Random Things

[bowlby4]

[progressivemillennial]

“If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.”

― Marjane Satrapi, Iranian graphic novelist

[odyver]

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

Remaining time: 6 days 9 hours

[odyver]

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 :(

Remaining time: 6 days 9 hours

[odyver]

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

Remaining time: 6 days 9 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

[sambargestuff]

Your findings will be skewed by the average age of Tumblr user.

[doortotomorrow]

an endless collection of star wars gifs : five / infinity

[tiggersmoke]

A little spring cleaning / checkup Watched Rogue One recently,fell in love with the robot.  Guess because he’s tall,lanky,and his posture is a bit hunched,and all of these things remind me of my bf ( I even told him the other day…not sure he was happy about the comparison but oh XD)

[natalierso]

NATALIERSO’S FOLLOWERS CELEBRATION 

@ruby-red-inky-blue asked: jyn + girls against god by florence and the machine

[sambargestuff]

Nope. I don't like Jacob Elordi.

[nolwamahtars]

JYN ERSO APPRECIATION WEEK | Day Three: Favourite Relationship ⟶ Jyn and Bodhi

- Your father…he said I could get right by myself. He said I could make it right…if I was brave enough to listen to what was in my heart. Do something about it. Guess it was too late.

- It wasn’t too late.

[0fficelady]

Collection

[hollowedskin]

My whole life I've known that you must leave at least one mistake in your knitting or crochet or tapestry, because spirits/demons can get lost in the perfection of the stitches and be unable to find their way out.

If you don't want a haunted scarf, you have to leave a mistake as an exit point.

[syntax-forest]

This is beautiful but I can't help but think that at least one of these originated with like, someone who fucked up their knitting and managed to convince everyone else it was intentional.

[hollowedskin]

I'm almost certain this is what happened. Because whenever I am close to finishing a crochet project, especially something in the round where each row is more work than the last, and I find a mistake in the last row as I'm stitching into it

The closer I am to finishing and not wanting to undo 2h worth of work to change that one single into a double, the more likely I am to go "well. That's the demons stitch then isn't it", and leave it be.

The demon stitch absolutely gives my ocd toxic perfectionism a loophole to allow something to remain a mistake, which is why I choose to believe in it.

[ave-aria]

oh, haha. a loophole.

[sambargestuff]

I always say "perfection is a blasphemy to God," which creeps people out particularly because I'm an atheist.

[liberalsarecool]

Donnie is such a queen.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

"Vote for me!" - Vladimir Lenin

[evilsoup]

it's actually foundational to marxism (and so to lenin) that capitalist exploitation is not "theft". To say that the ruling class has "stolen" something is a category error. The conflict between classes is more fundamental than conventional legal categories: the point isn't that the capitalists have stolen something from you, it's that their interests are opposed to yours as a worker, and that workers are capable of changing the basic organising principles of society.

[sambargestuff]

Thank you. Yes. Communism is the actual opposite of fascism. There is no outgroup.

[ruby-red-inky-blue]

ruminating on some undercooked theory about the fact that the mutuals around me that are most pissed about the full character motivation/background retcon of Cassian Andor aren't from the States

Rogue One is a war film, very much in the tradition of WWII films - ensemble cast, heroics focused on the grand scheme of things instead of individual victories or closure. Plot-wise a story that could be mapped on a lot of European theatre war situations (occupied cities, trying to get local resistance movements to cooperate, infiltration, sabotage) but then the final battle sequence visually giving Pacific Theatre pretty specifically - even with big "naval" battle vs. brutal squirmishes on the islands, and, of course, the big nuke allusions at the end

The Cassian we are presented with in Rogue One is much more in line with the war hero archetype I've encountered in post-war Europe - the committed Resistance hero. A person who usually believed very strongly in something before the conflict even started, was (in many examples) already involved in the struggle against a different oppressive regime before the Nazis came, was a devoted part of his collective until the (usually untimely lethal) end and wasn't so much known for individual heroics as for dedicated work within their organisation where they were part of some notably brave operation. Plus, for example in the later mythmaking in Germany about movements like the 20th July plot around Stauffenberg, there are notable stories of people either playing along with the Nazis for a long time before acting against them or actually being part of them and then turning against them (depending on your verdict on Stauffenberg and company) that still get positioned as ultimately heroic in the public narrative.

