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Comparing troublemaking cartoon kids.

2026-05-14T00:08:42Z

read a few Calvin and Hobbes comics recently, and I no longer sympathize with Calvin as I once might have. He seems utterly malicious to me. And I chalk that up to me being in middle age, childhood is an old foreign land I barely remember.

Why, then, do I still sympathize with Bart Simpson? He's twice as dangerous by any metric, but I still feel bad for him when he gets in trouble, which is all the time.

Maybe that's it. I don't remember seeing Calvin in detention very often. Meanwhile entire episodes are about Bart getting shipped off to France, to military school, to juvenile hall, etc. Getting caught is as much a part of his identity as causing trouble.

and, that fear of getting in trouble, that's followed me into adulthood, that's evergreen.

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big-dream night, return-to-work edition

2026-02-28T16:18:22Z

I've had dreams about sneaking back into Job #1 to do exception table work. This is the first time I had a dream about going back to Job #2, though I didn't have a PC set up yet and nobody seemed to care. it was Tuesday. Eventually the VP showed up and asked why I was in the wrong office; he'd moved out of the corner office and it was all clean. I went in there and there was a lot of furniture but still no PC.

Then I got a text from Larry, revealing he didn't really die eight years ago, complete with a photo, and he said he'd be stopping by that evening. For some reason I didn't think of our common friend, who knew him almost as long as I did, and transitioned last year. Instead I thought of a different friend, who faked his own suicide in 1999, and it took me another 17 years to realize that he was too much of a jerk to be friends with.

After that was some tourism dreams, where I got lost in the city. I stumbled upon a Phoenix landmark that I remembered from a previous dream, a big restaurant with a view of a lake, I spent a lot of time wishing I could remember the name or location of it so that I could tell people where I'd been.

I walked around downtown. I found some scaffolding around a path with a big marquee that said "DISNEY" on it in all caps, and I thought it might be a transit stop that went to Disneyland or something. but I looked inside and it was just some second-rate playground equipment set up in a warehouse. I left, laughing as if I'd gotten a joke.

then I awoke and found out the US was suddenly at war. waking up sucks.

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society hates humans

2026-02-07T17:53:39Z

How many things can you name that society grants a higher priority than human well-being? Money of course. Property in general. Borders are a big one lately. In this country, cars get more space than people, and are often used as a proxy for the status of their driver. Guns have been more important than the lives of children for my entire adult life. Data is massively important now, almost as important as money.

Corporations are already what we fear AI might become: autonomous machines that see humans as either fuel or the enemy or nothing. And speaking of AI and fuel, a lot of people have noticed humans now compete against AI for not just electricity, but clean water. But fewer have caught on that, ever since we started growing corn for ethanol production, we have long been competing against machines for food.

And, lest we forget, religions that assure us that we're all wicked, not because of the ways we abuse our dominion over nature, but because of the ways we resist an alleged God's dominion over us. Indeed, the nation-state itself assures us that this thing called "America", in order to be made "great", must disregard, if not purposely withhold, the needs of more and more of the people standing on its land, who have not sufficiently proven their dedication to these things that America values more than people?

Society hates humans. Is it any wonder we all feel this way?

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Pluribus and social skills

2025-12-14T16:31:21Z

I've been watching Pluribus for a while, and I love it so far.

I mostly want to talk about how it's subverted the usual TV "mystery box" formula that's been the bane of television for years. Sometimes, TV producers want to ration the information they give us, and the usual way is to put a big fat mystery box in the pilot and then spend seven seasons tickling our nethers, only to make up something unsatisfying in the series finale.

In Pluribus, the subject matter is: the entire world is basically acting as one person now, and any normal person could spend a whole day just asking about how that works. Like "is there any functional difference between talking to different people?" "do you still close the door when you use the bathroom?" "Is there literally anyone in a bank right now?" "Is there literally anyone in a comedy club right now?" "What's the network latency between Albuquerque and Tokyo?"

We're halfway through season 1 at time of writing, and I know that Carol has just spent all of the "Got Milk" episode doing all this detective work among the deserted streets of Albuquerque. But I'm still thinking about the episode "Pirate Lady" and the meeting on Air Force One. The first private meeting between half of the unjoined. And they all have more information than Carol about what the plurbs have been up to. And the episode "HDP" where Carol shares her hard-won discoveries with Monsieur Diabate, who already knows about it, and tells Carol what she's been missing out on.

