A Shy Guy's world

it's very frustrating seeing otherwise well-structured posts about media literacy and critical thinking bookended with statements about "nowadays", "nobody has literacy anymore", "this generation is so anti-intellectual", and the like, unquestioningly falling into better past fallacies.

Also let’s noooot talk down to people with low literacy skills, okay? You have absolutely no idea what led them to that. None of my grandparents could read past a maybe third grade level, because by the time they were 10 they had to work on the farm full time. My mom got pregnant at 14 and was pulled out of school. When my dad was 15, his parents left the state without him, so he had to get a job and quit school. Not everyone is lucky enough to have good parents and good teachers and community resources and all the other things that go into high literacy rates.

Yes, thank you! Youth homelessness exist. Childhood refugees exist. Cognitive disabilities ad learning disabilities exist. Memory loss, brain fog and brain damage exist.

This is literally what people are talking about when they say AI will be used to mainstream widely held bigotry. LLMs are trained on frequency and probability -> straight relationships are more well represented in the dataset -> straight pronouns and terms become the "correct" normal.

Saw this on Twitter and I obligatory need to share it

So she actually said that she does not see the appeal in Senshi at all and that the panty shots weren't intended to be horny - she just has a neighbor who looks kind of like him and does laundry in his underwear. Which she finds kind of weird and offputting, and put into his character to be funny.

#i think we should put this post next to the interview where she said she doesn't want to eat the food in the series cuz she's a picky eater#and file them both under 'you don't know an artist from their work'#and maybe you don't need to!#maybe all you need to know is that ryoko kui is Good At What She Does#idk I don't like the implication that artists (and women especially?) can only create from personal life and feelings#some people have imagination and craft#kind of a tangent but. there you go.

Thinking about the time when I was 7 and I saw someone online describe Mr. Krabs as Jewish. I got really excited because I thought that was cool! So I asked my Mom how they knew that because I'd never seen it referenced in the show

why are people submitting asks with skulls? to be scary? 👣

idk why people are still trying to do "hear me out"s on tumblr

I want to fuck Antoni Gaudi's unbuilt Hotel Attraction skyscraper design

Killjoy voice