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IF YOU SEE ANY PAINTING BY "EMILE CORSI" ON HERE, DO NOT REBLOG IT THINKING IT'S REAL AND FROM THE 1800s. IT IS AI-GENERATED AND EMILE CORSI IS NOT A HISTORICAL FIGURE
examples:
And if you love the vibes and wish you could find something similar painted by a real person, let me introduce you to John William Waterhouse, on whose work the AI was definitely trained:
Corsi is not real
John William Waterhouse official site
John William Waterhouse wikipedia
Also applies to "AI" "artists" and "musicians."
Merlin: professional rage baiter.
An engineer and an anti-vaxxer walk up to a bridge
Seeing as the bridge is the only crossing over a notoriously crocodile-infested river, the two prepare to cross. Just before they set foot on the bridge the anti-vaxxer halts the engineer.
- How safe is it to cross this bridge exactly? - he asks
- 99.97% - the engineer replies confidently
The anti-vaxxer thinks for a moment before turning around:
- Guess I’m swimming then…
change your god damn url OP
“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”
— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech
All right glad I wasn't the only one who got that GOG email today and had a "what the fuck???" moment
100% that was the most blatant neonazi shit and anyone using a Kolovrat in branding for a paganism-focused game is thoroughly immersed enough in neopagan circles to be very sensitive to Folkish shit, let alone what two Sowilo runes in a row means.
As with most neonazis these days, they’re just trying to see how hot they can make the water before the frogs start to notice that maybe this isn’t a jacuzzi after all.
Forget dog whistles, we’re well past that stage now.
Their announcement/"apology" was weak af, too
"Oh, we knew about local sensitivities, so we did NOT send it to the German Community"
Oh, so you fucking knew already how that would look?! How about the Jewish community? Trés Fuck?! If you weren't sending it to the Germans specifically,
Then you shouldn't send it at all!
Neonazis are everywhere, including vertically at your company, apparently.
For real. That fucking “local sensitivities” in Germany is such an astonishingly blatantly euphemistic way to avoid stating the actual reality: that Nazi imagery is illegal in Germany.
If they hadn’t known that it was Nazi shit, they would have blithely distributed it to German customers. They would, as we speak, be facing legal consequences.
But they didn’t.
Because they knew damn well they were sending an email blast with a bunch of sun signs + “SS.” This is like abusers who only get angry enough to be physically violent in private, where there are no other witnesses.
They wanted to send Nazi shit and so they sent Nazi shit.
1954-2026
You will be missed. ❤️
"The idea of Positive Masculinity is inherently sexist and wrongheaded. Name a positive trait that men have that women do not have," is the sort of question that sounds really challenging and wise until you think about it for five fucking seconds. And to demonstrate how, I will draw analogy to something very similar, (especially if you have dyslexia): Genre.
What is a Romance movie? How is it different from an Action movie?
If I say "one hallmark of a Romance movie is a focus on emotional conflict rather than physical conflict", it doesn't mean that Romance movies cannot have physical conflict (because Twilight is one of many romance movies that do, in fact, have physical conflict) or that Action movies cannot have emotional conflict (Because Star Wars is one of many Action Movies that obviously have a great deal of emotional conflict). It is pointing at the relative epicentres of two overlapping groups to give you a general sense of what constellation of things are clustered near them in our cultural language.
Is that arbitrary? ...Yeah. Most things are. The idea that any of the symbols you're reading on your screen mean anything or matter at all is arbitrary and cultural too. Still seem relatively important or you'd be off doing something else. Still seem to have meaning or you'd be trying to figure out why the language settings on your weird little silicon tablet seem fucky with your hairless ape digits that are swiping on a rectangle instead of climbing trees and shoving fruit into your gob. Do you think the only options are things being written on the foundations of the universe or being useless nonsense? What are you, five?
Both genres and genders have fuzzy edges. Many things that make up both genders and genres can be used in the same or radically different ways by other genres and genders. Both genres and genders can be blended with each other. Genre and gender are completely arbitrary, but that is not the same thing as saying they are useless, inherently discriminatory, or something that should be abolished. I would finally point out that saying "genre is not real!" does not magically have literally any effect on the existing cultural material. No matter what you say, nobody is going to stop recognizing Titanic as a romance just because you get mad every time people don't agree to only refer to it as a "movie".
You might point out, "Hey, the difference is that people are trying to force all movies into being either Action or Romance movies". Yes. Those people are wrong. I am not one of those people. I would like as many genders as there are genres, and plenty of fun subgenres and genrebending as well. I also don't think that all digital cameras can only be used to shoot Action movies and all film cameras can only be used to shoot Romance movies. But getting mad at people who are talking about the new direction Action movies have been going recently and how it would be great if the leads were a little less rapey is not actually doing jack shit to dismantle the entire cultural lineage and language surrounding Genre. It's just trying to shut down people trying to make a Genre--that the vast majority of about four billion people really like--less harmful just because you don't personally like taxonomy.