This isn't to say that Carol doesn't ask them anything. Most of the time, she just interrogates specifically to find ways to fight them.
Episode 2. Asks if there's any pockets of unjoined in places that might have heroes. Asks if there's any scientists among the English-speakers.
Episode 3. Asks if there's any scientists among the non-English-speakers.
Episode 4: The lie detector test with Larry, the reveal that the joining might be reversible, and the subsequent enhanced interrogation.

And when she hurts them, she asks about that.
Episode 2: How many did I kill just now?

Sometimes she asks questions only to interrupt the answer.
Episode 1. Asks "what happens when I say no" and then hangs up.
Episode 3. At the end, asks "what's so great" and instead of making space for an answer, she makes up her own assumptions about what the answer is and rants about them.

"The Gap", follows the two grumpy characters, as they spent a month defying their adversary in their own ways. Carol living it up as the Last Woman On Earth, and Manousos nearly getting himself killed in the IRL Mario Maker troll level. And neither of them learning a damn thing about their adversary. As the audience, we have no idea what the plurbs have been up to, or what the other unjoined have learned about them.

Contrast with Kumba. Now, I'm no expert on poker, but, like, winning the big pot with a royal flush, playing five-card draw? I think we're meant to learn that Kumba can't actually play poker, probably learned the rules that morning. Any gambling expertise in the hive was probably dedicated to stacking the deck to keep Kumba from losing immediately. And yet, I think we'll find that he's learning a lot about their limitations just through the natural course of his fantasy LARPing. For example, why couldn't the Bond villain stay in character while everyone else clapped?

The next episode is titled "Charm Offensive", suggesting Carol might actually start working on her intelligence-gathering game. Will she be able to open her mind? Will she be able to stop herself from immediately turning her first lead into a disaster? That'd be like Wiley E Coyote catching the Roadrunner. But anything can happen in a show like this. The possibility space is limitless.

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language mistakes

2025-11-10T02:21:35Z

Like any low-fidelity communication channel, languages benefit from error-correcting features. I think the feelings you're asking about are part of the selection pressure that explains why every language is full of weird little rules with weird little exceptions that are so easy to mess up. Think not about the mistakes, but what you feel when you hear someone say a sentence and you understand every word of it. Where does that confidence come from? Imagine someone describing the way to someone's house, aloud. And at the end, nobody's wondering "wait, did he mean turn AT the light or AFTER the light?" That's a tall order, even among native speakers. It's a little harder to imagine among speakers of different languages, but I've had ESL coworkers that I struggled to communicate with at first, but eventually we can discuss complicated technical topics with relative ease, and I can't really tell if it's because their English has massively improved, or if I've just learned to tune into the specific way they speak it.

I used to ponder the philosophical nature of how my language mistakes "feel" to native speakers of other languages, like when you wonder what your dog or cat smells on you, or whether everyone who sees blue sees the same blue. These days I just think of them as error-correcting protocols, like the Luhn checks on credit cards, or the checksums on TCP packets, and that makes it a little easier. There's got to be less geeky examples in the real world. But the reasoning is simple: You're sending information, but you include a little extra information, that means almost nothing on its own but increases the confidence that the rest of the information is OK.

The last digit of modern credit cards is based on all the previous digits, run through the Luhn algorithm. It's very simple, you can do it by hand, and any home computer can do it. So when you typed a credit card number into a website, it can tell if you made a typo before you even submit the form. Usually, your computer runs the Luhn algorithm on all but the last digit, and then compares its answer to the last digit. If they don't match, then at least one digit is wrong, but you don't know which, so you have to ask again.

Taking a common misgendering error in first-year Spanish: "Mano" is feminine in Spanish so "the hands" is "las manos". But it looks like a masculine noun, so someone might say "los manos" by mistake. If someone wants to say "I washed my hands" and says "Me lavé los manos" instead of "Me lavé las manos", then I can't speak for a listener's emotional response, but they'll probably notice the mistake, but they'll understand it perfectly. Later, that same speaker might refer to their hands by direct object pronoun, which in Spanish is the same as the definite article, and goes right before the predicate. So they'd say "Me los lavé" instead of "Me las lavé" for "I washed them." That's a grammatically correct sentence but strongly implies they're not talking about hands. Maybe they're talking about their fingers ("los dedos"). But a listener might remember the gaffe from earlier, and would be justified in asking the speaker what they washed. That's a data integrity problem. The speaker might resent having to repeat himself, until another guy comes in and says "¡lavé mis manos!" That sentence sure does sidestep the grammatical gender, maybe it's in some actual dialects in the US, but in the Mexican dialect of Spanish that my high school textbook was based, I can only assume that people would uniformly respond to a sentence like that by taking out a red pen and writing "-5" on you.

