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we should all be deeply deeply ashamed that the staff and users of this website have succeeded in making a social media environment that is more hostile to black people than that of a website currently owned and operated by an unabashed white supremacist
we need legislation banning games >100GB
OPTIMIZE YOUR SHIT BETTER THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR A 150GB GAME!!!
upon reviewing the notes I'm changing my position. games must be <50GB. no more mandatory 8k uncompressed textures!!! I don't believe in 8k I think it's fake
to be clear games really ought to be around 20 gigs or less. but I think in the spirit of generosity and mercy we won't criminally prosecute the developers until the file sizes breaks 50
Helldivers 2 heard you and went from 156 to 23
wait is that real
just looked it up. holy fuck. they did it by de-duplicating assets. I'm just. my jaw is on the floor. supposedly duplicating assets helps load times on HDDs but. holy fuck at what cost
That and them relying on dlssr or some shit as an excuse for not having their games optimsed is dumb because it still leads to lesser performance and big ass file sizes
also worse visuals
Love smearing Vaseline all over my screen so some dev studio can justify bigger (buggy) and better (broken) in less time (less pay too)
It's so funny how many people force themselves to tolerate Song of the South 2016.
I was actually just reading about this in Caste: The Origins of our Discontent. The author talks about how one’s body goes into stress or anxiety or defense mode when the person knows they’re being followed, watched, or otherwise scrutinized. She brought race into it. A Nigerian man, who was just a person in his country, was healthy as anything. He got to the U.S. and within a year, his doctor told him he was suddenly pre-diabetic and had high blood pressure. He never had those things in his country. He learned that being Black in the U.S. is a very different experience than being Black in a Black-centric country. The author elaborated more about those in poverty, women, and being a minority in general. Having that “fight or flight” triggered in the body, sometimes for hours or days or weeks at a time, degrades the body’s natural defenses, making them more vulnerable to disease.
being poor or a minority literally takes an average 10-15 years off of your life
caste: the origins of our discontent pdf
I keep forgetting that St. Paul was a merkava mystic lmao
"Yeah a guy I know, who is definitely not me, was swept up by angels to the 3rd heaven where I learned divine secrets."
Paul was definitely an evangelist and a pitchman. He was writing in the early 1st century, when hekhalot/merkava lit was very popular in the broader jewish world. It makes complete sense that he would not only be familiar with the literature, but try to incorporate it into a burgeoning Christianity.
Its interesting. Christianity emerged more from the contemporary jewish apocalpytic tradition, but hekhalot/merkava lit was more associated with the rabbinical tradition. But in the 1st century it was far from broadly accepted, even among Rabbis! The whole "metatron sitting on the throne of god" bit was pretty controversial!
“As a chemical engineering Ph.D. student at the University of Pittsburgh who uses a power wheelchair, I figured it wouldn’t be long before I met one of these bots in a frustrating face-off on a narrow sidewalk. What I didn’t realize was how dangerous, and dehumanizing, that scenario might be.
The robot was sitting motionless on the curb cut on the other side of Forbes Avenue. It wasn’t crossing with the rest of the pedestrians, and when I reached the curb, it didn’t move as the walk signal was ending. I found myself sitting in the street as the traffic light turned green, blocked by a non-sentient being incapable of understanding the consequences of its actions.”
-Emily Ackerman
The article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-19/why-tech-needs-more-designers-with-disabilities
A life-threatening encounter with AI technology convinced me that the needs of people with disabilities need to be engineered into our auton
[ID: three screenshots. The first is a perspective article by CityLab. It’s headline reads “My fight with a sidewalk robot.” The paragraph below reads “A life threatening encounter with AI technology convinced me that the needs of people with disabilities need to be engineered into our autonomous future.” Below the paragraph is a picture of a small rectangular sidewalk robot moving along a sidewalk.
The second screenshot is a tweeted picture by an unknown user of six sidewalk robots going down the side of the street, with a car trying to pull between two of them. There are two replies below it, the first reply is by Adrian Lopez @PaladinZilch and reads “Wow. Imagine being in a wheelchair and seeing that.” The second reply is by I [flaming heart emoji] You @IAm444x and reads “oh god the tech bros made car traffic for sidewalks [crying emoji].”
