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culture shock, nerds edition (engineer meets biologist)

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i’m going to be really honest with you guys i think the tendency to read the absolute worst possible intentions into every action you don’t agree with is getting too automatic and it’s eating you from the inside out
I think my most compact and simplified view on all this is that tech ventures spent about a decade between 2011-2021 willfully bleeding money in order to assert themselves as Good Guy:tm: science visionaries who wanted to revolutionize day-to-day life with technology. They were rolling out reliable, easy, order-from-your-phone Uber rides that were cheaper than scammy taxis. They gave you Twitter as a public square where everyone could be heard, not just the elite. They gave you Netflix over clunky, corrupt cable packages. Google had the "don't be evil" motto (which is a hilarious thing to do away with, like, well we're evil now sorry :( )
Then for the last 5 years (huge interest rate hikes, tech stock drop-off scare in 2022, US regime change in 2025, blah blah blah) they snapped the trap and decided to activate the money machine, which is rampant enshittification and bleeding everyone dry with higher baseline costs and forced subscription costs and forcibly app-ifying every single thing (needs a login needs a credit card needs an id nees a ) and backing pretty far away from the "your good relatable buddy" tech CEO image. Like it's been the world's most blatant and annoying pig-butchering scheme.
But, they're also rolling out AI like we're still in that 2011-2021 era of "we're your buddies revolutionizing your life with wow-worthy technology." They're shoving AI under our noses going "remember when you LOVED new technology? you love this, right? you love this? you want this? you want this?" and they're not getting why so many people are bristling and do not trust a single word out of their mouths.
Very true
Brutalist maze, Seattle
its called Freeway Park and while it is one of the most interesting single examples of Brutalism in the united states and im proud of it, it is so poorly designed in terms of public safety that it has been renovated twice(?) but continues to be geographically troubling, as its design has facilitated a lot of murders over the years. it was the subject of a funny but gruesome article in the STranger in 2002 called Topography of Terror. the city doesnt keep official tally of how many murders or assaults have happened IN the park but two men in their 30s were stabbed nonfatally during a robbery there earlier this year, for example.
Suspect that building mazes is perhaps not conducive to public safety, outside of minotaur isolation scenarios.
It's also behind the convention center, so if you look at archives of cosplay photography it shows up from time to time

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im fucking crying
Which of these did you NOT know?
I knew all of these things
Calvin Klein is real
Calvin Klein is alive
Calvin Klein is gay
Calvin Klein is real and alive
Calvin Klein is real and gay
Calvin Klein is alive and gay
I didn't know any of these things
this picture of a chip pan oil fire from the wikimedia cookbook is so strikingly sublime
Carry on my wayward son
We visited an old glass factory that was converted into a park and the photos can get very surreal.
“Pratchett went back to older throwaway jokes (like dwarves being apparently unisex) and used them as metaphors to discuss social change, racial assimilation, and other complex issues, while reexamining the species he’d thrown in at the margins of his world simply because they existed at the margins of every other fantasy universe. If goblins and orcs and trolls could think, then why were they always just there to be slaughtered by the heroes? And if the heroes slaughtered sentient beings en masse, how heroic exactly were they? It was a long overdue start on redressing issues long swept under the rug by a parade of Tolkien successors who never thought of anyone green and slimy as anything but a notch on the protagonist’s sword, and much of the urgency in Pratchett’s last few books seemed to be related to them. ‘There’s only one true evil in the world,’ he said through his characters. ‘And that’s treating people like they were things.’ And in the last of his ‘grown-up’ Discworld books, that idea is shouted with the ferocity of those who have only a few words left and want to make them count. Goblins are people. Golems are people. Dwarves are people, and they do not become any less people because they decide to go by the gender they know themselves to be instead of the one society forces on them. Even trains might be people, and you’ll never know one way or the other unless you ask them, because treating someone like they’re a person and not a thing should be your default. And the only people who cling to tradition at the expense of real people are sad, angry dwellers in the darkness who don’t even understand how pathetic they are, clutching and grasping at the things they remember without ever understanding that the world was never that simple to begin with. The future is bright, it is shining, and it belongs to everyone.”
— John Seavey, The Evolution of the Disc (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)
The Amnesty International report that JK Rowling is trying to censor through legal threats.
It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.
Please save and share this info where possible. This report has since been removed by Amnesty International due to legal threats of libel from JK Rowling. This information is no longer easily accessible.

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my house is scary at night
Interpreted this initially not as shelves, but as your cat having erected defensive fortifications
Ok. Hi. You are a young lesbian and you dig the whole Loyal Knight dynamic but you’ve never seen Stephen Universe; it’s fine, it’s whatever, just keep living your life like that if you want I guess
Hi I’m Pearl SU and I’m an artificial intelligence that was created to be a handmaid to a princess but then I helped her find a more true identity for herself and she uplifted me to an equal and she decided to go full Rebel against her family’s empire and we fought a war together and I literally not figuratively gave my life for her more than once because you can put me back together after I’m broken and we lived together in sapphic bliss for thousands of years before she met this fucking scruffy hair metal guy and got herself killed having his baby that I got stuck raising but it’s fine I’m fine I’m ok it’s lucky I don’t have organs because by this point I would have eaten them while getting drunk and listening to Florence Welch but don’t worry about me I’m fine I’m literally fine
Hi I’m Ruby SU and Sapphire SU and we’re a lesbian Noble/Bodyguard couple that’s so head-over-heels for other that we literally not figuratively fused into a single person but anytime we have even a minor disagreement we literally not figuratively explode back into two people who each individually storm off to do a bunch of property damage before dramatically and tearfully making up and one of us can literally not figuratively predict the future which means on some level we’re doing this on purpose
Hi I’m Connie SU and I’m a regular human girl with overprotective parents and an active imagination who thinks of myself as kinda boring but I met this magical boy who contains the soul of a girl and his adoptive aunt trained me to be a knight and protect him with my life but when the big moment comes he pulls some noble sacrifice shit and doesn’t let me put my life on the line for him and we kinda have to break up for a little bit about it because I’m so fucking livid
Howl?? From Howl’s Moving Castle??
Happy Moon Landing Day 🌕🐇
One of the best letters I’ve ever seen just popped up on my Facebook memories. Still makes me laugh.
As today is the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, it’s a great time to revisit Dinah from Devon’s memory of this historic event. And yes, still makes me laugh.
Today is the 54th anniversary of the moon landing, but Dinah’s diary entry is still absolutely magnificent.
57th anniversary of the moon landing and the best diary entry in the history of diary entries. Sit down Samuel Pepys, it’s over. UGH.

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An example of why one should use the Oxford comma.
LOL. I think they tried to fix it.
Nice try. Still no.
Wake up, babe, a new example of why the Oxford comma is a really good idea just dropped...
the trip to Erid is long and boring. Thankfully Grace has the entire internet downloaded onto his laptop and can teach Rocky about human history and science to pass the time
Cuneiform tablets and Assyriology are up first