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silveradeptLet's start with the possibility of a live-action Spider Noir series. Mostly because I think that Nicholas Cage would enjoy getting to play the character on a regular basis.
Regina Twala did excellent research on African communities and customs, but her name does not survive because many of the white men who asked her to do this research then appropriated it as their own work without credit. And because racism, the academic system didn't find anything wrong with this idea. Wallace Stegner plagarized Mary Hallock Foote, and John Steinbeck got the notes of Sanora Babb and because he published first, her book never made it until nearly her death. Several relationships between authors and their wives demonstrate a clear issue where insecurity and jealousy lead to trying to sabotage or control a wife. But because there's an entire amount of justification for the biases already written into society, things continue unfairly and unabated.
Brianna Ghey, a sixteen year-old trans girl, has been murdered, and while there are suspects currently in custody, this was a preventable thing. The police have decided they will investigate it as a hate crime, which seems eminently sensible given that the climate of England seems to be taking its cues from the same people the U.S.'s version of virulent transmisia is. Vigils were held across the the country in her memory, as well as in other countries.
Those who would do violence to you or kill you often cannot be dissuaded from their cause with only nonviolent methods. The sanitized version of struggle presented believes nonviolence can solve all things, but nonviolence sometimes only works because there is the threat or the reality of violence behind it.
If you haven't seen the![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png)
dw_news post yet, Dreamwidth lent their voice to a case trying to prevent an overbroad law that would require age-verification, likely through facial-recognition software, to access any site that might carry information harmful to minors, as deemed by the State of California. The news post has an excellent laity-accessible summary of the reasons why Dreamwidth is speaking up on this case, but you can also read the filed declaration describing Dreamwidth's extensive privacy practices and how the law would affect the ability of Dreamwidth to provide its core services and produce several no-win scenarios for the site and its users.
Puzzle editor Will Shortz on nearly thirty years constructing and editing puzzles and the changing of the crossword from the obscure and almost cryptic to things peppered with better wordplay, more vocabulary, and a lot more popular words and culture. Oh, and also about him falling in love with a partner before he turned seventy. And phenomenally long table tennis game streaks, even with international date line crossings.
History routinely ends up more interesting and complex than we give it time or space for in schooling. Witness the fortunes, marriages, and political acumen of a late-empire Roman Empress and Augusta, Galla Placida.
Raquel Welch gets to set down the burden of having been a sex symbol, at 82 years of age. She got to play several characters that were known for their looks and sometimes for something other than that.
It turns out it's somewhat difficult to knock out syphilis, despite it being well-known, although it also seems to be one of those infections where there's always something handy to blame for why it isn't gone yet. Speaking of treatments, the use of maggots and leeches as treatments for cleaning wounds and stimulating blood circulation, respectively, which are things that have been in use for hundreds of years. Also, honey, apparently. Some of it is in the hopes of slowing the development of antibiotic-resistant strains of pathogens.
The pictograms for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris have been revealed, and they take their inspiration from coats of arms, rather than stylized human figure designs. They're visually complex, and while they are representative of the sports being applied, I'm not sure how obvious they are at conveying that representation of the various Olympic disciplines.Additionally, the mascots for the Games have been revealed, and while they are officially red caps, there's going to be a second interpretation available from the get-go. (A redesigned logo is also suffering flak from people who believe it's too common-looking.)
Behaviors that would be frowned upon outside of the context of cars are often excused if cars are involved, including pollution of the space, bad behavior, and the like.
Detainees of the Guantanamo Bay prison can take some, but not all, of their art with them when they are released, because, apparently, the government considers art created by the inmates their property, not the property of the inmates. The prison itself should have been closed long ago, but if we can't achieve that, at least we can let someone take their artistic expression with them when they leave.
