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They did that thing on TikTok again, except this one guy did the arrangement
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This got me teary-eyed. This encapsulates all that is best about humanity:
The urge to make art
The capacity to be moved by art
The way we can make friends out of strangers
The willingness of those former strangers to help when asked
While adding their own individual creativity to the mix
All with the goal of supporting the artist
This is what it's all about man, you dig?
A lot of the response to Oppenheimer criticism has been "Clearly, you haven't watched the film, it isn't celebrating him! It shows all the things he did wrong" and I have to say... that's... still... missing the point of the criticism.
Oppenheimer occupies the same space as all the war films--like Dunkirk--that say "War is hell." While these films could and do skew towards "War is bad, let's avoid it," they still often... really end up saying "War is hell but let's pity the warriors and maybe consider the ways in which it was worth it."
The "war is hell" films end up completely missing the "anti war" mark because they choose to focus on the people waging the war, painting them in a sympathetic or at least humanizing light even when they're in the wrong. You feel bad when a soldier has to kill a kid on the other side--even if the kid is unarmed or begging for their life--because it's sooo sad that the soldier was driven to that point. And because... well, what else could they have done?
A much more effective "war is hell" film would be focused on the people whose land is ravaged by bombs. The civilians. The families. The people who lose their homes, their schools, their hospitals, their lives. Not in waging war but just in happening to live where war is happening. THEY are the real victims. They are not victimizers who might come to regret it (like warriors, like Oppenheimer) but like... actual victims.
In choosing to make a film about Oppenheimer and not about his victims--the people of New Mexico, the people of Japan, people forced into internment camps on US soil, and broader even then--you are saying "This man is responsible for great evil but let's humanize him too. Let's recognize that he didn't really have a choice or that maybe he felt bad about it. It was out of his hands."
Beyond humanizing him, it gives this history an element of inevitability. He HAD to do it. This HAD to happen. It's horrible that it happened but it was always going to happen.
If you focus instead on all the people victimized, you see all the reasons why it didn't have to happen.
And if Christopher Nolan isn't equipped to tell the story of New Mexican civilians who weren't given protective gear when the only jobs they had left were at all the labs or the stories of what a Japanese child does when his family is ravaged by American war crimes... he doesn't have to tell that story. The option isn't "Tell Oppenheimer or tell an intimate story he can't at all relate to." He could just... not tell this story.
Some stories really are not meant to have entertainment value. Some stories are not meant to be human stories but rather just facts on paper. Or told from the other human side. Sort of how like documentaries on serial killers often get it wrong but the fictionalized tv shows exploring ~what made them serial killers are ALWAYS wrong.
Some perspectives don't really need to be explored, is what I'm saying. Oppenheimer shouldn't be a grey or even dark protagonist. Some atrocities do not need to be humanized in any way, even if the humanity mostly culminates into "He was still wrong, though."
There are more efficient, less troubling ways to explore the motivation (the greed, the nationalism, the racism, the hatred, the warmongernig) behind bombings and wars like this. That would be better tools at realizing how we are repeating history, right now, in 2023.
That don't involve having to paint atrocities and the people behind them as grey or human or pathetic or pitiable.
Homophobic straight cis men have long been envious of the homosexual and the transsexual for how much sex theyâre having. Straight cis men who define their sexuality through metaphors of conquest and violence find that people who define their sexuality through freedom and love have a better time doing it and with way more partners. This is despicable to the homophobic straight cis man who can only find joy in restriction, exclusion and shame.
He boasts of his conquests because to him they are representative of his natural place within the social order. The sexual freedoms of the other however is deviant precisely because it deviates from sex as conquest and violence between unequal parties. It is deviant not because homosexuality between consenting adults is somehow morally wrong but because it promotes an equality between partners, not for the conquest of the male over the woman towards reproduction and thus the transfer of property but for the joy of living and out of love for one another outside the bounds of legal contracts, property ownership and compulsory reproduction.
Freedom and love is antithetical to the homophobe who can only accept love as long as it is confined within societyâs expectation that you only be allowed to pair off with a patriarch or madonna, conform, reproduce regardless of your wishes and die. Love outside these limits is seen as an existential threat to the status quo of patriarchy and must be destroyed, assimilated and recuperated.
