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still the funniest plot point in all of pmmm that Homura Akemi is a 14 year old magical girl who realized that her sparkly transformation sequence did not come with a cutesy custom weapon like everyone else's so she just went online and googled "how to build a bomb"
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modern LLMs (i.e. post GPT-4o) are good at being coding agents and good at being what I'm calling contextual search engines, in the sense that they can answer natural language questions in the context of a conversation (you couldn't previously add clarifying comments while googling) and that's a genuinely useful tool to have.
what I'm curious to see is when we get the equivalent of coding agents for things that aren't coding, though.
Also, even if we could prove/agree on who's the worst off subgroup wise, focusing just on that subgroup would neither be the best way of helping that subgroup nor of helping people overall. We need solidarity and taking action on many fronts if we're going to get anywhere.
i feel like im not a completely stupid person and able to do "media literacy" to some degree. so it does seem evident that "witch hat atelier"'s story revolves around realizing that everyone has the capacity for art and that by cordoning it off to a privileged class and teaching it in only one specific way, the entire field suffers from stagnation and a lack of novel ideas. coco's presence in the field invigorates it and causes it to lurch forward in technique and utility. and i also understand what a plot hook is, and that something things need to happen to move the plot along or create stakes for a story.
but still. but still. its so funny that coco was so bad at art her mom basically died
similarly, my husband was like "what is agott's problem. why is she acting like this" and i had to explain it like. imagine, since the moment you were born, you dedicated yourself to art. your parents were artists and expect great things from you, so when your childhood revolved around art, everyone embraced it and pushed you forward in the hopes that you would surpass them. you draw every single day. you skip meals to study and draw. your body is permanently altered with stained fingertips because of how often you draw. you work yourself to the bone to understand the principles, the history, the intricacies of art so that you might be considered a true master of that which you adore. you get into one of, if not the, most prestigious art school of all time after years of grinding. but its not enough, you can see you have so much more to learn and the field is so vast you worry you may never master it. and then the next day some girl who blew up her mom in a drawing incident shows up at the school and everyone coos over her lopsided circles. and she's your roommate
It appears this Black Rose arc is about a power hungry group convincing a bunch of suckers that they should blame all their personal problems on the nearest brown woman. This is much like following US politics
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also the thing about "we need to focus on the people most vulnerable, and transmascs may be vulnerable but not more than trans women!" is that it doesn't consider transmasc erasure as an active force.
its a take from the perspective that trans men are "vulnerable" is some vague abstract generalized way, not in a way which would behoove anyone to adjust their behavior or take action on their behalf. its the erasure of erasure; the assumption is that trans men probably have enough resources and support anyways, which could not be farther from the truth. some local communities may have more transmasc-focused resources, but many others do not. transmasculine people are left out of vital conversations, are excluded from vital resources, are ignored and forgotten when they are abused and killed.
it treats transmasc erasure as something which is passive in itself and which can be solved passively. which is erasure itself in action. i do not really give a fuck about "who has it worse," it is not about that. it is about the fact that if YOU do not make an ACTIVE EFFORT to advocate for transmascs, to make transmasc suffering and oppression visible and legible, it will not happen. it simply will not happen.
erasure is an active force. we all internalize transmasculine erasure and we can all easily contribute to it; we are expected to contribute to it. trans men&mascs cannot afford the model of "well we only need to raise awareness for the most vulnerable" because our vulnerability is defined by being ignored.
this is why unlearning anti transmasculinity has to start from (un)learning erasure. once you start to see it as an active force/tool of the patriarchy you realize it is the lynchpin that holds so much (especially intercommunity) anti-transmasculinity together. transmaculine absence is so normalized people experience our presence as an intrusion, and people genuinely do not understand why we would ever need to be more visible than we are. it is fucking everywhere.
like idk i remember reading about a trans man in India who, after he came out to his family, was literally locked in a room in their house. just shut up in a basement somewhere, out of sight and out of mind, until he managed to escape (and even then, there's also a trans man in India whose parents sent the police to track him down and kidnap him from a shelter meant specifically for trans people).
or trans men like Sophie Lederer, who was only 19 when he was arrested for "talking silly and claiming to be a boy" in the early 20th century, and the only other thing I know about him is that he spent the rest of his life, over a decade, institutionalized for his transmasculinity. god only fucking knows what was done to him in those years by his wardens.
that is the image of transmasculine erasure. it is boys and men locked in closets and basements and prison cells disguised as hospital rooms for years until they are dead and buried as women. if they even get a headstone at all. it is dead-eyed mothers with three children who have no income or job experience and are married to a cis man ten years older than them who they know would kill them, and possibly their children, if they even mentioned being trans. if you think of transmasc erasure or "invisibility" and imagine a white cis-passing guy working stealth at his office job, congrats! transmasculine erasure is already living like a fungus in your mind. i am trying to make you feel the horror the patriarchy has trained you out of feeling about the state of transmasculine oppression.
