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lethargilistic

@lethargilistic@kolektiva.social

Resident Copyright Hater. 2L at Seattle University.

Toots about technology, anarchism, law, cycling, and Plagiarism.

My feed is diary-driven, so activity and content varies. Will include heavy stuff like US/WA politics or mental health. Not lewd, but not prude.

Trying to press Send less often. Book threads are exempt because they are active reading; they are my thoughts prompted by the work, not summaries.

Fuck Nuance.

Toots: CC0.

Current Mood: Back to School

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"I have a hard time taking white philosophers seriously."

The philosopher: Antonio Gramsci. (Italian, when that meant something.)

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"The response to xz needs to be more governance," says the person who ostensibly thinks it's bad that proprietary software is controlled by corporate cabals incentivised to keep secrets.

Honestly, democracy brain-poisoning attacks the hippocampus directly.

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Having watched Benioff and Weiss smear themselves with shit the moment they went past Martin’s books, and then later admit they had no idea what they were doing, didn’t understand their characters, and didn’t like their source material, you’d have to pay me to watch anything by them ever again.

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@HeavenlyPossum Netflix used to have a documentary in which they admitted that they didn't know what they were doing either. That they experimented during filming GOT by zooming in on kids' dicks and shit. Like. w0w.

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@HeavenlyPossum It was a Netflix original called "The Creative Brain" and they did take it down. Part of me is like "they took it down for tax reasons." The other part of me is like "somebody had second thoughts."

It was mainly just about how failure is OK and creativity comes from copying what works. (But, of course, they emphasized "originality.") I wanted to do an art project where I just inserted "plagiarism" everywhere it belonged, lol.

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I have mostly been able to ignore the presidential election so far and that is a blessing.

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Every time the post-Civil-War SCOTUS overruled objections from former Confederates, you can just replace their their reasoning with "L, ratio, scoreboard, and you fell off." It's funny every single time.

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Just went on a date with someone incredibly cool... Time to fight the urge to self-sabotage.

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"The City of Seattle's HOPE team [for homelessness outreach] is dedicated to equity and inclusion. 66% of shelter referrals were given to homeless people who were black, indigenous, it people of color."

...If you're supposed to be giving everyone referrals, that just means Seattle's housing system is structurally racist. Imagine bragging about this as a progressive win...

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@wagesj45 To satisfy the 8th Amendment, there must be some other kind of shelter available in the city before a sweep and the city's policy is to give everyone that offer of some kind of shelter before a sweep. (It doesn't have to be a shelter they can actually go to, tho.) If the person declines for any reason, the city can sweep. Anyone who says yes would go towards this number, presumably.

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"We should improve the world somewhat."
"But this solution is impractical because it doesn't satisfy all stakeholders."

"We have implemented scanned credit cards and have stopped accepting cash in stores."
"But that solution obviously doesn't satisfy people who have to beg on the street for money."
"Oh, by 'stakeholders,' I meant me and my preferences."

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"This person is probably right on the law, but they settled on unfavorable terms because they can't afford years of legal fees against a billion-dollar corporation. As a result, there will probably be a wave of new lawsuits against people in this person's position by other billion-dollar corporations," but said with a straight face by someone who believes the US judicial system is the greatest in the world.

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It's disturbing how effective the mainstream has become at censoring disturbing imagery online, and how much it will one day alienate us from this present. You can look up the burning monk from the Vietnam War anywhere, but you can't (easily) look up Aaron Bushnell's death without a huge blur across the act after just a few days.

(Not that I looked super hard. A friend wanted to watch it, but I don't tend to like watching.)

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I feel like it's Weird to own a laptop computer and have more than one profile on it at this point. Imagine living with a partner and you don't have separate computers. Fully wild.

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"Art vs. Commodity" is just a capitalist filter on top of "High Art vs. Low Art."

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"I make art that people like."

The Internet's Artist Hivemind: "Unacceptable."

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"But setting yourself on fire doesn't accomplish anything" in the same tone of voice as "but breaking windows doesn't accomplish anything."

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The world needs less emphasis on suicide "awareness" and more suicide appreciation. As in, the fact that someone killed themself in response to material conditions should not always hit you first in the "tragedy" or "productivity waste" parts of your brain.

It should enrage you because it is rational.

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You think you're better than someone who looked at this world and couldn't bear it? Why? Because you were willing to absorb more pain?

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As the initial wave of shock ebbs, the Respectability Caucus simply must broadcast that personal sacrifice is Meaningless Actually just keeps posting through it.

Ghouls.

Regardless of your feelings about suicidal protest, our spaces are full of dweebs who may as well be rationalists. Their understanding of theory is divorced from real human suffering and it God-damned shows.

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"How are you going to get people to stop worshipping capitalism if you can't even get people to say Queer instead of expanding the letters in LGBT like it's some kind of unknowable god of cosmic good and cosmic evil?"

lethargilistic,
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@wagesj45 Queer has been actively reclaimed since at least the 90s. If someone gets upset by it, it's good odds that they're European (and uptight).

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"Cars are so much more efficient than horses. First you erect oil drilling platforms off the Atlantic Coast..."

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Nominal support of liberatory ideas among normies is driven by hope but not sincerity. As soon as you premise a position on the assumption that liberation will actually come, it's "but we live in the devastation."

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Is dozens of countries going through the international court for years actually meaningfully better than those dozens of countries announcing that they are willing to stop a genocide with their combined militaries. Not even to go through with it, necessarily.

Like, "Sorry Hitler took over Europe, guys. We spent Year 3 debating the definition of a genocide."

(inb4 "The United States veto.")

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It just seems to me like the entire idea of statecraft SHOULD, by its own logic, fall apart at the seams when it comes in contact with a problem that a Friday night poker group could identify as a problem and resolve immediately.

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Or I'm just cranky for other reasons and being constantly inundated with triumphant pictures of the ICJ panel is another straw. In any other context, people would be livid that the world is putting its stock in a bunch of assholes in mumus. Two months ago, nobody knew what they looked like and people invoked them like the tooth fairy. Now, their multi-year, non-binding process was always an integral part of World Order and Peace.

Bah.

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