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The “bats can do calculus” thing is funny, because if you play around with synths for a while, you realize a lot of what humans perceive as “natural” sounds are just us directly perceiving certain complex mathematical things as big gestalt gestures. Like recognizing a multiplied wave as sounding like a woodwind. Hearing individual notes within a chord is basically Fourier analysis. Feeling how naturally a note decays is perceiving how linear or exponential the curve is. The fact that a sine wave sounds smooth but a sawtooth wave sounds nasally, and a square wave has a certain hollow fuzz to it. Is someone doing “math” there? Once you get the flavor of what each of those qualities are like, listening to the world becomes like directly perceiving math. Also, listening to birds becomes very strange. Because you realize some goofy easy weird sound you can squelch out of an analog synth is the same thing a bird is doing. Then sometimes they make a sound you can’t make. What kind of math is that bird on? Makes you wonder.
People love to pretend that west Germany wasn’t Nazi but why did Hollywood have to change the plot of Casablanca to make it fit for release in west Germany then lmfao
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Hey. If people aren't aware, Microsoft admitted they know who you and where you are at all times and will give your info to the police.
They have a Global Device Identifier (GDID) Tracker that functions as a fingerprint for your PC that can surpass VPNs, proxy servers and countries. Although it can't survive a clean reinstall of Windows (it can survive updates), because Microsoft forces you to go to the internet and log in into a Microsoft account, they will be able to get to you.
Microsoft kept it secret and it was only found out when the FBI tracked a hacker thanks to the information Microsoft gave them.
You should be paying attention to this, and possibly consider moving away from Windows. If a government, especially the US government, doesn't like you for some reason, this could be seriously concerning.
This article specifically notes:
For journalism, activism, or domestic abuse situations, skip Windows and use Linux routed through Tor instead of a commercial VPN. A GDID doesn’t care which VPN you use, only that it’s still the same Windows installation.
GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how to limit it.
Other important quotes:
What has researchers uneasy is everything else the case reveals. Costin Raiu, a well-known malware researcher, asked on the Three Buddy Problem podcast how much of this exists on other platforms, and whether it is linked more permanently to hardware. Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows “surveillance software”.
Two things back that up:
There’s no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Apple’s advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Android’s works the same way. GDID has neither, and a Windows reinstall only gets you a new number Microsoft can still get back to the same account.
Then there’s activation. Massgrave, the group behind Microsoft Activation Scripts, notes that Windows setup sends hardware info to Microsoft and gets identifiers back, the same tokens later used for Store access and licensing: “It’s impossible to prevent Windows from getting a GDID without breaking activation and UWP app[s].” Anyone who lost a license after swapping a motherboard has already met a smaller version of this.
Here's the complaint filed to the court, the primary source for the case mentioned in the article. You can find mentions of GDID on page 30 of the document or 34 of the PDF.
Hey. If people aren't aware, Microsoft admitted they know who you and where you are at all times and will give your info to the police.
They have a Global Device Identifier (GDID) Tracker that functions as a fingerprint for your PC that can surpass VPNs, proxy servers and countries. Although it can't survive a clean reinstall of Windows (it can survive updates), because Microsoft forces you to go to the internet and log in into a Microsoft account, they will be able to get to you.
Microsoft kept it secret and it was only found out when the FBI tracked a hacker thanks to the information Microsoft gave them.
You should be paying attention to this, and possibly consider moving away from Windows. If a government, especially the US government, doesn't like you for some reason, this could be seriously concerning.
This article specifically notes:
For journalism, activism, or domestic abuse situations, skip Windows and use Linux routed through Tor instead of a commercial VPN. A GDID doesn’t care which VPN you use, only that it’s still the same Windows installation.
GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how to limit it.
Other important quotes:
What has researchers uneasy is everything else the case reveals. Costin Raiu, a well-known malware researcher, asked on the Three Buddy Problem podcast how much of this exists on other platforms, and whether it is linked more permanently to hardware. Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows “surveillance software”.
Two things back that up:
There’s no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Apple’s advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Android’s works the same way. GDID has neither, and a Windows reinstall only gets you a new number Microsoft can still get back to the same account.
Then there’s activation. Massgrave, the group behind Microsoft Activation Scripts, notes that Windows setup sends hardware info to Microsoft and gets identifiers back, the same tokens later used for Store access and licensing: “It’s impossible to prevent Windows from getting a GDID without breaking activation and UWP app[s].” Anyone who lost a license after swapping a motherboard has already met a smaller version of this.