A bookstore that focuses solely on Black Food writing, which means they have an excellent selection of materials. Prominent women of Waterloo in mosaic around the exterior of Morley College. Attempting to determine the purpose of a large wooden phallus discovered from a Roman archaeological site, with no firm conclusions. The destruction of a ceramic balloon dog valued at $42,000 USD, and then skewering the person who wants to spend money on the shards, rather than putting the money toward better ends.
Thor, the Walrus that visited the UK some time ago, has been spotted around Iceland.
We should still be taking the risks of the pandemic seriously, because pretending helps basically nobody but capitalists who want us all to die so they can pretend everything is normal.
Unfortunately, what that's most likely to mean is that people have to develop their own risk tolerances and survival guides, like this one for disabled people who still want to be in public spaces during the cold and who still need serious precautions taken. And navigating kink and play parties as an immunocompomised person.
liv reminds us to distinguish between the people who have little choice in the matter of their exposure risks and those who are choosing to increase everyone's risks for selfish and uncaring reasons.
In technology, a curated list of lists of falsehoods on several subjects, especially involving technology and what's actually in the specifications versus what's assumed to be true.
Add noise pollution to the many, many reasons why crypto mining should be heavily regulated if not outright expunged from the United States.
Companies are demanding the right to make deepfakes of voice actors as a condition of recording a project for a studio. You can imagine how happy that makes the actors and their unions, but also, one only wonders how soon it will be until someone breaks into a vault containing voice actor samples and synthetic voices and lip flaps are put together to make voices say whatever the person doing it for the lulz wants.
ruuger discusses the use of ChatGPT in relation to the generation of fanworks, and in the comments, other perspectives about the ways in which machines have to be explicitly taught things that humans can understand by looking at context.
Involving LLMs and a right and proper Luddism, a human artist's work was banned from a subreddit because the moderators believed an LLM was involved in the generation of the work, and then, when the human appealed, was told they needed to find a style that was different than what the LLMs would generate. Which is an interesting way of justifying themselves - "well, your art looks like it could be generated by this, so you should find another style that justifies the effort you put into it and leave these styles to the stuff we're going to ban." Which we put next to Glaze, a process that changes artworks in ways that are not easily discerned by human eyes, but that can disrupt a mimicry model into producing something very different than the art style.
We should probably be concerned that even on easily observable things, like date and time, the LLMs can be spectacularly wrong and persist in their error, much like certain men who cannot allow themselves to ever be wrong. This is, after all, because the underlying structure of the LLM is fundamentally simple, even if it is scaled up to high amounts, and it appears to grasp certain rules that humans haven't quite discovered formally yet.
Attempting to create self-de-icing roads through the use of mixing the de-icer into the material and having the pressure of cars driving on the road release more of the de-icer to the surface. Which would be helpful in all sorts of places that don't get visited by road cleaning crews when there is regular ice and snow.
Attempting to treat chronic constipation through the use of a capsule that vibrates in specific ways to stimulate the movement of stool along the tracts. Which is potentially a way of managing it without having to swing back and forth between not enough movement and too much movement. It seems like the kind of thing that's meant to be used after lifestyle changes.
Last out for tonight, several of the impediments people encounter when trying to articulate and share how to care for themselves, and then a form that you could fill out and share with people as a way of having that information to hand. An example form is available to peruse, as well as a copyable version of the example form from the linked main article.
Tears Waiting To Be Diamonds: Part One and Tears Waiting To Be Diamonds: Part Two, a new story in the In Other Lands universe from Sarah Rees Brennan.
And a history of the presence of the leather community and leathermen during the approximate period of 1965-1995, with as many cites as could be scrounged up. It's fascinating, and long, and reinforces the point that kink has always been a part of queer organization and the conception of Pride, and the tension between trying to present yourself as normal and acceptable and to present yourself as exactly the person you are has been there from the beginning of organization and trying to get the society around you to leave you alone to be who you are. I'll put this next to The Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, marched in a Mardi Gras Pride parade, becoming the first PM to do so. For reasons.
