ohio…been a day so far)
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Unknown parent • •@CORRUPT ... are people suggesting support groups make trauma worse? That's the most hair brained thing and screams "A person's trauma became more obvious after they started processing it, so clearly that means things are worse".
Then I see your profile says you're against middle-eastern religions and "pro-israel" which kinda tells me everything I need to know when you're replying to someone who's anti-zionist and follows one of those middle-eastern religions...