Notices by Håkan Geijer (hakan_geijer@kolektiva.social)

@sinituulia I haven't player it yet but my mate made this and we've talked a lot about it, and it sounds like what you're looking for? https://jocher-symbolic-systems.itch.io/oceania-2084

@Mabande I found two articles 8 months apart, so I think they're different things? Or at least a long-term thing.

@unchartedworlds the semi acknowledgement in question https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/no-gods-no-masters

@Mabande oh fuck right they did that multiple times lmao

Waiting for the day someone who has better receipts than me writes the long and detailed essay about how good ol' Penny Red seems to have incredible knack for seeking out and aligning themself with the most important people in the room regardless of how little said important people's politics align with their own. Or how many of them have turned out to the abusers and rapist. Much to think about.

@susurros it's a global (western?) phenomenon buddy

@nora QANon for blue maga

I don't talk about my personal life much other than "went hiking" or "did a medicine" but slightly breaking that to leave this anecdote that in 2018 (ish? I can't quite recall) when they were talking about going to LA to do the Hollywood thing and mentioned working with Whedon, I'd cautioned them against going as they'd just end up laundering his image. Their response was that it was "a good opportunity" and that they might be able to put a feminist spin on it where otherwise one might not exist. I was not convinced, and I never took their ideas seriously again after. I guess things haven't improved.

Real weird seeing people positively repost that article about Laurie Penny when they have been famously friends with Neil Gaiman and has (to my knowledge) never denounced him other than in some short essay where they opened by getting mad at people who'd asked for a statement.

Or let us not forget their collaboration with Joss Whedon or that cringey essay about Milo Yiannopoulos where they call him a "charming devil."

I dunno, folx. There might be better autistic people, enbies, and/or feminists to adulate, if one must.

@riotmuffin @HeavenlyPossum Nazi shit to name jews. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses

The fight against misinfo is probably the biggest fight we have as all other fights depend on people understanding their own oppression and enough about how the world works so that they can effectively change it.

So whenever I see new ludicrous AI shit like this, I can only feel that the struggle for liberation is going to get so much fucking harder.

Where do we go from here, when people think hallucinated videos that can be made to say anything have even the slightest bearing on reality?

https://www.404media.co/i-loved-that-ai-judge-moved-by-ai-generated-avatar-of-man-killed-in-road-rage-incident/

@HeavenlyPossum The conversation looked like this to me.

H: "mirror image"
O: Is that really a mirror image?
H: I just said that to make someone else think, not to state.
O: But you did state it.
H: This is a semantic game. No.

You make a lot of moral arguments generally, and this isn't the first time I've seen conversations you're a part of where you hard backpedal to disengage like "this is social media, I owe no one nothing" when someone seems to want to play the logic/argument/rhetorical games you seem to be engaging in.

Like if you're going to post moral statements on social media, other people are going to respond, and this kinda heavy handed "no, you're wrong, you're a sealion, get out of my mentions" approach isn't going to help people learn, yourself included.

It is the eternal September, and we are forever going to have to have these discussions.

@HeavenlyPossum Is dunking on someone like this who seems like they've correctly called out a weak argument is really that best use of one's platform?

@cathos i have been too connected recently and am like please let me find a job so i can get some money so i can again not have a job

@crosswalk Would that be so bad?

Idk what I'm getting at. Go outside a touch just like a fucking shitload of grass and dirt, if you can. Leave your phone behind. It will definitely Do Things To You, that I promise.

But beyond that, I'll do things like walk to a mate's flat hours away because I needed to take a phone call and it makes more sense to do it while walking than standing around at home, yet they will find it unfathomable that one would walk so far when there's trains, busses, and bikes.

Walking across Norway has permanently fucked up my sense of time and distance where when considering what to do this summer I just caught myself thinking "walking 300 kilometers in a week isn't that far or that long, not at all."

Like, I'm not sure why anyone thinks they're gonna gain anyone's trust by sounding like their workplace HR rep. Is your communication meant to keep *you* out of trouble or are you actually talking to someone as an equal on terms that are friendly and familiar?

Like, I absolutely do not speak to tradies I'm radicalizing the way I do when I'm trying to grease something past management, (though sometimes I'll do it for them as a kind of party trick).

@rechelon i feel like this should be behind a spoiler tag?