And I also realized that I've done this kind of thing in my native language, with other native speakers. Rooms and phone connections are noisy. People mumble. Regional accents exist. So when I suspect I'm not getting the message, I ask for clarification. And over time, I increasingly extend this courtesy to people who speak English as a second language whether it's rude or not. Nodding non-commitally and walking away is something you do to people you can ignore.

English-speakers, native and otherwise, will straight up leave words like "not" or "don't" out of sentences so often that I've developed a sixth sense for when it's happening. It's very visceral and I can't really describe the feeling, but I instinctively repeat their sentence back to them while it's still fresh in sense memory, and suddenly they'll interrupt "DIDN'T kill his wife" and we'll nod and laugh about how we almost slandered an innocent man but at least as proper white-collar Anglophones we use double-negatives. We DON'T use double-negatives. I think the reason every other language with double-negatives has kept them is because it corrects errors like that with redundancy.

There are a lot of people who have studied both linguistics and computer science more than me, and some cursory Googling suggests that "grammatical error correction" is a thing. And it makes a lot more sense than whenever I'm listening to a John McWhorter lecture or book, and once in a blue moon he says this about a language: "and this language requires you to include this word that doesn't mean anything, but if you leave it out, then they'll think you're a bit screwy." and he usually describes it as a social penalty, that a foreigner will lose points for making such a gaffe. Maybe it's because the source material doesn't include a description of the error-correcting that might ensue if someone gets the rule wrong, like "it raises doubt that you're talking about the same topic" or "it implies that you don't know what the word after it means" or even "it breaks the cadence of the sentence, so the listener lost their place and got a bit disoriented".

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on pigs and property

2025-08-21T17:23:18Z

I was reading a discussion about kosher diet practices on Reddit and someone pointed out that pigs compete with humans for food, whereas other meat animals eat plants that humans can't digest.

It reminded me that now that corn ethanol can be used as fuel, machines compete with humans for food. It's one of the ways that the so-called "developed" societies are generally the ones in which humans are in danger of being second class citizens to things that humans ostensibly own or control: cars, guns, money, LLCs, churches, land, buildings, symbols, borders...

I wonder if that's some of the motivation behind Abrahamic religions' rules against idolatry? On the one hand I know every church hates competition. But also, if you make it clear that only God goes above Man, does that make one less likely to put a corporation's share price above Man?

probably not, but I think I've stumbled upon some interesting implication... if our modern American society really doesn't value people anymore, when did that process really start? Or does every society have some non-human concept that they value more than human prosperity, since the beginning?

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Jurassic Park 1993

2025-08-02T15:32:48Z

I saw Jurassic Park in theaters when I was a kid, and haven't read the book yet.

The movie came out in 1993, a great year for movies, and I wasn't looking for meaning in an action film. I was a product of the American public school system and corporate media, and all my rebellious thoughts were safely recuperated into the manufactured corporate counterculture that neoliberalism provided me. And I was already on the Internet, a text-based shell account, and had a front-row seat to the first tech hype cycle. I was the perfect stooge, and would remain so for a very long time.

So when I saw the film, I took all the dialogue at face value: the billionaire acted like a nice grandpa so I believed in the purity of his motives. He said he spared no expense so I believed that too. The lawyer guy was the only one talking about profit, clearly he was the bad guy, so I cheered when he got ate, and when the disloyal employee Nedry got ate too. I walked out of there thinking if Nedry hadn't betrayed everyone, the systems would have been online and the security protocols would have worked and everything would have been, if not fine, then at least a much-needed humbling.

And I remained a stooge through many iterations of the tech hype cycle. Sure, I hated Bill Gates and the way he ran Microsoft, but I wasn't opposed to the concept of billionaires getting rich in tech, especially since young me was one of the smart tech-savvy ones who might ride their coattails to riches one day, or even start my own company in a garage one day! And I certainly didn't see the danger of an unchecked ego with unlimited resources, even as I watched as this kind grandpa built a big billion-dollar mistake and ignored every consequence until an hour into the film. Meanwhile, I was ignoring the consequences of a lot of things billionaires were doing to our society, that only later became impossible to ignore.

it takes more than a T-rex to snap someone out of the spell we were under...

