Yeah the average person 100% thinks the backlash to Rowling is overblown and that she has just made one or two bad comments, oblivious to her absolutely deranged Twitter feed.
Transphobia is her full-time job at this point.
your goal is to make trans rights popular, not to cater to the loud rich assholes who don't want them to be
ok legitimately want this shirt some day LOL. there is just... some kind of mystical aura to it. i just need a silly shirt
I think at some point we have to stop indulging the fiction that conservatism is a legitimate political tendency and isn't simply a grievance cult for those who value the ability to enact cruelty over their literal basic needs.
taylor lorenz taking it upon herself to report on internet culture like a doomed lovecraftian protagonist driven mad by forbidden knowledge
Coal plants in Indiana and Nebraska that were slated for closure in 2023 are getting a new lease on life thanks to... you guessed it...data centers! Because giving the world AI solutions nobody needs is more important than stopping global warming. Ask anyone in LA! www.power-eng.com/coal/indiana...
if you have time to be on social media then youâre not so time-strapped you couldnât possibly run a general search and idk why people love to pretend otherwise
it is honestly that simple. iâm on benefits (and donât have a car) and i manage and have done for years. you need to admit youâre hooked on the convenience, reckon with what that actually means for workers, the climate, your local economy, etc and put those over your own impatience. thatâs all it is
the answer to âhow do i stop using amazon?? whatâs the alternative??â is you accept that you donât need anything except medical supplies to be next day delivery & donât deserve to pay the minimum price for everything in the world, then buy in a shop or spend 5 mins doing a general search & ordering
What are we DOING here? We're just meant to sit and act like this insane plagiarism and climate threat that requires more money than anything has ever cost is worth it? Are we meant to pretend that ChatGPT is worth this aimless, meaningless destruction of capital and our environment? For what?
Finally read that WSJ article from last week and this confirms everything I suspected.
Work that matters đ
www.404media.co/developer-cr...
this is our actual climate future staring us in the face - no consensus reality or shared source of authority, rampant conspiracies everywhere, more pressure to address made up nonsense than the underlying problem
conspiracy theories are fully mainstream now
As someone who never read Neil Gaiman it's really sad to learn that he was consistently putting good LGBTQ+ representation in his books while being an absolute monster in real life. Hiding behind people's identities and the false feminist persona is so insidious
"...the growing loneliness epidemic is not about people having fewer friends (less than four per cent of respondents reported having no friends at all), itâs more just a byproduct of âhaving no timeâ to foster deeper connections."
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
This article felt like it was talking to me directly for some reason.
www.macguffinmagazine.com/stories/macg...
The Man Watching - Rainer Maria Rilke
Full Poem: poems.com/poem/the-man...
"When the lights dim in a cinema hall, my stomach rumbles with excitement. It's not just the prospect of seeing a new film. It's also the prospect of being seen. It's the social experience of sitting alone, together, without needing to say a word."
www.ottplay.com/features/the...
"Why did some conversations unfurl and others wilt? One answer, I realized, may be the clash of take-and-take vs. give-and-take."
www.experimental-history.com/p/good-conve...
"Zuckerberg is a scumbag that hurts his users for profit. The entire tech industry should know who he is, the culture he has created, and the ways in which he has brutalized his company into finding ways to increase numbers at the cost of his usersâ happiness."
www.wheresyoured.at/killingfaceb...
Probably one of the best things I have read this year.
www.npr.org/2005/08/08/4...
Yes person on the internet Syrians are aware that everything isnât perfect and that there are challenges ahead. I think they didnât need you to tell them that given that itâs been 5 decades of tyranny and no country ever emerged from tyranny without challenges ahead.