[please note that the photo depicts the June Days Uprising of 1848, not the June Rebellion of 1832. Silver iodine photography was not invented until 1833.]
Do you hear the people sing?
Lost in the valley of the night
It is the music of a people
Who are climbing to the light
For the wretched of the earth
There is a flame that never dies
Even the darkest night will end
And the sun will rise
“There’s a cure?!” asked the girl that kills everything she touches. “Hey shut up we’re perf” replied the girl that makes clouds.
For real though. Storm has stopped an entire tsunami before. “Makes clouds my ass” she can conjure lightning and tornadoes and is revered as a god in her tribe. She literally changes atmospheric pressure and that’s how she flies. So fuck you. Storm is flawless.
I think you missed the part where the GIRL WHO KILLS EVERYTHING SHE TOUCHES wants to NOT KILL EVERYTHING SHE TOUCHES and everyone dismisses her incredible misfortune just because the lady who is the AVATAR OF THE STORM won the fucking SUPERPOWER LOTTERY
And here we see X-Men perfectly illustrating the disparity between the larger disability community (Storm) and the chronic illness community (Rogue). One wants society to accept & respect them & their various different needs, which is surely a noble cause, while the other would like to NOT BE IN PAIN EVERY FUCKING DAY, which is just as important but often gets shouted down by non-ill disabled people who only want to talk about disability as a social construct.
Why both the social model and medical model are useless on their own, both are needed to fully understand disability justice.
I saw this video about a doctor who performed an MRI on a 5 year old and discovered she essentially had “brain damage” from excessive iPad use, as the white matter in her brain couldn’t form properly due to an understimulated environment.
Hmm it’s almost like there’s supposed to be adult figures responsible for monitoring her screen time and making sure she develops properly… certainly this isn’t the result of neglect at the hands of her parents…
“This 5 year old is brain damaged by excessive iPad use”
Translation: This 5 year old is developmentally impaired by neglectful parents who used an iPad as a stand-in for social and environmental stimulation / interaction for hours at a time during critical early stages of child development. The iPad is the cop-out.
“Children don’t have the strength to hold pencils anymore because they only use screens.”
Translation: Parents aren’t making the conscious effort to help their children develop necessary skills and letting iPads raise them.
When are people going to realize the iPads and whatnot are the instruments through which the neglect is happening through and not the cause? How the fuck do you let your child have such a severe lack of physical strength in their hands that they can’t hold a pencil properly?
People will see a study suggesting children with higher screen times have poorer or negative developmental outcomes and immediately say it’s the screens causing this, and not the more likely fact that higher screen time = less engagement time with their environment, physical exercise, parents, family, and their peers, all of which are NECESSARY for a healthy upbringing as a social species.
It’s like saying a dog who was kept in a cage all its life and left with atrophied muscles was damaged by the cage, and not by the fact its owners were too lazy to play or walk their dog in order for its muscles to build properly. The cage is the instrument of neglect and the owners are the perpetrators, in the same way parents are the perpetrators and weaponizing screen time as an excuse and painting themselves as helpless bystanders.
When Tess Morgan's son came home with a tattoo, she was griefstricken. She knew her reaction was OTT (he's 21) but it signalled a change in their relationship
This is gold this, absolute gold, the most over the top melodramatic hysterical ridiculous thing I’ve ever read
This is actually so interesting to read- it’s from 2012 but its full of the same anxieties, even some of the same phrasing that many of the guardian’s later pieces on transness use. really hammers home how much of the terfism that emerged in the late 10s was middle class mothers angry at a loss of control over their adult children- whether that be their bodies or their friends or their opinions- and making that everyone’s problem because they have the power to do so
He says, “I’m still the same person.”
I look at him, sitting there, my 21-year-old son. I feel I’m being interviewed for a job I don’t even want. I say, “But you’re not. You’re different. I will never look at you in the same way again. It’s a visceral feeling. Maybe because I’m your mother. All those years of looking after your body – taking you to the dentist and making you drink milk and worrying about green leafy vegetables and sunscreen and cancer from mobile phones. And then you let some stranger inject ink under your skin. To me, it seems like self-mutilation. If you’d lost your arm in a car accident, I would have understood. I would have done everything to make you feel better. But this – this is desecration. And I hate it.”
Also just the classism of her associating tattoos with “vest tops, dogs on chains, broken beer glasses”; like, just say you hate poor people
Elon Musk's DOGE is entirely responsible for raising grocery prices and next week he will be crowned the world's first trillionaire.
You are not angry enough.
This post is 11 years old and still relevant…
