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Oggie

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Keeping it vague for now. Cis, gay, he/him.

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StillIRise1963, to random
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We don’t all need to buy the exact same things that we use occasionally. We should have organized borrowing.

Oggie,
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@StillIRise1963 John Oliver just did a piece on Sunday talking ( in passing, it wasn't a focus) about how some libraries are getting some gardening tools and similar. More communal utility in general would be great.

AnarchoNinaWrites, to random
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The downside here is that all of the most annoying, plastic people you know/on your TV are going to be using the expression "brainworms" precisely the way you do, inside of two weeks.

And I am going to be so fucking annoyed about it...

Oggie,
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@AnarchoNinaWrites
Out of curiousity, where did you pick up the phrase originally? I know I did from PLiF, though the concept is obviously easily graspable by everyone, though it really feels like it exploded in various online communities about a decade, decade and a half ago. I always wondered if there was some popularizing incident or some media source for it.

StillIRise1963, to random
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I like the people speakingfor their gay friends, willing to sacrifice them to fascists.🙄

Oggie,
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@StillIRise1963
A story from my own life, when I was coming out, was that a somewhat older than I queer said to me, with deep affection, 'You might be friends with straight people now. You might well continue to be friends with straight people. But you should be very careful about relying on most straight people. They get to walk away, and stop fighting. They hopefully won't, but they get that choice."

I have liked seeing the New Queers, who didn't have to fight as hard, but...

StillIRise1963, to random
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When your gay friends are stripped of their marriages, tell them you didn’t vote because you wanted to make a statement about Gaza.

Oggie,
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@QueerInTheCountry @StillIRise1963
A number of them absolutely think that gay rights are 'not going away' and this is all just 'silly stuff'. A lot of times they also think that 'Well nobody would ever actually do that'.

A law that may be enforced against someone for being gay (or trans, or...) is still a weapon, even if it's 'rarely' utilized.

I remember when the whole 'homosexual behavior' case in the 90s sprang up. People assumed it was 'fake' or 'sensational', while they were in jail.

Oggie,
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@StillIRise1963 @QueerInTheCountry 'Oh you can still get an abortion if you are in serious health concerns, see it says so in the law right there. And you can always just go out of state.' And similar batshit crazy stuff.

StillIRise1963, to random
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To “civilize”means to impose barbaric will.

Oggie,
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@StillIRise1963
This is...somewhat humor, but feels on point for you, and I apologize if it's not your speed, but the line it opens with I feel like will resonate with you fairly well-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmaoNLSHx_w

(Lemme know if this is outside of the tone you are okay with)

StillIRise1963, to random
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American police are poised to use weapons of war on our college students.

Oggie,
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@TCatInReality @StillIRise1963 They deployed sniper rifles for unarmed protesters. This isn't in dispute by either side.

It's.... really something.

StillIRise1963, to random
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If college protests are made to seen as antisemitic, then fascists can crush free speech and opposition to genocide all in one fell swoop. A twofer.

Oggie,
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@StillIRise1963 Three, because then they can hop back onto the track of delegitimizing colleges again, more forcefully,, and the entire concept of higher education as opposed to trade schools. Because no humanities course ever was useful out of school, right?

Then attack historical knowledge of racism and similar, so rather than coming up with new ways to promote fascism they can just crib even more directly.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Yesterday I had one person say I'm too so pro-tech pro-capitalist and one person say I was trying to force a leftist ideology, and both were responding to A City on Mars. All I can say is I wish people would stop trying to find the hidden motive and just read the words as plainly written!

Oggie,
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@ZachWeinersmith I realize the implicit irony here, but I do wonder if this is partially compounded by the heavy influence twitter has had on discourse.

I don't mean twitter vs bluesky vs mastodon, I mean the advent of pity pointed minimal text statements for complicated thoughts, which is trickier than most think ('Didn't have time to write a short letter', etc).

I'm in no way saying this is the only contributing factor, but I can't help but wonder if it's part of the implicit expectation now

StillIRise1963, to random
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I think we can now stop saying “google it” when looking for info. No one will find it there.

Oggie,
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@StillIRise1963 I am so existentially irked that this is true. I feel like I just got to the point where you could rely on people to do that.

StillIRise1963, (edited ) to random
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There are a lot of road and bridge renovations going on all over the city/town I live in that have signs that say they’re funded by Build Back Better, the Bi-Partisan Infrastructure Bill and the Biden Administration.

