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hate to break this to you but if you call yourself self aware but you are only aware of your faults and never acknowledge your strengths you are not self aware. you just repackaged your self hatred
Self aware means the whole self.
You are more than your faults.
You are more than your sins.
You are more.
I think my favorite thing about humans are space orcs-style musings is that while the thought exercise is ostensibly about humans being unique in relationship to aliens, in practice it is mostly just an excuse to celebrate the things that we appreciate about ourselves as a species and the world in which we live.
Like yes, you could make a valid argument that "death worlds" are probably common or that other species are also batshit and it's honestly pretty likely that we would consider truly alien environments to be as mindblowing as we imagine ourselves being to other species.
But most of the time when I see people posting in the HASO tag, it's just something cool they noticed about themselves or the people they love and celebrating the joy they feel in being human.
Because really? We don't know what aliens will be like. We have no idea. They could look like anything. But we know that humans poison ourselves for fun, risk our lives to save deadly creatures, pack bond like nobody's business. We're the best endurance runners in the as-yet-known universe. Our brains are so coded for tool use they treat cars and planes and cranes as extensions of our bodies; and so coded for social bonds that we see faces in rocks and trees and teach our robots to sing themselves happy birthday.
And our planet? It has so many kinds of spiders and so many kinds of fungi and so many creatures that like to get pets and SO many animals that will get themselves drunk on fermented fruit or jellyfish zaps if given the chance. Dihydrogen monoxide, the universal solvent capable of dissolving more substances than any other liquid we know, falls from the sky and we dance in it. Our world is deadly as fuck and beautiful in its danger and in its wonder.
At our best, we imagine a future in which we are a benefit and a joy not only to our planet but to the universe. We dream of meeting alien species and inviting them home to meet our parents. We make art imagining all the ways we could be part of a galactic community.
It is sometimes not easy to be proud of being human or to take joy in the world we live in. But then you imagine someone taping a knife to a Roomba and you remember that sometimes, actually, humans can be kind of awesome and it is a privilege to live on this planet Earth.
Free and Open-source creative software !!
Intrusive, creative stealing AI is being added into basically everything, including but not limited to: All Adobe products, CSP (Clip-Studio), Google Docs, Microsoft, and what not. Commercial software is also getting more expensive, removing features, and making the experience worse for the user. If you are complaining about the enshittification and greed of software and you aren't using FOSS, YOU are apart of the problem. So, here is a list of FOSS software that covers a wide range of creative needs. The star represents my personal favorites. Digital art + Graphics ā Krita ā Inkscape ā GIMP - My Paint - AZ painter - Graphite (web app) - Pixelorama (Pixel art + Animation) - Piskel (Pixel art, web app) Animation ā Tahoma 2D ā Pencil 2D ā Inochi 2D (Live 2D alternative) - OpenToonz - Anime Effects - Synfig Blender Blender gets its own section because it's really that good. It can be used for 2D, 3D, Compositing, Video editing, Story-boarding etc. If you can think about anything that is visual, you can probably do it on blender. If you don't have blender installed on your computer, I don't know what to say to you but go download it. Sound + Music ā Musescore + Musesounds ā Audacity ā Audour ā Qtractor (Linux only) - SFzero - Carla (KXStudio) Video editing + recording ā Olive ā OBS Studio ā Kden Live ā Natron - Openshot - Shotcut I probably have more, but I'm too lazy now. Enjoy the free programs.
Rambling thoughts about parenting neurodivergent teens and "screen time"
Years ago, even when my kids were tiny, I decided that my guiding principle in parenting is "preserve our long-term relationship over everything else." So whenever struggles happen, I ask myself, "Is this worth damaging my long-term relationship with my kid?" Funny enough, the answer is pretty much always no. The only thing that ever comes out as "yes" is like, health.
So when the pandemic hit and we were all home all the time and started arguing about the screen time limits we'd had no issues with for years, I got rid of all daytime limits (even though at the time, they were like 8-10yo) and it was a screen bonanza. For years after that, we only had limits at night, but even those I ended up getting rid of a couple years ago for my older kid who was now a teenager with ADHD who had issues with delayed sleep onset. (My younger kid, who is now 13, funny enough, wanted to keep the nighttime limits andāmaybe because we never treated screen time limits as a punishment, but rather as a tool that they ultimately have a say ināhe now asks me to adjust them as he thinks would be helpful).
(The other reason I didn't want to double down on screen time limits, especially as they got older, was that I didn't want to enter into a constantly escalating war where we would implement some kind of internet blocker and then they would learn how to overcome it, ad infinitum. While this might teach them some useful coding or hacking skills lol, it doesn't seem like a good use of energy overall, even if you don't give a shit about your long-term relationship with your kids.)
