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@cavefly
this is one of my favourite posts of all time
[image description: tweet by ? @/xenomorpg247, reading: 25 year old with "proship dni" in bio, I feel sorry for you. I love my friend who ships incest hockey rpf like a brother. Or no. I mean like a coworker. /end description]
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while i hope the AI boom dies out i also hope we start acknowledging data center water overconsumption as it's own unique issue because like. it's not AI itself that harms the environment it's the hardware hosting it, right? same reason nfts and cryptocurrency were also bad for the environment. the root problem isn't going away so long as we allow big companies to continue hitching their wagon to the next big tech trend. i worry if they don't get stronger regulation we'll just be repeating the same issue whenever the next toy comes along.
while i hope the AI boom dies out i also hope we start acknowledging data center water overconsumption as it's own unique issue because like. it's not AI itself that harms the environment it's the hardware hosting it, right? same reason nfts and cryptocurrency were also bad for the environment. the root problem isn't going away so long as we allow big companies to continue hitching their wagon to the next big tech trend. i worry if they don't get stronger regulation we'll just be repeating the same issue whenever the next toy comes along.
it's meee I'm your guardian angel hiiiiii š okayš so. in about six months, you're gonna die of starvation. š„ŗ and if I don't protect you, I will get: #fired! š«¢ and that is No Good š āāļø hahaaa So. š I looked into causes of starvation, and it turns out: Your death is totally preventable! šÆ Uh oh! š There's more than enough food to sustain you without interfering with anyone else's survival, but you're not allowed to have it! š¤Ø Whaaat? š¤·āāļø Apparently, your death is premeditated by thousands of things called "shareholders." So. š I've been killing people,
I remember a twitter post that was like "we must return to live in castles and have marble statues"
Like what do you mean 'return'? There are people living in castles right now. You are just not royal and rich enough to do it, peasant boy
Starting a collection
i hate when the teacherās like āwrite about a bad time in your lifeā like i aināt tryna get a social worker up my ass, thanks tho fam
This aināt no joke I had to write a essay about what your scared of so I did it (I was scared of growing up and where my life was going) it was great got a 100 but then I got sent to councilors office and was sent to therapy cause they thought I was suicidal and on the verge of breakingā¦Apparently they ment like spiders or some shitā¦
Also like, not everyone finds that at all useful or cathartic.
āWrite about some difficulty youāve experienced personally.ā āAight fam let me just break down into tears and skip the rest of my classes.ā
Yes! I had a psych professor ask us to discuss outloud the hardest thing that ever happened to us literally two days ago and I said āyou realize the position youāre putting us in? I feel obligated to lie to not only save my peers the awkwardness but also because I will find no relief in answering honestly but rather anxiety. The hardest thing in my life is having people repeatedly tell me I should find some sort of catharsis in reliving my trauma so someone else can feel pity for me!ā
The whole class backed me up because they didnāt want to either! Those kind of exercises are only helpful for people who donāt have any real past/current issuesā which is no one btw.
On par with this are those fucking self-assessments where they want to to be optimistic and positive about the future. Youāre sitting there drowning in college stress and anxiety so bad you canāt look another human in the eye, fighting depression so that you can eventually achieve a piece of paper that might get you a better job if the economy doesnāt tank itself (guess what, it did), and the most optimistic thing you can think of is that the class ends in 20 minutes.
#why do they do this thoughĀ ~ @inqorporealā
OH! I KNOW THE ANSWER TO THIS!
Thereās a WIRED article that explains the history behind this practice.Ā
Basically, this guy named Jeffrey Mitchell had a traumatic experience, then after months of PTSD, he told a confidant about the event that traumatized him. Retelling the event to a confidant was so cathartic for Mitchell that his PTSD went away after.Ā He did a bunch of research to see if his personal experience of catharsis and relief could be replicated in other people suffering from PTSD. Years later he published a paper proposing a formalized psychiatric treatment revolving around this idea that expressing a traumatic experience helps relieve it.Ā The paper was so influential that the whole psychiatric community adopted ācritical incident stress debriefingā (CISD)Ā as a standard treatment for PTSD.
Unfortunately ā¦ itās bullshit.
Not only does the CISD treatment program Mitchell came up with not help the majority of patients who try it, but it actually makes PTSD worse in the majority of patients who try it.
The WIRED article explains why:
CISD misapprehends how memory worksā¦. Once a memory is formed, we assume that it will stay the same. This, in fact, is why we trust our recollections. They feel like indelible portraits of the past.
