beyond the sky. on the other side of the rain.

girl who sat next to me at the coffee shop had that Tortured By Computer Work look in her eye so i turned to her and was like Are u doing research? and it turns out she (white) just started working as an indigenous liaison for an ecological wellness surveying company (hired bc she worked with the local nation for a year) so i was like OMG can i share resources with you. and whipped out my 1 million notes and academic papers on ethical Indigenous-settler relations/research and Indigenous perspectives on ecological restoration. she was like omg are u sure this is basically a whole course for free and i wanted to tear my shirt off liek YES!!!! I WANT TO PROMOTE LOW BARRIER EDUCATION TO ADVANCE DECOLONIZATION AND RECONCILIATION!!!!!!!!!!! STEP IN2 MY GOOGLE DOC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don’t mean to be rude; but I don’t think I’ve ever seen this, does anyone have any examples?

You’re all sitting on the hot take of the decade tbh

And yet when they fond out that boys were watching MLP:FIM in droves, they had NO PROBLEM with it.

The 100 too. I’ll never forget how Jason Rothenberg would attacked female fans on Twitter and mock them in interviews, and then post links to male fan discussions on Reddit to praise and thank them. In his goodbye letter to the show he SPECIFICALLY thanked Reddit and it was so disgusting.

Star Trek from TNG on was also a boy’s club, even though the TOS fans were mostly women. Women, in fact, who literally created modern fandom with their zines. But after TNG it was all, “Women don’t understand Star Trek, only smart men hur dur.”

I think it would be harder for us to find examples of when this DIDNT happen than when it did. It happens all the time.

Look, I know Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a perfect man or president, but he has more self-restraint than I can imagine, because if I had to stand there while Trump said “Russia wants Ukraine to succeed” while Russia is actively bombing my country, causing millions of people to be without heating or electricity this winter, not to mention continuing to strike residential areas, kidnap children, commit widespread torture, murder, and rape against civilians and POWs alike, deny my country’s right to exist and be free from Russian oppression, and has tried to kill me multiple times, I would genuinely be completely unable to limit myself to just a sharp eyebrow raise and a sardonic chuckle. I would genuinely start shouting and probably go for a punch. I’ve seen people criticize Zelenskyy for being “too emotional” and not controlled enough while speaking about or to Trump, but I think given that Putin and Trump often chat before Trump talks to Zelenskyy (including on Dec 28th) and Zelenskyy knows Trump is a compromised Russian asset when he goes to talk to him, Zelenskyy is, given the circumstances, pretty dang controlled.

It's easy not to become a fascist if you're in their outgroup. It's a lot harder when they tell you that people like you are inherently superior and that you are under threat from degenerate enemies and that you belong with their movement. That's one of the many reasons why refusing to believe that you're better than anyone is an important part of moral hygiene.

The hive as a metaphor for LLMs actually goes really hard— it strips the individuality away from everything contained within it and everything produced is an averaging of a body of work from all of the writers and speakers in the world, while the humans outside it have their artistic contributions suffocated. Carol's work no longer means anything no matter how much they might insist otherwise— the work she considers slop is equated to shakespare, because to the hive its all the same, it's words to feed on to produce the impression that it is truly thinking and feeling as it reproduces data that it stole.