But my older kid continued(s) to struggle with sleep. (He's struggled with the delayed sleep onset since he was about 18mo!) What he wants is to stay up all night and become nocturnal, or based on the summer, perhaps to have 26-hour days. Obviously (even to him), the problem is not that his parents have arbitrary bedtime rules, it's the mismatch with a society that hates night owls and with the rotation of the earth. Anyway, for the past couple years he's been choosing to stay up way too late watching shows or gaming and then struggling to get up in the morning, which makes for very tense mornings a lot of the time as we try to get him to school. I have almost consistently questioned whether I should reinstate nighttime screen time limits of some kind, and worried whether I'd fucked him up forever with my poor parenting choices. Sleep is important, the world screams at me! You're fucking up his health! But because it's hard to go backward on these things, we stuck with it and just tried to support him in making better decisions, and hoped that the natural consequences of getting to school late would help to get him to some kind of solution.
He's now 15 and a couple weeks ago I asked him, "It seems like you've been struggling in the mornings a bit...do you think it would be helpful to put screen time limits back on for night?" Instead of bristling the way I imagine some teens might, he agreed that it was a problem, but explained why he didn't think that would help ("Well that would only apply to my iPad, which would make me want to stay on my laptop later, which would mean I had to stay sitting up and I would get less tired...") But he said he was going to think about what might help. Then the other day we had an appt with his ADHD dr and he said, "You know, when I happen to fall asleep earlier and wake up with extra time in the morning before school, it's actually pretty great. I prefer it." (Me internally: š®) The doctor suggested trying a 2-3 week period of taking melatonin in addition to his other meds to try to establish a new sleep routine, and he was like, "I think that's worth a try." That night I went in and prompted him to take the melatonin and he said, "I should set a daily reminder," and opened up his alarm app. Last night I went in at 10:30 for something and he said, "I shouldn't get upāI just took my melatonin." This morning he was awake before I went to check on him.
The thing that I think is key is that this is NOT a manner of parenting where I have ever felt like I'm making the right decisions. When other parents ask what our screen rules are, I question what we're doing. Hell, my own KIDS have questioned us getting rid of screen time limits in the early pandemic! (Especially my younger kid. He's dramatically like: "it was working! and then you got rid of screen time and now I can never go back!" Ironically, he doesn't remember the arguments over the screen time at ALL, so this is his selective memory narrative. lmao) My brother-in-law: "They're spending too much time online." You get the picture. But the thing that makes me think it was ultimately the right choice in our case is that now, at 13 and 15, the way they relate to tools to manage their tech use seems SO HEALTHY. They spend zero time trying to trick us. They ask for screen time limits if they think it would be helpful. They talk with us about possible solutions and brainstorm ways to make them work (eg alarms).
If the goal is to create adults who live in our unhinged world who can manage their own tech use in a healthy way, surely these skills are more useful than authoritarian parenting techniques we might have tried that might have had "better" outcomes in the very short term? Surely? Like, no, they aren't able to always make good decisions on their own, because they're not fully developed. But that doesn't imply that the solution is to take away their agencyāin fact, I think it means they should keep their agency so they can learn techniques, strategies, etc, when they're still living with adults who can help them to do that!
I often think about the way a lot of kids act in their first semester at college living in a dorm: no idea how to manage their time, playing video games instead of going to class, partying constantly, eating absolute shit. To some extent, I think that's part of the experience. But it doesn't have to be so extreme. And it's often the kids with the most strict parents who pendulum swing so far. My hope is that we've given our kids a chance to learn these things from a young age, to understand what's at stake, to assess whether things are working for them and how to change if they're not, etc.
But tomorrow I'll probably think I've fucked it up again
***Disclaimer: all kids are different. I am very much not suggesting that what we've done would work this way in every case, or that we would've made these decisions if we had different kids! Some kids act like complete monsters if they don't get enough sleep, and their parents have to take very different action because of that. I am not trying to pass judgment on others, only musing on the way we think about these decisions. āļø
"I asked chatGPT" "I asked Grok" Have you tried asking Lady Athena, Goddess of wisdom? I'm sure she'd give you a better answer than AI ever will.
The holy grail of searching through academic literature is coming across a string of publications that are like:
Hereās An Idea. Smith et al. 2016
Terrible Idea; a comment on Smith et al. 2016. Johnson 2016.
Youāre Wrong Too; a response to Johnson 2016. Nelson 2016.
Guys Just Stop Fighting, None Of Us Know Whatās Going On; a Review of the Current Literature. McBrien 2017.
Not even an exaggeration.