The third screenshot is a reply tweet by Will Jackson @geologywill that reads “A few weeks ago… it took 5 minutes for their sensors to figure out how to get out of the standoff… Enjoyed every second of it.” Below is a picture of three sidewalk robots caught in a circle at an outdoor bus stop, presumably stuck in their circle. End ID.]
@a-square-6-28-496 here's a reblog with image IDs
The logic of these devices being "allowed" on the sidewalk, whether they've found a technical legal loophole for it or not, is complete nonsense.
Motorized vehicles aren't allowed on the sidewalk. The sidewalk is for pedestrians. Power chair users are considered pedestrians by specific exemption (and for good reason - that is a single human, using the most minimally disruptive means of locomotion available to them.)
This thing isn't a pedestrian. It's a miniaturized delivery van. They should be banned from the sidewalk. They might already be in most places under existing laws, and nobody is enforcing it.
YOUR ART ON TUMBLR IS BEING USED TO TRAIN AI!
The setting that prevents your work being used to train AI models is turned off by default! I had no idea about this until now! Artists, go to your settings, click “visibility”, and turn on this setting! Protect your work!
《Made a visual guide of how to get there, because it's under a weird tab.
Go to your blog (you have to do this for each individual blog) and the visibility tab
It's this last option here
Hate this shit, but turn it off babey》
¿Pero que lleva en esa maleta?
Look, actual mimes are the fucking coolest.
Not only the skill at motion, but the comedy sensibility-when the suitcase starts *floating* uncontrollably instead of just being stuck-is fuckin’ great:)
What does Kraid even do in Metroid actually
Protect Trans kids
pre-emptively, cultural appropriation does not belong in discussions of IP because white people gaining the exclusive right to profit from black art was not "copyright infringement"
no one should privately own recordings of black convict singing but we should morally condemn david guetta & caravan palace for sampling it in dance music
caravan palace did WHAT
vocal chops from this can be heard in lone digger, mainly punctuating the bars in the verses.
No offence, what is actually wrong about this? People are saying this is fucked up, but, like, why?
the best way I've found to explain it is that it's a much more profound expression of the feeling u have when someone wears a band shirt without knowing or enjoying the band, felt across decades by an entire people. it's a flattening of culture and history & a cheapening of the source material. it is insulting that the extent of this recording's value in this context is to be a quirky allusion to black music, a flavor note to signify the vague concept of "swing" and not the historical document that it is.
I'm kind of confused on how Cultural Infringement like how James Cameron appropriates NDN Cultures of Abya Yala isn't worthy of being a Copyright Infringement adjacent talk with how White Supremacists use Ownership of Stories to discredit all Marginalized Peoples' and argue their cultural stories away from them.
Maybe there's something I'm missing here about an Anti-Capitalist sentiment on ownership of cultural stories but I think White People should get in trouble more often for appropriating Culturally Diverse stories for Cookie Points when not done out of earnest.
It may not be "Copyright" Infringement but it *is* Cultural Infringement.
It has a place in the discussion I feel.
I think you misunderstand her. She doesn't like cultural appropriation to be seen as copyright infringement because she believes that copyright infringement is a bullshit idea. And I tend to agree.
Copyright is bad
Yes, Copyright is bad.
However, Indigenous Communities would still need a way of protecting their cultural beliefs from those who feel entitled to reproduce their beliefs in a copied form.
Until Copyright is rightfully abolished, I feel it may be necessary for some form of protection of the cultural beliefs from being misappropriated even if this means utilizing the Copyright System to protect said cultural beliefs.
I hate the Copyright System too, but Public Domain gives anyone free right to use and appropriate the beliefs as they misinterpret them.
I wish there were easier ways for us to really set up boundaries and actually be respected by Colonizers but it feels like you have to jump through legal hurdles to get any form of respect most of the time.
Cultural appropriation being bad doesn't mean we should make it illegal. I really do not think it would be a good idea to make it illegal
I'm sorry?
