Maria Skłodowska-Curie’s notebooks are crazy once you think about it. They’re so radioactive they have to be sealed in a lead box. Imagine a world where atomic theory is forgotten and a dude just goes “yea there’s a book that details the secrets of the universe, the machinations of the creation of existence down to its barest essentials, but if you get close to it you fucking die. The more you read it the more your body slowly disassembles into mush.” like wat excuse me
hate the irony that we the people hating and refusing to use ai aren’t costing ai companies nearly as much as the people actively using ai. that shit is running on a massive loss rn so honestly to use ai with the specific malicious intent to waste the money and resources of an ai company is not the worst idea.
honestly, if i wasn’t so tech impatient and ai adverse that i don’t have the willingness to try using it, I would be making various AIs recreate this meme to be about using ai several times over just to waste their money
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If the environmental impact weren’t so obscenely negative this would be a great point
some of you guys are going to have to start internalizing and accepting the fact that you will not be able to tell some indigenous people apart from white people at a glance, no matter what their ‘blood quantum’ [gag] is, partially because genetics is wild, and partially because there are indigenous groups that are naturally paler than whatever you’re thinking right now.
I’m not in the know like at all when it comes to indigenous things, may I ask why the “[gag]” with every “blood quantum”
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Blood quantum is a nightmare concept. It is essentially how much 'native blood’ you 'legally’ have according to the government.
It is not traditional, it is not cultural, it is not something Indigenous nations ever used to measure belonging.
It was created by colonizers as a tool of erasure. It literally exists so the government could mathematically subtract us out of existence over time.
Think of it like this;
instead of letting Indigenous communities define ourselves, the U.S. government came in and said, “Your Indigeneity is only valid if we can quantify it like livestock breeding papers.” It was meant to break apart families, stop us from passing on identity and land rights, and eventually reach a point where they could say, “See, there are no real Indigenous people left! So we don’t need to think about them!“
It weaponizes nebulous and often finicky genetics against culture, community, lived experience, etc.
It ignores the fact that Indigenous identity is about kinship, belonging, survival, language, tradition, and responsibility to our people.
Blood quantum turns those things into a number. A number designed to shrink until there is nothing left.
Many nations are still stuck dealing with blood quantum rules because of federal pressure and resource control, not because we chose it or approve of it.
And it harms us every single generation. It pits relatives against each other, creates disenrollment fights, and tells half of Indigenous kids they are somehow less real than their siblings because of paperwork.
It also lets the government give a 'good reason’ for why we shouldn’t have mixed race marriages or 'interbreed’ with other races, because then the blood quantum 'goes down’ and we may legally not be considered indigenous under the government anymore, which means they can deny us things like certain assistance programs, medical care, etc.
It’s literally government mandated eugenics.
In short, it is is a colonial tool invented by the government to eliminate us. Which is why I gag when I say it.
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