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i can't believe terry pratchett created the Community pizza gag back in 1989
if you canât talk about sex w/o calling it âseggsâ or âspicy timeâ i thimk maybw you should be quiet & keep it to your self .
we are in a media literacy crisis
friendly reminder that characters don't need to be saints to be entertaining. and telling a story does not mean endorsement. art does not need to be all about morally good people.
IDK if this was meant as hyperbole but it's literally true:
Adult literacy is low.
Child literacy is low.
Information literacy has shifted dramatically in the last decade, but reputable information sources like research journals and factual news reporting have been unable to keep pace.
We are genuinely in a crisis of media literacy, with ever fewer genuinely factual resources available in the style and language used by contemporary audiences.
It may sound condescending, but we genuinely need to remind people, or worse, explain to them for the first time that art is not evidence of real world behaviour.
So, thank you, for this reminder. Genuinely.
You're correct:
Art does not need to feature exclusively morally pure characters. Art is not proof of the creator's secret, violent desires.
I will never, NEVER understand people who complain about Ao3 search system and how the archive isn't algorithm based. Ao3 is literally the only site that has a decent search system, at this point.
Anytime I need to Google something, I feel like I'm about to lose my mind. I wanted to research the reason why women in my country are more likely to get custody of their children, because all the studies I know about focus on the US and needed to compare them to make an argument, and the best I got were domestic violence stats, an article about a woman committing suicide, and stats about parents with shared custody.
And let's not talk about YouTube! My home page doesn't show any of the youtubers I follow unless I left a video unfinished (but, then again, it'll keep showing me unfinished videos even from people I'm not subscribed to), and the search system is completely fucked. When I write, I like to listen to those lyrics-less playlists titled stuff like "you're the last person after the end of the world," and now searching for them is a pain in the ass.
It doesn't matter how specific I try to get with them to get the results I want, YouTube will always show me a bunch of random playlists that have nothing to do with the keywords I used, will bring up several shorts even if I make sure to opt out of them anytime they pop up in my home feed, and ultimately loop me around to the content I usually consume.
"You typed 'Y2K nostalgiacore with birds'? How about 'Liminal spaces in a Walmart'? No? Okay, let's try 'Life after the nuclear holocaust." No again? Then fuck you, here's a full album of a band now popular on TikTok, twelve shorts that might be related to what you're looking for, and Danny Gonzalez videos. Fuck you."
And people just seem to be okay with this shit! Claim that it's easier! How the fuck is it easier, when you have to type and retype the same shit over and over again in the hope that that one word you decide to add or remove will suddenly change where the site brings you??
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I suspect most of the people who are happy with this sort of thing firstly aren't actually looking for anything in particular all that often, and secondly, aren't aware things used to be different, if not necessarily better.
Prior to the internet, we had things like phone books (White Pages for personal residential and government numbers; Yellow Pages for commercial numbers) where everything was listed alphabetically, and you had to learn how to search the phone book for the entry you wanted. We had card catalogues and microfiche systems in libraries to index and catalogue their collections, and you had to learn how to use those to find the information you were after (starting with the question of whether a book was fiction or non-fiction). We had street directories (books of maps) to locate addresses - and you had to learn how to use those to work backward from "where you wanted to be" to "where you are", figure out your best route, and hope there weren't any roadworks along the way to divert you. Not necessarily better, but different.
For a brief period, internet search engines worked to effectively index the internet, and provided you with what you'd asked to be shown - and whether this was the same as "what you wanted" was up to your own skill in choosing keywords. Over time, search engine algorithms were tweaked and refined so they could provide a much more accurate answer to "what you wanted" rather than "what you asked for" - heading toward the mythical goal of "being able to supply the correct answer even when the wrong question was being asked" which was originally given as a potential property for mechanical computing systems to Charles Babbage back in the 1800s (it should be noted, Mr Babbage was rather flummoxed by this request, saying he couldn't understand the confusion of ideas which had led to it).
So we get to where we are today, where the working assumption of most search engines is apparently that when someone types in a search term, they don't know what they want or how to ask for it; and the algorithm therefore makes a wild guess, based on past correlations to various keywords and the equivalents of "people who bought this also bought that" for search results.