"Cultural appropriation being bad doesn't mean we should make it illegal."
Uh. I'm Cherokee.
Would you like to try not to offend an NDN woman about how she feels about Cultural Appropriation?
I do find that Cultural Appropriation should be punishable more often.
Early in the morning my mother says to me, ibtahim thank God we haven't lost anyone for a long time.
After about an hour since she said that to me The phone rings. My uncle calls and tells my mother that your uncle and his family are buried five floors below the rubble. A family of five, one of whom has Down syndrome.
My mother sat crying and said, “What did I tell you, Ibrahim, in the morning?” As you can see, a family suddenly received news within an hour. Everything is over here, my friend. Death has become very cheap. When they see someone dead, they leave him in his place.
Please, if you would be so kind as to donate to me and my family, as my tears fall from this life.
Please please please donate to Ibrahim this time it is more difficult than you can imagine just a donation might help an entire family please donate to my brother Ibrahim they are suffering a lot please help him and donate to him guys
Indigenous Action looks at basic ways that people can get ‘back to basics’ as the Trump era comes to a close. We are ungovernable on stolen land. Fuck Biden.
Build an affinity group. An affinity group is a small group of 5 to 20 people who work together autonomously on direct actions or other projects. Affinity groups generally consist of like minded people who come together to get something done. If you already have an affinity group, link and cluster those groups!
Skill up. Delinking from capitalism and colonial apparatuses requires us to learn how to do things for ourselves and each other beyond buying, selling, working, or asking the state to help us. From self and collective defense, to gardening, building bikes, unschooling, and caring for each other- we can learn a skill and share a skill. We can change how we value skills and dismantle hierarchies of class and ableism.
Establish and practice good security culture. Security culture is necessary to survive state repression. We can stop a lot of infiltration and disinformation in its tracks by improving our ways of communicating and navigating conflict. We can still be horizontal and transparent without sacrificing security and safety.
Practice transformative and restorative justice. Strong communities make police and prisons obsolete. We can change our culture to prevent violence and abuse. We can build up our capacities to confront and resolve conflicts. We can strengthen our ties and detoxify our relationships so harm has no space to grow in our communities.
Mutual Aid. Start a mutual aid group and provide necessary support to those who are in need. Mutual aid organizing can ensure our communities are not dependent on corporations and the state. Shift your use of resources to things you can grow and make or procure from others in resistance. Build networks of aid and resources beyond capitalism.
Mutual defense. From arms training to street tactics to bystander interventions and safety teams, we need to have the skills and resources to defend our communities from fascist attacks on our people, non-human beings, and lands.
Build and sustain conflict infrastructure. Conflict Infrastructure is any structure we organize helps us be more effective in our fights. This is infrastructure that goes beyond solely providing awareness and services and instead builds our capacity to wage actual resistance. From community gardens and collectively coordinated farms to infoshops and independent media/communications.
Open squats for unsheltered folx. Rent is theft. Private property is colonial violence upon the land. Abolish rent and private property. Rematriate lands to original caretakers. Create spaces to live beyond landlords.
Defend and reclaim ancestral lands. Because #landback means ending colonial occupation and restoring Indigenous stewardship of our ancestral lands. Regenerate our sacred relations, and all that entails spiritually and materially, with our original homelands. Liberate the sacred.
Reparations. Seize what has been stolen from Black and Indigenous Peoples and liberate it back. Radical redistribution is necessary.
Shut shit down. Intervene in critical infrastructure at the points where capitalism and colonialism are at their most vulnerable. Seize the streets, factories, ports, fracking pads, pipelines, power stations, smash the borders, be smart and be creative! It’s also an effective way to target those industries perpetuating climate change.
Be fiercely intersectional. ‘Cause we’re not taking those old shitty behaviors with us. Fuck anti-blackness, fuck orientalism, fuck islamaphobia, fuck anti-semitism, fuck transphobia, fuck heteropatriarchy, fuck white supremacy, fuck imperialism, fuck ableism, fuck hierarchy, fuck racism, fuck citizenship, fuck privilege, fuck everything fucked up!
