wild and young, we got seasick

[babzgordon]

happy 420 wormies 🤗🥳💜⏳🥣🍃 my newest EP just came out for your listening plezzzyr 💋 you can stream for free/buy on bandcamp here and stream elsewhere wherever you get your music 😎🙏

[hyperculture]

OH OKAY......

[cosmonautroger]

Alfredo Baruffi, 1905

[patrocles]

adam parrish we still talk about you

[babzgordon]

[kosmogrl]

[guerrillatech]

[shutupsavannah]

ID: a circular cycle around the wheelchair disability symbol.

the cycle is labeled “The Inaccessibility Cycle”

the steps are inaccessibility ➡️

disabled people unable to participate ➡️

disabled people not visible in public ➡️

disabled people seen as outlier/rarity ➡️

‘so there’s little/no need to consider them’ ➡️

and the final arrow leads back to inaccessibility, creating an endless loop

[i-wear-the-cheese]

This is a very well described explanation of both why visibility is a key factor in fighting inaccessibility and also why it is so hard to achieve

Why is why so many demonstrations by disability activists are so "go hard or go home" because it's like... yes those are currently the options thats the point!

[spitblaze]

finally some realism in video games

[infectiouspiss]

kids deserve so much more respect and it turns out that saying that is a great way to locate the horrible people in any community <3

[infectiouspiss]

you'll say something as simple as "no child deserves to be hit" and people will crawl out of the woodwork to explain why they should be allowed to beat a 6 year old for spilling some water

[infectiouspiss]

you'll say "i think it's weird that adults literally have control over when children are allowed to use the bathroom" and up pops a teacher to say that when they're not shouting at the kids they teach, they're trying to stop them from hiding in the bathrooms

you'll say "i think children shouldn't be forced to eat food they hate" and here comes someone who feeds their kids plain rice and boiled chicken (while eating a nicely seasoned stirfry) claiming that it's okay actually and kids shouldn't be allowed to taste things

you'll say "i think kids should have bodily autonomy" and in comes someone who pierced their babies ears before it was even 24 hours old, frothing at the mouth because their kid wanted a haircut and thats somehow an insult

[infectiouspiss]

children are an oppressed class and everyone should be looking back at their own childhoods and making sure they don't ever make a child feel the same way they felt.

[wilwheaton]

"children are an oppressed class and everyone should be looking back at their own childhoods and making sure they don't ever make a child feel the same way they felt."

I wake up every day, and I make this choice. I encourage you to do the same.

[pngblog]

[tsscat]

“The things you criticize AI for is stuff most of your tech does” is not whataboutism for a simple reason: AI literally is built into the same industry as the rest of the tech you use, bc it’s the tech industry. Thus, trying to reject AI alone for what is essentially a product of a hyper capitalist tech industry is functionally useless.

For example, it’s very reasonable to be concerned about the new Twitter data center that’s poisoning Memphis right now, and single out the LLM, grok, as a source of it. However, generating an image using locally run stable diffusion does literally nothing to contribute to this. Conversely, using Twitter without using grok absolutely contributes to the polluting Memphis. If we try to simply boycott AI entirely and nothing else, we still contribute to that data center. However, if we single out Twitter/X as a company, then we can actually have an effective boycott.

If your problem is the environmental cost of all data centers, and you single out AI as the source, but still continue to stream video (ie Netflix, YouTube, TikTok etc), use social media, etc, you are still contributing to the stuff that’s at least 90% of current datacenter output. I know this is news to people but data centers didn’t just. Suddenly become a problem post-AI.

People pointing this out are not being contrarian for no reason. Current anti-AI thinking has done literally zero for actually combatting the issues we need to care about, because a lot of these problems go beyond AI. This is the tech equivalent of banning straws.

The point of this isn’t to go “oh and yet you participate in society…interesting”. The point of this is to show how you need to be thinking systemically about these issues beyond the superficial shit you hear in op-eds and tweets, which by the way, frequently misreport the actual data/info regarding the situation.

You want actually effective movements that combat the tech industry? Check out notechforapartheid and BDS’s tech boycott list.

[falloweddoves]

[pngblog]

[brosandprose]

REBEL EVER AFTER 1.32: Elissa Sussman on grief, horniness & movie stars

My guest this week is Elissa Sussman, author of Funny You Should Ask and Once More With Feeling. She walked me through writing her new book Totally and Completely Fine, about a widow and single mom still grieving her late husband when she meets a famous, younger actor. Then we talked about her new podcast But How’s the Sex about the sex lives of fictional characters, and how romance novels celebrate and respect horny women. Plus: Are small-town romances “cozy” or homogenized? And why are heroines in their 40s so rare?

Listen to Rebel Ever After wherever you get your podcasts:

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❤️ P.S. You can now join the REBEL EVER AFTER DISCORD when you join the Patreon! Help make this indie podcast possible and come gab at patreon.com/brosandprose ❤️

[thememedaddy]

[oorione]

forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit

[bloglikeanegyptian]

i haven't been talking about it as much but last year i was really obsessed with the oceangate submersible. like it took over my life for a few months. i still think about it all the time because ever since it imploded all i think about is how much it feels like we're all in the submersible. today i'm thinking about how all the experts in the submersible community signed a letter stating that the titan was unsafe and insisting that the ceo do further tests on the design. and how that was ignored because he didn't want to spend on the additional testing or safety accreditations

but like you also can't say the submersible imploded purely because stockton rush, the ceo, was greedy. he wanted to save money but he also truly believed he was right. that's why he died on the submersible too. he genuinely believed his own bullshit. he was a zealot of his own abilities.

anyway... so basically the submersible had no failsafe mechanism, right. stockton rush said it had an "acoustic monitoring system." what he meant was "if the carbon fibre hull is failing we'll hear it creaking and popping." except, of course, if you hear it creaking and you're underwater then it's probably too late to fix anything. the real warning system they had in place was the letter that all those experts signed. that was the only time it was early enough to save lives. by the time the submersible was in the water, it was too late. it kind of reminds me of how in order to declare a famine, the famine has to be already underway. you can't prevent a famine by declaring it; by the time you declare it it's already too late.

what im saying is it feels like we're all in the submersible and the acoustic hull warning is going off

[bloglikeanegyptian]

i wrote this post a year ago, in the past two days 33 people starved to death in gaza. this was not just a sudden escalation of starvation, israel's siege has created widespread malnutrition in gaza since october 2023. healthy people don't starve in a week. but israel has been slowly and incrementally starving palestinians for 22 months, and over the past week withholding their last lifelines.

famine is usually declared by the UN and other associated agencies. israel has not only prevented access of UN staff due to the blockade, it has bombed UN (and WHO) headquarters over the past week and declared their headquarters to be in so-called "evacuation zones." this, alongside the widespread destruction of gaza's health system, means the conditions for declaring famine are necessarily unmet. israel has not only created a famine in gaza, it has done so with enough efficiency that has also destroyed the mechanism through which a famine can even be declared.

the international community absolutely bears responsibility for this, not only for allowing israel to go this far, but also for taking advantage of these technicalities to relieve themselves of their duty to act, which would require confronting israel.

the end result of this is people are openly starving to death in gaza right now. everyone i know, even those who are financially comfortable, is hungry. many have not eaten for days. there is no food. i have never in my life thought i would be talking people through starving to death. they were right: by the time famine is declared, it's too late. it's already too late now.

[fravery]

Juan Brufal

Mood