Staring at the Moon

@ranmaru-chan

Hello there, I'm Ranmaru I don't really do much, but I hope to do more. I mostly post a bunch of things I like. Some of that is Night Vale related, others are Sailor Moon, or whatever else anime I'm into atm. Anywho hello there and hope you enjoy yourself. Oh also, music posts are under the tag "music post." I hope my blog can be a safe space and you can enjoy yourself, if you have a problem don't hesitate to ask me anything. :D

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mohtz

some favorite looks of dominique jackson!

jay-rayart

“Love could never make me hate you” FLY is a story where Black boys lift eachother up. We deserve spaces where we can be embraced for the soft and strong parts we share with eachother. Follow FLY on Kickstarter for more 💫🪽

A coming of age story about Black kids who finally have power to fight back against systems designed against them.

argumate

The government cut funding for the New World screwworm monitoring program and then reportedly ignored ranchers warning the parasite was work

dang

solarpunkcast

Yes DOGE is to blame. If you ever saw the tweet complaining about "we spend money on researching FLY SEX?!?" - THAT WAS ABOUT SCREWWORMS

#ive seen screw worms in action #terrible shit man

seule-s

The speed of jazz music, 50s-60s, by Francine Winham

tsscat

I don’t think people realize what keeping the internet running and producing most tech they use entails like. Physically, labor-wise, energy-wise.

tsscat

Purposefully included some older articles here so people can see how baked in this is:

Labor Conditions of Content Moderators (2021)

Inside AOL's "Cyber-Sweatshop" (1999)

Digital Labor and Imperialism (2016)

Amazon Mechanical Turk: The Digital Sweatshop (2012)

Gig Economy, Algorithmic Control, and Migrant Labor (2022)

The Rise of Cyber-Coolies (2003)

Ecological Impact of Computation and the Cloud (2022)

The Environmental Sustainability of Digital Content Consumption (2024)

Carbon Footprint of the Internet (2010)

I think a lot of times I see people talk about this stuff in relation to AI. It's right to talk about it, but I hate when people act like AI is the only tech that has these problems. What you see with AI now is a reflection of the broader tech and internet industry that has grown for the past 20-30 years.