The homosexual and transsexual express a love that creates new possibilities for social bonds outside of cisheteropatriarchy. Homophobes and transphobes are only capable of expressing a love that destroys the possibilities of non-exploitative relationships.
We need to talk about body image. Do you feel you need to measure up to what you see on social media? That somehow youâll never match up to your idea of perfection? Do you feel my pictures make you feel inadequate? Itâs worth saying that what you see on social media rarely corresponds to what you see in real life. For every photo you see here there are probably hundreds that didnât make the grade. Good models know how to hold their body to accentuate certain features. Photographers can change the angle of the camera. Photoshop can remove not only unsightly blemishes but completely change someone skin tone and type. As someone that puts myself out there I feel I have a responsibility to reiterate these things. Just like painters might try and portray and idealised vision of what theyâre painting in a landscape, for example, I try and encapsulate what I hope are realistic and different ways from the norm that a man can present his body and still hopefully look beautiful. They might not necessarily be representative of the ârealâ every day me that people see in the street, but I think they are representative of what nearly anyone could achieve holding similar positions or poses with the right lighting etc.
âThere are two general camps of thought in Black culture about solidarity with white people. Those who believe that it can be productive T
history of kumbaya:
https://twitter.com/absurdistwords/status/1128275772446212097?s=21
I hope I never forget this till the day I die
Am I willing to let solidarity with people actually cost me something?
Would I fight for a cause that doesnât benefit me, or may even result in me losing privilege?
Do I even know what that privilege actually looks like, in my every day life?
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Do it anyway.
THISSSSSS!!!đŁđŁđŁ
And, yes, do it anyway!!!đ€·đŸââïžđ
Remember y'all, white is not a race, it's a concept used to other anyone considered not white. Italians, polish people, Jewish people, all were at one point, and still are in many cases considered non white. Dismantling whiteness is not a personal attack on you, it's an attack on the societal mechanisms of white privilege and the othering of "undesirables"
Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, publishing one hundred books a year.
What happens when people in societies stratified by race refuse to accept the privileges inherent in whiteness? What difference does it make
Resmaa Menakem offers educational pieces and resources about continually building up anti-racist practices to embrace Somatic Abolitionism.
This meme is inescapable on French insta so I'm posting it here for all to enjoy
I don't speak French so thank you to the many, many, many people in the notes going "Wait that's not 'can it' that's 'Shut the fuck up'"
So, there's apparently research coming out now about microplastics being found in people's bloodstreams and the possible negative effects of that and I feel the need to get out ahead of the wave of corporate sponsored "be sure to recycle your bottles!" or "ban glitter!" campaigns and remind everyone: It's fishing nets. It's fishing nets. It is overwhelming fishing nets It always has been fishing nets. Unless regulations are changed, it will continue to be fishing nets. The plastic in the ocean in largely discarded nets from industrial fishing. The microplastics are the result of these nets breaking down. The "trash islands" are also, you guessed it. Mostly fishing nets and other discarded fishing industry equipment. Do not allow them to continue to twist the story. Do not come after disabled people who require single use plastics. Do not come after people using glitter in art projects and makeup. These things make up a negligible amount of the issue compared to corporate waste, specifically in the fishing industry. Do not let them shift the blame to the individual so they can continue to destroy the planet and our bodies without regulation.
Industries are incredibly resistant to taking responsibility for their own waste, to the point where âconsumers are responsible for industrial wasteâ is somehow considered a sensible, ethical, worthy sentence.
It is actually perfectly reasonable to say that âindustries are responsible for industrial wasteâ and âthe effects of industry can, should and must be fixed by industryâ and âIndustry can, should and must be held responsible for its impacts on the commons, such as air, water, oceans and land.â
Do you know how much ocean plastic waste is straws?
Something like 0.0007%.
ITâS NOT EVEN ONE ONE-HUNDREDTH OF A PERCENT.