None of this is true. In the past decade, scientists have come to realize that our memories are not inert packets of data and they donāt remain constant.Ā
ā¦the very act of remembering changes the memory itself. New research is showing that every time we recall an event, the structure of that memory in the brain is altered in light of the present moment, warped by our current feelings and knowledge.Ā
Basically, Mitchell waited until he had some emotional distance before trying to recall the memory, and he had full control of the situation. It was fully his decision. Nobody was pressuring him to talk about it. So he felt safe. Thinking about the memory from a place of safety allowed his brain to re-contextualize the memory as harmless.
Conversely, pressuring a patient to recall a traumatic memory, particularly when itās still fresh in their minds, makes the patient feel very unsafe. Recalling a bad memory in this unsafe context only serves to re-traumatize the patient.Ā
[link to the whole article]
basically, thereās a big damn difference between choosing to confide in someone you trust and being pressured to make a public spectacle of your trauma
THIS JUST IN: Forced Public Recalling of Trauma Not As Helpful As Voluntarily Processing Trauma In A Safe Space
Iām sorry friends, but ājust google itā is no longer viable advice. What are we even telling people to do anymore, go try to google useful info and the first three pages are just ads for products that might be the exact opposite of what the person is trying to find but The Algorithm thinks the words are related enough? And if itās not ads itās just sponsored websites filled with listicles, just pages and pages of āTOP FIFTEEN [thing you googled] IMAGINED AS DISNEY PRINCESSESā likeā¦ what are we even doing anymore, google? I can no longer use you as shorthand for people doing real and actual helpful research on their own.
Time to drop some links again.
ā https://searchmysite.net/ Search engine for the indie web, personal websites, digital gardens. You can also find them in websites like Neocities, Indieweb, Blogarama, and write.as. There is also a big list of personal websites.
ā https://search.marginalia.nu/ Search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and promotes websites that arenāt usually at the top of the list.
ā https://www.worldcat.org/ Search engine for items in libraries (books, but also maps, articles, sound recordings, theses, etc.)
ā https://scholar.google.com/ Search engine for scientific papers, reviews, etc. Itās still google, but a lot better than the normal search engine counterpart.
ā https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines A list of search engines sorted by subject, area, and more. If youāre searching on a specific area, it might be worth checking if there is one focused on that area.
ā https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines A list of academic databases and search engines.
ā https://tineye.com/ Reverse image search alternative to Googleās. Also, P.S.: Please stop using Google, and start using more privacy focused search engines, like DuckDuckGo or SearchX (opensource; personally havenāt used it yet, but it looks promising for privacy-focused users)
the iof telling palestinians to evacuate to rafah because itās a āsafe zoneā, then proceeding to bomb them mercilessly at the time of the super bowl, leaving hundreds of martyrs and wounded civilians. this is a genocide. this is not self-defense. this is calculated and planned. do not stop talking about palestine. they are not numbers.
The double standard š¤®
Also when israeki diaper force snipes 4 year old, media says "accidentally a stray bullet found its way into a 3-4 year old young lady"
I just wait for the day when israel has to pay for everything it has done. We will never forgive, we will never forget.
yikes
nex was 16. they had a cat. his name was zeus. they played Minecraft. they were 16. they were beaten to death. they were a straight-a student. nobody called an ambulance. they loved rock music. they listened to the radio after school. they were 16. they were choctaw. they were 16. were.
NOBODY CALLED A FUCKING AMBULANCE!!
nobody called an ambulance. they reportedly could not walk independently to the nurse's office. the police say they didn't die from trauma. the police have a video of them before and after the incident. they're going to release it "at some point." their head was repeatedly slammed into the floor. nobody called an ambulance.
i want to be so fucking clear. even if the school isn't lying, and nex could walk. even if the nurse was qualified enough to say nex didn't need to go to the hospital. if a person's head has any above minor trauma, you need to go to the hospital. immediately. even if it turns out to be nothing. because, as we've seen here, it might not be nothing. it might have you dying 40 minutes after collapsing, a day later.
head injuries regularly kill, because people think it's not that bad.
they died suspended. they suspended nex instead of calling an ambulance.
they wanted to be a veterinarian, or a marine biologist. they watched anime. they were in the school's gsa club, native american student association, and drama club.
one big thing i think people outside fandom (like, all fandoms, fandom in general, not any particular one) tend to misunderstand is they know it's a subculture of people who are weirdly deeply invested in fictional media, and they hear about drama caused by people in those subcultures being unhinged in not-fun ways, and they think the unhingedness comes from the fact of being overinvested in works of fiction.
