oh how punk

Ritwik Ghatak: “I do not believe in any rigid theory, but at the same time I am quite amazed at those so-called ‘great’ film makers, who are fundamentally nothing but dilettantes who clamour about the art of human relationships. It is a very clever way of evading one’s social reposnibility. What they practice only goes to serve the purpose of their establishment. They are as partisan as can be, but wear a mask of nonpartisanship. I detest this kind of slogan.” 

You only have to look at how many footballers who have rape accusations against them that happily represent their countries in huge tournaments like the World Cup without anyone really giving a shit to see what bollocks that is.

Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), Achraf Hakimi (Morocco), Thomas Partey (Ghana), Gonzalo Montiel (Argentina), Thiago Almada (Argentina), Junya Ito (Japan), Kaishu Sano (Japan), Ryan Mendes (Cabo Verde).

My mom tried to lose weight in vain for months before she finally gave into my begging her to get a second opinion. The first doctor she saw next scheduled her for surgery the same day she met him. When my mom asked about the risk of operating on her he told her that there was some minor risks for complication and that all she would need to do to alleviate the risk was spend an extra night in the hospital so that they could keep a look out for any complications.

There were zero. There were also zero complications when she had her other knee done, her hip replaced and her gallbladder removed.

We talk extensively about the allure of choice feminism, gender ideology, heteronormative queer theory, and the power of misleading or coercive circumstances that rob women of control over their own lives. Unfortunately, I've seen too many cases of that compassionate understanding being strictly theoretical, while real living breathing women trying to navigate these shifts in thinking and untangle their own experiences get mocked and belittled and interrogated for what they used to do or believe. That's a great way to make ex-libfems feel like they literally belong nowhere, and it makes me worry about the sustainability of radfem/gendercrit spaces when I see these examples of an absolutely piss-poor welcome for our newest members.

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

I don’t really know enough about these subcultures to say for sure but with this (at least the second set of pictures) I could actually see the argument of it being “for her” and “just for fun.” If these women are wearing it every day because she feels unlike herself without the make-up, that’s a problem, but if it’s for festivals/events? I can’t really see any much harm in that. To me at least, it doesn’t seem that different from wearing corpse makeup at a show, cosplay at a con or any costume really.