Here's the complaint filed to the court, the primary source for the case mentioned in the article. You can find mentions of GDID on page 30 of the document or 34 of the PDF.
actually i am gonna give you guys a genuine answer to that. not the anon because they obviously don't actually care, but the rest of the new followers i seem to have picked up off that youth lib post.
why do i give a shit about social media restrictions? well, i went to the library three months ago with my two teenage brothers to sign them up for new library cards (they just moved) and i was told that under 18s can't have a library card, even a restricted kids-books-only card, without a parent there in person to give consent.
that's fucked for abused kids for sure but that's also fucked for kids whose single mum works two jobs and can't get to the library while its open. and there is NO good reason for it except to appease parents who want to control what their kids can read.
people coming onto my posts telling me 'kids should just do X' have not actually looked into the possibility of doing what they are suggesting. kids now cannot do what you did when you were a teenager even a decade ago. abused kids, disabled kids or kids from low income families ESPECIALLY cannot do those things. they are running out of places to go.
interviews and studies with teenagers repeatedly prove that they WANT to hang out with their friends in real life, and it is getting harder and harder to do it. the internet is one of the only places they can all spend time together, unsupervised, without spending money or getting hassled or moved on by adults.
social media bans won't fix that. they won't even keep kids off social media. they're just going to make life harder for everyone, increase the amount of tracking and monitoring EVERYONE is subject to, and force kids to lie about what they're doing to any adults that actually DO give a shit about them.
when I first moved out to live with roommates, also transfems, I still had a lot of healing to do from my abuser, and I was in a stage where I was starting to conceive of myself as a small and harmless Victim
what this did was make me an awful roommate who could not accept accountability. I had not learned how to apologize without having the apology forcibly extracted from me by my abuser. I had not learned how to accept my shortcomings or take criticism without having them beaten over my head by my abuser
I'm very fortunate I had people in my life who loved me and would be gentle yet direct and firm with me, and who would set firm boundaries with me. I couldn't treat loved ones well if I saw them as adversaries, if I expected them to act like my abuser. I wasn't protecting myself like I thought I was, I was just being a shit roommate
suffering doesn't make you a good person. surviving abuse doesn't mean you can't commit abuse yourself. that belief is actually a great way to ensure that you continue the cycle of abuse that your abuser brought you into. to break the cycle you have to understand yourself as a whole person, neither Victim nor Abuser
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the longer answer: multiple readings are of course possible blah blah but there's reasons that a CSA reading is very straightforward for most sidekicks. the genre conventions around sidekicks are such that this reading is necessarily there almost all of the time, even when the text isn't leaning into the relationship being dysfunctional (and they so often are at least a little dysfunctional - that's just good drama and an almost inevitable storytelling beat). mostly I'm talking about sidekicks of heroes here, but villain sidekicks are all very molested too obviously.
firstly: you have an adult with power over the child - typically one who is literally hero worshipped by the child - with a significant amount of unsupervised one-on-one access to them. this is simply one of the biggest risk factors for CSA. all adults hold power over children, but in the case of the sidekick this differential is exarcerbated by the fact that heroes are, definitionally, powerful people. in addition to their abilities and generally being highly regarded by their communities, heroes also tend to be either deputised and therefore law enforcement (typical of the silver age), acting outside the law/as a law unto themselves (typical of the modern era), or like, literally royalty of some kind (e.g. aquaman, wonder woman). there is no accountability mechanism for how they treat their sidekicks! if a sidekick wanted to speak out or seek help for a problem with their mentor, who do they have to go to? typically, no one. certainly no one who would take their side over the hero or have any way to enforce such a thing. this is a dynamic where abuse is almost inevitable.
secondly: again by necessity of the genre conventions, the hero is encouraging or at least allowing the sidekick to sacrifice having a normal childhood. particularly as comics head into the modern era, this is not just missing school activities for vigilante reasons, impacts to relationships with peers, or having poor sleep, but also a bodily sacrifice - the sidekick is at significant risk of physical harm by nature of being a sidekick fighting crimes.
this is of course necessary for them to have agency and be a figure that real life children can see as empowering, which is the point of a sidekick. but you end up with either the hero being blase and ignorant of this danger (which comes off as them not considering the child's safety to be important), or the text trying to acknowledge the danger and have the hero justify it. often this is written as the hero knowing there is significant risk, but that it's okay because the child wants it, or because they would just do it without the hero's help, or simply that the hero selfishly wants the company. the sidekick is mature and adult-like when convenient, and childlike and in need of guidance when that's convenient, and the story bends around the adult to justify all this. the needs of the story render the needs of the child unimportant. you don't have to work hard to translate these into justifications a perpetrator might have for CSA.
thirdly, sidekicks can fill similar narrative roles to love interests for the hero. direct parallels are often made in text between these characters. both love interests and sidekicks are, in many stories, ultimately props for the hero character. sidekicks are liable to be held hostage and threatened to get to the hero, prone to jealousy when the hero has a new love interest, and enmeshment is almost certainly present. again, these parallels make it easy to read the hero as having a romantic or sexual interest in the sidekick, too.
