Notices by novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social), page 2

Also Rubik's cubes are just in general boring as shit you're not actually solving any real problem there or getting any fun reward and it takes too much memorization.

As a kid I couldn't have been less interested in Rubik's cubes but buying the transformers toys with the most complex transformations I could find and then doing them w/o the instruction manual was my shit lmao

See what you gotta understand about me is you have to dress up whatever intellectual effort you want me to do in something cool that I'm interested in. That's why I'll watch even weird difficult arthouse movies as long as they have some kind of scifi or paranormal twist, but I cannot be passed to watch the 373747447 drama about how hard some random dude's life is and how shitty his relationships are or whatever the fuck normal dramas are about lol

@LexYeen RIGHT? This is like deus ex machina meets cyberpunk meets every other scifi that tried to make sense of implants by making up some scifi plot device to stabilise the body and prevent infections, but no, turns out you can just get the body to grow bone around your material and heal everything around the prosthetic? I'm still trying to understand how they pulled it off honestly

Hoooly 🥞 I had not expected them to have this much success just grafting metal into bones. The bone actually grew around it, does not seem infected, and the bone mount is actually so strong the bionic hand can just be attached to it. Look at these x-rays, this is like right out of a movie, if we can replicate this to other people it's going to change prosthetics/augmentation forever.

Revolutionary Bionic Hand Fuses With Woman's Bones, Muscles, And Nerves : ScienceAlert
https://www.sciencealert.com/revolutionary-bionic-hand-fuses-with-womans-bones-muscles-and-nerves

"markets are the best way to organize a technical society" says man whose business model relies on people creating spaces where defacto monopolies rule via intellectual property

I AM FUCKING SICK AND FUCKING TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED.

If you're interested in helping, great! We are definitely looking for collaborators to work with us, and are currently holding discussions about the project in one of our matrix channels - reach out to @ajroach42 via DM if you'd like to get access.

If you'd like to support us, also great! We'll be setting up an OpenCollective project shortly to ensure transparency and provide a way for us to pay contributors along the way.

Prior to that, feel free to back @ajroach42 's Patreon if you're insistent in getting financial support sent our way.

We know there are a number of other projects underway to provide similar functionality, and we welcome the confluence of ideas in this space. We look forward to seeing what the future of music distribution might look like and hope to be working with y'all on it together in the very near future.

I'm sure Andrew will have more to say about the project and the vision later today, but I'm happy to handle and/or fumble any questions anyone may have.

Thanks for reading!

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@KatS @hrefna I would not at all be surprised if Pierce Brown was having Darrow paraphrase Sun Tzu lol, it would fit. I'm just uncultured lmao

@hrefna Red Rising. I highly, highly, wholeheartedly recommend it, it's seriously amazing. It deals with a lot of themes of revolution, leadership, social class, compromise, with a ton of Dune style realpolitik. The second trilogy (which is actually gonna be four books) especially, because it gets a lot more mature and complex with its examination of the characters and themes.

The only reservation I have about it is that it does use the fridging trope once as the inciting incident in the first boom, but it goes on to have multiple incredibly strong women with tons of agency and independence from the men so like, I think it more than makes up for it.

@jherazob but yeah

@jherazob they probably self host

@hrefna

"A note: I firmly believe in giving people an "out" in public conversations and discourse. A way to save face and go "you know what, I done fraked that one up.""

This is an interesting point. One of the recurring insights of one of my favorite scifi series is that if you don't give someone a means to surrender or back down or retreat then don't be surprised if they fight tooth and nail to the last breath, because you haven't given them another option. While those books talk about it in the context of military strategy, I think it holds true in conversations as well: if you want to actually be able to convince someone — which you definitely don't always want to bother trying to do, for instance in the case of fascists or bigots or narcissists — then you need to offer them a route by which they can admit you are right and *be* convinced (so, not tell them they're irredeemably evil or whatever), perhaps even while saving some amount of face.

@jherazob I mean, I ain't gonna call the cops, plus I don't want to know anything more about them or have anything more to do with them lol

@SallyStrange reading the thread fucked me up it was so horrifying. And they brag about it, in their profile, in the thread, like... oh god

It's gonna take awhile for my anxiety to calm down after reading that thread, jfc

>someone likes a post of mine
>I check out their profile as usual
>their literal profile bio has a link to a thread where they're bragging about horribly abusing and gaslighting someone to the point where they self harm and intentionally overdose on medicines that *this person knows* can cause brain damage. Because they heard a voice in their head telling them to.

No. No, fuck you, that's a no. Blocked.

"Bottom line is, if you agree that the modern web has become an awful place, let’s work on changing that for everyone, instead of abandoning it like a bunch of billionaires trying to escape to a different place, before this one collapses."

https://マリウス.com/gemini-is-solutionism-at-its-worst/#

I skimmed this article (brain isn't in a condition to fully read rn sadly) and it looks really good. Even my blog is guilty of using git (with a remote git repo hosted on a server in my living room), Jekyll to build things, and multiple pages. So it'll be hard to do what's suggesting here probably, even for those of us who care. But it's worth considering.

https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/

@seachanger relevant post I made earlier: https://kolektiva.social/@anarchopunk_girl/111250815491848876

For people whose progressivism/leftism/etc is founded in guilt and optics, they just pick whichever group they feel more guilty toward in a situation and defend all of them from all criticism at all costs, without an analysis of the actual context and justice of the situation and whether some of them might have garnered genuine criticism. That's what's happening here on the part of a lot of white people I think. Guilt over the historical treatment of Jewish people transforms into just defending anything perceived Jewish at all costs with no contextual awareness. But that's just my 2c, feel free to tell me I'm wrong 😅

I pushed a bit too hard the day before yesterday and worked on my writing a bit too much and started to feel that very unique ppcs feeling where it feels like your brain has been marinated in Drano, so I meant to rest yesterday so I could get back to writing sooner without pushing it even farther... but instead I got nextcloud working. 🥲😅 So now I'm going to rest today, but I'm worried that I'm going to end up feeling like shit again for another couple weeks and by the time I get back to it I'll have lost all my motivation to work on my story :(