which is a natural assumption, but in my experience that's not really the case? like in my experience the drama llamas in fandom are usually not the ones who are just genuinely very deeply into the fiction. i've known people who are basically thinking about star trek or x-men comics or supernatural pretty much 100% of their free time and ime that type of person is usually very nice and surprisingly functional in their regular life. when someone's a constant nexus of fandom drama it's usually not that they are obsessed with the actual work of fiction the fandom is about, it's at least one of the following:
what they're obsessed with is not the source material but their unhealthy parasocial relationships with one or more of the people who created it
what they're obsessed with is not the source material but some elaborate shared-universe subset of fanfic about it that's only barely related to the original at this point, and/or an esoteric reading-against-the-text reinterpretation of the source material (often if the canon is active and ongoing this leads to becoming actively hostile toward it for its inevitably increasing failure to conform to their preferred fanon)
what they're obsessed with is not the source material but the fandom itself and gathering clout within it, so that the source material basically only exists to them as a tool for scoring points in increasingly arcane fandom disputes
and very often you get the same person doing 2 and sometimes even all 3 of these, and that's where the trouble really starts
Also the drama is not a function of fandom, unless we use an extremely wide definition of what a fandom is. Some amount of drama is inherent to people coming together and interacting over something they are passionate/intense about. Every interest based group has drama.
The local politics council in my town are weirdly intense about intersections and roundabouts and right of way traffic rules, apparently. There has been capital D Drama in the tiny, utterly irrelevant to anyone usually local "newspaper" about a completely harmless and not noteworthy intersection in the middle of nowhere.
People who are organised in things like gardening clubs, or in home owner associations or something? Can get so intense about the rules for lawn mowing, and who in the neighborhood does it wrong. Really, Frank and Patricia want to leave a section unmowed! Cancel the fuckers, right now! The audacity! The misguidedness! In return, the fans of natural gardening in the neighborhood are running a campaign to Save The Bees! and plant native wildflowers. The wildflowers are now slowly but surely migrating into one of the perfectly manicured lawns. Drama is imminent!
Sports fans (definitely a fandom) are known and accepted to be intense and passionate about their favourite teams. I know a guy who, if his team lost the game on the weekend, will mope until Wednesday at least. Sports fans are socially much more accepted to wear scarves and shirts of their fandom, to bring fandom mugs to work, to talk to anyone about fandom at all times.
And to anyone who isn't in the gardening fandom, or the football fandom, the drama, conflicts and also the joys of these fandoms will seem over the top, because if you aren't into the fandom thing, it will seem weirdly intense to you, and possible be annoying. That's the nature of the thing. The drama does not come from the fandom, no matter if it's football or gardening or a TV show. The drama comes from the people.
Because my last post about this didn't get much traction, I'll say it in a text post.
There is an upcoming global strike for Palestine. February 18th to the 25th. Talk about Palestine and other injustices, call your representatives and email them, boycott companies and limit spending during the week. Get your grocery shopping in now and only buy essentials during the week, please. Limit interaction on posts other than injustices around the world. If you can, skip work or school, though this is a privilege not everyone has.
Edit: It is 18th-25th not 18th-24th!! If you've already reblogged this, please reblog this version instead, edits don't show on past reblogs
today was single handedly the best day of my life. i caught a cop stealing from the store i work at
literally watched him slide a candy bar into his sleeve and i literally felt like i was on top of the world. i felt like i could throw a car over my head. he walked around the store for a bit after that looking to see if we have any locally made pickles and then when he couldnt find any he was about to leave and im like ^__^ have a good night, are you going to pay for the candy bar you stole :3? and then i got to watch a grown ass pig shyly walk up to the counter to pay kinda just awkwardly laughing about it and was like "whoops forgot about it haha...." and then left without another word. this opportunity will never happen ever again. being able to tell a cop that he needs to pay for a candy bar he attempted to steal makes me feel incredibly powerful
Fuck dude. Seeing all these Palestinian people sharing videos of themselves and their family before everything is making me tear up a bit. Remember that Palestinians arenāt a statistic. That one person that died was someoneās father, brother, sister, mother, child, friend, lover, or someoneās reason to continue living. Everyone in these clips and photos you see online had jobs, had dreams, went to school, played outside with their friends, made art, loved one another, helped there friends, owned pets, had plans for the future, had achievements they were proud of. Each life lost is an absolute tragedy.
Thereās no replacing everything around you that you love. Donāt think that Palestinians can just replace everything that they loved.
