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Rest in peace Akihiro Miwa (1935-2026)
I haven't seen anyone talking about this and just wanted to make a quick post on here.
Akihiro Miwa recently passed away peacefully june 20th, and was not only a drag queen and a queer icon, but also the japanese voice of Arceus in the movie Arceus and the jewel of life, as well as the witch from Howl's moving castle and Moro from Princess Mononoke.
Rest in peace and thank you for the wonderfull impact you made in this world.
Artificial intelligence will scan old data, it will not provide new ideas or new designs.
Don't fall for the "you must adapt AI or it will be too late or someone else will do it" false narrative sold by investors.
“When we were kids, the Phonics Wizard came to our town to show off how the letter E can change the sounds of vowels. He turned a can into a cane, a pin into a pine. This one kid had a cap and he changed it into a cape, that kind of thing.
“And we loved it, we were all having a great time, but then he saw my sister and I, and he just got this - this look in his eyes, and then-”
She hesitated, worrying the coarse material between her fingers. “Things got pretty bad after that,” she muttered. “I know it’s silly, but I try to keep - her - comfortable. We don’t know if she can still hear us, or see us, or if she’s even still in here, but I like to think she is. I talk to her when I can, I leave music on when I’m out of the house. I tried to convince my parents to bring her with us when we went to Disneyland, but they didn’t - didn’t really take that well.”
After a moment, she put the ball of twine back onto its pillow. “Anyways. They tried to arrest the Phonics Wizard, but he had a plan in case something went wrong and he turned it into a plane and flew away.”
I was thinking of a pride art challenge people could do with their OCs, because I thought it'd be cute! A queer/trans artist with their creations.
but then I realised that same challenge would be infinitely more funny with folks who have atypical or horror OCs
we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason
torrents work like this
i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3
unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it
i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map
i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs
this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.
crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.
please learn to torrent
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always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.
Bear, aged 9, had an assignment in school.
“Inspired by The Hobbit or other books containing maps, create a map that could support a story. Include obstacles, geographical features labelled in cursive, and conflict relating to people or place”
Bear dreamily produced a map and proceeded to think of something else, until time was called and the children were told to present their maps to each other, justify, and grade them on the criteria. Flicking quickly through the criteria, Bear realised they’d forgotten to add any conflict.
So Bear improvised. The Goblin Kingdom and the Territorial Giants dislike each other heartily, but are thankfully separated by a mountain range, limiting their ability to be offended or aggressive.
In the mountain range is a cave network inhabited by a furtive and unpleasant (family? Species? Political affiliation?) of gollums, with one Gollum per cave.
The policy of the Goblins and Giants are to pay the gollums to prevent each other from crossing the mountains. The gollums do this effectively and it is a known barrier. In addition to not wanting to tangle with the Gollums by crossing, the factions do not want to offend them, as then the Gollums won’t block the other faction.
However, the factions cannot resist provoking each other, and so they pay the Gollums an even larger retainer to receive, remember and pass on verbal abuse aimed at the other side.
Thus, when you march up the mountain to visit the Gollums, you will be met with a delivery of abusive verbal messages from the other faction. You pay the Gollums and leave your own abusive messages to the other faction. You may not copy the content of any messages or cheat by asking the Gollum to repeat them to the other side; you have to accept your verbal messages and produce new ones. but that’s okay, as the malicious pleasure of creating your own is half the reason the factions are in conflict. If you’re drawing a blank, you can commission a gollum to simply hurl verbal abuse, but it isn’t as good.
Bear’s partner heard them out and ticked the criteria. Bear immediately forgot it, until I asked politely about their map, and their expression went totally blank, and they said “Mummy! I made all that up!”
I love that this is their idea of conflict, though.
Thinking about it further, it really is a good example of how exploring a fucked-up situation makes an interesting story.
You wonder how this was set up, politically.
You wonder if individual members of warring factions, in the process of leaving messages, have ever fallen in love.
Or if they’ve fallen in love with a Gollum.
