recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.
It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
I’m no different than you. I don’t long for war over peace, I’m not superhuman to bear the bombs, the famine, the heat, the loss of all sorts of comfort and of our dignity. I’m not more comfortable than you relying on other people’s money, much less asking for it. I can’t make my heart not hurt when my little sister cries from hunger.
Imagine you, a normal person, suddenly having to feed your family of 10 with a single kilo of flour (on a good day) that cost $200. Imagine the stress and humiliation of paying $1,300 a month for a room with no electricity, no water, no windows, that’s infested with mice and cockroaches. Could you bear it? We’re not handling the situation better than you would. We’re breaking apart and we keep living because we must.
So please, if you understand how hard it is, help us. It’s okay if you only have $5 to give and it’s okay if you don’t even have that, if you can only share. Just please don’t ignore us. Imagine being a normal person in these circumstances, and people ignore your calls for help.
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[ID: A comic with 8 panels.
Panel 1: Rawan, a woman in a hijab, looks at the viewer crying and frustrated. She says "I think many people misunderstand who I am, because I wear the hijab and I'm from a distant place at war.
"They have trouble relating to me because in their eyes, we're completely different.
"But honestly, I'm just like you. I have good and bad traits. I'm awkward. I have successes and failures."
A young girl, her sister Soso, wearing a red shirt and twin buns smiles and holds up a sign that says "Emotional support."
Panel 2: Rawan looks tired over a desk and says "Before my university was destroyed, I was a very good student. But morning classes were the bane of my existence."
Panel 3: She says "I was that one student who cried when I got a great grade, but not a perfect one."
The art depicts Rawan incoherently crying over a test that scored 99, puddles of her tears on the table, while two other people look at her confused.
Panel 4: She continues "I'm terrified of bugs, spiders and rodents. The fact that I now live among them hasn't changed that."
In the art, she stands on a chair holding her sister Soso because of a stray mouse. She shouts to someone nearby "Catch it!"
Panel 5: The text reads "Even while freezing and malnourished, my siblings still pull the most annoying pranks on me. I want to get back at them, but I don't know how, because unlike me, they're not scared of anything."
Rawan is shown shrinking away from a fake cockroach tossed at her. Her sibling mocks her as she clenches her fist.
Panel 6: The text reads "I went to the gym once in my life and spent the entire month deeply regretting it. I vow to never go back."
The art depicts her lifting two dumbbells above her head, then laying on the ground exhausted.
Panel 7: The text reads "I'm addicted to technology and I've been bored out of my mind lately, because I rarely have a charged phone and an Internet connection at the same time. The solar batteries aren't as effective during the winter."
The art shows Rawan lying face down while Soso sits on her back smiling with a little heart over her head.
Panel 8: The woman looks away from the viewer while crying. She says "I've always been a normal girl trying to live a normal life despite the occupation and the bombs.
"Just a normal girl. Maybe that's why my mental health is so bad now. I'm not cut out for war. [It] doesn't matter that this is far from the first one, or that my house has been destroyed before, or that we've been displaced before, or that this is not the first time Soso almost died.
"I feel foreign to life itself. I just wanted a simple life. This world is not for me. Please help me survive in it, because I don't know how to anymore."
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Best paired with a respirator! People who always wore N95 masks in indoor public settings had *83%* reduced risk of testing positive for COVID, in this 2022 MMWR report.
More info in this zine I made: What's Up With COVID and How to Protect Yourself: 2024 Edition.
Image description: Title reads "COVID-Safer Pride Guide" in front of a rainbow flag and three people in masks and respirators. Five colourful squares containing information make a rainbow and contain illustrations like a person's arm with a band-aid covering the site of a vaccine injection, a person in an N95 mask, and a line of Pride flags. The text reads:
COVID is still a threat. Getting sick sucks, plus your risk of long-lasting symptoms—aka long COVID—gets higher each time you're infected. Fortunately, there's a lot you can do to lower the risk of transmission! Protect your ability to party—and protest—this Pride!
Get a Booster. Like Drag Race spinoffs, new COVID variants are dropping all the time. Antibodies from your latest vax or infection wane after a few months. Get a booster matched to the latest variants, and your resistance will peak in a couple weeks!
Mask up! COVID virus spreads through the air like the smoke from a fag [British]. A well-fitting N95 mask gives great protection! More reasons to mask up: sexy and mysterious, shows community care, avoid all the other airborne diseases!
Take it outside. The more fresh air to disperse the virus, the better! Transmission is still possible, especially in a crowd, but going outdoors is a major safety update!
Stay home if you're sick. Pride is all about community, baby. Protect your people by staying home if you're sick. If you do have COVID (rapid tests aren't great, so you might not know), getting lots of rest lowers your risk of developing long COVID! Drink some tea, sis.
like "aphobia isn't real" does not mean "ace/aro people are not pressured into sex, marriage, and other relationships; ace/aro people are not coerced into sex against their will; ace/aro people are not ignored/erased/denied their existence; ace/aro people don't face medical discrimination or pressure to "fix" themselves" - it means "those things are not happening as a result of some social force known as 'aphobia'". the social pressures and violence around sex and sexuality do not arise from an opposition to "asexuality", nor are they remotely unique or even "worse" for asexual people. and again all of this isnt even touching on the fact "asexual" isnt even an agreed upon class of people - if asexual people can have sex, and aromantic people can enter lifelong close relationships with people they might live with and build lives with, how is their material reality different from that of anyone else?
women who don't have sex with their husbands because those husbands are abusive, or bad at sex, or even just unattractive to their wives, are still subjected to medical pressure and abuse to coerce them into having that sex. gay people, famously, undergo things like conversion therapy to pressure and coerce them into having heterosexual sex. post-partum women are given "husband stitches" to make their vulva more pleasurable for a cis man to penetrate. nobody, and i mean nobody, is remotely spared from this systemic violence to coerce you into heterosexual sex - except cis men, sometimes (but even they experience social pressure to have "the right kind of sex" - of course, this pales in comparison to the forces of misogyny and homophobia at work elsewhere!).
we could be speaking about these issues together, and recognizing them all as facets of heterosexism and patriarchy being upheld on everyone, instead of insisting that unless you agree on the word "aphobia", you must have no desire to relieve these pressures on asexual people.
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