To be honest, I'd rather have an index, phone book, or card catalogue for the internet. At least with those, I know how to do the searching myself.
this gets pretty loud be careful
I had never even considered the range of emotions these two go through in this part
YEAH
obsessed with the Willy Wonka Experience, both a lesson in the dangers of AI and an incredible contender for the new dashcon/fyre festival (x)
I feel bad because it was probably families with kids who got scammed but to be fair this is what their website looks like... there were signs (x)
Due to a misunderstanding, the party gets the Duck of Many Things. Nobody can predict what it does, but occasionally theyâll hear a quack and the fun begins.
the MEATBALLS menu????? wtaf tumblr
In UI/UX design, menus have different names depending on the aspect they have, I knew about the hamburger menu and so I figured the âmeatballs menuâ could exist too, and it doesâŚ
thats it, im not posting the rest of the day, this is the best fucking thing ive learned in the past 3 weeks
this is what we needed to learn in distance learning
In my Actual Job I regularly have to tell people âyou have to click the hamburger to unhide the sidebar menuâ and if you think this makes anything clearer you are WRONG.
Whoever designated these icons knew exactly how what they were doing to the people who have to explain how they work.
As I keep shouting into the void, pathologizers love shifting discussion about material conditions into discussion about emotional states.
I rant approximately once a week about how the brain maturity myth transmuted âYoung adults are too poor to move out of their parentsâ homes or have children of their ownâ into âYoung adults are too emotionally and neurologically immature to move out of their parentsâ homes or have children of their own.â
Iâve also talked about the misuse of âenablingâ and âtraumaâ and âdopamineâ .
And this is a pattern â people coin terms and concepts to describe material problems, and pathologization culture shifts them to be about problems in the brain or psyche of the person experiencing them. Now weâre talking about neurochemicals, frontal lobes, and self-esteem instead of talking about wages, wealth distribution, and civil rights. Now we can say that poor, oppressed, and exploited people are suffering from a neurological/emotional defect that makes them not know whatâs best for themselves, so they donât need or deserve rights or money.
Here are some terms that have been so horribly misused by mental health culture that weâve almost entirely forgotten that they were originally materialist critiques.
Codependency What it originally referred to: A non-addicted person being overly âhelpfulâ to an addicted partner or relative, often out of financial desperation. For example: Making sure your alcoholic husband gets to work in the morning (even though heâs an adult who should be responsible for himself) because if he loses his job, youâll lose your home. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/opinion/codependency-addiction-recovery.html What itâs been distorted into: Being âclingy,â being âtoo emotionally needy,â wanting things like affection and quality time from a partner. A way of pathologizing people, especially young women, for wanting things like love and commitment in a romantic relationship.
Compulsory Heterosexuality What it originally referred to: In the 1980 in essay "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence," https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/493756 Adrienne Rich described compulsory heterosexuality as a set of social conditions that coerce women into heterosexual relationships and prioritize those relationships over relationships between women (both romantic and platonic). She also defines âlesbianâ much more broadly than current discourse does, encompassing a wide variety of romantic and platonic relationships between women. While she does suggest that women who identify as heterosexual might be doing so out of unquestioned social norms, this is not the primary point sheâs making. What itâs been distorted into: The patronizing, biphobic idea that lesbians somehow falsely believe themselves to be attracted to men. Part of the overall âWomen donât really know what they want or whatâs good for themâ theme of contemporary discourse.
Emotional Labor What it originally referred to: The implicit or explicit requirement that workers (especially women workers, especially workers in female-dominated âpink collarâ jobs, especially tipped workers) perform emotional intimacy with customers, coworkers, and bosses above and beyond the actual job being done. Having to smile, be âfriendly,â flirt, give the impression of genuine caring, politely accept harassment, etc. https://weld.la.psu.edu/what-is-emotional-labor/ What itâs been distorted into: Everything under the sun. Everything from housework (which we already had a term for), to tolerating the existence of disabled people, to just caring about friends the way friends do. The original intent of the concept was âItâs unreasonable to expect your waitress to care about your problems, because sheâs not really your friend,â not âItâs unreasonable to expect your actual friends to care about your problems unless you pay them, because thatâs emotional labor,â and certainly not âDisabled people shouldnât be allowed to be visibly disabled in public, because witnessing a disabled person is emotional labor.â Anything that causes a person emotional distress, even if that emotional distress is rooted in the distress-haverâs bigotry (Many nominally progressive people who would rightfully reject the bigoted logic of âSeeing gay or interracial couples upsets me, which is emotional labor, so they shouldnât be allowed to exist in publicâ fully accept the bigoted logic of âSeeing disabled or poor people upsets me, which is emotional labor, so they shouldnât be allowed to exist in publicâ).