if you've followed me for any length of time you've likely already seen this quote, but i wanna talk about it in this context again:
"Unless they present hyperfeminine, butches don’t have access to the job market. You will not be considered if you don’t wear nice women’s clothes. If you set up catering, you will get told, “I am disgusted; a woman who thinks she’s a man is cooking for me.” So butch lesbians normally have an assistant, or their femme partner if they have one, who is more feminine-looking to run the front so customers don’t know a masculine-presenting person is cooking behind the curtains. Many of us become sex workers [due to lack of job opportunities].… But then when police raid brothels and homes, the masculine lesbians get treated “like men.” This means more forceful handcuffing, kneeling, and stripping their shirts off." – Rosa, lesbian and sex worker rights defender El Salvador
i was thinking about this when it comes to how we describe vulnerability in our community, specifically mentioning someone is a "femme" to indicate their need for extra support. i don't know i've ever seen the same be done for butches. i genuinely cannot remember ever really seeing people talk about butches and their economic and social vulnerability, the way i see people talk about femmes.
its not that being feminine doesn't cause genuine vulnerability! but because people have such a binary attitude towards gender (and more broadly), the way we talk about gendered vulnerability leads to this view that feminine people are always more vulnerable than masculine people, that "this femme needs help" to many queers and feminists feels more urgent than "this butch needs help."
the erasure of anti-transmasculinity is so pervasive and harmful and the erasure itself is then erased. and the thing is, the nature of benevolent sexism has always made it that femininity (mediated by race and class and social belonging, amongst other things, Its More Complicated Than That) is seen as inherently vulnerable. people seen as masculine lesbians are "treated like men" in the sense of being treated harsher with more physical violence, while still being subjected to sexual violence out of both misogyny and queerphobia, and also being economically vulnerable because of the disgust aimed at people perceived as masculine women. and who talks about it? not the people who refuse to understand gender oppression through anything other than a binary lens (while pretending that's not what they are doing).
honestly i think on a broader level, we have been seeing the erosion of genuine queer/trans theory for a while in favor of this idea that queerphobia is reducible down to misogyny. & i do think all queerphobia does innately involve misogyny. but i feel there's been this growing aversion to attributing anything to a hostility to gender non-conformity/genderqueerness itself, in favor of attributing it to a hatred of femininity. there is no true analysis of transphobia or misandrogyny as their own forces, its just a side effect of the hatred of femininity.
this is where we get the constant refrain of "the patriarchy likes masculinity, so masculine people are always seen as better than feminine people" & why people may find it incomprehensible that there may be situations where being feminine may be a protective factor in comparison to being masculine.
another example of this from this article:
The trio made their way down a busy street in the Santiago suburb of Pudahuel, close to where Carolina lived with her mother and father. Carolina and Estefania chose not to hold hands to avoid offending anyone. Suddenly, Carolina felt a force to the back of her head. Then darkness. She had fallen unconscious, and would remain in a coma for a week. She suffered a fractured skull, a broken nose, internal bleeding and permanent damage to her hearing. There were two male attackers. One had used a large wooden pole to hit her repeatedly on the back of her head, only stopping when Estefania threw herself on top of Carolina, using her body as a shield. This is significant, says Carolina's mother, Mariela. Because unlike Carolina, who identifies as a camiona and dresses accordingly, Estefania is femme - a more feminine lesbian identity. The attackers targeted Carolina and not Estefania, says Mariela, because she represented an "unacceptable" face of womanhood. It was not just her sexual orientation that prompted violence, it was her appearance as a camiona. "I want to make it very clear they were trying to kill her," she adds. "There is no other way of looking at it. The fact that she is here is a miracle." Carolina knew one of her alleged attackers. "Before this attack he threatened me. He said, 'I am going to kill you.' He said he was going to shoot me with a gun. He called me a lesbian and swore at me. He said, 'Why do you dress like a man?'"
there are people who have been nearly (or successfully) violently murdered for being seen as a masculine woman, while their femme girlfriends were not targeted or were not the main target. but if you reduce everything in patriarchy down to "m > f" you will miss this. and
even in this article, the discussion of violence focuses on lesbianism and misogyny - which, while clearly central to the violence, one has to wonder what becomes of transmasculine individuals who are targeted by this same transphobic lesbophobia, the same transphobic misogyny, whose experiences with violence cannot be made legible through the same narratives as those who identify as women? who cannot appeal to the terms "femicide" and traditional feminist narratives as easily?
i feel like the fact that there is virtually no discussion of how trans men are affected by femicide even when including trans women in the conversation, and how basically every study or systemic review of studies looking at violence against trans men will discuss how little research has been done on this topic, and how the largest global review of studies on violence against transgender people (94 studies, 65,608 participants) found that while nearly all (96%) of the studies included transgender women, just half (49%) included transgender men and less than half (37%) included nonbinary people, should lead us to understand that the picture of how transmasculine people are impacted by transphobic and misogynistic violence is itself violently incomplete.
