• josefo@leminal.space
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    2 days ago

    This morons always make stuff sound cooler than it is.

    I’m not really that into being a human, I kinda want to mesh with the machines and lose my human status. I really don’t dig capitalism doing it, like neuralink, but I do want to live forever as a machine chimera, living in a fully automated post scarcity space communism era.

    Sadly, transgender people existing doesn’t mean any of that. It’s just, you know, people existing.

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      I’d totally be up for getting the whole cyborg treatment. Mind you, I’d be very critical of who puts what in me. I’d rather die than end up with a Black Mirror/Elon Musk/Mark Zuckerberg - advertisement firm inside my head.

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        I’ve met a couple of cyborgs (assuming we don’t count birth control/hormone regulation implants as technology, which we should do because they are). One was thrilled to be categorized that way (she has a pacemaker) the other was not (nerve inhibitor for pain, doesn’t work very well).

        So yeah I suppose it also depends on the goal and if the tech is friendly enough to achieve it. In the latter case, it doesn’t work because it’s very difficult to charge the battery. What a dumb reason to be crap implanted tech.

        Caution is very much warranted.

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      I used to think this and nowadays I’m paying attention to all the people making the machines.

      I’m all for getting borg’d out, but I don’t trust anyone to make the things I’d want to put in/on my body. You know it would all come with a data miner and a subscription fee.

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        I think we would have a wicked cool FLOSS option out there, somewhere. It would probably run off of a modified linux kernel. Don’t lose hope!

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    So before I get to be a cyborg, I get to be trans? Sounds like a fucking wicked fun future.

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    When you get “transgender” confused with “transhumanism” I guess. Though there isn’t zero overlap given that choosing one’s own form is an element of the latter.

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    How insecure do you have to be to believe that the existence of a type of person means that someone is going to force you to be that type of person.

    I get that feeling that these anti-LQBTQ+ people were all told forcefully what type of person they had to be when they were young.

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      Simply existing in the same space as them is terrifying. In that sense, they “force themselves” on him the same way a waitress at Chili’s forces tortilla chips on him.

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    Mesh with machines? Like what Nazi Poster boy Elon Musk’s Neuralink is trying to do? Is Charlie Kirk trying to dogwhistle that he’s trans?