[rafikecoyote]

Yoon Jisu x Jung Jaeheon

[dramastream]

Park Hae Soo as Cho Sang Woo in SQUID GAME (2021) Lee Do Hyun as Lee Eun Hyuk in SWEET HOME (2020)

[aceofjesper-archive-deactivated]

no one:

me when i finish tsoa:

[bandydear]

The Interesting Use of Christina in Episode 8

So, I’ve been marinading in my thoughts about this week’s episode, and boy was it a doozy.

Not to be like, one of those white people who only focuses on the white character in a show with a mostly black cast, but I am continually fascinated with the use of Christina/William as a character and what she consistently provides/represents within the narrative.

As a character she represents White Privilege, and it is something the character wields and is aware of. Something refreshing about her is that she does not play down or deny her privilege, she often weaponizes it. Sometimes she does this in the favour of the other characters. A literal White Knight, protecting Tic, Leti, and George in the pilot, then again being called to for protection THREE TIMES in episode 8. And then again in the trailer for episode 9.

Begging Christina for protection goes hand in hand with the source of fear and anxiety in this episode: the lynching of Emmett Till.

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[keuries]

chungha for the star magazine 

[thekimonogallery]

A photographer’s portrait in a mirror, a hundred years ago, Japan, ca. 1920. Text and image via Old Japanese Photos on Facebook

[void-milf]

fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals.  protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.

[void-milf]

the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity.  make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged.  and strike. attack.

[37womenwieldingknives]

YES i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word. above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that

[afraidofamericans]

This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data

[queeranarchism]

Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.

[anarchopuppy]

Ooh I know this one!

Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money

TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)

WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it

Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me

@afraidofamericans

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I love all of this. anyone have recommendations for chrome users?

[anarchopuppy]

@biggest-gaudiest-patronuses TrackMeNot, WhatCampaign, and Privacy Possum are all available through the chrome store, and although google has tried to ban Ad Nauseum, you can still get it directly from the developers

Though if you’re trying to subvert tracking and lose surveillance companies money, a good first step is to switch to Firefox if possible

[blackness-by-your-side]

The sign of high quality is the fact the book was banned by the government. Trash literature NEVER EVER had any troubles with the law.

[cuntybearjamboree]

FARENHEIT 451 IS ON THE BANNED BOOKS LIST??? IT’S LITERALLY ABOUT THE SOCIETAL DANGERS OF BANNING/OUTLAWING/BURNING BOOKS ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

[dancing-coyote]

That’s the reason it’s on the bloody list.

BECAUSE IT’S ABOUT HOW BANNING AND BURNING BOOKS IS WRONG.

[unlimitedgamesbutnogames]

HERE’S ALL THE PDF VERSIONS I COULD FIND SINCE WE’RE ALL IN QUARANTINE AND WE CAN’T PHYSICALLY GET THE BOOKS WE DON’T HAVE

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Beloved

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (this was the only free version I could find, and it’s a downloadable thing, so do so with caution)

The Call of the Wild

Catch-22 (it was either this version or one where the entire thing was in comic sans font)

The Catcher in the Rye

Fahrenheit 451

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Gone With the Wind

The Grapes of Wrath

The Great Gatsby

Howl

In Cold Blood

Invisible Man

The Jungle (personally I don’t like this formatting, but the site doesn’t look sketchy so…) - there’s also this which is the proper book format in a pdf, but it’s directly photocopied so it might be hard to read some of the print

Leaves of Grass

Moby Dick

Native Son

Our Bodies, Ourselves (we learned about this one in APUSH!)

The Red Badge of Courage

The Scarlet Letter

COULD NOT FIND Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (the ebook is 47 fucking dollars??? and i can’t even find sketchy websites that’ll let me download a pdf. if anyone manages to find a link, lmk please)

Stranger in a Strange Land

A Streetcar Named Desire

Their Eyes Were Watching God

To Kill a Mockingbird

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Where the Wild Things Are (this is a slideshow!!!! how fun)

COULD NOT FIND The Words of Cesar Chavez (however I did manage to download the first 71 pages of the book from EBSCO and I put it here but I couldn’t get the rest. sorry y’all)

[emeraldscholar]

rebloggan 4 links

[basil-s0up]

Reblogging to add you can find free ebook versions of most classic works on amazon. Just search for the book then order by price - ascending

[hailqiqi]

I mean, what the fuck in general

But also

Where the Wild Things Are?!?!

[lizardsexposed]

[violaslayvis]

I think finding out that Hitler was inspired by how throughly Andrew Jackson committed genocide against the Natives would shatter or at least destabilize the ethos of the Founding Fathers & America for a lot of people

[zvaigzdelasas]

also the american eugenics movement which started in the late 1800′s was a huge inspiration for Hitler, and was even where the idea of blonde hair blue eyed superiority came from, and the idea of a “gas chamber” to take care of “undesirables”. In the early part of the third reich, the american eugenics movement saw it as the logical conclusion of their ““research”” and republished lots and lots of nazi propaganda 

but yeah, nazism is so un-american uwu 

[queeranarchism]

Hitler praised American immigration restrictions in Mein Kampf. When the nazis wrote the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime, they specifically modelled them after the Jim Crow Laws, the Citizenship Law and the Blood Law of the United States.  

Big chunks of the American legal system and history inspired the nazi’s in their organisation of the Holocaust. 

[pettygraham]

Welp

[phoenix-ace]

That is why you cannot talk about Nazism in The Americas without talking about antiblackness and anti native racism. All that does is absolve the U.S. of the policies it supported (and enforced) by pretending it was purely a foreign invention that they actively tried to resist.

[arsanatomica]

We’re only finding out recently that a lot of animals have colors and patterns that we cannot see because they’re outside of our visual range. It calls to attention how much of the world we can’t experience because our senses are limited. When we shine UV lights on them, they glow pink or blue, but these are the colors that we CAN see…. they could be a bunch of different colors, which we SEE as all pink. It’s also interesting to consider that most of these animals are not aware of having glowing patches on their bodies…. isn’t it also possible that we have skin or hair patterns that were not aware of? . . (There is actually some research out there to support the idea that our own skin fluoresces as well and that there are gender differences in the pattern and glow.) Other places to see my posts: INSTAGRAM / FACEBOOK / ETSY / KICKSTARTER    

[saccharinescorpion]

can’t stop thinking about Greatnana Wanetta’s introduction in the Knives Out script

[ngoziu]

outplayed them *all* by having a kind heart

[tamagaytchi]

Tasuku Kaname declaring “I don’t want to see the guy I like hurt others anymore” to his crush who’s also the guy that acted real homophobic towards him and his friends is just.. really selfless and brave but also so real in that sense that he has close to no respect for his own hurt but the same hurt towards those who’s given him safety in unaccaptable… This paired with the visuals of loud spacecraft alarms and bright lights to symbolize his crush’s realization that his self-hate and actions damaged people around him pretty badly is really artistically strong, specific and unique and i don’t knwo what to say but fucking hell scoob

[wizardsexmachine]

[shimanamii]

What do you enjoy the most when creating a manga?

That sensation, when I manage to draw an important scene and it turns out exactly as I wanted, that the whole work was worth creating just for the sake of that one scene.

[shimanamii]

When ur gf’s about to fight someone and u gotta commemorate