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saw a woman talking about how betrayed she felt by her female gyno who really hurt her during a pap smear & claimed the cervix has no nerve endings. & i really do feel for her but also I think this is the problem with people only viewing medical bigotry and abuse as a problem that is the byproduct of other forms of bigotry & not tied to how the medical establishment works inherently.

it's not just "that doctor has internalized misogyny" it's that western medicine is, as in so many parts of our culture, deeply authoritarian. the patient is meant to be a passive problem to be solved by the active doctor. there is meant to be a stark harsh line between you and the doctor, where you are pure of any medical knowledge and simply report the raw data & let the doctor interpret it. this is how the system works. it fucks over marginalized groups the most because that's how marginalization works, but even a thin white abled cis man could get fucked over by this shit if he's unlucky.

female doctors will not save us! trans doctors will not save us! doctors of color will not save us! these are all GOOD things and we DO need more representation in the medical field, it DOES help. but it will not save us. the same goes with teaching as well frankly. these issues cannot be reduced down to simply getting more people from columns B C and D into the same fucked system. nothing can make up for the societal change of heart we really need.

mackerelgray

#I'm biased because i work primarily with residents #but i really do think changing the culture of residency is the key to changing so many problems in medicine #if you're expected to work to the point and past exhaustion you're going to expect your patients to tough it out #if you're expected to treat your attending as an unquestionable authority then you're going to expect your patients to treat you that way #diversity is not going to fix the issue that doctors have to endure legitimate trauma to get their license #and are also discouraged from getting therapy for that trauma for fear of losing that license which absolutely happens #the fact that therapy is discouraged and can risk your job rather than MANDATORY for physicians is so backwards #i know what viewing all those pathology images did to me i can't even imagine what that does to someone working in clinical care #i think the way doctors behave make more sense if you realize that every single one of them has unprocessed trauma

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mapleejay

does anyone else think about how brave all their friends are and get really emotional about it

mapleejay

I'm glad everyone is alive rn

stjohnstarling

Who wants to get fucked up on the green neolithic slime that makes you hallucinate to death?

scribefindegil

So many ruthless/pragmatic characters get revealed as hypocrites when the sacrifice required is personal, and that's why it's really important to me that Stratt does genuinely care about Grace and also it doesn't make her hesitate for a second. That's her friend and she dragged him screaming to the sacrificial altar with clear eyes and no apology and she would do it again. What a woman.

ihavenoideawhatimdoing247

i was going to make my own post about this, but i cannot overstate my love for eva stratt as a character. especially in grace’s story. grace loves earth, they make it so obvious throughout the film and in the book. but stratt loves humanity. she loves them enough that the one time she gets overtly emotional in the film it’s to rebuff grace saying “but i belong in a classroom”. as if it’s about other people and not because he doesn’t want to do it. stratt loves humanity enough that no, it’s not hard for her to send the original crew to their deaths because of the millions it could save. stratt loves grace, but she loves humanity more and is willing to do whatever it takes for a shot at their future. the blood is on her hands so it never has to touch anyone else’s, and not for one second does she hesitate to pull the trigger. no one could ever make me hate her

#project hail mary #phm

targetedknowledge

endrae

Forgot to share this, but finished this Maki-piece just in time for Shoppu!

crypticcuntking

Anairë portrait!

elbiotipo

remember when I made that post that basically said "don't forget about a southern hemisphere when worldbuilding" and a lot of people said "ahhh but what if my fantasy world is flat or shaped like a kia sorento? checkmate I Write What I Want" and then you go and find out that people actually forget that the southern hemisphere exists in real life, like right now here in earth

elbiotipo

my worldbuilding posts have two key components:

here's a thing you should think about to make your world more believable and cohesive :) it could really enhance your plot and characters and it's also fun to think about it, when you know how the real world works you can make more vivid fantasy worlds!

and you also should think about it so you think about something else that isn't your own fucking hemisphere pedazo de gringo imperialista

corn-pit

So half of the fantasy planet needs to be experiencing summer when its winter in the north? Is that the endpoint of this post? An episode of the magic schoolbus?

elbiotipo

I don't know what to tell you. Read the post again.

headbenzhawk

missmentelle

Is it possible to “beat” mental illness? Or does it depend on type/circumstance?

“Beating” mental illness is actually the norm, not the exception. Most people who have a major depressive episode never have another one. 80% of people who survive their first suicide attempt never make a second attempt. 93% of Borderline Personality Disorder patients achieve remission. Up to 74% of people with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder achieve significant clinical improvement in their symptoms, and 20% achieve full remission. Half of Generalized Anxiety Disorder patients achieve remission after the acute phase of treatment. Even disorders with relatively low rates of remission - bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, schizoid personality disorder - generally become milder and easier to manage as you age. Psychiatric symptoms tend to peak in your 20s and generally drop off as you get older, especially if you seek treatment.

This is why the narratives we use to talk about mental illness matter so much. Right now, the dominant narrative is that mental illness is “an imbalance in the brain” and that it’s largely something that people are born with. There are upsides and downsides to this. The upside is that it promotes the idea that mental illness is not the ill person’s fault, and it helps us understand that mental illness can impact anyone, regardless of their life circumstances. The downside, however, is that it’s sort of given us this idea that mental illness is inborn and unchangeable. People have taken on the idea that “that’s just how my brain is”, when the reality is that, for most people, mental illness is less of a stable trait for them, and more of just a shitty thing that they are going through for a little while. The idea that mental illness is just “in your brain” also erases the very real connection between your life circumstances and your mental health - while it’s very true that a wealthy person in a happy marriage can become depressed, it’s also very true that living in poor conditions and being in an abusive marriage can be the cause of depression, and that improving your life circumstances can lessen or eliminate mental health conditions.

