Crooked_Mantis

My Reblog-Blog

[a-mel0n]

reblog if you’ve had an online friendship that’s lasted more than 2 years

[nemo-namikaze]

Sketch page of stuff I've been playing recently

[guiigemar]

never met a sentence i couldn't make incredibly long

[elexuscal]

Never met a sentence which I, in my over wrought sensibilities, bloated vocabulary, and only vague grasp of grammatical rules, could not hubristically endevour to make incredibly long

[9icl]

[grassispoisoned]

[castleinthemist]

i used to have the entire ico castle mapped out in my head. like to a degree that if you asked me to draw out the layout i could do that across all its floors and rooms and not miss a space except perhaps for the ng++ hidden room?? which i've never bothered to try and access but like. one of those games i replayed to an absurd degree

[lilithsaintcrow]

"This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking."

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — Th

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise t

[spockvarietyhour]

Google Chrome Secretly Downloads Huge Local AI Models

Google Chrome automatically installs local neural network components on user systems via default configurations. The browser downloads a 4GB

Procedures for disabling it

[queerautism]

Fellow white people did you know there's this cool youtube hack where you go out of your way to watch videos made by Black people. And suddenly your video recommendations will have loads of cool new channels. And then you realise youtube was literally hiding videos made by Black people from you because they assumed you wouldn't be interested

[mirkymomo]

わたなべひろし描き下ろしイラスト，１９８５

[acquired-stardust]

Ico Playstation 2 2001

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

I should be able to stare at a mutuals's vent post so hard my eyes become lasers that beam comfort and reassurance and companionship and solidarity all the way through the phone screen to them

[bbyinblu]

reblog if you think sign language should be taught as a language in schools.

[cryptic-forge]

the adult version of my plant baby sculpt i said i wanted to make!

this is also a remix of my first 3d sculpt. i didn't really feel the need to remake her before, but when i thought about what the adult design for the little buds would look like, i realized it was very close to that sculpt -> instead of starting from scratch, i edited it to be more in line with my current aesthetics & skill level. this also has the added benefit of making the old doll the awkward teen phase of this creature.

[trucyarchive]

Shu Takumi's infamous concept sketch of Apollo's perception ability (2006 or 2007, Shu Takumi)

[queer-scots-geordie-dyke]

I’m not reinventing the wheel by saying this, but dehumanisation is bad actually, even when you do it to “bad” people.

Dehumanising even Nazis and terrorists just removes the obligation and responsibilities we all have to understand how radicalisation into violent extremism happens, how seemingly ordinary people can become convinced that mass murder is a moral course of action.

No one who becomes an extremist thinks of themselves as monstrous, they truly believe that all of their actions have a just reason and if only they could make everyone else understand, everything will be fine.

Human beings can be evil, cruel, and vicious. Pretending that only inhuman monsters can participate in and justify atrocities stops anyone who thinks of themselves as normal and moral from questioning their ideas or their actions and as we have seen, that is decidedly not a good thing.

[randomnessstuff]

No. Nazis and the fascists ARE the exception. They made a conscious choice in a world where what they chose to become is undoubtedly and without exception characterized as the very definition of evil. They actually made that choice, and were fine with it when presented with a straight 80 years of every piece of media who, when in doubt or in a pinch used Nazis as their villains cos, hey. Who's more evil than nazis or fascists? I will unreservedly dehumanize nazis. They broke the intolerance compact. They deserve what they goddamn get.

[meanderingdownthelongroad]

Here's the thing. I understand the impulse to want to say that they are getting what they deserve. However, invariably dehumanization gets shifted onto more vulnerable members of our community.

What I mean is that people take what they hate the most and turn minorities (religious minorities, racial/ethnic minorities, queer and trans folks, etc) into that thing.

If you are an American, than you have probably seen this happening a lot with trans people and immigrants. Trans people just trying to live their lives become evil deviant pedophiles, even though we should both know this isn't true. Similarly, immigrants have become criminals and illegal aliens. This is where dehumanization leads. You can see similar issues echoed across history.