Battered Wife Syndrome What it originally referred to: The all-encompassing trauma and fear of escalating violence experienced by people suffering ongoing domestic abuse, sometimes resulting in the abuse victim using necessary violence in self-defense. Because domestic abuse often escalates, often to murder, this fear is entirely rational and justified. This is the reasonable, justified belief that someone who beats you, stalks you, and threatens to kill you may actually kill you.
What itâs been distorted into: Like so many of these other items, the idea that women (in this case, women who are victims of domestic violence) donât know whatâs best for themselves. I debated including this one, because âsyndromeâ was a wrongful framing from the beginning â a justified and rational fear of escalating violence in a situation in which escalating violence is occurring is not a âsyndrome.â But the original meaning at least partially acknowledged the material conditions of escalating violence.
Iâm not saying the original meanings of these terms are ones I necessarily agree with â as a cognitive liberty absolutist, Iâm unsurprisingly not that enamored of either second-wave feminism or 1970s addiction discourse. And as much as I dislike what âemotional laborâ has become, I accept that âWomen are unfairly expected to care about other peopleâs feelings more than men areâ is a true statement.
What I am saying is that all of these terms originally, at least partly, took material conditions into account in their usage. Subsequent usage has entirely stripped the materialist critique and fully replaced it with emotional pathologization, specifically of women. Acknowledgement that women have their choices constrained by poverty, violence, and oppression has been replaced with the idea that women donât know whatâs best for themselves and need to be coercively âhelpedâ for their own good. Acknowledgement that working-class women experience a gender-and-class-specific form of economic exploitation has been rebranded as yet another variation of âDisabled people are burdensome for wanting to exist.â
Over and over, materialist critiques are reframed as emotional or cognitive defects of marginalized people. The next time you hear a superficially sympathetic (but actually pathologizing) argument for âMarginalized people make bad choices becauseâŚâ consider stopping and asking: âWait, who are we to assume that this personâs choices are âbadâ? And if they are, is there something about their material conditions that constrains their options or makes the âbadâ choice the best available option?â
Thinking about 13 Latvias again
I genuinely belive this is the funniest fucking thing we will ever get from reddit
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?
Westworld did this as well. Storytelling is dead!
IF FAN THEORIES ARE RIGHT IT IS A SIGN YOU HAVE TOLD A WELL-PUT TOGETHER AND FOLLOWABLE PLOT, NOT A SIGN YOU NEED TO MAKE UP SOME BULLSHIT FOR A TWIST ENDING. FUCK OFF WITH THIS SHIT.
No wait, Iâm not done here:
If the fans get where you are going and ARE STILL HAPPY, you KEEP GOING THERE. It shows theyâre invested and your story craft is setting up and paying off properly.Â
It is not a sign you need to M Night Shamaylan things until narrative is fuckin dead and âsurprise endings!â reign supreme. If no one can guess what will happen, you donât have a plot, you have deus ex machinas strung together like a childâs macaroni necklace. It might be endearing and beloved but its hardly a fuckin masterpiece.Â
To be utterly frank, this is where âNO SPOILERS! NO SPOILERS EVER! NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO BREATHE ABOUT THE PLOT UNTIL ITâS BEEN OUT ON DVD FOR FIVE YEARSâ attitude has left us â And the studios ACTIVELY encourage that shit because first week viewing numbers are their whole lifeblood.
Sure, an âoh shitâ moment is great, but if youâre doing it well, I should have that moment watching the show the second, fifth, or hundredth time, knowing how it will go. If being surprised were truly so important to a narrative, why even make a Shakespeare play? Is anyone out there still hoping Romeo and Juliet still get together at the end? Why make mystery novels into movies? Spoiler warning: Hercules Poirot gets the bad guy. Movies that directly follow historical events? Clearly worthless.
Come on, now. Sure, try not to spoil shit for people intentionally, donât be a dick, but can we calm the fuck down and can Hollywood stop pushing this shit both in social media and with business choices like this?
âi cant help but think that fans should be allowed to like, gather in groups online and theorize and have fun without networks watching inâ
-Lindsay Ellis abt game of thrones doing the same thing
If no one can guess what will happen, you donât have a plot, you have deus ex machinas strung together like a childâs macaroni necklace. It might be endearing and beloved but its hardly a fuckin masterpiece.Â
One of the things that I think kinda strikes me is that The Sixth Senseâs twist worked because no one EXPECTED a twist. The plot and characters are engaging and so the sudden reveal makes everything click into place. The same thing applies to Arrival: I was genuinely enthralled with the story being told and so the sudden reveal had my jaw on the floor.
