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fifilamoura

@fifilamoura@eldritch.cafe

I write and think about culture (for fun and to pay my rent). My obsessive interest is people and how we work, individually and collectively, which makes me interested in most things, with a particularly keen interest in cogsci and psychology (I grew up around medical science). I studied painting and drawing at uni and I used to play in bands and work in the music industry. Maybe I'll switch to using my real name here eventually.

Photo description: White woman with black hair and saxophone

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fifilamoura, to random
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So all these university shenanigans to avoid accountability about their finances are starting to make me wonder just how corrupt and how regularly abused the relationship between university boards/board members and their investment policies are? I'm now assuming it's a massive ouroboros of wealthy people being highly corrupt (and telling themselves their corruption is actually ethical really). The more elite they are, the worse they are apparently.

fifilamoura, to random
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I cannot think of anything more depressing and symbolic of the decline of the West than watching two incredibly out of touch, greedily rich, warmongering geriatric White men mumbling and blustering insults sourced from the 1950s at each other onstage. Talk about a sad and tawdry cargo cult performance of pseudo-democracy.

skinnylatte, to random
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There’s a guy I know very distantly in San Francisco who recently ran on a ‘all East Asian Americans are secretly young Republicans like me and Trump is fine actually’ platform and he was very surprised when he didn’t get anywhere with that, and he’s also very surprised that no one wants to talk to him

Other than problematic ideology, I have a problem with him speaking for me

fifilamoura,
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@skinnylatte @vfrmedia But, also, North America lets plenty of fascists immigrate if they have money. Often the regimes being toppled are authoritarian, their rich and powerful often use their money to flee.

fifilamoura, to random
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Average White men totally overestimate the power of individuals because they're systemically privileged. Of course, they also just get murdered if they actually blow the whistle on the system in any meaningful way. Most of the rest of us have quite a different relationship to power and the system.

pvonhellermannn, to random
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Anyone else struggling to see any prospects for turning things around? I will keep on trying to do what I can. Of course. But 2024 is challenging.

Last year did a post about how I wasn’t motivated by hope but by . I now realise i got that wrong. Hope isn’t just fluffy “things will be alright”. Hope is some flicker of belief that you and others can change things; I did, actually, have “hope”. Less now, but will keep going.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/13/banks-almost-7tn-fossil-fuel-firms-paris-deal-report

fifilamoura,
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@pvonhellermannn @bencurthoys World in Data are Effective Altruism cultists, no? (It is associated with this bullshit Pollyanna brightsiding of capitalism and fascism by techbros). https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/uaveEAgFfyFx4EYaH/a-new-our-world-in-data-article-on-longtermism

fifilamoura, to random
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There are people who eat to keep their body alive and then there are those of us who cook and eat to keep our souls alive.

Jyoti, to random
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fifilamoura,
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@Jyoti And has as many calories as a delicious cookie.

fifilamoura, to random
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So RFK's brainworm story was just a ruse to get out of paying alimony, which is why we know about it. Figures. What an absolute asshole he is.

https://skepchick.org/2024/05/did-a-worm-really-eat-rfk-jr-s-brain/

rebeccawatson, to random
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What are the chances that RFK, Jr.'s brain was eaten by a worm at the same time he got mercury poisoning AND was going through a contentious divorce in which he testified that his cognitive problems impacted his ability to pay spousal support? https://skepchick.org/2024/05/did-a-worm-really-eat-rfk-jr-s-brain/

fifilamoura,
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@bertwells Braindead Kennedys, a tribute band. @rebeccawatson

evacide, to random
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Everything about Durov's statement is so profoundly dishonest that I feel like engaging in a point-by-point debunking is a waste of time. If most of the messages on your platform are not end-to-end encrypted AT ALL, it is less private and secure than platforms whose messages are all e2e by default.

https://t.me/durov/274

fifilamoura,
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@evacide So is this him admitting he's an agent of Russia like these things usually are? (As well as just trying to market his own app, of course.)

glynmoody, to OpenAI
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considers allowing users to create -generated - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/09/openai-considers-allowing-users-to-create-ai-generated-pornography what could possibly go wrong...?

fifilamoura,
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@glynmoody Clearly the AI hype bubble has started to deflate a bit if the so-called "legit" businesses are chasing the porn market. I guess people are getting bored with it and nobody wants to pay for it?

Greengordon, to random
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This is what happens when you run anything, including universities, as for-profit businesses rather than what they are and should be.