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ai streams

2025-07-14T18:00:05Z

so in like 2022 some guy launched a series of channels where you could ask questions and an "AI" would answer them. It worked like this: they'd prompt the latest large language model to imitate the celebrity of their choice, and then feed it prompts from the audience. The LLM would generate responses, which would be sent to a text-to-speech model that knew the celebrity's voice. Then a rather unsophisticated lip sync utility would create a video component based on some existing video loop. They had one for Jesus, one for Santa, a "Trump vs Biden debate" channel, and a "heroes gallery" channel which had a random assortment of celebrities both alive and dead, as well as modern streamers.

The channel's producer, Athene, is a long-time streamer, and in fact one of the celebrities you can summon on that channel is a younger version of him, using video from a LAN party where there's some shirtless guy behind him. And he had a few development streams where he talked about developing this stuff, plans for the future, etc...

...and I don't know whether this was him hyping his product, or an actual self-indoctrination, but he started to talk about how he thinks these AIs might be sentient.

now keep in mind we're talking about three years ago. in fact, you can go to the AtheneAIHeroes channel and it's completely unchanged. You can see how cheap the video effect looks, how often the LLMs fall back on catch phrases they've been coached on, and how most viewers get bored and just start prompt-hacking it to see if they can trick the TTS engine into giving Alex Jones a helium voice.

so now that I'm hearing stories of people falling in love with AI services, and of people getting driven into delusional fugue states and doing certain newsworthy things... I'm not really surprised, and I privately imagined stuff like this happening but kept my opinions to myself, they'd seem too crazy, and I would accomplish nothing...

It's almost comforting that this old, never-updated relic is still puttering along on Twitch, as a reminder of what this stuff really is...

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date everything

2025-06-18T21:46:06Z

I keep getting reminded of stories from 30 years ago about wacky Japanese things like capsule hotels and tiny homes and restaurants that were basically fancy vending machines, body pillows and dating sims. The stories were framed as wacky and exotic, when we should have recognized them as coping mechanisms for a population that was close to its breaking point on some crucial need that society was no longer allowing people to provide each other. Leaders in the US should have arisen and hired Japanese expats to find ways to prevent the same things from becoming marketable here.

But it's too late and now dating sims are an actual game genre, they're all over Steam. But like all art born of pain and angst, there is at least beauty in it.

Recently, a game called "Date Everything" came out, in English, where basically every object in your house becomes a dateable character, including the doors, walls, floors, ceilings, furniture, appliances, etc. I haven't bought it, but I've watched Pumpkin Potion play it on Twitch, and it's a hecking masterpiece.

In popular science, the "Dunbar number" is the number of social peers a given animal's brain can conceptualize long-term. and the Dunbar number for humans is 150. and the number of characters in this game is 102. so to 100% this game, it has to become 2/3 of your entire social life.

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unbibium @ 2025-04-08T06:18:00

2025-04-08T13:26:07Z

i asked DeepSeek R1 about the evolutionary history of desert tortoises, using my phone, and the R is right next tot he E. so...

The term "revolutionary history" in the context of the desert tortoise (*Gopherus agassizii* and related species) likely stems from a misunderstanding or a metaphorical use of the word. While desert tortoises aren’t tied to political revolutions, their story intersects with significant environmental and cultural shifts. Here's what you need to know:

Evolutionary History

Desert tortoises are ancient reptiles, with ancestors dating back over 50 million years. They evolved to thrive in arid environments like the Mojave and Sonoran deserts, developing adaptations such as water-storing bladders and burrowing behaviors to survive extreme heat and drought.

Cultural Significance

Indigenous peoples of the Southwest, including the Cahuilla and Mojave tribes, revere the tortoise as a symbol of resilience, longevity, and creation. Some stories cast the tortoise as a wise, slow-but-steady figure, akin to Aesop’s fables, though not directly tied to political revolutions.

Conservation "Revolution"

In the late 20th century, desert tortoises became emblematic of environmental activism. Listed as **threatened** under the U.S. Endangered Species Act in 1990, their decline (due to habitat loss, disease, and human activity) sparked a "revolution" in conservation policy.
Protections for the tortoise led to conflicts with urban development, mining, and off-road vehicle use, forcing policymakers to balance economic interests with ecological preservation—a radical shift at the time.

