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daily reminder when yr poor u have to make yrself useful instead of whine to mommy
some of us can't be reliantly taken care of
we gotta care for ourselves & others
if it don't get in the way first
My personal Substack. Click to read Mari's Substack, a Substack publication. Launched 8 minutes ago.
New System Entry: The Algorithmic Autopsy
I finally got the pipes connected and the "Financial Architecture" of the new Substack live. For the opening salvo, I’m skipping the "twee" introductory fluff and going straight for a Media Autopsy of the "active cognitive distress" caused by domain-inappropriate AI.
If you’ve ever felt the physical friction of a "smart" system introducing unpredictable incoherence into a structural workflow, this one is for you. It's a look at why "user-friendly" automation often just creates a high-stakes audit for the humans left to manage the chaos.
Inside the first post:
The Architecture of Failure: Why inappropriate voice recognition destroys internal consistency.
Constant Vigilance: The invisible cognitive load of cleaning up algorithmic "myth-making".
The Logic Check: Why speed should never be prioritized over structural integrity.
You're not wrong to want a system that actually respects the rules of the domain. The administrative grossness is over—the analysis has begun.
The Australian Federal Government is absolutely taking the piss right now
today I received the following letter in my postbox from the National Disability Insurance Scheme, of which I am a infrequent receiver of unreliable and basically unusable disability support funding (but that’s a whole other sordid tale of third party providers and incompetent local NDIS coordinators) (image censored partially for opsec)
I have, on multiple occasions, attempted to correct the NDIS on my proper name and pronouns, as reflected by my details with the Australian Federal Government and on my birth certificate. The last letter I received from the NDIS deadnamed me and misgendered me. At least this time they got my title correct. But this is absolutely taking the piss.
fuck the NDIS, and fuck this transphobic crap.
The Japanese system really exist to show how much their foreign intervention protects fascism and predators and it is public in their media, games, anime, movies etc. There are so many who view women as nothing as mere objects in mediums, serving as only ideal roles for men or for atmospheric smoothing, for keeping the tension "stable". And there is so much of us in the western world that views these fictional tropes as nothing more than fiction, as if it does not blend into the cultural roles that even take place to put that there. It gets worse when children are involved, the military and what they did to many foreign nations show that none of this is dramatized, this is history and how evil will protect itself no matter how many "progressive" anime or shows or movies it may seem is out there, there's incentives to get children designed as characters in a game for "appeal". To push that systemic agenda into anyones worldview, to keep the harm onto children and women to show what the system lives for, for objectifying and hypersexualizing children and women and for no change to happen about it, it is a environmental and societal issue that now will harvest in the minds of Japanese men. Theres incentive to it which pushes a lot of this forward tenfold, the racism that Japanese people also have for anyone of color or non-white also contributes to more more division and really enforces imperialist and colonialist roles that mirrors other nations like them, but to a western nation, who has similar problems, to a majorly non-white country, we seem to partake or revel in it when barely anyone realizes its ultra nationalist systemic harm towards the people I just mentioned.