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fox with the northern lights in Finland. 2026.
“In Finnish folklore, the northern lights are created when a mythical fox races across the Arctic tundra, its tail sweeping snow into the sky and setting it ablaze. Those glowing sparks, the story goes, become auroras — a legend reflected in the Finnish word revontulet, which literally translates to ‘fox fires.’”
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alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.
we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)
please rb for larger sample size!
Question 1/3
What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?
under 18, AI is a net positive
under 18, AI is a net negative
18-29, AI is a net positive
18-29, AI is a net negative
30-45, AI is a net positive
30-45, AI is a net negative
46-60, AI is a net positive
46-60, AI is a net negative
over 60, AI is a net postive
over 60, AI is a net negative
Question 2/3
How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?
Frequently (multiple times per month)
Often (multiple times per year)
Occasionally (a couple times per year)
Rarely (once every couple of years)
Never :(
Question 3/3
If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?
under 18, more inclined
under 18, less inclined
18-29, more inclined
18-29, less inclined
30-45, more inclined
30-45, less inclined
46-60, more inclined
46-60, less inclined
over 60, more inclined
over 60, less inclined
Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!
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They keep trying to make trek for modern sensibilities but they’re just making tos look excessively slutty
Exhibit A
I liked these tags but I had something to say about it
I already assumed that the dresses were a choice made by the female crew, mostly for my own sanity. They do show (very infrequently) women in tos wearing pants
And they show men wearing dresses in tng, but only ever in the background (unless you count the dress uniforms)
And obviously I like that these were included, but they were clearly a cop out decision.
“Yeah see men can wear dresses, women can wear pants. They just don’t choose to” reads as “of course I’m not sexist, women just like wearing tiny little dresses in the future”
And thinking about it from a late sixties perspective, many women did see more revealing clothes as an empowering choice to make. Men wanted women covered and modest, understated makeup, only exposed or done up for male enjoyment. Some women took that in the opposite direction and chose to wear more extravagant makeup, revealing clothing, and brighter colors. It was a progressive time, and some of the choices made in an attempt to highlight that in the show did not age well.
But at the same time, you can clearly see that some of these “progressive” points were only added in as a write off.
And thinking about it from a late sixties perspective, many women did see more revealing clothes as an empowering choice to make. Men wanted women covered and modest, understated makeup, only exposed or done up for male enjoyment. Some women took that in the opposite direction and chose to wear more extravagant makeup, revealing clothing, and brighter colors.
I think it's worth emphasizing that this very genuinely is the main reason for the "sexist" miniskirts. IRL, women were often not choosing between sexy miniskirts and non-objectifying pants, but long skirts (respectable) and short skirts (rebellious). Deliberately wearing short skirts as rebellion against patriarchal control that mandated long skirts or maaaaybe loose slacks on a good day is still hardly unknown among girls/women leaving conservative communities in the USA, and was only more commonly coded that way at the time.
Sally Kellerman, the actress for Elizabeth Dehner, found the close fit of the supposedly more feminist pants uncomfortable and is often given something to hold in front of her because she was so intensely self-conscious about them. Grace Lee Whitney (Janice Rand) loathed the more "proper" initial look and worked with the (gay) costume designer, William Ware Theiss, to design a different, more daring and cool-looking aesthetic for women of the future that appealed to her personally. That was what resulted in the miniskirt uniform design. No doubt it served the objectifying tastes of various straight men involved, but literally zero of them were responsible for the design of Whitney's and Nichols's uniforms.
Not only did Nichelle Nichols not consider herself suffering from the miniskirt, she admitted later to sometimes deliberately lifting the skirt even higher at Uhura's station to show off more of her legs because she hadn't worked so hard on her body to not show them off. Meanwhile, Jill Ireland, the actress for Leila Kalomi, was nervous that she might have to wear the kinds of revealing costumes so many other TOS actresses did, and Theiss instead designed her the comfortable overalls she wears as Leila in "This Side of Paradise."
The kneejerk backlash against short skirts (in decidedly more reactionary eras of both Star Trek and US culture) led to both the large-scale disappearance of the skirts and the snide commentary on them throughout later iterations of Trek, with zero consideration of the fact that they were designed by a gay man to suit the preferences of the leading actresses at a time when they commonly represented rebellion. The Berman-era Star Trek productions tut-tutting at the old costumes while actually putting actresses in uncomfortable, form-fitting uniforms they disliked is ... uh, something else.
Even while the female Starfleet costumes shifted towards pants (and militarism) in the movies, btw, Nichelle Nichols insisted on getting to wear skirts as Uhura—because she liked them and she had little patience for 80s respectability.
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“Oversea Chinese Banking Corporation” (1976) by I.M. Pei ☀ Clean lines announcing Singapore’s global ambitions
The thing is, even if you were lucky and your parents taught you how to clean, they probably didn't teach you how to clean the stuff you clean stuff with, like brushes, mops, sponges, rags, and so on. Or how to clean your cleaning appliances, like a dish washer, clothes washing machine, and clothes dryer and its ducts (if you have a ducted dryer), or a carpet cleaner, vacuum, Or how to clean up clean messes, like spilled bleach or detergent.