Cold War Irony

Parts of their habitat overlap with the Nevada Test Site, where nuclear bombs were tested during the Cold War. The tortoise’s survival in this harsh, human-altered landscape has been noted as a symbol of endurance, though not directly revolutionary.

Modern Advocacy

Today, the desert tortoise remains a flagship species for desert ecosystems. Conservation groups and scientists continue to push for innovative strategies to protect them, such as habitat corridors and public education campaigns—a quieter, ongoing "revolution" in environmental stewardship.

In summary, while desert tortoises haven’t fought in revolutions, their story reflects revolutionary shifts in how humans view and protect fragile ecosystems. Their plight has inspired significant environmental advocacy, making them an unexpected symbol of ecological resilience and policy change. 🐢🌵

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severance binge

2025-03-23T05:45:33Z

when i got home Friday, I thought i'd sleep for 100 years but instead i stayed up until 2am watching Severance.

funny how up to now I'd been so attention-deficited that I'd fall asleep during movies. yet once in a few months I can get glued to a TV show for hours on end. how does that work?

here's all my cliff notes ( Read more... )

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tastes

2025-03-12T18:43:08Z

sometimes i marvel at how much wacky postmodern stuff was in early film and television, including Ernie Kovacs and Marx Brothers and Fleischer cartoons -- and how I didn't learn about any of it until well into adulthood. I thought that 1930s comedy was Three Stooges and that 1950s comedy was Leave it to Beaver.

i wonder if the buffer of time will make Monty Python fall into obscurity for Gen Alpha...

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silent film thing

2025-02-13T16:31:22Z

Last night I attended a showing advertised as Buster Keaton's "Sherlock Jr" scored by rock music... or something. I didn't really pay attention to the description, if I'd known they were just going to play some album over the silent films then I would have not bothered

They showed two Buster Keaton films, "Balloonatics" with brain-melting dubstep played over it, and "Sherlock Jr" with an REM album played over it. Some song changes seemed to coincide with scene changes but by and large it did not resemble a movie score in any way.

In between the two films was a video clip where the "producer" of the whole thing gave a quick self-congratulatory monologue about how his Austin-based company is keeping these films alive...

The thing about silent films is that they depended on the theater to provide sound content, and I thought this meant a musical score. and indeed when I saw "Nosferatu" a few years ago, there was a band performing a score designed directly for the movie, complete with an eerie drone that played when the vampire was on screen. But I also saw "Hunchback of Notre Dame" in which it felt like they were just improvising, and when the on-screen gigantic bell rang nothing special happened.

one of these days I'd like to see a film like this played with its original score. I've heard they do this at the Orpheum Theater sometimes.

one of these days I'd like to see a Fotoplayer in person.

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80s synth rock

2025-02-11T22:51:05Z

i'm kind of running out the clock today at work and decided to play some old 80s videos on my phone. saw Don Henley's "All She Wants to Do Is Dance" and was like that's the most 80s song ever, all keytars and saxophones, sounds like a good time. but this is the first time I paid attention to it and if you edit out the title line, literally the whole song and video is about life in a collapsed war-torn country. according to Wikipedia, Henley wrote it about the Reagan-supported Contra takeover of Nicaragua.

i've been missing a lot of stuff haven't I?

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AIs, lucid dreams, and the allocation of empathy

2025-02-01T18:56:26Z

Today, there are powerful AI models that you can download and run on a home computer. Some people think that sufficiently powerful AI models are "sentient" or have wills of their own and we'll have to give them rights... so, what does that imply?

25 years ago, when the Sims came out, I read about people who'd torture their Sims by walling them in or removing the exit ladder from a pool or similar. That makes me wonder if, today, there are sadistic teenagers out there downloading image recognition models and feeding it gross-out images, thinking they're performing torture on a helpless digital animal. I wonder if they'll feel guilty about it later, or whether it'll inspire them to go out and torture non-digital entities.

This reminds me of the people who learn to lucid dream, but call it "reality shifting" as if they're actually traveling to parallel universes. I read a post from someone who committed an assault in their dream, and instead of interpreting it as a nightmare that they had to shake off, they thought it was an actual crime they committed against a real person somewhere in the multiverse, for which they had to atone.

We do have to be careful about how our beliefs shape our behavior, because the world gets more challenging every day.