But they want you to hate the disabled people who need safe and bendable and sanitary plastic straws in order to be able to drink. So you wonât notice the 70+% thatâs fishing nets.
To expand on the crumbling of the patriarchal edifice of the family.
If society agrees that children can know themselves, and have a right to self determinationâŠ. Everything else that Conservatives argue they have a right to exert over children crumbles. As just two examplesâŠ.
ALL corporal punishment rightfully becomes recognised for the assault it is.
Failure to appropriately consider the wishes of children in medical care and provide information in an age appropriate way is recognised as child abuse and malpractice.
Children are entire people, they deserve all of the rights, privileges and protections afforded to adults.
I think people need to be more comfortable with illegalism and Iâm not kidding. Of course the more legal something is, the safer and easier it is to do, but the more people who disregard the law, the harder it is to enforce. There are plenty of laws on the books that people just ignore and are never or rarely policed.
Becoming more comfortable with little illegal activities makes you more comfortable with bigger more important illegal activities. Additionally, it is crucial to build a wall of silence. Nobody talks everybody walks.
People who give out food without a permit, hold a march without a permit, grow a garden without a permit, are more likely to be people you could turn to to work with on preventing an eviction, or keeping people out of cop hands, or helping your friend Jane get crucial healthcare when itâs not legal in your state.
Communities comfortable with these acts wonât call the cops, and then nobody knows that itâs happening.
People have got to shift from both the idea that lawful = good/ illegal = bad, and that the illegality of something means thatâs the end of it, and the only fight left is to make it legal again.
Iâm reading The Deviants War: The Homosexual vs The United States of America and the entire point of gay pride as a concept comes from police raids on bars, clubs, public restrooms, etc where gays were humiliated and outed in the newspapers (sometimes with their addresses!) and had careers ruined and lives upended by being associated with perversion and vice squads and all that and they responded by going âno Iâm proudâ and took that pride to the streets in defiance of the huge mechanism of shame that existed to oppress the gay community into obscurity and so the fact that people are now trying to apply conservative dogma to pride parades to make them âsafe for childrenâ or in other words âsafe for people with oppressive conservative valuesâ is simply insane
To phrase this more clearly: âpublic indecencyâ laws were the primary tool for brutally enforcing gender and sexual conformity, so applying a âpublic indecencyâ lens to pride parades of all things is a slap in the face of everyone who ever suffered under gender & sexual oppression and took their anger (and yes their pride!) to the streets. If it makes you uneasy or uncomfortable maybe youâre not on the side you think you are!
John Deere's repair fake-out
Last week, a seeming miracle came to pass: John Deere, the Big Ag monopolist thatâââalong with Appleâââhas led the Axis of Evil that killed, delayed and sabotaged dozens of Right to Repair laws, sued for peace, announcing a Memorandum of Understanding with the American Farm Bureau Federation to make it easier for farmers to fix their own tractors:
https://www.fb.org/files/AFBF_John_Deere_MOU.pdf
This is a move thatâs both badly needed and long overdue. Deere abuses copyright law to force farmers to pay for official repairsâââeven when the farmer does the repair. Thatâs possible thanks to a practice called VIN locking, in which engine parts come with DRM that prevents the tractor from recognizing them until they pay hundreds of dollars for a John Deere technician to come to their farm and type an unlock code into the tractorâs console:
https://doctorow.medium.com/about-those-kill-switched-ukrainian-tractors-bc93f471b9c8
Like all DRM, VIN locks are covered by Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a 1998 law that criminalizes distributing tools to bypass âaccess controls,â even if you do so for a lawful purpose (say, to fix your own tractor using a part you paid for). Violations of DMCA 1201 carry a penalty of 5 years in prison and a $500k fineâââfor a first offense.
This means that Deere owners are locked into using Deere for repairs, which also means that if Deere decides something isnât broken, a farmer canât get it fixed. This is very bad news indeed, because John Deere tractors are just computers in a fancy, mobile case, and John Deere is incredibly bad at digital security:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/23/reputation-laundry/#deere-john
Thatâs scary stuff, because John Deere is a monopolist, and a successful attack on the always-connected, networked tractors and other equipment it supplies to the worldâs farmers could endanger the global food supply.