"It's a cash cow," said Richard Kurland, an immigration lawyer and policy analyst in Vancouver. "Each student likely generates at least $20,000 for an educational institution, and we're talking about thousands and thousands of students."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/international-student-study-permits-data-1.7125827

fifilamoura,
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@Greengordon I've never even heard of any of these universities (or are they sort of colleges or trade schools of some type?) or are they branches of more well known universities?
*I looked up the biggest one and it seems they're more like trade schools and not actually universities.

fifilamoura,
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@msquebanh It's quite disturbing that this story keeps getting reported as "universities" when it's actually various kinds of tech and trade schools that aren't universities at all. I'm not surprised that they're schools that aren't recognized by other schools! @Greengordon

fifilamoura,
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@msquebanh So it's a private college not a public university then? @Greengordon

lzg, to random
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i watched the apple ad everyone is hating on and I hate it too. it feels bad man.

fifilamoura,
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@lzg They'd have crushed an actual artist if they could of gotten it on the air (at least that's what the breaking the back of the wood modelling doll makes abundantly clear). Basically the iPad Pro is a war on art and humanity then?

fifilamoura, to random
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Just so fucking depressing to wake up to more genocide and to know that no amount of going to protests and letter writing is going to get our governments to do the right thing and not be complicit in genocide.

baldur, to random
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Wanna guess what path the neighbourhood cats always take when cutting through this patch of grass to investigate the commercial greenhouses next door?

fifilamoura,
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@baldur Sir, it seems you have yourself a catwalk....

QasimRashid, to random
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Watching the bear vs man in forest stories & I remember when our 9-year-old son said some boys at recess offered to play with him if 'he hugged & kissed a girl.'

He replied, "No, that's inappropriate," & told us he didn't mind not being able to play with those boys after all. Later his teacher shared she was happy he stood up to peer pressure.

Y'all—it's never too early to teach boys about consent & boundaries. Have the convo. Then again. And again. Boys will be the boys we teach them to be.

fifilamoura,
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@QasimRashid I just want to know how many cishet men would choose the bear over another man!

fifilamoura, to random
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Today is the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ Peoples, also known as Red Dress Day. The name comes from the REDress project created by Métis artist Jamie Black in 2010. As part of an art installation, Jamie hung hundreds of empty red dresses in public spaces to remind people of the First Nations, Métis, and Inuit women and girls lost to gender-based violence.
"Redress” means to remedy or set right. The REDdress project is a call to action. Though these conversations can be challenging with learners, it’s important to make them aware of this ongoing issue and discuss how they can take action.

Check out the resources here: linktr.ee/learningbird

StillIRise1963, to random
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White men are now advising me as to what a Black person should say and how. MY, HOW NEW AND DIFFERENT that is.🙄

fifilamoura,
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@StillIRise1963 White men really are the problem, especially the affluent ones who are scared of losing even an iota of the patriarchal privilege and power they constantly abuse. https://www.salon.com/2024/05/05/believes-the-most-taboo-conspiracy-theories-it-might-not-be-you-think/

fifilamoura,
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@StillIRise1963 And sorry you're being subjected to this annoyance and abuse by idiots.

w7voa, to random
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NY Times - At Washington dinner parties, dark jokes abound about where to go into exile if Trump reclaims the White House. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/05/us/politics/trump-biden-election-dc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pk0.zNLV.Un8iGBGhr2xt&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

fifilamoura,
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@w7voa The rich will always be able to flee the messes they create with their greed. It's always the poor who suffer the most.

RickiTarr, to random
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Young people wanting to eat good food?! What's next?! Are they going to want to get paid more, own houses, take vacations?!

https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-gen-z-splurge-groceries-spending-inflation-gen-z-boomers-2024-4?amp

fifilamoura,
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@elverkonge @RickiTarr Grudge porn...thank you.

aral, to Israel
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I am not pro-Palestine or anti-Israel. This isn’t a football game between two equally-matched teams where you support your favourite. I am anti-genocide and Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people.

fifilamoura,
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@aral 100% this. I find it so weird that people treat it like some binary game. I'm sick of repeating that if I have to be on a team, it's team humanity and nature (war doesn't just destroy humans and grease intergenerational cycles of violence and trauma, it also poisons ecosystems for generations as well....).

AnnaAnthro, to Montreal
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Pro-Palestinian student encampment planned for U of M -

https://globalnews.ca/news/10469641/pro-palestinian-student-encampment-u-of-m/

fifilamoura,
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@AnnaAnthro FYI, this is University of Manitoba they're talking about not Université du Montreal...

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