"AI as a public good" can be broken down into subcomponents, like "electricity as a public good" is already real: you can build your own generator for special needs or install solar panels to supplement your usage but the electrical grid is a public good that provides great benefit to society at large, much like the water and sewerage networks.
one could imagine "data centres as a public good" but that's a bit more complicated than electricity, given that the tech is changing so fast and is so dependent on a few chip design and manufacturing companies that it's not really commodified yet.
however the CHIPS act in the US and the big push for silicon self-reliance in China are very much "silicon as a public good", along with all the public funding for academic research and training of course that flows into high tech industries.
"open weight models as a public good" is an interesting aspect as it limits the ability of companies to bottleneck and rent seek, but it also requires governments to give up some control and I think they're often more comfortable negotiating cozy relationships with a few big players than opening things up to the public at large.
(following discussion with @youzicha in the notes) I'm not using "public good" correctly here, given that electricity in the sense of kWh is a quasi-public good at best (you pay for it and there's a limited amount of it) and the most you could say of the electrical grid is that its synchronisation to 50/60Hz is a public good, although not a particularly meaningful one unless you're a cheap clock.
not sure if there's a better term for infrastructure like the electrical grid that is heavily regulated and supplemented by tax funding (especially during the early stages of electrification) such that it can be considered universal even though it's also user pays; in some ways it seems more similar to banking?
torschlusspanikattack said: utility, no?
yes I guess so! for a service considered essential, can be privately owned or publicly owned but is always heavily regulated, and "AI as a public utility" was where this conversation started anyway.
my first attempt at woodburning I would like to thank dril for the inspiration
I can’t wait to live in a future where this quote is as ubiquitous and misattributed and misunderstood as many classic Shakespearean lines and other historical quotes. I’m genuinely looking forward to that.
anyone else notice how when "digital assistants" were just supposed to do specific tasks when you asked for them we had Alexa and Siri and Cortana, but now that they're being marketed as smart enough to take actions and make decisions on their own they've got names like Claude and Devin
I think there can be an AI financial bubble even though LLMs won't go away, just like there was a financial bubble in the housing market even though there are twenty million more houses now than there were then.
Even if there is an AI productivity explosion that reduces the world's need for wage labor, the benefits historically go to "people who control the new bottle-neck inputs" and not "the people who invented the revolutionary technology." We are not all the permanent underclass to Big Loom.
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Strictly speaking, "ultimate" means "last", not "best". It's often figuratively employed in the latter sense to suggest that the thing so described is the final word on the subject, after which nothing more need be said, but if we're being real technical, describing a game or movie that was so bad it killed its entire franchise as the "ultimate" is in fact correct.
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Now I'm thinking about the prefix "pen," which as far as I can think I may have only ever seen in "penultimate"
It's Latin for "nearly" or "almost", and it does pop up in a few other English words. "Penultimate", "penumbra" and "peninsula" are the only ones I can think of that you'd even remotely expect to encounter in everyday speech, though; the rest are all medical or mathematical jargon.
#so peninsula means what? #almost island? #lmao (via @actualanxiousswampwitch)
That is the actual etymology of the word "peninsula", yes.
finding critical bugs with Claude Fable using the power of advanced AI (it took the C code and ran it through standard fuzzing tools)
sad thing is we actually need incredibly intelligent coding agents just to navigate modern build environments and install necessary packages these days 😮💨
(okay technically we needed it twenty years ago too, I just had more patience to do the grubby work myself back then)
found 3-4 bugs in a couple of hours, the equivalent of a junior developer running fuzzing tools and fixing simple logic errors against the spec, far from superintelligence but ultimately that's all it requires to break a lot of software 😔
Chronicles of Darkness type game where the clade/X axis of the character creation splat grid is taxonomic families within order carnivora and the secret society/Y axis is that "degrees of furriness" chart.
love it when a proposed housing development gets slapped down due to a lack of sufficient transport infrastructure and schools in the area, then transport infrastructure and schools are not built due to a lack of residents in the area.
I'm calling this the Ghost Vision AU
dunno if an AU like this exists yet or not, but if it hasn't existed yet, it does now
Basically, all ghosts, including halfas like Danny, see and hear all things ghostly the way they're depicted in the series, while to regular humans they appear a lot more.. ghostly, spooky and unsettling
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yeah yeah tumblr sexyman but what about a sexywoman. do we ever get those here
The thing about “tumblr sexyman” is that it was coined 100% as a pejorative and it’s honestly weird as hell that tumblr is liek Waow this is so cool (:
yeah i'm being snide about how tumblr users will lock onto conventionally attractiveish white men who are in a movie for one frame before showing an ounce of interest in anyone who isn't that. i would also settle for tumblr sexyman (non-white)
It's interesting how some of those fake mobile game ads seem to be backpedalling on the openly misogynistic framing and making an effort to appeal to female players instead, but whoever's making the ads clearly hasn't the slightest idea how to aim for that audience. All "ladies are into cleaning shit and bossing men around, right? How do we gamify that?"
