the familiar taste of poison

crossposting from bsky - glad I stopped using spotify when I did and that I unlinked it from my discord, but still

The settlement gives Tumblr 180 days to hire an expert on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) issues and provide related training to moderators. It must also hire someone with experience in this area as well as expertise in image classification, who will review Tumblr’s moderation algorithms to see if they’re more likely to flag LGBTQ content. As part of an overall review, Tumblr will reexamine 3,000 old cases where a user successfully appealed a takedown, looking for patterns that could indicate bias.

Something like Breaking Bad, for example, has low squiggability (that’s what I’m calling this quality). It’s tightly written, the characters are consistent, there’s little left to interpolate or extrapolate. Obviously, people DO write fanfic of Breaking Bad, but it still has a low squiggability score. Whereas something like Supernatural has a high squiggability score. Fantasy and science fiction often have high squiggability scores. This suggests squiggability could also be related to worldbuilding and potential for people to borrow a premise or setting.

Tehanu 5/5

Summary/thoughts: We follow Tenar in her middle age as she cares for a young burned orphan.

Earthsea is the best fantasy series and its SO underrated.

Red and Black ink on an index card.

It has since earned 2.3 million views.

Comments on the song from music composer Ozawa Takumi here:

This was our problem song. Out of all of them. It was the most unexpected? The most “outside the box” song, I think. “That Azul, singing THIS song?” But to me personally this song is, “You’re the star!”