Still playing catch up and putting out fires. Have a doctor’s appointment today, that I don’t want to go to mainly because of this flu going around. But I plan on masking up.
Lana is being a pest.
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I’m trying to go cold-turkey on AI - especially Google Gemini, the one I’ve been most addicted to - but I don’t know if I have the strength to commit.
I hate labels. Nothing has ever fit me.
I prefer to briefly describe parts of myself over defining what each label means to me. It kinda sounds like the same thing but at least I worry less about being forced to fight against someone elses definition of the same word.
Because I don’t want to use labels, I end up feeling quite isolated. I spend so much time around people who use labels so much that even the smallest actions can unintentionally make someone else feel excluded. They don’t realize how a simple comment might actually be dismissive of someone else’s experience or point of view. They’ve spent so much time and energy under a specific label that it starts to narrow their world view.
I’m thankful my closest friend in this situation has been fighting for my inclusion in things long before I brought up this issue with them about our friend group. It’s still hard to be in a situation where you think you belong only to realize that you are being excluded because you don’t fit a specific label.
I do get that people can find community with labels. However, I think if shitty people didn’t label other people they don’t like then good people wouldn’t have to retaliate by reclaming or creating their own label for community and protection. To me it appears as an escalating war of made up words with no end in sight. When tunnel vision sets in, no one will ever win.