My parents threw away all of these things (even the vacuum cleaners and the dryer) when they got too dirty to function, because no one even told them THAT they could be cleaned. Cost them thousands of dollars over the years.
All I'm saying is that cleaning is not intuitive, and not knowing how to clean is not a moral failing, but it is something you can learn.
I'm going to reblog this post with resources for learning how to clean things and how to clean cleaning things (I'm not at my desk at the moment). If you have any favorites, please feel free to add them in too!
I like this video because it does a great job of introducing the basic foundations of house cleaning (and because he doesn't use bleach, which is a common allergy in addition to being awful to inhale). He also talks a little about how to clean a vacuum. And why you shouldn't put grease from your pots and pans down the sink drain. I also love that he mentions that different houses and different people have different needs and different versions of what clean and cleaning looks like.
He doesn't mention though that the toilet seat comes off. I take my toilet seat off to clean under the hinges and clean the seat more thoroughly once a quarter.
This is another video from the same guy about cleaning and depression. This advice, especially at the beginning, can feel really really difficult and oppressive to hear. However, I find that it's generally pretty solid. But I'm autistic and so is he, so that gets a massive Your Mileage May Vary stamp on it.
I have a favorite part of this video. It's from 10:52 to 12:36. I think we could all use to hear that. There's a HEFTY pause after that one. I promise the narration does come back.
I'm also going to recommend KC Davis' book "How To Keep House While Drowning"
This is a pair of videos about how to correctly load and use a dish washer.
The first one is a quick 1 minute 30 second overview on loading. I can't find the exact video I'm looking for, so consider this a substitute for that. If I can find the one I'm looking for, I'll swap it in.
The second is a half hour deep dive on dishwashers and detergents. The short form of that is you shouldn't need to pre-rinse anything, detergent pods are overpriced and can cause problems, some dishwashers have a filter in the bottom that needs to be cleaned (but most don't), run your sink until the water is HOT before starting your dish washer, and put a little detergent in the pre-rinse dispenser when you're washing extra dirty dishes (or on the inside of the door if your dishwasher doesn't have a pre-rinse dispenser).
Favorite Scrub Brushes + How to Clean Them. The right tools for cleaning tasks make all the difference! Scrub brushes are great tools and it
Here's a blog post about scrubbing brushes and how to clean them.
And a video for all cleaning tools, including scrub brushes. This video does use bleach. I'll try to find some alternatives to that.
How to clean a front load washer (with bleach). This should be done monthly or every time you wash really soiled clothes.
With expert tips and tricks for all types of washers.
How to clean a top loader (without the removable agitator thing). This should be done every 1-3 months depending on you unit, or every time you wash really soiled clothes.
Regular cleaning of a top-load washing machine will prolong the life of the appliance and leave your laundry cleaner and brighter.
How to clean a top loader (with the removable agitator thing). This should be done every month, or every time you wash really soiled clothes.
This video is for pet owners.
These carpet brushes are a LIFE SAVER if you have dogs. This thing allows me to go from vacuuming about 4 square feet before my vacuum is full to vacuuming half the living room (I don't vacuum often enough. You should vacuum weekly, and I just can't.). I have to unclog the vacuum less often. It fluffs up some of the flat spots in the carpet. And I also use the brush to shampoo my rugs in the spring.
A spot cleaner (or a carpet cleaner with a spot cleaner attachment) is another life saver, ESPECIALLY if you can afford to splurge on a heated one. I see them at Goodwill or at yard sales occasionally, and they're worth picking up. The shark one in the video is great too.
This channel is gold. There's tutorials for cleaning EVERYTHING on there. Just go subscribe!
Gonna throw another potential resource at the end of this very long list, which may be potentially helpful for others like me who loathe videos. It's... the weirdest thing that has genuinely been helpful to me in housekeeping. Absolutely full of useful advice, and bizarrely still relevant in large part. (Though, caveat, research ANYTHING to do with chemicals or cleaning products more complicated than vinegar + lemon + water for modern information.)
It's America's Housekeeping Book (1941). Available for free download on the Internet Archive. (Large PDF file at the link here).
The LISTS y'all. The step by step lists. The emphasis on efficiency and arranging spaces for the least resistance possible. The basic concept of "take a tray or basket into a room when you are tidying up so you can put things that belong elsewhere on it and take them out LATER in ONE GO".
My ADHD-having ass could cry.
Ribbon dancing I was not aware of your evolution 🤯
"The Kiss of the Sphinx" created by German sculptor Christian Behrens around 1880.
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o fuck there's two of them now did they grow this one in a lab from a cutting?
Obviously he made him out of chocolate. C'mon now.
"can't believe Hungary is celebrating a centrist-conservative" low-key choke on your tongue, you have no idea about what the status of the left here is (non fucking existent for complicated reasons) so yes, we will take one fucking step back towards the center after a far-right asshole, thanks!!!!!!!