Oggie,
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@StillIRise1963 It is/was an EXCELLENT bill. It's so good that the republicans are pretty much universally claiming credit for it in their towns/districts.

Even though, of course, they mostly voted against it.

cstross, to random
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Kemi Badenoch lies whenever she opens her mouth. Also, she's a reliable moral anti-compass (whatever her opinion is, she's absolutely the opposite of correct).
https://mastodon.social/@Lazarou/112292574352507843

Oggie,
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@cstross I'm almost tempted to try to see what she claims the incredible wealth did come from, then, if it wasn't literally going over to people's countries, taking them over by force of arms, then exporting everything that had any value at ruinous rates.

I'm just going to guess a vague moral fiber and inherent superiority of the white...sorry, 'british' race?

StillIRise1963, to random
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How can it not be crystal fucking clear to all that we have to IMPEACH the fascist, traitor SCOTUS “justices."

Oggie,
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@StillIRise1963 Thomas trying to somehow make a narrative that it's fine that his wife hasn't gotten in trouble today was..something.

rbreich, to random
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I still hear people arguing that prosecuting a former president sets a “dangerous precedent.”

The truly dangerous precedent would be to establish that presidents are above the law.

Oggie,
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@rbreich The interesting thing to me about this, is that was the exact argument to not do anything to Nixon. Because that would set a dangerous precedent and then all our presidents would be constantly in legal battles.

That didn't really happen, and in fact, if we'd actually done more that direction we probably wouldn't be in so much trouble now with Trump. So let's try that version for a bit!

futurebird, to random
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Trump is upset he may miss his son's graduation because he's on trial.

Yeah, we do treat people in the criminal justice system harshly. People you have never thought about, people who have kids, and graduations, and moments missed forever.

But it's different now. He cries. It's happening to ME. To Me!

Nothing, no one, exists beyond the tip of some people's noses. They cannot see pain unless they feel it. Cannot recognize suffering unless it's their own.

What a stunted perspective.

Oggie,
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@futurebird This might be bad/petty of me, but I feel like he would not even be going to that graduation if it wasn't a political upside for whatever reason.

piegames, to random
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Every time I do tech support for my family I get very angry about people who whine about lacking "tech literacy".

90% of the stuff I have to teach them is how to navigate manipulative software and dark patterns. This has nothing to do with tech, but with capitalism. Tech is not complicated, it is just made maximally confusing on purpose to remove agency.

Better tech ed won't fix this.

Oggie,
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@piegames
You know, there was a time when it was a lot of 'Okay, click on the network that you just named, and...yes okay, but click....okay, the moving thing moves the cursor' tier.

A lot of really basic, really simple stuff that was a bit frustrating to deal with. However, that time is not now. People know how to open menus, pull up keyboards on their phones, know what 'the back button' is.

Now it's 'Yes, they deliberately obfuscated this and tricked you because they're awful, do this'.

metin, (edited ) to ai
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Whenever I see OpenAI's Sam Altman with his pseudo-innocent glance, he always reminds me of Carter Burke from Aliens (1986), who deceived the entire spaceship crew in favor of his corporation, with the aim of getting rich by weaponizing a newly discovered intelligent lifeform.

Oggie,
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@metin C'mon, don't be cruel to that man.

Burke was far smarter, and a better liar. He also had an actual business plan, instead of two IPOs in a trenchcoat. Sure he was evil, and stupid, but he had a whole concept and just had terrible follow through on the details.

Altman's business plan is basically 'Get lots of hype and buzz and popularity, and then try to sell the hot potato off because there's literally no way this ever makes money'.

StillIRise1963, to random
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No one needs a mansion. They only exist so their owners can display their wealth.

Oggie,
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@StillIRise1963 I daydream about winning the lottery ( which I don't play) and buying a mansion of some description. Then I would claim a few rooms exclusively for myself, and have a rotating cast of friends who live in the other spaces.

Things like- I want a big kitchen, and I enjoy cooking. So cooking a huge amount of food would be fun for me. A nice home gym would be cool. But my usage of these spaces would share comfortably, and nobody should be housing insecure.

cstross, to random
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WHAT—

Ex-Caltrain employee, contractor charged with building secret homes at train stations

Former deputy director and co-defendant allegedly misused public funds to construct clandestine residences inside Peninsula stations

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/28/ex-caltrain-employee-contractor-charged-with-building-secret-homes-at-train-stations/

Oggie,
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@cstross I know this is 100% the wrong takeaway, but I actually think it might be kinda cool to live in the hollows of a train station. Very Neverwhere-style just slightly outside of the normal bounds of human society.