then there's the secret identity. not all sidekicks have one! but the ones who don't tend to be the ones where the hero has political power of some sort in a fantastical culture (e.g. Garth, Donna). again this is because of how the genre works - if the sidekick lives within mainstream US culture, it would obviously be a huge risk for their identity to be known. but, well, you then end up with an intense secret being kept between an adult and a child, typically with the adult convincing the child to keep it by telling them it would be dangerous for anyone else to know. and this secret shapes the child's identity and it concerns something illegal and no one else would understand... sounds very molested to me idk about you....
it can look slightly different depending on the hero/sidekick pair. if the sidekick lives with the hero then the secret may be shared with other household members (e.g. Alfred knowing about Batman and Robin) - this ends up looking like household incestuous abuse, where household members not directly involved nevertheless look the other way, or voice vague disapproval but never interfere. when they live seperately, this instead looks like the child lying to their parents and trusted adults in their life to maintain the secret. i am forever thinking about the time Wally, at behest of his aunt's boyfriend Barry, lies to his parents about going to see his friends so that he can instead go to a motel outside town to see Ralph Dibny, a man he has never met before, for vigilantism purposes. like!!! it is usually a very straightforward swap of 'vigilantism is a metaphor for sexual abuse' and then no further reading into it needs to be done to make it work. and the sidekick will typically be hiding their secret from their school peers, perhaps dwelling on how seperate and alienated from them it makes them feel, too.
none of this is even really getting deep into the way the hero and sidekick actually feel about each other, either! the sidekick is almost always very very intensely attached to the hero. the metatextual reason for this is that the hero is their literal reason to exist - few sidekicks can go off on their own and hold up a comic line on their lonesome. whether the hero feels equally intensely can vary, but the end result tends to be something that resembles either mutual codependency or trauma bonding.
in conclusion: the nature of the sidekick makes them eminently molestable. but you must not stop there! think about the specific hero/sidekick dynamic and the truths of how this sidekick is getting molested will be revealed to you. does the sidekick feel negatively about missing out on normal life? how do other people see them? does the hero feel any guilt over them, or not? dig into the relationship and they are all a little bit different. i like to hold them up to each other to compare and contrast. that's where the fun is! 🥰
final more serious note but i do not think it is a bad thing at all that the child empowerment fantasy genre can be so easily read with this lens. children who experience CSA are some of the children in most need of empowerment! and deserve to have characters to identify with who are nonetheless given agency and narrative weight. attempts to remove sidekicks from the genre or stressing over the optics is kind of missing the point to me. more sidekicks forever please and thank youu
(via @inkrats) preserving your tags bc YEAH EXACTLY i didn't go into this but 100% this is part of it. especially as sidekicks are encouraged and indeed explicitly instructed to put the wellbeing of others above themselves, to make sacrifices and accept a degree of getting hurt for the greater good. like. to speak out against their mentor would be to prioritise themselves in a way that is completely anathema to the way sidekicks are groomed to think.
I'm going to *remembers how many times in my life I didn't tell anyone I was suicidal* you know, I'm not going to, but I honestly think even joking about it is better than never talking about it, and I think people who have dealt with such a difficult thing deserve to be able to joke about our own experiences without getting lectured about some knock-off CBT that's been ground up and shat out of the online pop psychology void, and also you know this format in itself is a suicide joke right it's just euphemistic
Some of the edgiest queers in the world who constantly talk about romanticizing cannibalism and gore is punk or whatever will turn into the literal pope when confronted with anything realistic having to do with sex like im sorry but people fuck in the park at night sometimes always have and always will and you’re going to have to go about your life without advocating for them to be skinned alive in Alcatraz
And— dare I point out the obvious— the policing of these public areas historically was and still is a huge element of police brutality and discrimination against gay people. Undercover cops frequently patrol areas that are known cruising spots and initiate with men so they can make an arrest when the guy reciprocates. They will also arrest men who are seen looking at each other over the urinals in these spots. Or for peeing while wearing a rainbow wristband.
Federal law enforcement turned a person they arrested in the transit hub directly over to ICE.
If you are going to be squeamish about these facts of public life then you should really be aware of how at odds that is with your “punk” “be gay do crime” aesthetics and how your fears are directly implicated in fascist policing of our bodies
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Camila's investigation for Dropsite uncovered that the US Coast Guard is likely utilizing the Shield AI V-BAT drone to assist with the CIA's operations targeting Ecuadorian fisherman.
To summarize some of the recent findings: the US Coast Guard is terrorizing civilians in the Eastern Pacific by monitoring their targets with Shield AI surveillance drones, attacking them with FPV drones, and then picking up and torturing shipwrecked survivors with the assistance of the CIA, who are operating out of an infamous airbase that was the central hub for arming the contras and trafficking cocaine back to the US. When an Ecuadorian prosecutor tried to investigate these drone attacks on civilians, she was gunned down in broad daylight.
The fishermen targeted for summary execution by the CIA had been boarded, searched, and cleared by the Ecuadorian coast guard earlier in the day. But the Americans' garbage AI drone technology decided for some unknown reason that they were drug traffickers who had to die.