You can abhor bigots and find their ways of thinking and behaving vile, I sure as hell do, but I would caution against saying they are less than human. Because I have studied the history and know where that leads and trust me it is no where positive.

[idreamtofmanderleyagain]

This is the thing:

OP is not calling on everyone to sympathize with nazis. OP is reminding people that dehumanization is a tool of oppression and it always always always destroys you. Not just that, the normalization of dehumanization is radioactive; it expands outward and poisons more than just it's target. It absolves you of resposiblity for how you treat those you dehumanize. It's a road that leads absolutely nowhere. There are *no* exceptions. This is not about what feels good or righteous, it's about the unrewarding dirty work of holding up the pillars of humanity.

I really need folks on the left to start considering the high likelihood that left-wing spaces are targeted by bad actors that want you to lose all of the integrity, education, and community building skills that you may otherwise have had because you are angry and terrified of the people in power. Destroying a democracy isn't just about stoking it's ugliest impulses, it's about dismantling the best impulses, and radicalizing you into abandoning the capacity for kindness. It's about training you to ignore stablizing voices or the voices of those who you hit in the crossfire.

Humanization and empathy and the willingness to sit with your feelings and try to understand people are the fundamental tools of civilization. They are the building blocks that keep society together even in the wake of a disaster or oppressive regimes. Without these tools, we are just cannibalizing ourselves.

I know it feels safer to think of those causing the most harm as monsters who exist outside of humanity. Because it means we don't have to look at this moment as a grim, humiliating reflection of the worst impulses of humanity, and the miles our society still has to go to actually dismantle exploitative, cruel systems. Justice that *lasts* does not come from purging everything with hellfire, it comes from using love and connection as a radical force for change. it comes from rebuilding education systems and social safety nets and communities.

That doesn't mean hold hands with nazis. It means recognizing these same authoritarian, cruel impulses within yourself before you start mimicking them. And quite frankly, considering the amount of blatant, vile, and dangerously antisemetic rhetoric flooding left wing spaces in the wake of the Epstein case, I don't want to hear shit about how fine and cool the left thinks dehumanization is.

[phoukanamedpookie]

When Audre Lorde said, "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house," this is exactly what she was talking about.

[tyrantisterror]

I was a really soft-hearted little kid who cried a lot and liked to play games about making big families and nurturing things, which, since I was a boy, meant I got the shit kicked out of me a lot by other boys for being girly. Boys were supposed to be tough and fight and compete and try to be the best, you see, that's how our imagination games were supposed to go. And that's what media aimed at boys when I was a kid focused on - heroes who beat the shit out of people and are tough and don't cry et cetera et cetera.

And I learned to like that and see the appeal in that, sure. There are lots of stories that were made for an audience of little boys that I ended up liking. But I always wanted something that told me boys like me, who didn't want to be violent or competitive, who liked nurturing things and making friends, who avoided fights whenever allowed, were valid.

So I was really happy when Steven Universe came around and was exactly that - the kind of show a sensitive little boy like I used to be would have killed to see. And very shortly after that I was crushed when the growing criticism of the show repeated the refrain that it was bad mainly because Steven was a pacifist who cried and didn't want to be violent and liked nurturing things and making friends instead of killing people. I wasn't surprised, no, it made perfect sense people would hate it for being that, but I was crushed all the same.

Our society only accepts a very narrow definition of masculinity, and kindness isn't allowed to play a very big role in it. That's one of the reasons I quit it.

Anyway, I'm a daycare teacher now, and one of the kids in my class is a really sensitive little boy with big feelings and a bigger heart, who acts very nurturing to his little 3-D printed dragons, and gets very upset at how mean and rude the other little boys can be when they're trying to prove they're mature and tough. Recently he's been talking to me about a show he found and has fallen in love with called Steven Universe, and I've been delighted to hear him regale me about how much he loves it. I bet it's doing him some real good to see that it's ok for a little boy like him to have a big heart and to want to make friends instead of fight all the time. He's making up his own crystal gem OC too, isn't that nice?

[telekkk]

I love my job. Fumito Ueda's games are all my inspiration.