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None of the things you're critiquing are intrinsic to sex work and your argument is that it is intrinsically degrading. You made the point that work isn't intrinsically degrading, since you don't consider working in prestigious fields like medicine or law to be, nor do you consider working in physically demanding and less traditionally prestigious fields like garbage collection. I pointed out that sex isn't degrading either, since it isn't, sex is just something people do with each other.

So, since the only things intrinsic to sex work are that you're performing sex as a form of labour it raises the question; Where does the intrinsic degradation lie? In the labour or the sex?

A person having sex is not intrinsically degrading.

Maus was subject to one of the many ongoing book bannings in the United States and was removed from multiple libraries due to containing "adult content."

Maus is a depiction of Art Spiegelman's father's experience as a Holocaust survivor.

There's more than a subtle misogyny to the anti-OF messaging people throw around, not to label the grandparent comment as falling into this issue.

I have seen comments along the lines of "Onlyfans spotted, opinion dismissed," numerous times online under posts/videos completely unrelated to a content creators OF business. The idea that a person is a sex worker and therefore a slut (in a derogatory rather than reclaimed sense) and therefore they and their opinions are worthless, is the unstated logic of this sentence.

The misogyny drips off of the concept of an Onlyfans lessening someone.

Adult content is whatever is deemed to be objectionable and abhorrent to the dominant social group within a culture and that which needs to be censored and hidden from public view. Beyond a desire to "protect the children" from sex, violence, and drugs. It is a desire to hide and suppress dissent around major social issues. It is a desire to label representation of trans liberation and queer lives as adult, obscene. And it is a desire to label realistic representations of history such as Maus and others as unsuitable for children.

This effort is because once labeled adult it is broadly socially acceptable to do anything and everything necessary to hide a concept from public life.

A specific recent example is Itch.io's recent removal of all content labeled adult, stemming from coordinated pressure by Collective Shout. The block has led to the hiding of some content labeled as lgbt, despite not containing adult content or being labeled that way.

I didn't say human life, I said modern human life. At this point, and especially considering the recent pandemic and the lockdowns that lead to large swathes of the public having to work from home, internet connections are a non-optional component of participation in society. Especially as more and more services go digital only, for example bank branches closing in favour of online only services.

However, you're right that ISPs aren't the right target, open infrastructure for the network to operate on is closer to what I meant.

Arbitrary passages is what I meant by "verbatim extracts."

Is this surprising? People have been crying out about the effects of privatisation for years. When basic services mandatory for modern human life like water, ISPs and energy are privatised you end up with funds that could end up going towards investment or towards funding other public services are instead funnelled out towards shareholders.

The generational wealth the UK had in the form of North Sea oil passed off to private interests for their own profit rather than used for the creation of a sovereign wealth fund like the ones Norway has is a perfect example of the sort of backwards situation you end up in. That oil could have been used for the benefit by every member of the UK public and instead is used only for the benefit of the few while the public suffers under outrageous energy and cost of living increases.

edit: added missing word, "has" after Norway

It seems relatively straight forward (famous last words) to assess whether actual copyrighted text is embedded within the network. If you can prompt output that includes verbatim extracts when the copyright avoidance post-processing is disabled then you know that it has been consumed.

Of course whether that was purposeful or inadvertently as a part of the larger training set would not be determined but you would know that the text is in there.

When you get down to it none of that matters. The people driving uptake, the actual users, have their lives made easier by the Discord set up.

I think that’s what’s missed here. People take the path of least resistance towards info or participation. It’s not surprising that Discord became the go to in comparison.

Two of your points require users to make new accounts for each service. That’s an active detriment to usability. A major one. The alternative is clicking a link and you’re in with your identity already set up in an app with a nice looking UI with all the features people know. Unless that ease of use is available an alternative just is not going to compete.

This leads to a tragedy of the commons type situation where people trade away genuine long term benefits like discoverability and archiving capabilities because that doesn’t factor into the day to day experience which is what drives actual uptake.

The sudden need for silence after needing the audio is such a distinct mood. Interesting that it hits other people.

I feel like it’s related to once I hit the point where I’m really into what I’m working on.

Is this fundamentally different from training a human exclusively on the same and expecting them to advance the field of art by a hundred years? These sorts of progressions in humanity are slow and steady with occasional exceptions that produce leaps.