M. Night then immediately started being the Twist Guy and tried to second guess his audience a whole bunch, and it led to some of the worst movies of the decade. He started putting âHaving a surprising endingâ ahead of making a movie people wanted to see the ending to and it nearly killed his career.
ââI didnât see that comingâ is good, while 'I couldnât possibly have seen that comingâ is not.â - @relativelylessimportant
Thanks for the shout out because I absolutely hate this tendency. If you've got obsessive fans on Tumblr and Reddit piecing together the clues you put there, then you've done a good job with your foreshadowing and don't have to change anything. You especially don't have to change it to something you just pulled out of your bum at the last minute. That's not a plot twist. It's barely even a plot. It's just screwing over both your viewers and your own writing for no good reason.
Insist the primary distinction between High Elves and Dark Elves is that High Elves aren't here to fuck spiders while Dark Elves are absolutely no questions asked here to fuck spiders.
Today's aesthetic: when a video game does the YOU DIED thing, but the developers neglected to give the baddies a victory pose, or even provide their AI with any sort of general script for what to do when the player character ceases to be a valid target, so they just keep milling around periodically attacking the air three feet above your character's prone corpse until the screen fades out.
(Bonus points for the ones that will knock you into some lethal hazard, killing you instantly, then proceed to conga-line into that exact same hazard and die themselves because their code prioritises "get within punching range of the player character" above "living".)
My favorite thing about Max Caulfield is how she both has far too much internal dialogue and not nearly enough.
If you don't kiss Chloe, Max says it's because "she's not ready for marriage." The overthinking you have to participate in to get to that conclusion is worse than a goat farmer trying to figure out how to keep a fox out of the fence.
But then she gets a text from a sketchy number saying that they're going to destroy the evidence related to Rachel, and Max decides to go to the junkyard??? Under the cover of night??? Without telling anyone else where they were going??? And what would she do even if Nathan was there destroying the evidence?? Ask him politely to surrender to the authorities???
Max has brain cells but sometimes she does not apply them to the proper place.
[Polish. A red writing on the wall saying "no smoking" changed to "beating meat compulsory" with a black sharpie]
In case anyone wanted a more in-depth explanation, here it is:
"Zakaz" means "ban" "Palenia" is derived from "paliÄ" which means "to burn" and can also be used as "to smoke [e.g. a cigarette]". "Palenie" is the verbal noun (burning/smoking) and "palenia" is the genitive form, so "zakaz palenia" literally means "ban on smoking" "Nakaz" means "command" or "order" "WaliÄ konia" is a slang term for masturbation. It literally means "to beat the horse" which incidentally means every time I hear the English idiom "beating a dead horse" I laugh a little bit. The grammar for "waliÄ" works the same way as "paliÄ" so "walenia konia" is the genitive form of the verbal noun And this brings me to my favorite thing about being bilingual in Polish and English, because when you translate literal(ish, a fully literal translation between two languages can often be impossible)ly from Polish to English it has a specific sound to it that I'm really fond of. In this case, if you translate literal(ish)ly, you get "ban on smoking" being changed to "Command to beat the meat!!!" or "I command you to beat your meat!!!"
-sincerely, a Polish linguistics nerd
This has never been more appropriate:
People getting mad about Firefox switching to using hardware acceleration for video playback because they think "hardware acceleration" is a form of DRM is basically the browser equivalent of people freaking out because some random social media platform's terms of service says they own your posts, then when you read what the ToS in question actually says it's literally just "you grant us the right to show your posts to other people".
okay, what is hardware acceleration?
In this context, it means your computer is delegating video playback to your video card (or to your integrated GPU, if you have one of those instead) so that it doesn't compete with your other apps for resources.
Some streaming and screen capture apps don't know how to deal with video playback via the GPU, which can result in the video appearing blank; however, nothing is actually trying to stop you from streaming or screen-capturing the video â it's just two different programs not knowing how to talk to each other. If you can't figure out how to make them communicate, you can turn hardware acceleration off in whatever you're using to play the video.
Stole this handy chart from another tumblr user for visual explanation purposes. Don't remember who it was though