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meta_warehouse community, and anyone else that's I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)
Regina Twala did excellent research on African communities and customs, but her name does not survive because many of the white men who asked her to do this research then appropriated it as their own work without credit. And because racism, the academic system didn't find anything wrong with this idea. Wallace Stegner plagarized Mary Hallock Foote, and John Steinbeck got the notes of Sanora Babb and because he published first, her book never made it until nearly her death. Several relationships between authors and their wives demonstrate a clear issue where insecurity and jealousy lead to trying to sabotage or control a wife. But because there's an entire amount of justification for the biases already written into society, things continue unfairly and unabated.
Brianna Ghey, a sixteen year-old trans girl, has been murdered, and while there are suspects currently in custody, this was a preventable thing. The police have decided they will investigate it as a hate crime, which seems eminently sensible given that the climate of England seems to be taking its cues from the same people the U.S.'s version of virulent transmisia is. Vigils were held across the the country in her memory, as well as in other countries.
Those who would do violence to you or kill you often cannot be dissuaded from their cause with only nonviolent methods. The sanitized version of struggle presented believes nonviolence can solve all things, but nonviolence sometimes only works because there is the threat or the reality of violence behind it.
If you haven't seen the
dw_news post yet, Dreamwidth lent their voice to a case trying to prevent an overbroad law that would require age-verification, likely through facial-recognition software, to access any site that might carry information harmful to minors, as deemed by the State of California. The news post has an excellent laity-accessible summary of the reasons why Dreamwidth is speaking up on this case, but you can also read the filed declaration describing Dreamwidth's extensive privacy practices and how the law would affect the ability of Dreamwidth to provide its core services and produce several no-win scenarios for the site and its users.Puzzle editor Will Shortz on nearly thirty years constructing and editing puzzles and the changing of the crossword from the obscure and almost cryptic to things peppered with better wordplay, more vocabulary, and a lot more popular words and culture. Oh, and also about him falling in love with a partner before he turned seventy. And phenomenally long table tennis game streaks, even with international date line crossings.
History routinely ends up more interesting and complex than we give it time or space for in schooling. Witness the fortunes, marriages, and political acumen of a late-empire Roman Empress and Augusta, Galla Placida.
Raquel Welch gets to set down the burden of having been a sex symbol, at 82 years of age. She got to play several characters that were known for their looks and sometimes for something other than that.
It turns out it's somewhat difficult to knock out syphilis, despite it being well-known, although it also seems to be one of those infections where there's always something handy to blame for why it isn't gone yet. Speaking of treatments, the use of maggots and leeches as treatments for cleaning wounds and stimulating blood circulation, respectively, which are things that have been in use for hundreds of years. Also, honey, apparently. Some of it is in the hopes of slowing the development of antibiotic-resistant strains of pathogens.
The pictograms for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris have been revealed, and they take their inspiration from coats of arms, rather than stylized human figure designs. They're visually complex, and while they are representative of the sports being applied, I'm not sure how obvious they are at conveying that representation of the various Olympic disciplines.Additionally, the mascots for the Games have been revealed, and while they are officially red caps, there's going to be a second interpretation available from the get-go. (A redesigned logo is also suffering flak from people who believe it's too common-looking.)
Behaviors that would be frowned upon outside of the context of cars are often excused if cars are involved, including pollution of the space, bad behavior, and the like.
Detainees of the Guantanamo Bay prison can take some, but not all, of their art with them when they are released, because, apparently, the government considers art created by the inmates their property, not the property of the inmates. The prison itself should have been closed long ago, but if we can't achieve that, at least we can let someone take their artistic expression with them when they leave.
A bookstore that focuses solely on Black Food writing, which means they have an excellent selection of materials. Prominent women of Waterloo in mosaic around the exterior of Morley College. Attempting to determine the purpose of a large wooden phallus discovered from a Roman archaeological site, with no firm conclusions. The destruction of a ceramic balloon dog valued at $42,000 USD, and then skewering the person who wants to spend money on the shards, rather than putting the money toward better ends.