The Cassian in Andor is much closer to the US WWII war hero story, where someone had a youth largely separate of the moral and political struggle to follow, then either got randomly told to go overseas or volunteered because what they were hearing from Europe sounded pretty horrific, OR because the conflict had suddenly come much closer to their own reality than they thought it would with Pearl Harbor. Anyway, thrown into a struggle that was not a part of their lives before, hit with the sudden incredible brutality of the war, excelling in adapting and improvising when shit inevitably went sideways. Soldiers I've heard of who got particularly famous were often famous for individual acts of bravery and toughness - like John Basilone - and often (initially) famous especially for surviving those situations (Basilone did very much die on Iwo Jima, but he was famous before then and got the Medal of Honor for the action he survived, and the Navy Cross for the action he died in). Also I feel like espionage is usually not a big part of these stories, but acts of sabotage like, say, robbing a garrison's pay or stumbling upon an Axis massacre sounds like it would fit right in.

Anyway, confused tl;dr the Han-Solo/Andor!Cassian storyline of person previously uninvested in the conflict getting sucked in and becoming convicted and recklessly heroic feels more like a US war hero story, while the storyline of the already ideologically committed Resistance fighter who works obediently within a collective (almost) all his life and is concerned much more prominently with small local conflicts and then subterfuge and logistics than main front-line combat feels like it belongs to different war experiences.

Is this anything? Insert "I have connected the dots" meme here

[crash476]

Ultimately, the problem of Andor is that it’s a male power fantasy. A power fantasy that appeals to left leaning men, for sure. But a power fantasy none the less

[sambargestuff]

A power fantasy with so little substance that both right-wing and left-wing men can get behind it.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/manitobas-kinew-calls-for-albertas-smith-to-pause-its-fall-separation-vote/

Manitoba’s Kinew fact-checks Alberta’s Smith on separation in testy exchange

Premiers from Western Canada and the northern territories are set to gather in Alberta to discuss business, trade and their neighbouring rel

[allthecanadianpolitics]

NDP Leader Avi Lewis calls out the Mark Carney’s neoliberalism and capitalistic policies.

[sarafangirlart]

Being mad at Nolan for not casting Greek actors: normal, justified, valid and I agree and most of the castings are ass bc they were focusing on star power rather than casting actors who fit the characters.

Being mad at Zendaya and Lupita Nyong'o bc they’re black but taking no issue with the white actors who aren’t even Greek or even Mediterranean at all: racist and weird, at least Lupita Nyong'o is insanely gorgeous which justifies casting her as Helen, why tf is Tom Holland Telemachus?

[sambargestuff]

The African continent is part of the Mediterranean world, ancient and modern, particularly the north amd west coasts.

Do people think black Africans were invented for the trans-Atlantic slave trade? They have always been there. Their faces have been part of history and myth from time immemorial.

I don't know anything about Nolan's version of The Odyssey but if you think black people weren't in ancient Greece, you lack a basic understanding of world geography.

[meerkatninja0806]

Speaking from my own perspective on this as a Greek American, I’ve had racist Greek nationalists get mad at me for saying that the inclusion of people of color in the cast doesn’t bother me nearly as much as the lack of authentic Greek representation overall. It’s one thing to hear that crap from anti-SJWs who love to fetishize the ancient Greeks and Romans, but don’t have a drop of Mediterranean blood in their body and get most of their ideas of ancient Mediterraneans from whitewashed Hollywood blockbusters. It’s quite another to hear it from the very people who theoretically should be the most bothered by Hollywood continuing to act like because Greece is in Europe, it therefore is a “white” country and they can just cast any random white actor in a Greek mythology adaptation. Sure, white Greeks do exist; I’m a great example of that because I’m as pale as they’ve come. But we’ve had interactions with parts of the Mediterranean that are predominantly populated by people of color (including Africa, BTW!), so this obsession with treating our people as 100% white is ridiculous. Even the myths explicitly acknowledge Black people from time to time. As an example, Andromeda is from Ethiopia and is described as dark-skinned by quite a few ancient sources. Doesn’t really sound like a white woman, if you ask me!

[sambargestuff]

I am ethnically Italian and I feel your pain.

[goldcrescent]