Deere doesnât want to make insecure tractors, but it also doesnât want to be embarrassed by security researchers who point out that its security is defective. Because security researchers have to bypass Deere tractorsâ locks to probe their security, Deere can leverage DMCA1201 into a veto over who gets to warn the public about the mistakes it made.
Itâs not just security researchers that Deere gets to gag: the company uses its repair monopoly to threaten farmers who complain about its business practices, holding their million-dollar farm equipment hostage to their silence:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/31/dealers-choice/#be-a-shame-if-something-were-to-happen-to-it
This all adds up to what Jay Freeman calls âfelony contempt of business model,â an abuse of copyright law that allows a monopolistic corporation to reach beyond its own walls and impose its will on it customers, critics and competitors:
https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/
If Deere was finally suing for peace in the Repair Wars, well, that was wonderful news indeedâââas I said, a seeming miracle.
Butâââlike all miraclesâââit was too good to be true.
The MOU that Deere and the Farm Bureau signed is full of poison pills, gotchas, fine-print and mendacity, as Lauren Goode documents in her Wired article, âRight-to-Repair Advocates Question John Deereâs New Promisesâ:
https://www.wired.com/story/right-to-repair-advocates-question-john-deeres-new-promises/
For starters, the MOU makes the Farm Bureau promise to end its advocacy for state Right to Repair bills, which would create a repair system governed by democratically accountable laws, not corporate fiat. Clearly, Deere has seen the writing on the wall, after the passage in 2002 of Right to Repair laws in New York and Colorado:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/when-drm-comes-your-wheelchair
These two bills broke the corporate anti-repair coalitionâs winning streak, which saw dozens of state R2R bills defeated:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/26/nixing-the-fix/#r2r
Deereâs deal-with-the-devil is a cynical ploy to brake R2Râs momentum and ensure that any repairs are carried out on Deereâs terms. Now, about those termsâŠ
Deereâs deal offers independent repair shops access to diagnostic tools and parts âon fair and reasonable terms,â a murky phrase that can mean whatever Deere decides it means. Crucially, the deal is silent on whether Deere will supply the tools needed to activate VIN locks, meaning that farmers will still be at Deereâs mercy when they effect their own repairs.
Whatâs more, the deal itself isnât legally binding, and Deere can cancel it at any time. Once you dig past the headline, the Deereâs Damascene conversion to repair advocacy starts to look awfully superficialâââand deceptive.
One person who wasnât fooled is sick.codes, the hacker who has done the most important work on reverse-engineering Deereâs computer systems, culminating in last summerâs live, on-stage hack of a John Deere tractor at Defcon:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/15/deere-in-headlights/#doh-a-deere
Shortly after the announcement, Sick.codes tweeted how the fine-print in the MOU would have prevented him from doing the work heâs already done (including âa direct stab at me lolâ):
https://twitter.com/sickcodes/status/1612484935495057409
As with other instances of monopolistic, corporate copyfraudâââlike, say, the deceptive Open Gaming Licenseâââthe John Deere capitulation is really a bid to take away your rights, dressed up as a gift of more rights:
https://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/706163316598407168/good-riddance-to-the-open-gaming-license
[Image ID: Hieronymus Boschâs painting, âThe Conjurer.â The Conjurorâs shell-game table holds a small John Deere tractor that the audience of yokels gawps at. One yokel is wearing a John Deere hat. The conjurer is holding a wrench.]
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The thing is, until you get past the mindset of "justice=punishment" you will never be able to create lasting change. We have actual proof that punitive justice creates more crime and makes criminals more violent. We have actual proof that rehabilitation reduces crime and recidivism. But some of y'all are so stuck on this idea that the wrongdoer must be punished for justice to be done that you will choose sating your need for revenge over actually moving toward a better world every time. And that's sad!
Everyone in the notes saying punishment doesn't undo the bad thing: exactly! Punishment does not create or preserve healing, prevention, protection, fairness, or goodness. The only thing punishment does is satisfy a sadistic public desire for revenge and give us the illusion of control.
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