Oggie,
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@cstross I haven't, actually.

Sounds like something I should track down, I like that cast, and it sounds interesting (I mean, Besson).

Honestly not sure how I haven't seen this, unless I have and just filed it in my brain under a different name.

hosford42, to actuallyautistic
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Requirements to put in a job description to discourage or filter out autistic people:

  • Comfortable with ambiguity
  • Strong people skills
  • Good culture fit
  • Multitasking
  • A fast-paced dynamic environment
  • Bachelor's degree or better

I see these things and think you don't want my >30 years of programming and machine learning experience, or my problem-solving skills and comprehensive knowledge that had people mistaking me for one of the team's PhDs, or my solutions that have proven patent-worthy. Your loss.


@actuallyautistic
@neurodivergence

Oggie,
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@JoBlakely @blogdiva @log @hosford42 @PurpleStephyr @actuallyautistic
I have an entire masking routine for eye contact because I discovered the limits of what makes people uncomfortable. It's based on my heartbeats, flickering and emphasis stressing. It's also so stupid, eye contact typically doesn't give much information compared to, say, shoulder tension.

It's frustrating.

fkamiah17, to random
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Man: "Why are you walking in the park alone?"
Woman: "That's a personal question. I'm on my way back to my car"
M: "Can I walk you down?"
W: "I'm fine thank you"
M: "No need to be scared, I'm being a gentleman"
W: "That's nice but I don't know you and you're following me, which is alarming"
M: "You can get to know me, we can be friends"
W: "Why would I want to do that?"
M: "Give me a hug, I'm not going to bite"
Woman starts running.
https://twitter.com/Hplayspiano/status/1771492967217308133

Oggie,
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@hannu_ikonen @fkamiah17 I remember once, when I was young, I accidentally scared some woman because I thought she was someone I knew.

I called out to her, then again,louder, and she sped up, almost running. It wasn't who I thought, obviously, and still the urge to catch up and apologize was almost overwhelming.

I am glad I didn't, but I also remember it clearly ( hopefully she forgot immediately), and ponder how upsetting it might have been for her. Entitlement is.... something.

HeavenlyPossum, to random
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The idea of human beings as rational utility-maximizing particles with insatiable hedonic desires is very much the product of an ideological project to justify capitalism as “natural” and has virtually no relationship to how actual human beings live but a lot of people have genuinely internalized it.

Trying to derive “human nature” by observing people under capitalist modernity is like looking at a bored, depressed wolf obsessively pacing a circle in a tiny zoo enclosure and concluding that this is “wolf nature.”

Oggie,
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@HeavenlyPossum Another interesting example is the 'lord of the flies' real world situation. A group of young boys got shipwrecked for years, and at least one was seriously injured, and they formed a nice functional society.

https://theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months

But the overwhelming narrative is that people are intrinsically awful and will revert to their 'base nature '.

I wonder how much is just people seeking to justify closing off empathy and ignoring others.

ChrisMayLA6, to humanrights
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As always, reform of the laws on abortion comes up against an elite position that sees the possibility of a small minority of women acting in bad faith about their particular pregnancy (whatever that might mean) as a reason to try & water down the decriminalisation of provisions for abortion.

Abortion is a health issue & should not be a subject for criminal law.

The key principle must be women's bodies, women's right to choose.

are
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/23/senior-labour-figures-seeking-water-down-plans-decriminalise-abortion

Oggie,
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@ChrisMayLA6 The real way to lower abortion is to ensure there is a safety net for new mothers. Abortion isn't fun, and the narrative that there are people who are happy to use it as plan a is frankly insulting to women in general. But if having a child wasn't so dangerous, expensive, etc, then women might do it less, if that's even a real concern.

Of course, it isn't. It's just about controlling people with uteruses.

StillIRise1963, to random
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I think a lot of assholes these days would think "You're So Vain" is about them. They'd also probably think it was good.🙄

Oggie,
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@StillIRise1963 I love the three part harmony version/cover/whatever it is with Janet and Q-tip as well as Carly, but it sure did spoil me on the original.

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