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siderea pointing out vocational awe is a terrible way to run an education system, especially when it refuses to differentiate between the need to have expert professionals teaching and the generally terrible design of a schooling system and its inhabitants. Furthermore, voational awe is even more terrible a reason to run a system of medicine, because science opposes the idea that something is immune from being tested to see if it is true and definitely opposed to the idea of continuing to do something if the science says it is ineffective, mistaken, or harmful. Science should always be applied to medicine.
Which may mean abandoning the use of statistical significance as an indicator of results in studies.
Thieves stole a functioning toilet make of 18k gold. Because they could? Or if they planned on melting the gold down, I guess. Because I can't exactly see the resale value of a golden toilet. Unless you were trying to appease a tinpot dictator by presenting it to them as a gift. (There's probably a Putin joke here.)
If you want to see the impact of online distribution and projects like AO3, take a look at this 2011 interview with Joanna Russ about slash and women's sexual desire, and see the differences in the community from now and then. (Except the part where a bunch of dudes are horrified at the prospect of slash, and how parody is more protected than fanfiction.) Also, Naomi Novik offered correct opinions about the Hugo that AO3 won.
Seeing yourself represented in media is trandformative, and Good Omens is likely to be more transformative than most. (Which sometimes means very direct transformations instead of figurative ones.
( And more things, contained within. )
Last for tonight, the story of Gary Gygax creating Dungeons and Dragons is far more complicated and involves many more people than the popular narrative wants to admit to. Also, a 3D-printed Batman suit based on the Arkham Origins model and a tutorial and explanation of cosplaying a raven Kenku, or just things to drool at because they're pretty and well done.
To put it mildly, all the things that make Tumblr and spaces like it great for advertisers make it absolutely terrible for users, because Tumblr and Twitter and them don't provide an easy way for a person to set the parameters of who they want a post to go to, to provide context, or to shut down something after it's gone out into the world. There's no real privacy and no incentive to actually do something when others are violating norms and the terms of service, because outrage drives interaction, and interaction is what the algorithms and advertisers want. Which makes it remarkably difficult for people in privacy-enabled places to find fellow fans, and makes it remarkably difficult in places that aren't privacy-enabled for anyone to do anything more than broadcast forever. People yearn for the old days of LiveJournal because it had managed to get popular enough to have stuff without having had to engage wholesale in the selling-out to the advertisers. (Usually pre-Strikethrough LJ, because at that point, one could plausible believe that the Moral Guardians weren't out to get them.) This may be related to the idea of Instagram piloting a project that removes the like counts from being seen except by the original poster and an apparent trend toward attempting demtrication in social media as a way of trying to get people to engage with content more, rather than mashing buttons to indicate approval and put another person's content in your timeline.ruuger suggests the Archive of Our Own might benefit greatly from demetrication, for much the same reasons of wanting engagement with the works and because many of the metrics aren't necessarily the things that people are looking for in Archive work, thanks to the search and tagging systems that were at least some part of the AO3's Hugo win.
The Alternative Limb Project, producing prosthetics that help a person match their self-image or match artistic and aesthetic designs for them, including vines and tentacles rather than human limbs.
siderea pointing out vocational awe is a terrible way to run an education system, especially when it refuses to differentiate between the need to have expert professionals teaching and the generally terrible design of a schooling system and its inhabitants. Furthermore, voational awe is even more terrible a reason to run a system of medicine, because science opposes the idea that something is immune from being tested to see if it is true and definitely opposed to the idea of continuing to do something if the science says it is ineffective, mistaken, or harmful. Science should always be applied to medicine.Which may mean abandoning the use of statistical significance as an indicator of results in studies.
Thieves stole a functioning toilet make of 18k gold. Because they could? Or if they planned on melting the gold down, I guess. Because I can't exactly see the resale value of a golden toilet. Unless you were trying to appease a tinpot dictator by presenting it to them as a gift. (There's probably a Putin joke here.)
If you want to see the impact of online distribution and projects like AO3, take a look at this 2011 interview with Joanna Russ about slash and women's sexual desire, and see the differences in the community from now and then. (Except the part where a bunch of dudes are horrified at the prospect of slash, and how parody is more protected than fanfiction.) Also, Naomi Novik offered correct opinions about the Hugo that AO3 won.
Seeing yourself represented in media is trandformative, and Good Omens is likely to be more transformative than most. (Which sometimes means very direct transformations instead of figurative ones.
( And more things, contained within. )
Last for tonight, the story of Gary Gygax creating Dungeons and Dragons is far more complicated and involves many more people than the popular narrative wants to admit to. Also, a 3D-printed Batman suit based on the Arkham Origins model and a tutorial and explanation of cosplaying a raven Kenku, or just things to drool at because they're pretty and well done.
To put it mildly, all the things that make Tumblr and spaces like it great for advertisers make it absolutely terrible for users, because Tumblr and Twitter and them don't provide an easy way for a person to set the parameters of who they want a post to go to, to provide context, or to shut down something after it's gone out into the world. There's no real privacy and no incentive to actually do something when others are violating norms and the terms of service, because outrage drives interaction, and interaction is what the algorithms and advertisers want. Which makes it remarkably difficult for people in privacy-enabled places to find fellow fans, and makes it remarkably difficult in places that aren't privacy-enabled for anyone to do anything more than broadcast forever. People yearn for the old days of LiveJournal because it had managed to get popular enough to have stuff without having had to engage wholesale in the selling-out to the advertisers. (Usually pre-Strikethrough LJ, because at that point, one could plausible believe that the Moral Guardians weren't out to get them.) This may be related to the idea of Instagram piloting a project that removes the like counts from being seen except by the original poster and an apparent trend toward attempting demtrication in social media as a way of trying to get people to engage with content more, rather than mashing buttons to indicate approval and put another person's content in your timeline.
ruuger suggests the Archive of Our Own might benefit greatly from demetrication, for much the same reasons of wanting engagement with the works and because many of the metrics aren't necessarily the things that people are looking for in Archive work, thanks to the search and tagging systems that were at least some part of the AO3's Hugo win. The Alternative Limb Project, producing prosthetics that help a person match their self-image or match artistic and aesthetic designs for them, including vines and tentacles rather than human limbs.
