We're ten or so years into this & STILL I see people shouting "stop talking about the Evil Wizards who are Doing Evil Wizard Stuff, this is really all because of the rotten institutionalists" and "stop saying the institutions need pervasive ground-up reform, this is all the Evil Wizards' fault"
And then they didn't see each other for like a decade and met again when they were adults??? Anakin had glamorized Padme that whole time but she didn't think about him as anything other than "that kid she knew" until after they were in hiding and she spent time with him as an adult.
Fascists seek to define what is "civilized." Which is to say, what's allowed in polite conversation.
In the past five years, they've moved to turn blatant, disgusting transphobia into something allowed in polite conversation when we mostly rejected it!
They control when violent speech is allowed.
We live in a world where we have all these allegories for Nazis and fascists and capitalism and colonialism and... Normies are terminally incapable of understanding basic allegories. They're unfortunately even more resistant to blatant messaging. They want bland, generic stories that mean nothing.
tldr I think YQY's biggest fantasy is giving someone a hug where he doesn't have to consider when it's proper to let go.
morally wrong and didn’t work: a history of american bombing campaigns
Anyway I need a version of this that's like. I hate copaganda. the grip the crime genre has on the American imagination has normalized paranoid racism, ableism, and authoritarianism. but I love when a charismatic busybody solves a murder in a charming seaside town full of intricate family drama
I just think Xin Mo should transform into a human and fuck Shen Qingqiu
There is literally no way to find a real life fox that attractive and that’s sort of the dealbreaker for folks, most real life foxes just want to eat chickens and not be sexy
The idea that blank slate characters are more relatable because people project themselves onto them is one of those just-so stories that refuses to die. It's the opposite! People relate to specificity!
i don’t think the goal of fiction is to fix as many people as possible
Oh. Yeah that would lead to an exponentially screwed scenario!
Thanks for the explanation
"You can't take away GenAI what about the people who use it?! 😭😭😭"
Fuck 'em. Fuck every last one of them. The scrapers DDoS us every waking fucking hour, making it a nightmare to keep things running. I have ZERO sympathy for folks addicted to the plagiarism machine that lies to you.
Fun fact: 54% of US adults read below a 6th grade level.
You have to actively remember literally over half the US adult population is *unable to perceive subtext*
www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li...
Like: part of being functionally illiterate is *not being able to perceive that things may be biased*. Not understanding that someone might be lying, or wrong.
Half the US stock market is now tied to LLM's, which only appear impressive if you are functionally illiterate.
Part of functional literacy is being able to understand, on your own, the concept that the writer is writing for a specific audience. That the thing has a specific context.
Like, an article about dog grooming is addressed to dog owners. It does not need to include cat grooming.
The literal worst version of it has to exist first if you're ever going to get anywhere, so you might as well embarrass yourself by writing it
She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point
i miss her
This feels like a "face God and walk backwards into hell" kind of thing where you're convinced it's part of the foundational texts of the Catholic Church and not a comment on a thread about "Home Alone"
Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.
@JoyceCarolOates X.com speaking as glibly as Beavis & Butthead. does T***p even grasp the profound significance of what he has set in motion in the Middle East? this person whose most essential self is riding in a golf cart fatly, cheating at the profoundly insignificant game of leisure golf when he assumes no one is looking.
if “for sale, baby shoes, never worn” are the saddest six words, then “riding in a golf cart fatly” is the opposite of that
when ao3 is down and i have to be alone with my own thoughts before bedtime:
For a complete layman, why does clusters make it worse?
Last October.
Posted in October - "Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users" arstechnica.com/security/202...
todays a big day for longtime discord haters like myself
i was told peer pressure would try to get me into drugs but my friends just really want me to like the fictional characters they’re into
