if reading the words of the Voight Kampff test summons up a big chunk of emotions, pride swirling with fear...
well, there's a good chance you're autistic or otherwise neurodivergent, and had to deal with some crap from the medical system as a kid.
it's kind of emotionally incomprehensible to us that there are people who have lived their entire lives and never had somebody seriously interrogate, with high stakes, whether they are a person or not
it's unclear to us whether Blade Runner was intentionally commenting on psychiatry, but it's a very clear comparison
autistic kid / replicant solidarity forever
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The immediate implication of the Amazon mesh networking thing is that some people won't know where their bandwidth is going. This is concerning in its own right...
... but to us, the larger implication is that once it's deployed, it will no longer be possible to prevent a device from reaching the internet just by not connecting it to the internet.
To make this concrete, we'll give an example.
If you don't want your Roomba to publicize a map of your home, today, you can be sure it won't by never setting up the app or the wifi. (Not that you should have to go to that length!) nytimes.com/2017/07/25/tec…
So there's a thing we want to describe about toxic masculinity and how it flourishes. We think it's important for people on the left to think about because the counters to it are only obvious when you understand what they're for.
The pattern we're going to describe is not a universal one, there are certainly exceptions to it. Also, it does come up occasionally in other contexts beyond toxic masculinity. We're just trying to set the stage by describing the place we see it most.
The pattern is this: People who are part of this culture tell each other, early and often, that they are all worthless.
when you're trying to build a sense of group identity from nothing, for a demographic who until very recently have been isolated, never knowing each other... there are a lot of challenges #pluralgang
there is no single "plural culture", nor will there ever be. ask one system what their culture is, and you'll get five opinions.
the culture we get is the culture we all build, together.
The reason hate is flourishing in the world today... is largely the lie of its own inevitability.
(This is an adaptation of a line by an author we like. It was too good not to borrow.)
To expand on that a bit: A lot of mailing lists and web forums are simply given over to toxicity and overt fascism, without a fight, because people assume that if they fight, they'll lose.
hey, this is a really basic kind of household question, but does anybody have tips on how to not have our liquid soap dispenser accumulate soapy water on the counter under it?
it seems like putting a dish under it would contain the water, but still require frequent cleaning
we just... happen to not have really dealt with this problem until recently, and it strikes us that maybe we can learn from somebody else's experience
In more detail: The rules about redirects set up a hoop for third-party tracking which websites can only jump through if the user has recently interacted with them as a first party. So Google and Facebook, but not Criteo, for example.
We'll have to run some experiments to verify that it's really an effective protection, even in those cases.