Thor, the Walrus that visited the UK some time ago, has been spotted around Iceland.
We should still be taking the risks of the pandemic seriously, because pretending helps basically nobody but capitalists who want us all to die so they can pretend everything is normal.
Unfortunately, what that's most likely to mean is that people have to develop their own risk tolerances and survival guides, like this one for disabled people who still want to be in public spaces during the cold and who still need serious precautions taken. And navigating kink and play parties as an immunocompomised person.
liv reminds us to distinguish between the people who have little choice in the matter of their exposure risks and those who are choosing to increase everyone's risks for selfish and uncaring reasons.In technology, a curated list of lists of falsehoods on several subjects, especially involving technology and what's actually in the specifications versus what's assumed to be true.
Add noise pollution to the many, many reasons why crypto mining should be heavily regulated if not outright expunged from the United States.
Companies are demanding the right to make deepfakes of voice actors as a condition of recording a project for a studio. You can imagine how happy that makes the actors and their unions, but also, one only wonders how soon it will be until someone breaks into a vault containing voice actor samples and synthetic voices and lip flaps are put together to make voices say whatever the person doing it for the lulz wants.
ruuger discusses the use of ChatGPT in relation to the generation of fanworks, and in the comments, other perspectives about the ways in which machines have to be explicitly taught things that humans can understand by looking at context.Involving LLMs and a right and proper Luddism, a human artist's work was banned from a subreddit because the moderators believed an LLM was involved in the generation of the work, and then, when the human appealed, was told they needed to find a style that was different than what the LLMs would generate. Which is an interesting way of justifying themselves - "well, your art looks like it could be generated by this, so you should find another style that justifies the effort you put into it and leave these styles to the stuff we're going to ban." Which we put next to Glaze, a process that changes artworks in ways that are not easily discerned by human eyes, but that can disrupt a mimicry model into producing something very different than the art style.
We should probably be concerned that even on easily observable things, like date and time, the LLMs can be spectacularly wrong and persist in their error, much like certain men who cannot allow themselves to ever be wrong. This is, after all, because the underlying structure of the LLM is fundamentally simple, even if it is scaled up to high amounts, and it appears to grasp certain rules that humans haven't quite discovered formally yet.
Attempting to create self-de-icing roads through the use of mixing the de-icer into the material and having the pressure of cars driving on the road release more of the de-icer to the surface. Which would be helpful in all sorts of places that don't get visited by road cleaning crews when there is regular ice and snow.
Attempting to treat chronic constipation through the use of a capsule that vibrates in specific ways to stimulate the movement of stool along the tracts. Which is potentially a way of managing it without having to swing back and forth between not enough movement and too much movement. It seems like the kind of thing that's meant to be used after lifestyle changes.
Last out for tonight, several of the impediments people encounter when trying to articulate and share how to care for themselves, and then a form that you could fill out and share with people as a way of having that information to hand. An example form is available to peruse, as well as a copyable version of the example form from the linked main article.
Tears Waiting To Be Diamonds: Part One and Tears Waiting To Be Diamonds: Part Two, a new story in the In Other Lands universe from Sarah Rees Brennan.
And a history of the presence of the leather community and leathermen during the approximate period of 1965-1995, with as many cites as could be scrounged up. It's fascinating, and long, and reinforces the point that kink has always been a part of queer organization and the conception of Pride, and the tension between trying to present yourself as normal and acceptable and to present yourself as exactly the person you are has been there from the beginning of organization and trying to get the society around you to leave you alone to be who you are. I'll put this next to The Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, marched in a Mardi Gras Pride parade, becoming the first PM to do so. For reasons.
(Materials via
adrian_turtle, azurelunatic, boxofdelights, cmcmck, conuly, cosmolinguist, elf, finch, firecat, jadelennox, jenett, jjhunter, kaberett, lilysea, oursin, rydra_wong, snowynight, sonia, the_future_modernes, thewayne, umadoshi, vass, the meta_warehouse community, and anyone else that's I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)
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