Practice Radical Self & Collective Care. To remain dangerous to power we must care for ourselves and each other. Learn common triggers and how to communicate without being fucked up. Learn to communicate your needs, boundaries, and wants effectively and nontoxicly – remember that folks in the struggle and resistance have the hardest time accessing resources for mental and spiritual care. Movement work can be unsustainable to those with many experiences of settler policing and violence triggers – find ways to communicate and negotiate group norms and boundaries that accommodate peoples’ needs if reasonable. Identify toxic communication patterns and learn / create ways to dismantle them and communicate in more healthy and less harmful ways.Be honest about your limitations and care for yourself and each other. The christianized, capitalized colonial state has taught us to never rest or heal. Reject any attempts at coercing people to go beyond their limits. Radical self-care keeps us safe and invulnerable when consistently engaging in agitating governability by the state.
Make everything accessible for everyone. Reject ableism and objectification of our bodies and lives, establish community care networks with people equipped to provide first aid and care support to a full spectrum of needs. Challenge ableism in our language, how we organize, and how we value each other. We are all enough.
Abolish Rape Culture. Study rape and rape culture and how it relates to the desecration of sacred lands. Transform our culture and practices around dating, humor, relationships, sexuality, consent, parties, sex labor, and play to abolish rape culture. Hold mactivists, rapists, abusers, opportunists, and creeps accountable. Center consent and healthy relationships in everything we do everywhere.
Spread radical and militant joy. We can fuck shit up while we dance, sing, party, laugh, play, wonder, have deep conversations, tell stories, make art, make love, make magic, make brilliance, make awesomeness, and have fun.
pre-emptively, cultural appropriation does not belong in discussions of IP because white people gaining the exclusive right to profit from black art was not "copyright infringement"
no one should privately own recordings of black convict singing but we should morally condemn david guetta & caravan palace for sampling it in dance music
caravan palace did WHAT
vocal chops from this can be heard in lone digger, mainly punctuating the bars in the verses.
No offence, what is actually wrong about this? People are saying this is fucked up, but, like, why?
the best way I've found to explain it is that it's a much more profound expression of the feeling u have when someone wears a band shirt without knowing or enjoying the band, felt across decades by an entire people. it's a flattening of culture and history & a cheapening of the source material. it is insulting that the extent of this recording's value in this context is to be a quirky allusion to black music, a flavor note to signify the vague concept of "swing" and not the historical document that it is.
I'm kind of confused on how Cultural Infringement like how James Cameron appropriates NDN Cultures of Abya Yala isn't worthy of being a Copyright Infringement adjacent talk with how White Supremacists use Ownership of Stories to discredit all Marginalized Peoples' and argue their cultural stories away from them.
Maybe there's something I'm missing here about an Anti-Capitalist sentiment on ownership of cultural stories but I think White People should get in trouble more often for appropriating Culturally Diverse stories for Cookie Points when not done out of earnest.
It may not be "Copyright" Infringement but it *is* Cultural Infringement.
It has a place in the discussion I feel.
I think you misunderstand her. She doesn't like cultural appropriation to be seen as copyright infringement because she believes that copyright infringement is a bullshit idea. And I tend to agree.
Copyright is bad
Yes, Copyright is bad.
However, Indigenous Communities would still need a way of protecting their cultural beliefs from those who feel entitled to reproduce their beliefs in a copied form.
Until Copyright is rightfully abolished, I feel it may be necessary for some form of protection of the cultural beliefs from being misappropriated even if this means utilizing the Copyright System to protect said cultural beliefs.
I hate the Copyright System too, but Public Domain gives anyone free right to use and appropriate the beliefs as they misinterpret them.
I wish there were easier ways for us to really set up boundaries and actually be respected by Colonizers but it feels like you have to jump through legal hurdles to get any form of respect most of the time.
reactionary (lying, knows this is false): children are getting sex change operations in public schools liberal (righteously debunking): this isn't happening for many reasons. parental consent is required and no parent would consent + doctors require years of treatment first + it's not even legal + schools can't afford it + insurance doesn't cover it. trans kids (listening): every adult in the world collaborates to prevent me from making decisions about my body