What do the Gollums do with all the money?
How do the Gollums repel invasions so effectively?
What goes into the construction of a really good hatemail?
Does trade also happen across the barrier? Do the Gollums run a black market on the side?
Bear envisions the goblins as being gleefully quarrelsome and enjoying it. They pictured ‘giants’ as being only slightly larger than ordinary people, territorial, slow-moving and quite shy, which in addition to reminding me a bit of Diana Wynne Jones’ The Power of Three makes me wonder what this quietly obscure strand of humanity has within itself that is so continuously provoked by the goblins.
Because I do wonder what KIND of insults they trade, and why it’s so compelling to continue over long years of conflict. I expect the giants just don’t want to let the goblins have the last word.
The City of Wizards right spang in the middle of the mountain range is the only pass across the mountains accessible to everyone else, so I do wonder what the heck they think of it.
It’s just interesting to show how you can start asking questions and build a little story out of a throwaway conflict
The oldest living tree ever found was a pine named “Prometheus.” It had been alive since before the Egyptian pyramids were built. Some guy cut it down in 1964. Source
he was actually a forestry graduate student who was doing research on bristlecone pines (Pinus langaevea) and got his increment borer stuck in the tree. this tool costs almost $800, so he asked the forest service if he could cut down the tree to recover the tool. after cutting it down, it became apparent that the tree was actually the oldest living organism. ever. (around 8,000 years old). so, not just some asshole. the guy feels extremely guilty and has even broken down in tears during an interview about the accident
OH MY GOD SO LET ME TELL YOU A STORY
So after the grad student cut down the tree and discovered it was the oldest tree in the world he quit studying forestry and went to study salt flats (can’t cut down the oldest trees in the world on salt flats no siree none of that happening) and he was being interviewed about his research, but in the middle of the interview the reporter just stops and says “wait aren’t the guy that…”
And he just takes off running. Literally. Turns around and runs across the salt flats away from the interview and I feel so bad for him but I can’t help but start crying I’m laughing so hard about it imagine a guy high tailing it across salt flats away from a dude with a recorder
its so different to know it was an accident and that NO ONE was aware until after. its not like this was one ignorant guy cutting down a fucking relic.
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Gonna be honest a lot of people deep down view cheating as worse than abuse which is why so many people view downright controlling and manipulative behavior in a relationship as 100% permissible so long as that behavior is centered around either preventing or discovering cheating.
I need to draw men being obnoxious to their partners and getting In The Way right now immediately.
it is it's nature to Be In The Way.
Just... Pick them up??? Grab a blanket, wrap 'em up, then move them out of the way.
the consequences of doing that:
just needed to make a conclusion to this
tbh this post is Just for the it/its crowd now. keep shining.
(but for real it makes me happy other it/its folks are getting a lil joy out of an it/its character like. casually existing and having a fun gender.)
I get asked this a lot surprisingly
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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this is actually not as good idea as it seems on the surface. making things that last is a good idea. necessary, actually. but using old patents from vintage appliances is not the best way to go about this as those things were not designed to be energy efficient (or water efficient in the case of appliances that need water.) not to mention all the heavy metals and forever chemicals in all that shit. most of that stuff was designed before they knew lead and asbestos and even radiation was bad for us.
what you need is not to look to the past (in america at least) but to look towards better ideas—maybe some ideas invented outside of capitalism. like, for example, modular appliances where the part within the appliance that is mostly likely to wear out is very easily replaceable so that you can easily replace that one part instead of throwing the whole thing out and buying a new one. easy repairs needs to become the norm, whether you repair it yourself or hire someone to do so, things should not only be repairable, but as easily repairable as possible with available schematics and whatnot to facilitate that.
obviously, making things that last should be priority. this can be done when human beings realize that landfills aren't just filled with wasted material resources but all the wasted labour and energy that went into processing/manufacturing/transporting those material resources. this can be done when the purpose of making something isn't to sell it in ever-increasing amounts forever.