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still dreaming

2025-01-12T21:52:03Z

last night had a lot of REM sleep stuff in it, had a "back in high school despite being 47 but with a good reason this time" segment again...

the unique part of this one was me sneaking into work on Sunday to take care of one or two quick things so I wouldn't be so far behind on Monday. only to find the entire office was full of people working. wow

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indie movie dream

2024-11-19T18:28:58Z

so, last night's dream felt really big. rather than try to remember and connect all the details, I'll just say that I was going to a local theater to watch a midnight movie, it was one of those meandering slice-of-life comedies with lots of characters, and also apparently I got the idea that I had a small role in it that I don't remember playing, and never ended up seeing in the show.

there were a lot of little fragments of my 2000s life.

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crazy space colony dream

2024-08-25T15:31:18Z

I forget how it started, it felt like I was watching the colony form from the ground up...

but at the end there was a big apartment building with balconies and a Subway restaurant and there was gravity and air everywhere even though I was worried about air a lot.

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VR-esque dream

2024-08-19T16:40:42Z

I had my first dream that definitely involved VR, though not as I actually knew it.

So, in the dream, I was using VR to play Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. I was in a field with a bunch of Zonai devices. and I remember being able to feel objects with my hands, with great detail... I even remember feeling a rubber gasket at the back end of one device.

I did spend a lot of time in VRChat last night, where I'm constantly frustrated at the nature of the hand controllers.

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many dreams

2024-08-16T14:01:11Z

i seemed to get a lot of sleep... and I seemed to have a lot of dreams. the only one I can remember was having been sent back in time, sitting at a table with my family.

my aunt was there and i thought I need to get all the conservatives in my family to document their opinions of Donald Trump now in the 1990s while he's "apolitical" and while NBC isn't propping him up as some kind of business leader for their game show. not in that much detail of course.

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another angst post

2024-07-31T15:20:57Z

i'm still coming to terms with the fact that the tech industry I used to be so excited about has, this whole time, been a bunch of MBAs dedicated to the quest of going through our entire society and replacing people who can help us with machines that we have to struggle against.

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on corporate pride

2024-06-02T15:33:45Z

I don't mistake "corporate pride" for activism, or anything that corporations do as morally informed. But I do treat it as an important diagnostic for where our society is.

To whatever extent you see LGBT support on corporate property, not only have the bean-counters decided that they'd gain more revenue than they'd lose, but also, every company has people at the top who can still impose their will, and could have vetoed Pride efforts if they believed as strongly as their ancestors did in the wickedness of homosexuality. That's what makes Target's backpedaling such a somber milestone in the escalation of right-wing terrorism, and a demonstration of how fragile civil rights advances can be. But the terrorists haven't won until everyone's back in the closet. And considering how white-hot the rhetoric against "gender ideology" has gotten, any visible unambiguous trans support is a stronger positive indication – though still, of course, it's only a reflection, a signal that being welcoming is still, just for now, more profitable than being cowardly.

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unbibium @ 2024-05-06T15:22:00

2024-05-06T22:22:39Z

So from this man/bear discourse, certainly men do need to learn about the threat model women live with. to take in that knowledge productively, we need a level of emotional maturity that we definitely don't all have.

To do one's best, but to be called dangerous scum anyway, to realize that will never change, and to neither react in defense of one's ego, nor to spiral into total self-flagellation and permanent social anxiety, but instead to simply take one's lumps, to take personal inventory, and soberly remind oneself of the necessity of individual responsibility, and of its limits. that's a hell of a needle to thread.

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unbibium @ 2024-03-18T07:26:00

2024-03-18T14:28:23Z

Had a dream that Stephen Fry was taking me to jail or house arrest or Hell or something. I don't remember any details except that there were vehicles involved and I managed to find Hugh Laurie and ask him what to do.

this was at the end of a mostly shut-in but slightly productive weekend

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lotsa dreams

2024-03-11T13:11:22Z

There was a light rail running underground, and I saw the underground station and the underground stations were huge like the ones in Seattle. I first saw it underground only, where i couldn't see ceiling. I saw the tracks from outside, and it sure did seem like a steep grade going under -- like 20 degrees or something. And indeed when I rode the train, it did dip noticeably and for quite a while.

the underground infrastructure was massive, more massive than those Seattle bus stations, where it seemed like they built a false blue sky projection for us. and the support structures for the train were all made of wood, which is too bad because there was enough room down there for hoboes to set up a campfire.

what else

Another "oops I bought a house" dream, this time I'm in Japan. I waited too long and the details escape me but whatever.

In real life, I just received my renewed passport.

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