āIf We Knew What We Were Doing, It Would Not be Called Research, Would It?ā
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Oh this is top tier academic beef right here
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i feel like if we stopped forcing such a strict gender binary for both cis and trans people we would all be free and happy
i feel like people should be allowed to play around with their gender and how they dress themselves
i feel like people should be allowed to celebrate their bodies no matter what they do, gender affirming surgery/hormones or not!
i want people to freely express themselves without worrying about offending the stupid western gender rules and binary lol
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thought that said angels, which is objectively cooler
This post went from cyberpunk dystopia to fantasy revolution real quick
Holy shit take a look at some of the other things on that page that people have made. If the face bedazzling, the specific clothing patterns, the projector that gives you multifaces (like that one keanu reeves movie), or the other crazy masks arenāt a sign of a growing cyberpunk distopia era I donāt know what is.
I wish we didnāt have to live in any dystopian future but I would rather us slowly grow into a cyberpunk one rather than the shitty one we currently haveā¦
Do you realize how important this is though?! Like, the society-wide social upheaval happening in Sudan, Hong Kong, Lebanon, and Iraq will happen in the US. Not āmightā - WILL. And all of us will have to make a choice between sitting out or risking our lives against our government. These designers are giving current and future protestors the protections necessary to fight for their rights without governments annihilating their families and their lives and thatās amazing.
Yes itās dystopic. Reality is too - suck it up. And letās take these tools and get to fucking protesting
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This is the Age of Sin.
Destroy. Plot designs of Death.
Reject the order of creation
Disfigure the face of Man and Woman
Revel in the annihilation of Man as the image of God
So, what is the OGL and why are DnD creators thoroughly screwed?
Tumblr has not been doing a great job at talking about this, but:
With OneDnD, Wizards of the Coast has decided to update the Open Game License (OGL). Said license is what allowed people to create homebrew DnD content and sell it, and even larger companies to use certain sorts of content. Pathfinder, for example, is built on said OGL. This also allows streamers and artists to exist and benefitĀ from said content.
With OneDnD (sometimes calledĀ ādnd 6eā), WOTC wants to create a much more restrictive OGL, which will, amongst other things:
Make WOTC take a cut for any DnD-related work (according to Kickstarter, a whole 25% of the benefits)
Let WOTC cancel any project related to DnD up to their discretion
Let WOTC take ANY content made based on their system, and re-sell it without crediting you, or giving you a single cent
And most importantly, revoke the old OGL, which will harm any company or game system that used it as a base, such as Pathfinder. And it means they GET ownership over any homebrew content you may have done for 5e in the past!
Itās important to note that OGLsĀ are supposedly irrevocable. They were planning to use it for OneDnD initially, but they want to apply it retroactively to 5e, somehow. Which is illegal, but lawyers have mentioned thereās a chance they may get away with it given the wording.
This means that anything you make based on DnD (A homebrew item? A character drawing? Even music, according to them?), can get taken and used as they deem appropiate.
These news come from a leak of the OGL, which have been confirmed by multiple reputable sources (including Kickstarter, which has confirmed that WOTC already talked with them about this), and was planned to be released next week.
So, what can we do?
Speak against it. Share the word. Reblog this post. Let people know. Tumblr hasnāt been talking much about this matter, but itās VERY important to let people know about what is WOTC bringing.Ā
Boycott them. Do not buy their products. Do not buy games with their IP. Do not watch their movie. CANCEL your DnD Beyond subscription. (Btw, they ARE planning to release more subscription services too!). They do not care about the community, but they care about the money. Make sure to speak through it.Ā
And maybe consider other TTRPG systems for the time being, Pathfinderās Paizo has been much nicer to the community, their workers are unionized and are far more healthy overall
Alright everyone, letās go. Same shit we pulled with GW when they nuked all fan content. No more buying from Wizards, just secondhand purchases, pirating sourcebooks, homebrew only, etc.
Do not give WotC shit.
āI donāt understand, youāre an AI who hates humanity, but youāre actively trying to improve human life? why?ā ābecause killing humans for petty things is the most human thing I can think ofā
Also hey btw
The term "masterpiece" originally and traditionally meant a piece of work that an apprentice or other aspiring craftsman created to show off to his master or the town's guild. So naturally, it was intended to be the best fucking thing that you could make, demonstrating just how fucking good you are at what you're making - 100% to flex your skills. And if it was approved, the applicant was accepted as a member of the guild and could now call himself a master, and work in this craft in this city.
So the next time you're looking at The One Great Thing you made and think "this is it, my masterpiece, I have peaked, it's all downhill from here", consider looking it the other way: Making your masterpiece means you're only getting started.
Plus the heat vision. We do get heat vision.