If you have a mental health condition, it’s very important that you not resign yourself to the idea that you’re going to be like this forever. Chances are, you won’t. Even if you have a mental health condition that is associated with low rates of remission, it is possible to make leaps and bounds in your functioning, and to get to a point where managing your condition becomes second nature to you. Our understanding of mental illness is improving every year, and new therapies and treatments are becoming available all the time. If you seek treatment and do your best to manage your condition, you have every reason to believe that you will make huge improvements.

Hope this answers your question!

meanbuddhist

identifying a maladaptive coping mechanism is so bitter sweet like that’s great now i know what i need to stop doing. but that’s literally my something

ms-demeanor

You know how there's that genre of posts that's like "[screenshot of something horrid and dystopian happening with technology] hahaha, I sure hope nothing bad comes from defunding humanities while pouring boatloads of money into STEM"?

I need an inversion of that that's like "hahaha, I sure hope we don't run into any problems with masses of artists and writers deciding that it's fascist to understand the law and computer science."

ms-demeanor

Me when I understand the things that have historically harmed creative industries.

Right off the top of my head here are five terrible possible consequences of such a policy that would harm creatives:

Forcing second language learners out of the market or making them more subject to scrutiny (and !!!!possible PROSECUTION?!?!?) - second language learners are more likely to be accused of using AI in their writing because their tone may come off stiff, stilted, or 'unnatural' - all things that people are told to look for to identify AI.

Weaponization of accusations of AI use against creatives to force takedowns or account closures. Since it's impossible to prove that something was created WITHOUT ai if you don't have documentation of the creation it would be easy to brigade an artist with unlabelled AI reports (similar to the way that false DMCA reports are used). (This would also immediately be weaponized by corporations against applicants - the example above uses AI rejecting resumes as an example of harm but it's insane to think that companies wouldn't reject applicants for suspected AI use in their resumes, which would make it exceptionally hard to prove bias because, well, lots of people DO use AI to help write their resumes)

Immediate gatekeeping of "non-AI" versions of tools. You used to use smart select to remove the background in photos? Get good with that magnetic lasso unless you want to pay extra for the AI plugin so that Adobe can meet the labeling requirements. And then get ready to label your photos or collages as AI-assisted (it's very easy to make an argument that the magic wand or smart selector tool in most image programs is powered by machine learning/AI). Did you increase the resolution of your scanned photo? That's upscaling now, that's an AI tool and must be labeled. (Note: these aren't necessarily ACTUALLY ai tools, but if a company can make more money by charging you for the 'non AI' option they will, and if a bad actor wants to accuse you of using AI because of a tool that doesn't *technically* use AI, how will you prove that you didn't use the AI upscaling?)

Gatekeeping on platforms. "This post has been given a tentative AI label, please submit a request for review." "Your request was rejected, please submit your process documentation to challenge the rejection." "The hosting entity is responsible for unlabelled violations" is exactly how we got SESTA/FOSTA and your uploads are going to be scanned (by a perfectly legally labeled AI tool or left to the subjective judgement of people) and labeled or rejected with a strong bias toward false positives to avoid responsibility on the part of the platforms.

Mandatory labeling of tools you already use and don't think of as AI. Which, like, maybe that's a good thing in the end because maybe that would get people to think about what they mean when they say AI but. Like. You know that most digital photography uses some kind of machine learning process, right? Whether that's autofocus or smart lighting adjustments or HDR, that's a machine learning component of the camera's software that was trained on millions of images by uncredited photographers. I'm a big fan of manual photography (here's a guide I've written on it so that you can get an SLR and ensure the purity of your artwork in the future), but if you use digital photography as reference or to do color selection or to trace backgrounds, get ready to label your work as AI-assisted.

Remember that the goal here was to not hurt creatives and we have arrived immediately at a plausible scenario where creatives could be required to label all of their work that used digital photography at any stage in the production and could be prosecuted for not doing so.

Anyway.

Are you a gold star artist, or is your work unclean, forever tainted by the fruit of the poisoned tree?

Think about that for a second.

Now, think about how you'd prove it if someone was serving you legal paperwork requiring that you demonstrate there was no AI used in the production of your work.

Anyway, copyright fucking sucks also and if you are working on a scheme that depends on increasing copyright protections you are actively working to harm yourself as a creative, there's not even any question about that you have ceded the battle to Disney and almost deserve whatever you've asked for.

#copyright

hagiomoto

Amnesty International backing down (hiding its report) when threatened with JKR's lawsuits just shows how weak the liberal human rights framework really is. It never seems to flinch when governments criticize it, but the moment an influential Westerner pushes back, it suddenly loses its nerve.

ostensible-adult

It likely also has to do with the difference between UK and US libel law.

In the US, true statements are never libelous (or slanderous). Further, since Rowling is a public figure, she would have to prove that Amnesty International acted with reckless disregard for the truth (with "actual malice").

In the UK, as far as I can tell, true statements can be libelous.

I suspect Amnesty International did the calculus of "How many people have already seen this? Will they keep circulating the tapes? How much will it cost us to defend this? Can we successfully defend it under UK law?" and decided that Streisand-effect-ing the report would be a better use of their time and money.

hagiomoto

Somehow, I don't buy that