This is why I am so grateful for GitHub reviews; Being able to group comments to fire off all at once has saved me from this multiple times as I continue reading, realise something, and remove a previous comment.

In fact you reminded me of the technique right now to check the responses and make sure nobody else had already said this!

I wanted to be sure here that there wasn't any room for confusion which is why I just had it redirect anyone who hit the domain to the correct url.

I love postgres.app, such a great solution. It always bothered me though that https://postgres.app would just 404 whenever I'd go to look up the docs or go to install on a new machine.

Hopefully a few other people have had their lives made a tiny bit easier by the redirect I set up.

The graphical version will have mouse support.

This feels like it runs along the same lines as the "type the name of the item you want to delete" requirement some confirmations windows use.

Can’t beat reversing the backtrace output for making Ruby even more enjoyable. Slogging up through a huge pile of calls was one of the few things that drove me mad.

Do you have any resources to expand on the issues with AR callbacks? I'm interested to read up on this.

Considering that they were sneaking the Win10 update into random updates I expect that it would end up in the security-only channel almost immediately. Especially since one of the key arguments for the forced updates is security.

I've seen several videos of cats interacting with their reflections but neither of mine act like the reflection even exists. Absolutely no reaction to it, it's as if it's just any other flat surface.

It definitely sucks, I never used to have to doubt the quality of amazon products, now I'm having to make sure I only buy amazon basics products or run reviews through some fake review spotter to try and make sure I'm not buying a lie.

Start too early and you'll sound like an end of the world preacher. You need to time it so that you look cutting edge rather than paranoid.

The thing with the various iPods was that they were at least different.

The three iPad lines are all fundamentally the same device with differing screen sizes.

That's actually a really good idea.

If the recordings are high quality and enjoyable to listen to I'd subscribe to that podcast. Most web content does not have an audio transcription beyond screen readers.

Being familiar with the client introduces another area of potential bias, removing that allows us to compare the specific variable being tested for.

I'm not entirely sure why the big voices thing is important. It's not like they were saying all the voices had low favourability or that what were perceived as gay voices had low favourability, they were demonstrating a difference between the two groups based on that one variable. Whether they were all high up the rankings or all low down the rankings is irrelevant, you just need them to be all within the same band. It's the difference that is what is being tested for.

They took men and women who were both gay and straight and demonstrated a bias in expected leadership ability based on perceived sexual orientation. They are not comparing charisma, the voice selected where selected specifically to have a high likelyhood of being attributed as gay or straight.

Arguing that a difference in outcome from this is because CEOs all sound charismatic and that they are able to pick up attention of a crowd better when there is a demonstrated bias between the two when the difference involved is specifically whether a voice is perceived as gay or straight implies that gay speakers are less likely to have those characteristics. Which is exactly what the paper's conclusion is, a bias against people who are perceived as gay for leadership positions based on their voice.

    We investigated this issue in four studies (overall N = 276), conducted in Italian language, 
    in which heterosexual listeners were exposed to single-sentence voice samples of gay/lesbian 
    and heterosexual speakers. In all four studies, listeners were found to make gender-typical 
    inferences about traits and preferences of heterosexual speakers, but gender-atypical inferences 
    about those of gay or lesbian speakers. Behavioral intention measures showed that listeners 
    considered lesbian and gay speakers as less suitable for a leadership position, and male 
    (but not female) listeners took distance from gay speakers. Together, this research demonstrates 
    that having a gay/lesbian rather than heterosexual-sounding voice has tangible consequences for 
    stereotyping and discrimination.

I actually got that wheel two weeks ago. I was very skeptical of whether I could train either of my cats to use it. Took pretty much exactly a week to train one of them to use it and now he uses it all the time.

He still runs around the house and plays when excited but running on the wheel has become his baseline activity when he wants to do something but I'm working and the other cat is uninterested in playing with him.

I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who wants to keep their cat indoors and exercised.

It'd be good if they could do something to improve the aesthetics though, the exterior of the circle is just bare injected plastic. http://onefastcat.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9d...

No product is going to cure people of anything and certainly no commercial company has that kind of capability.

And so of course we should not try to build software that takes vulnerability into account? Just because you cannot cure something doesn't mean you cannot help.

I applaud Monzo for this effort, they continue to prove that moving to them was a good choice.