"there's no left-wing party in the hungarian parliament" okay so we didn't have a minister of health. did you know that? no minister of education either. since 2010, yeah. we have, like, maybe three independent press outlets. they've continuously extended the emergency rule of law thats been in effect since 2020, allowing orbán to rule by decree. if he had won again we would have been kicked out of the eu and the country's already struggling economy would have collapsed like a house of cards. i can empathize with my fellow hungarians having mixed feelings about a right leaning centrist with allegations of dv still hanging over his head but everyone else should shut up foreverrrr
Sorry for dragging your tags out in the open, but as a Hungarian, what you just said is extremely important! There is a US cultural hegemony in the world and when young Hungarian leftists start to speak about Hungarian politics as if it were the same as US politics that's a frightening experience. Performative activism, the role of victimhood and the látványos jóemberkedés will get us nowhere, we actually have to stand up for ourselves and put the work in, both in Hungary and in the US.
I read something one time about how the strongest predictor of a country* descending into authoritarianism was the collapse of its center right parties. I think it might have been a historical analysis of just European countries.
You don't have to like them, but they give people with right wing sensibilities something to vote for that isn't authoritarian, and that's important if you want your country to be a functioning democracy.
I live in the US and I think one of the biggest long term issues we face is the lack of moderate Republicans - there isn't any obvious path for people who have always voted for them and hate Dems to vote for non-authoritarian politicians.
I also worry about France - Macron was able to keep Le Pen out of government with his party but they seem to have absorbed the center left and right, and if his party collapses, or even just sheds a significant fraction of it's support, will French people who are uncomfortable with their left wing parties have to choose between leftist parties and Le Pen? That's a recipe for disaster.
Anyway I think it bears repeating that the majority of people are in "the center" in any country. Or maybe it's more true that "the center" is closer to where most people in a country can compromise on policy. And different countries have different centers.
Political power shifting to the center is affirming of democratic power - and it seems like that's something Hungarians badly wanted.
Bird house built into Ayazma Mosque Istanbul, Turkey
having being anti death penalty as one of my core beliefs is fun because it really makes me realize how even progressive people want soooooo badly for there to be a category of people they can kill. I'm sorry but "group of people okay to kill" does not exist.
OP is right on all points and they should say it.
That being said, despite agreeing with OP and all the other anti-death penalty arguments on their post, I've recently been thinking about a case where I'm not so sure.
The Death Penalty for War Criminals.
1) I'm unaware of any cases of falsely accused or convicted War Criminals being executed.
2) This situation is explicitly not about justice - military tribunals don't do justice, they're more about discipline and getting soldiers to act the ways we want when they're in inhuman circumstances. Many militaries have traditionally had the death penalty for desertion, not because it was just but because they badly needed to keep their soldiers from fleeing near certain death. Which brings me to my next point:
3) What is an appropriate disincentive to keep soldiers who are already at risk of dying, and who already have very constrained liberty from committing atrocities?
Is there any disincentive at all that would be powerful enough to affect the decision-making of those ordering troops? Don't we have to threaten them with death (which is already threatened in war) to change the way they might possibly act?
I'm aware that certainty of consequences is a more powerful lever than intensity of consequences, but war crimes are already very very difficult to identify and prosecute. I'm unaware of any methods to make them easier. I am sympathetic to the argument that people will be less likely to report their buddy if it could get them executed, but it seems like the only punishment grave enough to match the circumstances.
Doubly so for cases where soldiers are ordered to commit war crimes - if you're going to risk imprisonment for insubordination for refusing to carry out a war crime we need to make that (unjust) but relatively certain punishment preferable to the punishment you might get if you're later tried for the war crimes you've been ordered to commit.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to you excellent folks trying to convince me I'm wrong (and I hope you succeed!).
when you were a child, the worm named LANGUAGE ate its way into your brain and cursed you to understand the letters and the syllables and the sense of speech, doomed you to commas and clauses and passive voice, took the meat of you and twisted it with words. this is why you’re able to post about maids and berries and flasks and catgirls and whatnot, so it’s pretty great. make sure to thank the worm named LANGUAGE the next time you see it!
Mom trains me as a hunter in between naps.
fuck, marry, kill: the wound that won’t heal, the past you can’t undo, the ghost that keeps returning
fuck, marry, kill:
fuck the wound, marry the past, kill the ghost
fuck the wound, marry the ghost, kill the past
fuck the past, marry the wound, kill the ghost
fuck the past, marry the ghost, kill the wound
fuck the ghost, marry the wound, kill the past
fuck the ghost, marry the past, kill the wound
reblog for sample if you want to!
"app" is without a doubt one of the deepest evils of the human race. "hello. would you like to be expected to have a bespoke piece of software for every single Brand you might theoretically interact with in a day" <- statement dreamed up by someone who should be drawn and quartered
"It's better in the app!"
That's embarrassing. Make your website better
