I studied Artificial Intelligence for four years, and I am not touching LLM AIs with a ten-foot pole. It's not really about the insane electricity demands, the water usage, tho that's a good reason. It's not even, if I'm honest, about the disastrous effect on the sum of all human art and knowledge. It's because a) I've studied enough AI to know it's a trick, a sort of linguistic illusion, and b) I've studied enough *everything else* to understand that I'm not immune to such illusions.

Looking into the mirror and exclaiming "god *damn* you're so beautiful" is the transition goal I never dared to claim. And yet. 😊

"But if testosterone doesn't cause violence then why are cis guys so violent?" *Grimaces* Ok look. I'm sure I once believed this, so I'll treat the question in good faith. It's a common pseudoscientific dogma, one spread by high school science teachers and shitty "feminist" YouTubers alike. But it's bollocks. 1/

Good hunters know when to incorporate elements of camouflage into their technique #CatsOfMastodon